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Vermont Today
November 27, 2011
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Ending corporate personhood via a Constitutional Amendment: we are on our way.
Daily Kos
John Bonifaz
November 22, 2011
The movement to overturn corporate personhood and the Citizens United ruling achieved a major breakthrough last week. Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA) introduced a Constitutional Amendment last Tuesday that makes clear that corporations are not people and do not have the rights of people under the US Constitution.
Here’s a very short video (1 :57) of Rep. McGovern discussing why this is so important.
Watch now! The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann featuring FSFP Political Director, Steve Cobble.
Segment begins at 12:05.
McGovern backs amendment to exclude corporations as ‘people’
By Bobby Caina Calvan
November 16, 2011
Editorial: Challenging Corporate Personhood
MetroWest Daily News
November 17, 2011
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney caused a stir when he told a crowd in Iowa that "corporations are people, too." He went on to explain that corporations employ, serve and are owned by people, which is true enough, as far as it goes.
In Citizens United, the U.S. Supreme Court went further, decreeing that, since corporations are people, they are endowed with all the rights under the First Amendment, including the right to spend corporate money on political activities without limits.
Article: Why Do Cigarette Boxes Have More Free Speech Rights Than Protesters?
Alternet
Steven Rosenfeld
November 16, 2011
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