The Powell Memorandum

AM CNN a lady author/investigator presenting info on The Powell Manifesto. "Ms. Causey, who had a 14-year career as a journalist for CNN, wrote “Heist” with Hollis Rich." - Huffington Post.

Here is a recent video related to this, from 4 months ago.
This traces our financial woes back to one main root - The Powell Memorandum, which gave inordinate amount of power to the big corporations.
Aka Powell Memo, Powell Manifesto.
Below the video, a short portion of a Huffington Post article. The Powell Manifesto 1:13 120 Views

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Published on Mar 25, 2012 by fistfullproduction
The 1971 memo to Eugene Sydnor at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, lawyer Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. calls for business to play a more activist role in American politics. The memo was written two months before President Nixon nominated him to the Supreme Court. The memo is credited with inspiring the founding of many conservative think tanks, including the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute and the Manhattan Institute.

The Powell Memo (also known as the Powell Manifesto) did not become available to the public.

It was leaked to Jack Anderson, a liberal syndicated columnist, when he cited it as reason to doubt Powell's legal objectivity.
The Powell Manifesto 1:13 120 Views

VIDEO LINK: [link to youtu.be]

Published on Mar 25, 2012 by fistfullproduction
The 1971 memo to Eugene Sydnor at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, lawyer Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. calls for business to play a more activist role in American politics. The memo was written two months before President Nixon nominated him to the Supreme Court. The memo is credited with inspiring the founding of many conservative think tanks, including the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute and the Manhattan Institute. [continues]

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Charlie Cray Research Specialist

40 Years Ago This Week: The Blueprint for Corporate Rule
Posted: 08/25/11 03:17 PM ET

Forty years ago this week, Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., an attorney from Richmond, Virginia, drafted a confidential memorandum for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that described a strategy for the corporate takeover of the dominant public institutions of American society.

Powell and his friend Eugene Sydnor, then-chairman of the Chamber's education committee, believed the Chamber had to transform itself from a passive business group into a powerful political force capable of taking on what Powell described as a major ongoing "attack on the American free enterprise system."

An astute observer of the business community and broader social trends, Powell was a former president of the American Bar Association and a board member of tobacco giant Philip Morris and other companies. In his memo, he detailed a series of possible "avenues of action" that the Chamber and the broader business community should take in response to fierce criticism in the media, campus-based protests, and new consumer and environmental laws.
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