"I get heads of corporations standing around in here with laborers, talking like they're buddies," Mr. Hoffman told me.
Wal-Mart didn't get to be the world's No. 1 corporation by standing still!
A few months ahead of elections, the government is claiming that "the judicial corporation" is standing against the will of the people.
The 14 PayPal defendants, some of whom were teenagers when the protest occurred, find themselves looking at 15 years in federal prison – for exercising their free speech rights; for redressing their grievances to PayPal, a major corporation; for standing up for what they believed was right.
I personally would sleep better knowing an enormous corporation is standing behind each one of my boxes like a guardian angel, ready to help me out with well-trained staff in call centers throughout India.
Last week, Katie Redford, the co-founder and director of EarthRights International, published a column to this site lamenting the fact that corporations are standing up for themselves.
The dispute settlement process of bilateral investment agreements (BITs) has raised particular concerns because they give corporations legal standing to bring disputes against governments for social and environmental policies that may impact on their economic interests.
For the business secretary, Sajid Javid, who declares that his most influential intellectual influence is the American ultra-libertarian Ayn Rand, the corporation is a standing reproach to all that she argued.
This new party could stand apart from the two corporate-owned parties by refusing to take campaign donations from corporations, banks and developers, standing up for the rights of immigrants and indigenous people, calling for sustainable energy and development, making education for all a top priority, and believing in universal access to healthcare as a human right.
It is the Republicans who are giving the corporations more and more standing, and more and more rights.
