Ben Emery

Broschiertes Buch

Exit Stage IV

A Novel

Beschreibung

Corporations have no soul to save, and no body to incarcerate. -Unknown In the spring of 2011, as the Fukushima nuclear disaster unfolds and the 2010 cleanup of the largest off-shore oil spill in history continues in the Gulf of Mexico-Hannah Cassidy, an eighty-five-year-old retired librarian living with Stage IV breast cancer, knowing her death is imminent, formulates a paradigm-shifting plan to tackle out-of-control government corruption and the lack of accountability of corporate recklessness toward public health. Drawing inspiration from a man in a small western Montana town, her greatest challenge is time. Exit Stage IV is a fictional story inspired by real-life industrial public health hazards and corruption. It allows "legal fiction" (corporations) to kill with impunity through their superhuman status of "corporate personhood." The names of the products, executives, and corporations have been changed to protect the guilty. Corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their "personhood" often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of "We the People" by whom and for whom our Constitution was established. -Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, January 2010

Autor

Benjamin Emery is a loving son, brother, father, husband, and friend. After three decades of activism focused on various issues, primarily government corruption and electoral reform, Ben has dedicated much of his time to community volunteering and coaching athletics. Over the last twenty years, he has also studied and practiced the science of regenerative agriculture while attending nursing school part-time. During his tenure as a co-chair of his home county's political party, Ben campaigned for election to partisan public office-first, as a candidate for US Congress and later, for State Senator. In the end, he determined that it is nearly impossible to change the two-party political system from within, and our focus needs to be setting up peripheral systems that support regional and local economies. In the spring of 2014, at the age of forty-four, the trajectory of his life was altered by a diagnosis of advanced colorectal cancer. As a result, Ben chose to focus his energy on ridding his body of cancer; caring for his elderly parents, who suffer from chronic diseases; and managing a permaculture farm. Though considered cured of his cancer in September 2019, he continues to live with disabilities due to lasting side effects from treatments and surgeries. For years, Ben has participated in online cancer support groups and has offered mentorship to those who are newly diagnosed or are inflicted with his same disability. His lifelong goal is fostering a more cooperative and compassionate nation-from Washington DC, and on down to his local community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Epigraph Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781966293132
• ISBN-10: 1966293135
• Artikelnr.: 75168375