In the USA, corporations have the rights of individuals. Its crazy, freeing the slaves was the pretty cover letter on an amendment that really made corporations much more powerful.
This should appeal to all, but it won't. The right will find this - a socialist plot.
AlterNet: Vermont Is Gearing Up to Strike a Major Blow to Corporate Personhood
In Vermont, state senator Virginia Lyons earlier today presented an anti-corporate personhood resolution for passage in the Vermont legislature. The resolution, the first of its kind, proposes "an amendment to the United States Constitution ... which provides that corporations are not persons under the laws of the United States." Sources in the state house say it has a good chance of passing. This same body of lawmakers, after all, once voted to impeach George W. Bush, and is known for its anti-corporate legislation. Last year the Vermont senate became the first state legislature to weigh in on the future of a nuclear power plant, voting to shut down a poison-leeching plant run by Entergy Inc. Lyons’ Senate voted 26-4 to do it, demonstrating the level of political will of the state’s politicians to stand up to corporate power.
Denouncing this situation as an "intolerable societal reality," the document concludes that the "only way" toward a solution is the amendment of the Constitution "to define persons as human beings.”
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Never going happen. The whole pt. of Corp. person hood is to reduce human beings to Corp. slaves. The beauty of Corp. Citizens United vs. The rest of us is how nobody ever even expected that the right had planned such a radical gutting of democracy in this manner. By placing unlimited Corp. $$ loose inside the system with no controls allowed the right has placed the another critical block in it's creation of a Corp. Plutocracy. Reversing it's strangle hold will be extremely difficult. This one decision has undermined over 100 yrs. of democratic reforms.
The thing about this movement from Vermont, and I would agree that it has a snowball's hell chance, is that it is something that doesn't have to end. It is a protest that doesn't have to come to some kind of conclusion. The Vermont impeach Bush initiative had a life expectancy. This new one doesn't. It just needs a little sail wind to keep it flowing out there and making some people aware.
So glad to hear that someone is taking this on.
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