POCLAD
The Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy (POCLAD) is an activist collective of a dozen-or-so members, who research the history of corporations in the United States. They are some of the main circulators of the notion that corporate personhood--which gives corporations some of the same legal rights 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 (ISSN: 524-1106) 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
- David Cobb
- Greg Coleridge
- Karen Coulter
- Mike Ferner
- Dave Henson
- Ward Morehouse
- Lewis Pitts
- Jim Price
- Virginia Rasmussen
- Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap
- Mary Zepernick
Former members
- Peter Kellman
- Jane Anne Morris
Related pages
- Ohio Committee on Corporations, Law, and Democracy
- Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County