[Imc-newsroom] abolishing corporate personhood:

[Sascha Meinrath]

an interesting development:

Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:06:30 -0800
From: melissa roberts <nowarusa at hotmail.com>
Cc: imc-seattle-community at lists.indymedia.org
Subject: * FIRST ordinance PASSES in U.S. that Abolishes Corporate
Personhood

News Flash from Paul Cienfuegos at Democracy Unlimited

>Please spread this BIG NEWS far and wide through each of your email
>lists.
>
>There is now an escalation of events in Pennsylvania regarding corporate
>personhood!
>
>The elected officials of Porter Township, Pennsylvania, have passed a law
>declaring that corporations operating in that township may not claim
>civil and constitutional privileges. A unanimous vote cast on December 9,
>2002, evolved out of long-time efforts by citizens and public officials
>to bar corporations from dumping toxic sludge on township lands. The new
>law declares that corporations allowed to do business within Porter
>Township possess none of the human rights that corporations have been
>wielding to overrule democratic processes and rule over communities. For
>details, contact the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)
>in PA at 717.709.0457 or info at celdf.org, or contact the Program on
>Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD) in MA at 508.398.1145 or
>people at poclad.org .