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The Real History of 'Corporate Personhood': Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You.

leftcoastjane:

The real history of today’s excessive corporate power starts with a tobacco lawyer appointed to the Supreme Court. This link is an excerpt of Jeffrey Clement’s “Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It.”

It documents the corporate activist history of Lewis Powell, who started as a corporate director (Philip Morris), and later was appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon.

‘…Powell titled his 1971 memo to the Chamber of Commerce “Attack on American Free Enterprise System.” He explained, “No thoughtful person can question that the American economic system is under broad attack.” In response, corporations must organize and fund a drive to achieve political power through “united action.” Powell emphasized the need for a sustained, multiyear corporate campaign to use an “activist-minded Supreme Court” to shape “social, economic and political change” to the advantage of corporations….’

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simplyarlie: My Favorite from my Occupy Wall Street… As much as I try, my heart often appears on my sleeve. This guy is my favorite person from the Occupy Wall Street encounter. LOVE HIM! If only I had bigger letters. He and his wife traveled together to Occupy Wall Street. He was just this Guy of vision with a sensitive spirit. While standing beside him, I heard someone say something in passing about his tattoos. What makes people so insensitive? It was someone within the movement, so it cut him more deeply. Softly he mumbled something I do not recall verbatim, but its affect resonated “My ideas are not my tattoos. I am a person.” His colleague had read him by his cover without bothering to look within. Aren’t we all familiar in some way with this feeling?  I stuck around. He was really busy in the midst of our talk contributing to his Occupy Wall Street Movement. Busy doing what? He served as the “Resident Vet.” If people had issues with their pets, he had natural remedies, treats, and even leashes for the pets. All kinds of pets including pet rats! I wondered aloud if people adopted the rats as they co-existed in the Zuccotti Park or if they came with them. They came with them! And, you thought “Ben” was just a movie. I did too. Anyway, I digress. He took his time with people and every single animal loved him. It was his Light. Of the Occupiers met and for whom I hold respect, I worry most about him. His personal story is one for him to share, but it is compelling. I have not seen him in any of the News photographs as I have many others met. I’m not sure if that is good or bad. My hope and prayer, for this Soul, wherever he is — is that all is okay. I love this photo and I think it is more for the memory than its capture. Namaste PS Remember Help-Portrait.com

simplyarlie:

My Favorite from my Occupy Wall Street…

As much as I try, my heart often appears on my sleeve. This guy is my favorite person from the Occupy Wall Street encounter. LOVE HIM! If only I had bigger letters.

He and his wife traveled together to Occupy Wall Street. He was just this Guy of vision with a sensitive spirit. While standing beside him, I heard someone say something in passing about his tattoos. What makes people so insensitive? It was someone within the movement, so it cut him more deeply. Softly he mumbled something I do not recall verbatim, but its affect resonated “My ideas are not my tattoos. I am a person.”

His colleague had read him by his cover without bothering to look within. Aren’t we all familiar in some way with this feeling?  I stuck around. He was really busy in the midst of our talk contributing to his Occupy Wall Street Movement. Busy doing what?

He served as the “Resident Vet.” If people had issues with their pets, he had natural remedies, treats, and even leashes for the pets. All kinds of pets including pet rats! I wondered aloud if people adopted the rats as they co-existed in the Zuccotti Park or if they came with them. They came with them! And, you thought “Ben” was just a movie. I did too. Anyway, I digress. He took his time with people and every single animal loved him. It was his Light.

Of the Occupiers met and for whom I hold respect, I worry most about him. His personal story is one for him to share, but it is compelling. I have not seen him in any of the News photographs as I have many others met. I’m not sure if that is good or bad. My hope and prayer, for this Soul, wherever he is — is that all is okay.

I love this photo and I think it is more for the memory than its capture.

Namaste

PS Remember Help-Portrait.com

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comicsalliance: ‘Occupy Comics’ Anthology: Exclusive Creators, Kickstarter and Social Change Through Art [Interview] By Andy Khouri Occupy Comics: Art & Stories Inspired by Occupy Wall Street is a forthcoming comic book anthology featuring work created in response to the Occupy movement taking place at multiple sites around the world, most notably in New York City. Led by filmmaker Matt Pizzolo (Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts, Godkiller), the project is intended to be “a time capsule of the passions and emotions driving the movement” and “tell the stories of the people who are out there putting themselves at risk for an idea.”Featuring such popular creators as Charlie Adlard, Marc Andreyko, Tyler Crook, J.M. DeMatteis, Joshua Dysart, Joshua Hale Fialkov, Joseph Michael Linsner, Steve Niles, Steve Rolston, Tim Seeley, Ben Templesmith, Dan Goldman, Amanda Palmer and Darick Robertson, Occupy Comics has already received $10,000 in pledges via the Kickstarter fundraising platform. ComicsAlliance can confirm exclusively that Occupy Comics will also containmaterial by Mike Allred, Shannon Wheeler, Eric Drooker, Ryan Ottley, Dean Haspiel, Guy Denning and, perhaps most auspiciously, David Lloyd, whose work has already had a demonstrable influence on the Occupy movement, with many protesters wearing the Guy Fawkes mask he designed for his and Alan Moore’s anarchist anti-hero in V for Vendetta.Occupy Comics is distinct from other comics-based Kickstarter campaigns in that it will pay its contributors from the funds raised, but those contributors have promised to “immediately” donate their wages to the protesters as they see fit, and before the final product is released. The plan requires some explanation, so with nine fundraising days remaining in the campaign, ComicsAlliance connected with Matt Pizzolo for a candid interview about the philosophy, goals and financial particulars of Occupy Comics, and to discuss the controversial protest movement that the book represents. Read the interview at ComicsAlliance.

comicsalliance:

‘Occupy Comics’ Anthology: Exclusive Creators, Kickstarter and Social Change Through Art [Interview]

By Andy Khouri

Occupy Comics: Art & Stories Inspired by Occupy Wall Street is a forthcoming comic book anthology featuring work created in response to the Occupy movement taking place at multiple sites around the world, most notably in New York City. Led by filmmaker Matt Pizzolo (Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts, Godkiller), the project is intended to be “a time capsule of the passions and emotions driving the movement” and “tell the stories of the people who are out there putting themselves at risk for an idea.”

Featuring such popular creators as Charlie Adlard, Marc Andreyko, Tyler Crook, J.M. DeMatteis, Joshua Dysart, Joshua Hale Fialkov, Joseph Michael Linsner, Steve Niles, Steve Rolston, Tim Seeley, Ben Templesmith, Dan Goldman, Amanda Palmer and Darick Robertson, Occupy Comics has already received $10,000 in pledges via the Kickstarter fundraising platform. ComicsAlliance can confirm exclusively that Occupy Comics will also containmaterial by Mike Allred, Shannon Wheeler, Eric Drooker, Ryan Ottley, Dean Haspiel, Guy Denning and, perhaps most auspiciously, David Lloyd, whose work has already had a demonstrable influence on the Occupy movement, with many protesters wearing the Guy Fawkes mask he designed for his and Alan Moore’s anarchist anti-hero in V for Vendetta.

Occupy Comics is distinct from other comics-based Kickstarter campaigns in that it will pay its contributors from the funds raised, but those contributors have promised to “immediately” donate their wages to the protesters as they see fit, and before the final product is released. The plan requires some explanation, so with nine fundraising days remaining in the campaign, ComicsAlliance connected with Matt Pizzolo for a candid interview about the philosophy, goals and financial particulars of Occupy Comics, and to discuss the controversial protest movement that the book represents.

Read the interview at ComicsAlliance.