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#Corporate-Resistance

Events indexed under #Corporate-Resistance — 22 entries in the record.

22 events From Jul 15, 1891 To Feb 26, 2026 Open in filter view →
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2026-02-26Anthropic Formally Rejects Pentagon Ultimatum, Amodei Holds Red Lines on AI Safety
Dario Amodei · Anthropic · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense
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1965-07-30Medicare and Medicaid Signed Into Law After Defeating Decades of AMA Opposition and Reagan Propaganda Campaign
President Lyndon B. Johnson · President Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan · +1
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1964-07-02Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passes After Filibuster Defeats Corporate Southern Resistance
President Lyndon B. Johnson · Southern Democratic Senators · Richard Russell · Strom Thurmond · +2
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1956-01-01White Citizens Councils Reach Peak Membership of 300,000 Through Business Elite Coordination
White Citizens' Councils · Tom P. Brady · Ross Barnett · Allen C. Thompson · +1
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1938-06-25Fair Labor Standards Act Passes Over Fierce Business and Southern Opposition to Minimum Wage and Child Labor Ban
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · Hugo Black · U.S. Congress · +2
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1937-06-19Little Steel Strike - Steel Companies Defy Wagner Act, Refuse Union Recognition Despite Legal Obligation
Republic Steel · Tom Girdler · Bethlehem Steel · Youngstown Sheet and Tube · +4
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1936-12-30UAW Autoworkers Launch Historic Flint Sit-Down Strike Against General Motors, Occupying Fisher Body Plants
United Auto Workers · General Motors · Fisher Body workers · Bob Travis · +5
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1936-09-01Mohawk Valley Formula Exposed as Corporate Blueprint for Breaking Unions and Evading Wagner Act
Remington Rand · James Rand Jr. · National Association of Manufacturers · La Follette Committee · +1
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1936-01-25Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Al Smith Delivers Vitriolic Anti-Roosevelt Speech at Liberty League Dinner
Al Smith · American Liberty League · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Jouett Shouse · +1
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1936-01-06Supreme Court Strikes Down Agricultural Adjustment Act in United States v. Butler, Invalidating Key New Deal Farm Program
Supreme Court of the United States · Owen J. Roberts · Harlan Fiske Stone · William M. Butler · +3
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1935-08-23Banking Act of 1935 Restructures Federal Reserve, Reduces Wall Street Influence Over Monetary Policy
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Marriner Eccles · Carter Glass · U.S. Congress · +2
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1935-08-14Social Security Act Creates Federal Retirement and Unemployment Insurance System Over Business Opposition
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · U.S. Congress · American Liberty League · +2
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1935-05-27"Black Monday" Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down National Industrial Recovery Act in Three Anti-New Deal Rulings
Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Benjamin Cardozo · Harlan Fiske Stone · +2
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1935-01-01National Association of Manufacturers Launches Unprecedented Multi-Million Dollar Anti-New Deal Propaganda Campaign
National Association of Manufacturers · Robert Lund · Du Pont · General Motors · +4
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1934-11-20Marine General Smedley Butler Testifies to Congressional Committee About Wall Street Plot to Overthrow FDR
Smedley Butler · McCormack-Dickstein Committee · Gerald MacGuire · J.P. Morgan interests · +3
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1934-08-22American Liberty League Founded by Du Pont Family and Corporate Elite to Oppose New Deal
Irénée du Pont · John Jacob Raskob · Jouett Shouse · Al Smith · +5
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1934-01-30Gold Reserve Act Nationalizes Gold Holdings and Devalues Dollar Over Wall Street Opposition
Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve · Wall Street · +2
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1933-05-18Tennessee Valley Authority Created as Public Power Alternative to Private Utility Monopolies
Franklin D. Roosevelt · George Norris · U.S. Congress · Tennessee Valley Authority · +3
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1930-06-17Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Enacts Corporate Protectionism Despite Economist Warnings
Herbert Hoover · Reed Smoot · Willis C. Hawley · U.S. Congress · +1
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1892-11-08New Orleans General Strike: 30,000 Workers Achieve Interracial Labor Victory
Workingmen's Amalgamated Council · Triple Alliance · New Orleans Board of Trade · American Federation of Labor
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1891-08-18People's Party Officially Forms in Texas, Launching Populist Movement
Farmers' Alliance · Knights of Labor · People's Party
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1891-07-15Coal Creek War Begins: Miners Free Convict Laborers, Attack Lease System
Tennessee Coal Mining Company · Knoxville Iron Company · Tennessee Miners · John P. Buchanan · +1
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