Rebuilding Public Power: Stopping Corporate Overreach

Introduction

This training workshop by the Othering and Belonging Institute includes activities, videos, and case studies that will help participants assess corporate power in their own communities and build visions for public and collective power.

It is intended for organizers and membership bases of power-building organizations and is designed to be used as an online or in-person training.

This 90-minute workshop dives into the history of how corporate power is organized in the United States and contemporary cases of how growing corporate power has rolled back successful gains in democratic rights, environmental justice, migrant justice, and economic justice both in the U.S. and abroad.

Participants of this training will:

• be able to describe examples of how corporations have gained power and the role they play in democracy, the environment, the economy and racial justice.
• be able to assess the balance between corporate, public, and private rights in different cases of corporate overreach.
• be inspired to apply a corporate power analysis into their organizing agenda.

The structure of corporations are top-down, corporations are accountable only to the profits of shareholders. Because of this they often put profits over the lives of real people.

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