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== Introduction To Personhood Event ==
 
== Introduction To Personhood Event ==
 
You probably know or at lease suspect that there is something wrong in the world today... But, it's not easy to know just what.  
 
You probably know or at lease suspect that there is something wrong in the world today... But, it's not easy to know just what.  
*Climate change, warfare, economic distress, world wide population displacement,  
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*Climate change, air and water pollution, warfare, economic distress, homelessness, health care, world wide population displacement, the school to prison pipeline, mass incarceration, gun violence, 
  
 
'''Corporate Personhood''' is the most significant legal term that nobody knows.
 
'''Corporate Personhood''' is the most significant legal term that nobody knows.

Revision as of 15:17, 18 February 2020

Introduction To Personhood Event

You probably know or at lease suspect that there is something wrong in the world today... But, it's not easy to know just what.

  • Climate change, air and water pollution, warfare, economic distress, homelessness, health care, world wide population displacement, the school to prison pipeline, mass incarceration, gun violence,

Corporate Personhood is the most significant legal term that nobody knows.

  • Every aspect of our economy and our democracy is impacted by the growing hegemony of corporations. Nothing in our society is as consequential to our lives and our ability as a free people to control the world we live in as is the doctrine of Corporate Personhood promulgated by the Supreme Court. And, you probably don't believe that this is true.... yet.

Definition of Corporate Personhood

In a U.S. historical context, the phrase 'Corporate Personhood' refers to the ongoing legal debate over the extent to which rights traditionally associated with natural persons should also be afforded to corporations.

History of Corporate Personhood

Who gave the Supreme Court the right to create a new class of citizens? You probably know or at lease suspect that there is something wrong in the World today... But, it's not easy to know just what.