{"id":33672,"date":"2011-01-24T13:38:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T18:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=33672"},"modified":"2011-01-24T13:38:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T18:38:44","slug":"resolution-to-ban-corporate-personhood-introduced-in-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/resolution-to-ban-corporate-personhood-introduced-in-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolution to Ban Corporate Personhood Introduced in Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>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 &#8216;filter-less&#8217; Republican governor. You may have heard about his, um, &#8216;candidness&#8217; toward the NAACP on MLK Day. &#8211; amanda<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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. &#8220;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,&#8221; he told AlterNet. &#8220;This is how a movement gets started. It&#8217;s the beginning of a revolutionary action completely and totally within the legal framework.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/module\/printversion\/149620\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8216;filter-less&#8217; &#8230; <a title=\"Resolution to Ban Corporate Personhood Introduced in Vermont\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/resolution-to-ban-corporate-personhood-introduced-in-vermont\/\" aria-label=\"More on Resolution to Ban Corporate Personhood Introduced in Vermont\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}