L.A. and Bernie Sanders Challenge “Corporate Personhood”

By Matthew Rothschild,
The Progressive
December 9, 2011

It’s been a good week in the crucial campaign to amend our Constitution and finally put corporations in their place.

Many in the Occupy movement are taking up the cause.

For instance, in Los Angeles on December 3, the general assembly of Occupy L.A. “passed a unanimous resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood,” as Brooke Jarvis reported for Yes! Magazine and Michael Evans reported for LA Progressive.

Members of Occupy L.A. then attended the meeting of the city council of Los Angeles on December 6, where a resolution was being discussed to amend the Constitution. That resolution said corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights and that money is not speech. It, too, passed unanimously.

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