[greenyes] Fwd: California takes on Corporations

[Gary Liss <gary@no.address>]

> From: "Charlie Cray" <ccray@no.address>
> To: Mailing-List: list empowering_democracy@no.address; contact 
> empowering_democracy-owner@no.address
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:00:42 -0500
>
> For those of you who are involved in corporate campaigns in California, 
> the Corporate 3 Strikes Act has been introduced by Senator Romero.
>
> The Alliance for Democracy and National Lawyers Guild attorney Robert 
> Benson (author of Challenging Corporate Rule: The Petition to Revoke 
> Unocal's Charter) have a related web page if you want more information:
> www.corporate3strikes.org.
>
> If you want to work with other groups pushing the Corporate 3 Strikes Act I
> suggest contacting the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights -
> www.consumerwatchdog.org (Carmen Balber and Margaret Strubel are the key 
> contacts); they are targeting Tenet Healthcare in their work around the 
> Act, but the beauty of this thing is that anyone with a corporate campaign 
> should be able to work the Act into their strategy.
>
> My colleague Lee Drutman wrote a piece about the Act for CommonDreams, 
> posted today.
> http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0307-02.htm
>
> The Corporate 3 Strikes is just one of a number of good pieces of
> legislation that are being introduced in California. The Senate Majority
> Whip has also introduced a bill that would expand directors' duties 
> (modeled on the Code for Corporate Responsibility, see www.c4cr.org) - see 
> http://democrats.sen.ca.gov/senator/alarcon/. There is also a contractors 
> responsibility bill.

Gary Liss
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Fax: 916-652-0485