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CrispyQ

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1. We the People need a national campaign to revoke corporate personhood.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 12:22 PM
Mar 2020

Corporations are the only non-human entity to have Constitutional rights just like We the People. All other non-living entities, such as labor unions, non-incorporated businesses, churches, civics groups, and governments, only have the privileges that WE grant them. Problem is, corporations don't need things like clean air, fresh water, healthy food, health care, child/elder care, education, or even an environment that supports them. Corporations can "live" forever. Their longevity, wealth, and power amplify their rights. The founders never meant for corporations to have Constitutional rights just like We the People.

Slavery is the fiction that people are property.
Corporate personhood is the fiction that corporations are people.

~from Reclaim Democracy


Reclaim Democracy's Corporate Personhood page: There's some really good reading on these pages.

This PDF timeline needs updating, but it's a good overview of human rights vs corporate power up through the 90s.

And here's a one page primer from the Sierra Club for those with limited time: Meet the Corporation

Revoke corporate personhood.
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