NGOs at the CSD

Since 1984, I have been working to build the foundation for a massive grassroots movement to begin rolling back corporate power. While the past twenty-five years have seen a tremendous growth in the awareness of corporate  domination, sadly, I have found little interest in building a movement to solve this fundamental global problem. Instead, there are a handful of groups such as POCLAD, who believe that they can legislate an end to corporate rule, and a myriad of groups who believe that once corporate money is removed from the political process that  the destructive behavior  or corporations will be brought under control. Then there are folks like Thom Hartmann, who believe that the key is to change our national trade agreements such as NAFTA and the WTO, and William Greider who told me that you can't build movements, they just occur spontaneously.
In my opinion, corporate rule is entrenched not only in our political system, but in our economy, in our culture, our institutions, and our lives. Freeing our world from the destructive forces of rampant corporate power will require no less than a massive broadbased movement that addresses not only corporate political influence, but also its economic, social, cultural and institutional influences. I realize the problem sounds too big to overcome, but I am convinced that it can be done, and absolutely must be done. We need to exercise an array of strategies and tactics, political -yes, but also social, cultural, educational, informational, institutional, community, and so forth.
Every day, more and more tools for the movement are being built. We need to pull them all together and begin to utilize them using a common strategy and sharing common goals and a unified vision.
To read more, or to get involved, please visit onemovement.net, or check out the Institute for Consumer Responsibility on this website.