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Todd Putnam

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Email: toddputnam [at] hotmail.com
Address: 11550 35th Ave NE
Seattle, Washington 98125
United States
I Speak: english, some spanish
I Am: Activist, Advocate, Journalist, Networker, Researcher
Member Since: August 09, 2007
Local Time: Tue Dec 2 02:04:28

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Sustainable Communities (3143 people)  |  Sustainable Livelihoods (2277 people)  |  Corporate Ethics (1689 people)  |  Environmental Education (2551 people)  |  Environmental Ethics (1425 people)  |  Fair Trade (2106 people)  |  Culture and Sustainability (2115 people)  |  Democracy and Civil Society (1529 people)  |  Education, Government and Sustainability (1584 people)  |  Transnational Corporations (824 people)  |  Globalization Impacts (1689 people)  |  Conservation and the Commons (754 people)  |  Sustainability and Technology (1678 people)  |  Ecological Economics (1654 people)  |  Environmental Accounting (662 people)  |  Socially Responsible Investment (2143 people)  |  Worker Rights (798 people)  |  Sustainability Education (3212 people)  |  Child Labor (652 people)  |  Sustainable Living (2795 people)  |  Community Participation (2631 people)  |  Human Rights and Civil Liberties (1634 people)  |  Biodiversity Conservation (2204 people)  |  Community Resources (1455 people)  |  Human Trafficking and Slavery (618 people)  |  Sustainable Agriculture (2768 people)  |  Responsible Business Practices (2224 people)  |  Endangered Animal Species Protection (1116 people)  |  Climate Change (3493 people)  |  Sustainable Production (2055 people)  |  Democratic Reform (862 people)  |  Wilderness (1460 people)  |  Wildlife Habitat Conservation (1742 people)  |  Consumption and Green Consumers (1834 people)  |  Infrastructure (870 people)  |  Arts Activism (1559 people)  

About

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.

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