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Friends of LittleSis,

For many, this time of year means one thing: it’s back to school! But
students aren’t just returning to classrooms – they’re entering
crucial sites of corporate power with plenty of opportunities for
organizing. Historically and today, COLLEGE CAMPUSES ARE SITES OF POWERFUL
ACTIVISM AND RESISTANCE. From taking on union-busters to securing
divestment from climate-destroying fossil fuel corporations, STUDENTS CAN
HAVE A MAJOR IMPACT ON SOME OF THE BIGGEST FIGHTS WE NOW FACE. With this in
mind, LittleSis has created some unique resources to support on-campus
organizing!

RESEARCH CORPORATE PRESENCE ON YOUR CAMPUS!

Starbucks’ egregious [2] union-busting tactics are coming under
increasing scrutiny and now students are turning an eye to their own
campuses. In fact, after Starbucks shuttered all of its corporate-operated
stores in Ithaca, NY following staff unionization, students at Cornell
University – which is based in Ithaca – successfully campaigned [3] to
kick the coffee chain off of their campus. Now students at other
universities [4] are following suit. This is an amazing opportunity for
solidarity! Will your campus be next?

Our latest research guide – The Starbucks Power Network is on Your Campus
[5] – will walk you through how to research your college or universities
ties to Starbucks through executives, board directors, banks, attorneys,
and investments. Just how deep is Starbucks enmeshed in your university?
This guide will help you figure it out. In fact, these research techniques
can be applied to researching ANY corporate presence on your campus!

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YOUR DONATION TO LITTLESIS SUPPORTS INDEPENDENT RESEARCH, TRAININGS THAT
BUILD RESEARCH CAPACITY IN OUR MOVEMENTS, AND TECH AND RESOURCES FOR ALL!

CORPU: THE FIELD GUIDE

Beyond the board of trustees, corporations may have a presence on your
campus right in front of your eyes! If you know where to look, you find
corporations on lists of honored donors, on the names of buildings and
classrooms, in fundraisers, panel discussions and recruiting events, and in
the resumes of university administrators and faculty. This easy-to-use
guide will help you to identify where to look for corporate influence at
your school as you walk around your campus.

You can download our CorpU Campus Walking Tour Guide here: CorpU Field
Guide [7]

MORE ON UNIVERSITY POWER NETWORKS

Universities are key nodes of corporate power, and many corporate actors
that workers and organizers are up against – from Starbucks to Amazon,
ExxonMobil to Chevron – have campus presences. These pieces will help you
to better understand how your university of colleges is interlocked with
corporate power and – even better – how _you _can research your own
school’s power structure to find more leverage for organizing!

THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH HAS A FRACKING PROBLEM [8]

Many of the trustees that govern the University of Pittsburgh have deep
social and financial ties to the fossil fuel industry. Fracking giants like
EQT often take advantage of these important relationships to control their
public image and stifle opposition.

FOSSIL FUEL DIRECTORS’ TIES TO UNIVERSITY BOARDS RUN DEEP [9]

University trustee seats greenwash oil companies while casting doubt on
higher ed climate commitments.

“WHO RULES COLUMBIA?”: HOW POWER RESEARCH SUPPORTED THE 1960S STUDENT
MOVEMENT [10]

The 1968 pamphlet “Who Rules Columbia?” is a model for organizers and
researchers trying to map out university power today.

Visit our news site _Eyes On The Ties_ [11] for more of our research on
corporate connections to academia!

EXTENDED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES!

Don’t just read about power research – learn how to do it yourself! The
upcoming trainings below will offer tips on how to research the corporate
power structure, use LittleSis research and mapping tools, and inspiring
you about power research can make an impact in history!

SEPT 22ND, 1PM ET: HOW AND WHY TO RESEARCH YOUR LOCAL CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE

Chambers of commerce are coalitions that work to advance an extractive,
pro-corporate political agenda, especially at the state and local level.
This training will explore how chambers of commerce wield power and tools
for researching your local chamber.

REGISTER HERE [12]

OCT 26TH, 12PM ET: RESEARCHERS AGAINST THE WAR MACHINE: LESSONS FROM NARMIC

From the late 1960s through the mid-1980s, an organization called National
Action/Research on the Military-Industrial Complex – or just “NARMIC”
– provided crucial research support for anti-war, anti-nuclear, and
anti-apartheid movements in the U.S. From mapping top weapons contractors
and war profiteers, to producing research guides on stockholder meetings,
to publishing analyses of the U.S. defense budget, NARMIC concretely aided
local and national movements that directly confronted the corporate power
behind U.S. militarism.

LittleSis is excited to host NARMIC veteran Diana Roose for a discussion
about the life and legacies of NARMIC and what we can learn from it today.

REGISTER HERE [13]

NOV 21ST, 5:30PM ET: PREVIEW THE NEW “MAP THE POWER” TOOLKIT AND LEARN
HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN POWER MAP USING OLIGRAPHER

We just redesigned our popular Map The Power toolkit with more research
tips and tricks, instructional videos, and illustrative graphics to help
you build your power research skills! During this webinar training we will
show off the newly redesigned toolkit and demo how to map the power using
Oligrapher, our data visualization tool.

REGISTER HERE [14]

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Onward,

LittleSis

LittleSis

266 Elmwood Ave #191
Buffalo, NY 14222


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