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Truthout is proud to bring you an exclusive series from America’s No. 1 progressive radio host, Thom Hartmann. We’ll be publishing weekly installments of Hartmann’s much-lauded book, “Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became ‘People’ and How You Can Fight Back.” Join us as, chapter by chapter, we delve into issues of corporate power, popular resistance and the nature of democracy itself.
Introduction: The Battle to Save Democracy
Part I: Corporations Take Over
Part II: From the Birth of American Democracy through the Birth of Corporate Personhood
Chapter Three: Banding Together for the Common Good
Chapter Four: The Boston Tea Party Revealed
Chapter Five: Jefferson Versus the Corporate Aristocracy
Chapter Six: The Early Role of Corporations in America
Chapter Seven: The People’s Masters
Chapter Eight: Corporations Go Global
Chapter Nine: The Court Takes the Presidency
Part III: Unequal Consequences
Chapter Twelve: Unequal Uses for the Bill of Rights
Chapter Thirteen: Unequal Regulation
Chapter Fourteen: Unequal Protection from Risk
Chapter Fifteen: Unequal Taxes
Chapter Sixteen: Unequal Responsibility for Crime
Chapter Seventeen: Unequal Privacy
Chapter Eighteen: Unequal Citizenship and Access to the Commons
Chapter Nineteen: Unequal Wealth
Chapter Twenty-One: Unequal Media
Chapter Twenty-Two: Unequal Influence
Chapter Twenty-Three: Capitalists and Americans Speak Out for Community
Chapter Twenty-Four: End Corporate Personhood
Chapter Twenty-Five: A New Entrepreneurial Boom
Chapter Twenty-Six: A Democratic Marketplace
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Restoring Government, of, by, and for the People
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