Let's Fight Corporate Power: A Booklet for Third Parties

By Andrew Bushard

Progressives rock for fighting corporate power! Progressives have demonstrated compassion and justice by resisting corporate power! Progressives have made a difference by opposing corporate power!

We need to fight one type of corporation, above all, and we need to fight this type of corporation more.

Therefore, this work invites Progressives to include fighting this type of corporation as part of our broader war fighting corporate power.

When we fight this type of corporation, we can optimize the Progressive cause.

71 pages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andrew Bushard
• Release date: May 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005514716

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Let's Fight Corporate Power:

A Booklet for Third Parties

©2004, 2021

Andrew Bushard

Fight Corporate Power

Progressives pride themselves on fighting corporate power. That rocks! Let's keep this up! Let's keep using free speech and the First Amendment to fight corporate power.

Although Progressives fight corporate power; from my experience, it seems they refuse to fight two types of corporations. For some reason, they don't dislike these types of corporations like they dislike other types of corporations. We need to change this, because these two types of corporations may suck more than other corporations. We need to fight these two types of corporations too!

What two types of corporations am I speaking of? Alcohol and tobacco corporations!

Fortunately, some third party activists do acknowledge that alcohol and tobacco corporations commit the same sins as other corporations. On his podcast, Ralph Nader condemns tobacco corporations and I remember him and a guest lamenting about Anheuser-Busch sponsoring the Commission on Presidential Debates. Green Party Member Jello Biafra criticized Budweiser's corporate sponsorship of a music festival on his spoken word album. A former Green Party City Council Member, Matt Filipiak, acknowledged my insight, "You're against corporate tobacco and corporate alcohol!" Yes, thank you, Matt, you understand where I'm coming from and how we can't exclude alcohol and tobacco corporations from our fight against corporate power.

We will leave the critique of tobacco corporations for another time, so we may focus on the the critique of alcohol corporations.

A couple decades ago, I remember reading a Young People Socialist's League platform plank that called for the prohibition of alcohol.

Academic sources noted the Prohibition Movement of yesteryear incorporated its critique of alcohol in its broader Progressive platform. Of course, today's Prohibition Party still condemns alcohol corporations in its writings and platform.

https://www.debates.org shows that Anheuser-Busch has sponsored these Presidential debates a number of times, including in 2016. I don't imagine Anheuser-Busch will let the Prohibition Party debate any time soon, though our nation needs to hear the Prohibition Party voice.

After being a sole proprietorship for 6 ½ years, Free Press Media Press Inc. incorporated in 2020, so does that mean we can't fight corporate power? I identify myself as well as Free Press Media Press Inc. as what some call Progressive Capitalists. Furthermore, although Free Press Media Press Inc. is a corporation in letter, we are not a corporation in spirit like Anheuser-Busch is!

Furthermore, third parties differentiate between small business and corporations. After all, small businesses can incorporate and the act of incorporation alone does not infuse small businesses with the same power that corporations like Anheuser-Busch have. On Instagram, the Muskegon Green Party, though they call themselves ecosocialist promote and advance small businesses. The Communist Party platform also supports small businesses while condemning big corporations.

The Communist Party posted on Instagram "Taxing the rich is not about taxing your dad who earned