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What happens when corporations aren’t democratic: too much power in too few hands.

Posted on September 8, 2006 by J.B. Nicholson-Owens

In what’s sure to be an ongoing series here about undemocratic control over institutions, I direct you to an article from MSNBC on Patricia Dunn, HP’s Board Chair, spying on her boardmembers home phone records in order to find out … Continue reading →

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