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wlubin Donating Member (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 12:14 AM
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Law against Corporations involving themselves in politics.
What do we need to do to get such a law passed?
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preciousdove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 12:15 AM
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1. How about a Constitutional Amendment of separation of corporations
and state..after the revolution
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wlubin Donating Member (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 12:17 AM
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3. I think it is war. Lets see, there are what, 200 million of us, and like
175 of them? We could destroy them.
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ailsagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 12:15 AM
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2. A majority in the House and Senate... :(
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 12:26 AM
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4. I like the idea of a constitutional separation of property and speech..
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VivaKerry Donating Member (609 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 12:27 AM
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5. Here is a great link....to discover the history of corporate personhood
Edited on Sun Nov-21-04 12:30 AM by VivaKerry
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/

You have to understand how and why corporations have taken over in order to find its weak link, I think.

The site also warehouses all the activities going on to defeat corporate personhood.

If all concerned activists focused on this battle, we could get rid of fascism. We have historically tried to battle the people allowing corporations to practice their greed (ie, politicians). If we focused on the ROOT of the problem, we could get at the lifeblood of fascism.
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NuttyFluffers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 12:27 AM
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6. an entire parallel universe to the one now.
best of luck :D
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Spock_is_Skeptical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 04:58 AM
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11. Exactly what I was going to say
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CAcyclist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 12:33 AM
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7. Just like the churches
I'd like to see a law passed that no bill can be proposed to any legislature unless the general public originated the request.

That would probably be hard to figure out how to do, but too many times legislation proposed by corporations for their benefit is purported to be for some consumer purpose and yet, funny, the public hadn't been complaining.
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 12:37 AM
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8. A compromise would have a pretty good chance
of passing if it read no unions or corporations allowed in politics.

Would it be worth it?
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 01:14 AM
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9. start a new country
that horse is out of the barn, across the pasture, over the fence and halfway to India already.

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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 01:48 AM
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10. don't know but we need to do something ....
and make it work, unlike separation of church and state these days ...
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