This article from Alternet.org was brought to my attention over the weekend by our intrepid Carol Van Strum. Unfortunately, I have my doubts that my state of Maine will join our New England neighbor in this endeavor, since we somehow voted a majority of Republicans into our legislature this fall along with a curiously ‘filter-less’ Republican governor. You may have heard about his, um, ‘candidness’ toward the NAACP on MLK Day. – amanda
Constitutional lawyer David Cobb, the 2004 Green Party presidential candidate, recently traveled to Vermont to help draft the resolution. Cobb says it is an historic document. “This is the first state to introduce at the legislative level a statement of principles that corporations are not persons and do not have constitutional rights,” he told AlterNet. “This is how a movement gets started. It’s the beginning of a revolutionary action completely and totally within the legal framework.”
Such an amendment would be the 28th time we have corrected our founding document to reflect political reality and social change. In other words, we’ve done it 27 times before in answer to the call of history, and we can do it again. There is a groundswell of support: 76 percent of Americans, according to a recent ABC News poll, said they opposed the Citizens United decision.
Yay! Len chiming in with the astrology! 🙂 thanks.
and a big Yay! to Carol — she was really the one on top of this story – i was a bit slow getting it out here. 😉
Yay! Vermont challlenges tyranny once again.
Yay! Amanda on top of another vital story.
Astroligically this is a case of Jupiter in Aries applying to square Pluto in Capricorn. It will be interesting to see where this issue when the square is exact. Remember, Uranus is on the line! Give me person-hood or give me an implant!