Corporations v. Democracy issue Committee.

Since following the Challenge Corporate Power, Assert the People's Rights study guide, members of the Cape Cod branch have engaged in projects that express our sovereign right to make decisions about important matters that affect our lives. We created a group called We the People v. Corporate Rule, which has put on workshops on the democratic arts and on the constitutional mechanisms of the illegitimate corporate authority to govern. We the People was a key partner in creating the Cape Care resolution campaign, and many WHIPF members continue to provide organizing energy and leadership for this effort to create the first single payer system in the nation--and for the creation two years ago of the Barnstable County Human Rights Commission.

In Indiana, members of the Bloomington branch conducted a series of study sessions (open to the public) that made use of the revised study guide. As usual, this opportunity for a critical examination of corporate power attracted not only our own branch members--some of whom had already taken the course but wanted a refresher--but also total strangers who came out of curiosity and decided to stay for more. We look forward to the conference in Des Moines, where we expect to learn some valuable lessons about how to spread the word about a one-day course of study.

Perhaps we will have more news by then about a local initiative, suggested by Bloomington activists and inspired by the imminent departure of a local GE refrigerator plant. The basic notion is that the workers left behind use eminent domain to continue the operation of the plant under worker management