Forum Post: It's time to set this STRAIGHT...
Posted 11 years ago on Dec. 4, 2012, 5:41 p.m. EST by therising
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The film "The Corporation" has a great section on how corporations won "personhood status". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SuUzmqBewg . Fast-forward to 2:20. It'll blow your mind.
The 14th amendment was supposed to give equal rights to African Americans. It said you "can't deprive a person of life, liberty or property without due process of law". Corporation lawyers wanted corporations to have more power so they basically said "corporations are people." Amazingly, between 1890 and 1910 there were 307 cases brought before the court under the 14th amendment. 288 of these brought by corporations and only 19 by African Americans. 600,000 people were killed to get rights for people and then judges applied those rights to capital and property while stripping them from people.
It's time to set this straight.
In compliment a program shared by shadz :
[-] 1 points by shadz66 (9611) 1 hour ago
Austerity leads to "Poverty in the U.S.A" - Chris Hedges with Jeremiah Wright :
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33213.htm .
Only a Mass Movement from the bottom up' will change this and I live in hope ~*~
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Cool. Thanks for the link. Look forward to checking it out. Hedges is brilliant. Wish we'd see more of Noam Chomsky on US airwaves. He's probably the most brilliant mind in the world when it comes to all this stuff.
It is up to all of us to share/circulate these programs - the MSM will not be.
I think there are ways to get the mainstream media to cover things. Gandhi and King were masters at that.
Unfortunately, this is what you get under a capitalist economic system. The exploitation of the people who have to live under that system and all kinds of sneaky ways in order to do that.
And, every American should be required to read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."
And tested for admittance into our club
Corporation are organizational structures designed to extract the excess productivity from human endeavor and redistribute it into the hands of Monarchs. Thus allowing for the maintenance of a motivated workforce while preserving all real power in the hands of a few families.
Hard to believe the 99% have put up with such an arrangement for so long. Capitalism needs guardrails if it is to function for human good. Serious guardrails.
An obscene application of great progress.
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Thanks for the link
Heres a fellow occupiers link/sitethat also has lotsa info on this issue.
http://corporationsarenotpeople.webuda.com
Thanks. Will check it out.
Bensdad, & ericweis I believe have worked hard on this issue.
Cool