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Corporate Tax Traitors
Citizen Works – Corporate Tax Dodgers (A Discussion of Corporate Tax Dodgers in 2003)
Fight Back Against Media Deregulation!
Citizen Works – Media Consolidation (A Discussion of Preserving Diversity of News and Opinion in 2003)
Corporate Scandal Sheet (through 2003)
Citizen Works – Corporate Scandal Fact Sheet
The Corporate Reform Weekly
Citizen Works – Corporate Reform Weekly (an e-mail newsletter from 2002 through 2006) contains information relating to corporate reform, scandals and fiascos in Washington and around the country during that time period. Each issue also gave readers a weekly action item to help make real corporate reform a reality.
Unity Platform on Corporate Accountability
Citizen Works -unityplatform In our efforts to build a better world, more than 200 organizations pledged ourselves to vigorously promote this common plan of action as an antidote to the systemic concentrated greed, power and control by enveloping corporate power that is relentlessly eroding our future as democratic societies under the sovereignty of their people.
The Code for Corporate Responsibility
Citizen Works – The Code for Corporate Citizenship (Also known as the Code for Corporate Citizenship) According to corporate law, Corporations make decisions based only on maximizing profits and increasing stock prices. The Code for Corporate Responsibility seeks to add protections for the environment, human rights, public health and safety, the welfare of our communities…
The Activists Library
Citizen Works – The Activist’s Library_ Books on Corporations and Related Topics
Three Strikes Law
fact sheet – three strikes law
Corporate Personhood
fact sheet – corporate personhood
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Citizen Works Archives
Our April 4, 2014 Event at Georgetown Law
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Our December 19, 2012 Event with Author/Law Professor Margaret Jane Radin
Press and Event Highlights
- Lauren E. Willis and Theresa Amato, "What your bank owes you: clarity," The Los Angeles Times, January 13, 2015.
- Jeanine Skowronski, "The Hidden Risks in Your Credit Card's Fine Print," The Fiscal Times, October 30, 2014.
- Ralph Nader, Corporate Destruction of Free Markets Rules Us, The Nader Page, October 30, 2014.
- Joe Sharkey, "The Value of Unused Tickets? Airlines Won't Say," NYT, April 22, 2014.
- Bob Sullivan, Say It Ain't So, Cheerios!, Coupon Fine Print Now Means You Surrender Your Rights, April 17, 2014.
- The Strip Mining of Legal Rights, Ralph Nader & Theresa Amato, Trial magazine, April 2014.
- How Boilerplate Contracts Strip Our Rights, Theresa Amato, The Nation, January 27, 2014.
- Wrap Contracts, the Online Scourge, Nancy S. Kim, Oxford University Press Blog, December 17, 2013.
- Consumer Law & Policy Blog, Theresa Amato: Wrap Contracts Are Like Asbestos, November 22, 2013.
- Wrap Contracts Symposium, Part VII: Theresa Amato, Contracts Law Prof Blog, November 22, 2013.
- "Those Wordy Contracts We All So Quickly Accept," Alina Tugend, the New York Times, July 12, 2013.
- Boilerplate Symposium II: Theresa Amato on Remedies to the Problems Posed by Boilerplate, Contracts Law Prof Blog, May 14, 2013.
- Small Print, Big Problem (Part I: Diagnosis and Part II: Remedies) by Rick Perlstein, The Nation, from the March 14, 2013 issue.
- "Corporate Kangaroo Courts Supplant Our Seventh Amendment Rights" by Jim Hightower, Creators.com, March 2013.
- "Corporate kangaroo courts have quietly usurped our constitutional right to trial by judge and jury," by Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown, March 2013,, Volume 14, No. 3.
- Senator wants plain language placed in consumer contracts, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, May 7, 2012
- Control the Corporation Conference Videos, Nader, Amato, April 2, 2012
- Occupy DC Set to 'Control the Corporation' after 80 occupiers arrested, examiner.com, March 22, 2012
- If you're about to lose your home, maybe it's just time to occupy it, Nader & Amato, Chicago Tribune, February 2, 2012
- Hidden Traps, Fair Contracts, and Consumer Choice, co-sponsored with Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, January 27, 2012
- Wicked Smart and On Her Way Out, Amato, The Washington Post, July 18, 2011
- America, down but not out: A Nation of Fighters Responds, Bob Sullivan, MSNBC.com, Red Tape Chronicles, Amato profile, July 07, 2011
- What Can Be Done to Make the Fine Print in Standard Form Contracts Fair for Consumers, at ITT-Chicago Kent Law School, Friday, June 24, 2011
- Letters, Work for New Lawyers, Amato, The New York Times, January 22, 2011