The Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy (POCLAD) is an
activist
Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived common good. Forms of activism range from mandate build ...
collective
A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest or work together to achieve a common objective. Collectives can differ from cooperatives in that they are not necessarily focused upon an e ...
of 11 members (with three leaving, making 14.), who
research
Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to ...
the history of
corporations
A corporation or body corporate is an individual or a group of people, such as an association or company, that has been authorized by the State (polity), state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as ...
in the United States. They are some of the main circulators of the notion that
corporate personhood
Corporate personhood or juridical personality is the legal notion that a juridical person such as a corporation, separately from its associated human beings (like owners, managers, or employees), has at least some of the legal rights and respon ...
—which gives corporations some of the same legal
rights
Rights are law, legal, social, or ethics, ethical principles of freedom or Entitlement (fair division), entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal sy ...
as real human beings—is at the center of the problems regarding corporations. They also publish a newsletter three times a year called By What Authority () English for quo warranto, a legal phrase that questions illegitimate exercise of privilege and power, which they claim ''reflects an unabashed assertion of the right of the sovereign people to govern themselves.''
Collective members
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David Cobb David Cobb may refer to:
* David Cobb (Massachusetts politician) (1748–1830), U.S. Congressman
* David Cobb (slave trader) (d. 1826), killed in Ohio River slave revolt
* David Cobb (artist) (1921–2014), artist
* David Cobb (activist) (born ...
*Greg Coleridge
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Karen Coulter
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Mike Ferner
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Dave Henson
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Ward Morehouse
Ward Morehouse (November 24, 1895 – December 7, 1966) was an American theater critic, newspaper columnist, playwright, and author.
Life and career
Born in Savannah, Georgia, Ward Morehouse first worked as a reporter for ''The Savannah Press ...
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Lewis Pitts
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Jim Price
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Virginia Rasmussen
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Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap
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Mary Zepernick
Former members
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Richard Grossman
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Peter Kellman
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Jane Anne Morris
See also
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Ohio Committee on Corporations, Law, and Democracy
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Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County
External links
Official siteDemocracy Unlimited of Humboldt County
Organizations based in Massachusetts
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