One of the first steps to changing how corporations impede democracy is to create the space for serious conversations about the breadth and depth of the impacts of corporate power as well as to provide people with information about meaningful and attainable solutions. Citizen Works is running a nationwide project to jumpstart this debate by helping people willing to host corporate reform discussion groups. Here you can find readings about corporate power and potential solutions, as well as an organizing guide to help you pull together a successful discussion group.

• How to Organize (printer-friendly version)

• Introduction (printer-friendly version)

• Session One (printer-friendly version)

• Reading One: The New Problem with No Name

• Reading Two: An Overview of Corporate Power

• Session Two (printer-friendly version)

• Reading One: This History of the Corporation

• Reading Two: The Evil of Access

• Reading Three: The Divine Right of Capital

• Session Three (printer-friendly version)

• Reading One: The Hidden Costs of War

• Reading Two: Session Three: Cheney, Halliburton and the Spoils of War

• Reading Three: The Military-Industrial-Think Tank Complex

• Reading Four: Total Business Awareness

• Reading List (printer-friendly version)

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Last Updated March 25, 2003