By Si Kahn

Privatization is without doubt one of the most vital political and financial advancements of our time, affecting nearly everyone and nation on this planet. the aim of "The Fox within the Henhouse is to offer, in transparent, direct phrases, an research of privatization that is helping readers comprehend what's taking place to them and what they could do approximately it. It provides humans on each side of many various privatization struggles -- over hospitals, faculties, sanitation, water, Social defense, the army, public lands, the postal carrier, nationwide parks, prisons -- the arguments which were used to put privatization on the middle of the company time table and to dominate the general public debate. It additionally deals a old framework that permits readers to heart their pondering on what it capacity to construct a democratic society, whereas delivering the counterarguments -- and notion -- that individuals desire either to argue and to struggle again.

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S. colleges and universities where the foodservice contractor was Sodexho-Marriott, they probably 8 t h e fox i n t h e h e n h o u s e knew that the French-based parent corporation, Sodexho Alliance, was the major shareholder in the largest for-profit private prison corporation in the world, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). On many of these campuses, students participated in a hard-hitting international campaign led by Grassroots Leadership and the Prison Moratorium Project that eventually forced Sodexho to divest its shareholding and withdraw its representative from the CCA board of directors.

Privatizers have a bottom line. Everything they do has as its goal to strengthen that bottom line, to increase profits. We believe that the majority of people in the United States have a bottom line too. It’s called democracy. They believe in it, they care about it, they work for it, they try to keep it strong. In this book, The Fox in the Henhouse, we show how privatization threatens democracy. S. troops’ chow hall, killing 22 people. There were the usual efforts to figure out whether it was done by rockets or suicide bombers.

What do we do when government itself is privatized? Whatever happened to the idea that We the People are the public, to the faith that government was established to serve the public good, not to help increase the profits of privatizing corporations and their control over our lives? CHAPTER 2 Drawing the Line: Private Versus Public Goods Over the last century and a half, the corporation has sought and gained rights to exploit most of the world’s natural resources and almost all areas of human endeavor.

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