Ben G. Price

How Wealth Rules the World (eBook, ePUB)

Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how antidemocratic forces in the U.S. have evolved through history to repress communities and destroy the environment. Ben Price reveals how corporate and state interests are systematically cracking down on social movements to insure corporate supremacy in the United States. Combining an illuminating analysis of history with his experience as a leader of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, he demonstrates how a legal paradigm that facilitated slavery and the fossil fuel economy remains an antidemocratic force in the country to this day. Price identifies key counterrevolutions in U.S. history that squelched the transformative potential of the Civil War and American Revolution, and traces the roots of colonial and imperial systems of control. He links them to modern "free trade" agreements and other structures used to supersede modern democracy. Crucially, Price shares insight into how social movements can plant seeds of a new legal system that makes the liberty, civil rights and dignity of humans and ecosystems its ultimate purpose. In fact, he introduces the reader to people who are doing just that.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781523097654
• Artikelnr.: 56986957

Autorenporträt

Ben Price is the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's (CELDF) National Organizing Director, with fifteen years of experience organizing communities and coordinating organizers across the country to challenge state and federal legalization of corporate assaults against people and their environments. Ben worked closely with Tamaqua Borough, Pennsylvania, the first community on earth to recognize legal rights for ecosystems, and with the City Council of Pittsburgh, PA to adopt a community bill of rights banning fracking, directly challenging state preemption of local control over oil and gas corporations. Prior to teaming up with CELDF, Ben worked in the corporate world while also serving as President of the Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network (PCAN).