The Corporation2003

Elaine Bernard:
So what we need to do is to look at the very roots of the legal form that created this beast, and we need to think who can hold them accountable.

Noam Chomsky:
They're not graven in stone. They can be dismantled. And, in fact, most states have laws, which require that they be dismantled.

Jim Lafferty:
For too long now giant corporations have been allowed to undermine democracy here in the United States and all over the world. But today the National Lawyer's Guild and 29 other groups and individuals are fighting back. We are calling upon State Attorney General, Dan Lungren, to comply with California law and to revoke to the corporate charter of the Union Oil Company of California for its repeated and grevious offences.

Robert Benson:
This is a statute that is well known. It has been used. It can be used. What this will mean is the dissolution of the Union Oil Company of California, the sale of its assets under careful court orders to others who will carry on in the public interest.

Jim Lafferty:
From its complicity in unspeakable human rights violations overseas against women, gays, labourers and indigenous peoples, to its efforts to subvert U.S. foreign policy and deceive the courts, the public and its own stockholders, Unocal is emblematic of corporate abuse and corporate power run amok.

Don Xui Xziang:
Extending a business deal with the Burma army is immoral. Unocal cannot do business in Burma without supporting that hopeless regime.

Title Card:
The Attorney General of California refused to revoke the corporate charter of Unocal but did acknowledge his office had the power to do so.