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DESCRIPTION:The American Revolution was an insurrection against the despotism of a King 
 and the tyranny of a Corporation. This July 4th, spend some time reflecting 
 on the real origins of the American Revolution with Adbusters Contributing 
 Editor Micah White. Micah will speak about the history of corporations and 
 the struggle to regain the right of citizens to revoke the charters of 
 pathological businesses. Before heading to this year’s fireworks, join us 
 at the Long Haul Infoshop in Berkeley for an evening of engaging discussion 
 on the future of the anti-corporate movement in America.\n\nSaturday, July 
 4th at 6pm\n\nThe Long Haul Infoshop\n3124 Shattuck Ave. \nBerkeley CA 
 94705\n\nPress Contact: \nMicah 
 White\nmicah@adbusters.org\nhttp://www.micahmwhite.com\n\n************************************\n\nMore 
 Information\n\nIn the coming month, citizens of the United States of 
 America will commemorate an act that sparked seven years of bloody 
 insurrection in which an oppressed people defeated the British Empire. Each 
 year on July 4th, with exploding fireworks and booming festival, we 
 remember the radically democratic gesture made by our Founding Fathers 
 whose signatures on the Declaration of Independence in 1776 promise us the 
 freedoms we desire today. Their words are clear: "whenever any Form of 
 Government becomes destructive [to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of 
 Happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it." This 
 year, two hundred and thirty-three years since Thomas Jefferson, John Adams 
 and Benjamin Franklin chose rebellion over subjugation, we stand at a 
 deciding moment similar to that faced by our Founding Fathers.\n\nIn 
 signing the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers were 
 declaring freedom not only from the dictates of the British King and 
 Parliament but also from the tyranny of British corporations. It was the 
 anti-corporate protests of sixty Bostonian patriots who dumped hundreds of 
 chests of tea into the harbor – an act now known as the Boston Tea Party 
 of 1773 – that led to Britain’s passage of the so-called Intolerable 
 Acts. These laws called for the closure of the Boston harbor until the East 
 India Company was repaid for their lost tea, along with other measures 
 meant to stop the burgeoning anti-corporate movement. In the end, the 
 Intolerable Acts had the unintended consequence of precipitating the 
 Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. And, for nearly a 
 hundred years after these historic events, early Americans continued to 
 treat corporations with distrust, keeping them under tight control, 
 limiting their powers and retaining the right to revoke their charters when 
 needed.  \n\nBut, after the American Civil War, the scales of power began 
 to once again tip in favor of the corporation who, after years of lobbying 
 and court cases, won recognition by the American Supreme Court in 1886 for 
 the claim that a corporation should be considered a "natural person" and 
 have the same unalienable, constitutional rights as you or I.  Since that 
 fateful case, corporations have enjoyed protections under the 14th 
 Amendment that were originally intended to end slavery. Corporations now 
 have a right to free speech, the ability to own property, the right to 
 lobby government officials and protections against self-incrimination. The 
 U.S. Constitution has been perverted to protect the very entities that our 
 forefathers waged a guerilla war to defeat.\n\nA corporation is not a 
 person. It is an abstraction, an organizational structure that has no 
 morality, feels no remorse and has no sense for the mystery of existence. 
 The corporation has become too powerful, able to commit grievous crimes 
 against our Earth with little fear of recourse. CEOs may be given a slap on 
 the wrist but the corporate structure itself, the right of the corporation 
 to continue to exist, is never challenged. Enslaved to consumerism by 
 corporations whose power exceeds that of civil society, we need a 
 contemporary insurrection – a second American Revolution – that 
 finishes the anti-corporate job our forefathers began. \n\nPlease join 
 Adbusters Contributing Editor Micah White for an evening of engaging 
 discussion on the future of the anti-corporate movement in 
 America.\n\nSaturday, July 4th at 6pm\n\nThe Long Haul Infoshop\n3124 
 Shattuck Ave. \nBerkeley CA 94705\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/15/18601774.php
SUMMARY:Adbusters July 4th Event
LOCATION:The Long Haul Infoshop\n3124 Shattuck Ave. \nBerkeley CA 94705
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/15/18601774.php
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