Where Your Mouth Is #3: Ownership Society

By Jaclyn Friedman, AlterNet. Posted August 9, 2005.

In this edition of AlterNet's exclusive podcast, host Jaclyn Friedman takes a long hard look at what else Bush's Social Security privatization boondoggle doublespeak catchphrase might mean. This week, she takes on the "Ownership Society."

Included in this month's episode, we learn:

• How companies that market their products with pink ribbons may be causing as much harm to the fight against breast cancer than good;
• how activists are using a difficult and obscure Asian vegetable, the bitter melon in a battle against gentrification in one Boston neighborhood;
• and how shareholders have used a different kind of activist tactic to win big victories in corporate responsibility.

Jaclyn Friedman is a writer, poet and activist based in Boston. She produces Where Your Mouth Is, a monthly podcast, exclusively for AlterNet.

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