Tonight Berkeley City Council votes on Coporate Personhood!

by nocorp

Tue, Jun 15, 2004 1:00PM

Tuesday, June 15 7pm
Come earlier to sign up to speak
BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL,
Old City Hall, 2134 MLK Way.

Tuesday, June 15 7pm
Come earlier to sign up to speak
BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL, Old City Hall, 2134 MLK Way. Sign up to speak on the Resolution on Corporate Constitutional Rights-Corporations are not persons (you can
defer to others if your name is picked) This will be a historic
vote to limit the constitutional rights of corporations. Send a
supportive note asap to Mayor Bates and the City Council c/o City Clerk: Sherry Kelly, 2180
Milvia St., Berkeley,
CA
94704.

Read the Resolution on 222.personinc.org.
Tel # of city council
members
follow. When you call you not need debate the
issue-Just leave a
message that you
want them to vote for the RESOLUTION LIMITING
CORPORATE RIGHTS.
Mayor Bates-9817100; Dist. 1 Linda Maio
981-7110;Dist. 2 Margaret
Breland
981-7120;
Dist. 3 Maudelle Shirek 981-7130; Dist. 4 Donna
Spring 981-7140; Dist.5
Miriam Hawley 981-7150; Dist. 6 Betty Olds; Dist.
7 Kriss Worthington
981-7170;
Dist. 8 Gordon
Wozniak 981-7180.

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by joyce smith (joycetsmith1 [at] aol.com)

Fri, Jun 18, 2004 8:33PM

i was hoping to see some good news re an outcome of the berkeley vote on abolishing corporate personhood; didn't see any "after" info, only "before" so i guess it's not a good sign...

can someone let me know?

thank you.

joyce smith

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§Ms.

by PhoeBe (sorgen)

Sat, Jun 19, 2004 3:57AM

Good news. The resolution passed unanimously.
http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/berkeley
San Francisco may be next.
http://www.sfpersonhood.org

For more information: http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org

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by (sorgen)

Sat, Jun 19, 2004 5:44PM

trouble logging on for resolution limiting corporate rights? try:
http://www.personsinc.org/Berkeley-resolution
or click upper right news link at:
http://www.ReclaimDemocracy.org

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by dot dot dot

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 10:01AM

The problem with resolutions is that they are non-binding. In SF, there are resolutions passed every week proclaiming such idiotic things as "Dog Walkers Day" and "Billy Joe Jim Bob Day" and "Recognition of Bottled Water as a Drinking Alternative" and so on.

Resolutions are feel-goody hot air manuevers that pols do for constituents and reelection cookies.

You would be better off getting signatures for a local ballot initiative instead of wasting your time on ineffectual resolutions. But then again, the Supreme Court has already ruled that corporations have the same rights as a person, so I'm still not sure how far you think you're going to get, especially since both the Dems and Reps are beholden to the corporations.

In a way, it's more revolutionary to just not support corps at all, fight them before they come into your community, buy less, and buy local, organic, and small. Educating those you buy from and those in your community on alternatives to corporate culture is much more tactical in defeating corporate control over society than appealing to a bunch of cynical and cowardly politicians. But then, that takes work, and who on the left actually works for a living?

:) Sad, but true. I guess I'm being cynical also.

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