In The American Prospect, Ron Knox reports that the citizen-led fight against corporate power is alive and well nationwide. His deep dive into local resistance highlights several recent wins for local antimonopoly movements, from stopping Live Nation in Portland, Maine, to several successful efforts to block the construction of Big Tech data centers.
“As community resistance to these hyperlocal projects has grown, local leaders are increasingly using what tools they have to stop corporations from expanding into their towns and cities, and to otherwise fight back against corporate rip-offs and land grabs,” Knox writes. With federal antitrust enforcement devolving into Trumpian kiss-the-ring politics, Knox says that “local resistance to corporate domination may well be all that’s left in the near future.” Read the piece at The American Prospect.
Ron Knox“In the places where Big Tech firms and other corporate behemoths try to set up shop in their push to get bigger and more powerful, the locals are fighting back and winning.”
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