“Mouse Inc?” Disney Bullies Small & Mighty CCFC From Home?
March 10, 2010 I bought and watched Academy Award nominee Food Inc. last night, the riveting documentary on corporate pressures leaning hard on farmers that’s nothing short of mafia-style thuggery for compliance and adherence to industrial machinations.
Looks to me like we’ve got a similar scenario with Disney strong-arming the powers that be to silence and oust tiny but mighty advocacy group CCFC from their decade long lease at Harvard-affiliated children’s mental health center JBCC…Quel surprise.
Today’s New York Times reveals a scenario that’s akin to the Disney Mouse House springing onto the scene like the giant Hippety Hopper Aussie kanga from the old Looney Tunes cartoon: Boing, Boing, Squash. Splat. Gee, sorry there mate, you got in the way…The sudden clamp down and forced exodus of CCFC from its Harvard-HQ/JBCC allies is beyond chilling.
When a corporation can take a swat at what they no doubt perceive to be a troublesome gnat, using legal firepower and intimidation tactics that not only usurp free speech, but send out a warning signal flare to the rest of us with small and mighty voices to beware of large industrial sized wallops, it’s a dangerous threat to childrens’ advocacy. (more…)





















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