#corporations

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted. ↗

— Robert Reich

#democracy #first-amendment #government #politics #public-assembly

There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#corporations #crush #fighting #focused #gold

In the two years after No Logo came out, I went to dozens of teach-ins and conferences, some of them attended by thousands of people (tens of thousands in the case of the World Social Forum), that were exclusively devoted to popular education about the inner workings of global finance and trade. No topic was too arcane: the science of genetically modified foods, trade-related intellectual property rights, the fine print of bilateral trade deals, the patenting of seeds, the truth about certain carbon sinks. I sensed in these rooms a hunger for knowledge that I have never witnessed in any university class. It was as if people understood, all at once, that gathering this knowledge was crucial to the survival not just of democracy but of the planet. Yes, this was complicated, but we embraced that complexity because we were finally looking at systems, not just symbols. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#corporations #education

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#agreements #bargaining #collective #collective bargaining #committee

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#always #caricatures #comforting #complicated #corporations

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs. ↗

— Andrew Mellon

#corporations #down #extra #form #general

We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations. ↗

— Susan Molinari

#men #men and women #out #separate #together

Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning. ↗

— Denise Morrison

#discussions #involve #manager #most #performance

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#become #controlled #corporations #doubtful #huge

We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business. ↗

— George Pataki

#business #corporations #economic #economic times #going