Proposal calls for repeal of executive order invoking Defense Production Act to keep slaughterhouses operating.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday used the Defense Production Act to declare meatpacking plants to be essential facilities and allowed the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reopen plants shuttered due to outbreaks of COVID-19 among workers. The Open Markets Institute, Food & Water Action, and Family Farm Action Alliance, joined by the undersigned, share the president’s desire to ensure a robust supply of food to every American family. Unfortunately, we believe this order is the wrong way to do so.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss proposals for a merger moratorium for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis, an online conference on building resilient international systems that was co-hosted by the Open Market Instituteand the OECD, as well as the online conference on right to repair that Open Markets co-hosted with U.S. PIRG.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) proposed legislation today to halt harmful mergers, in order to protect the American public from further consolidation and concentration. Open Markets applauds the moratorium on mergers and acquisitions by large firms as well as post-crisis rules to prevent dangerous takeovers once the economy begins to improve.
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The OECD and Open Markets Institute convene some of the world’s leading political economic thinkers to discuss how to shock-proof all vital human-made systems to create a more stable and resilient global production system.
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In a round-table discussion led by Columbia Journalism Review’s chief digital writer Mathew Ingram, media professionals and experts alike discuss and analyze ways to save the journalism industry in result of the ongoing funding crisis, including talks of short-term funding to long-term restructuring. Contributing to the discussion, Jody Brannon, director of the Center for Journalism & Liberty, said, “Distributing… news for centuries has been dictated by our sense of journalistic duty, but as we know news judgment, airtime and column inches (sorry for the aged metaphore) are not free.”
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House Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline (D-RI) proposed legislation today for halting harmful mergers to protect the American economy, during the Shock Proof conference hosted by Open Markets and the OECD. Open Markets applauds the principles of the proposed moratorium on mergers and acquisitions by large firms not on the brink of failing.
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AFR correspondent Jacob Greber cites Open Markets Institute when reporting in Financial Review about the US monitoring Australia's decision to make Big Tech share advertising revenue with local media companies.
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In a very timely and important in-depth article for The Guardian, the Open Markets Institute’s new Fellow Mya Frazier sounds the alarm on how working conditions in food processing facilities across the country endanger thousands of workers.
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The Open Markets Institute today called on anti-monopoly law enforcers and Congress to take a simple, three-step approach to breaking the dangerous concentration of power and control by Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
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Open Markets' Fellow Mya Frazier writes about the grueling labor conditions faced by female workers in poultry plants. Frazier's article details widespread labor violations in the chicken processing industry.
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On April 17th, Open Markets submitted a letter to the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on promoting fair competition in the market place. The letter details illegal monopolization by digital platforms and recommends reforms aimed at opening the gates of fair competition to new innovators, restoring dynamism to the economy, decrease market concentration, and ensuring basic rule of law for all sellers and buyers.
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Several artist and consumer-rights groups have written to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to voice their disapproval and criticism of the potential Liberty Media-iHeartMedia acquisition deal.
Open Markets Details How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Devastating News Organizations, Announce the Release of Our New Report on Right to Repair, and Invite Readers to Join Our Conference in Cooperation With the OECD
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The Center for Journalism and Liberty calls on the DOJ to deny any large-scale deal between Liberty and iHeartMedia.
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The Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute calls on the DOJ to immediately make clear that it will not allow any large-scale deal between Liberty and iHeartMedia. Any such deal would harm American journalism by further concentrating power in local radio markets nationwide, reducing the outlets for news as well as artists, and such a deal would threaten local businesses with higher advertising rates.
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