This program is in remembrance of Richard Grossman, who died of cancer in November 2011. He was one of the great uncompromising, courageous thinkers and activists in the unfolding project to define, limit and abolish corporate power. Ralph Nader called Grossman "the preeminent historian of corporations" and this speech, that Grossman gave at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in November 2006, shows what that meant. Grossman refers to the radical branch of the Abolitionists who confirmed that we are born with inalienable rights that precede the formation of governments, rights that governments are tasked to protect. As with the Abolitoinists in the 1800-reds who determined that slaves could not be free under the existing constitution, anti corporate campaigner also need to re-write the constitution to dismantle the corporate state.
In 2006 Grossman was working with CELDF, The Community Legal Defense Fund. He also describes a rich and inspiring set of anti corporate actions from CELDF's tool kit, ranging from outlawing corporate ownership of farmland, to making illegal the poisoning of lands with toxic waste from mining and factory farming.
Along the way Richard Grossman was involved in the founding of two organizations, POCLAD, the Project on Corporations, Law and Democracy and CELDF. His lasting legacy are the Democracy Schools that continue to be taught across the country.
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