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Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Florida) introduced an amendment to the constitution to end corporate personhood, appropriately named the OCCUPIED Amendment. This amendment would overturn the controversial Citizens United v. FEC case that equated money to speech and opened the floodgates for previously illegal corporate influence on elections. Occupied stands for ‘Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the [...] Broward-Palm Beach New Times ponders, will she marry Burger King? One year ago on January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States reaffirmed that corporations have the same constitutional rights as people (Citizens United v FEC). In commemoration of that decision there will commence a national search for the ideal corporate groom [...] Vermont was also the first state to legalize gay unions. Things have a way of starting there. Corporate personhood is malignant. Corporations get all the benefits of citizenship but none of the responsibilities. It should be abolished. Facebook friends weigh in. Doug Henwood. I’m getting distressed watching all my FB friends join the Abolish Corporate Personhood group. And what then? Return to proprietorships and partnerships? Or socialize the things? The corp personhood thing is mostly a small is beautiful petit bourgeois fantasy that’s not been thought through. He does have a [...] The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c [...] |  | ||||
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