Sentences with phrase «corporations over citizens»
Martí's concerns are with the kind of political and economic domination of international institutions and corporations over citizens that has been established in the banking and euro crises.
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As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».
The EU blocks citizens» groups from challenging a secret US trade deal which could give corporations rights over governments
The individual I speak of here is self - described «concerned citizen» Dave Rado, the person I've detailed over the past 4 blog posts as being someone beset with problems surrounding the official complaint he filed in 2007 over the UK Channel Four Television Corporation video «The Great Global Warming Swindle.»
The most recent Legal Services Corporation report, The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - Income Americans, found that not only do low - income American citizens receive inadequate or no legal help for 86 % of their civil legal problems but over 71 % of these households had at least one civil legal problem in the past year.
The U.S. Legal Services Corporation has endorsed this approach and funded over 40 states to enable citizens to assemble their own state - specific documents powered by a national document server managed byLawHelp Interactive.com.