End Corporate "Personhood" - Ideas for Change in America

I am part of another organization, Democracy Unlimited, that works on these issues. You can read about us at http://www.duhc.org.

Our strategy has been both to work on local-level legislation that protects our community from a specific harm while challenging the concept of corporate personhood, while also engaging in local community organizing initiatives that lessen our dependence on corporations for our basic needs.

In 2006, we worked with the Humboldt Coalition for Community Rights to pass a law banning non-local corporations from contributing to our local elections and denying corporations constitutional rights. Unfortunately, a lawsuit was brought and the law is no longer in place.

However, we continue to work on many other projects, including educating our community and others about corporate rights; building and connecting people to sustainable and democratic systems, including CSAs, community currency, and local independent businesses; and strategizing for future laws to challenge corporate rule.

And I think we need to be doing all these things together: educating ourselves on corporate history; creating systems that strengthen our individual and collective power and reduce our dependence on the corporation as the dominant economic form; and fighting current place the corporation occupies in our legal system.

Meaning there are lots of ways for all of us to be challenging corporate rule and working to end corporate personhood right nwo. - by Megan Wade Antieau