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DESCRIPTION:"Peoples' Rights vs. Corporations' Rights" - ALEC and All of Us\nThe next 
 program by PASMC will focus on corporate power and the legal phenomenon of 
 corporate personhood...in which U.S. corporations were, in the 19th 
 Century, granted the same legal rights and protections (by the U.S. Supreme 
 Court, no less) as individuals.\n\nCorporate America has used such 
 protections to manipulate government action in ways that might tilt the 
 financial and political playing field in their favor. Toward this effort 
 there emerged in 1973 a group called the American Legislative Exchange 
 Council (ALEC), comprised of conservative politicians and business entities 
 who set out to write legislation on the state level with an agenda to match 
 their ideology.\n\nVarious pieces of pro-gun legislation are one type of 
 measure taken by ALEC. Bills promoting oil exploration (including fracking) 
 in various states are another. According to Lois Fiedler, Ph.D and Judy 
 Young, J.D, both members of the San Jose Women's International League for 
 Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and Santa Clara County Move to Amend, it is the 
 constitutional freedom that corporations have that enables them to 
 participate so fully in a legislative process out of which everyday 
 citizens have been largely shut. Meanwhile ALEC receives 98% of its funding 
 from the corporations it benefits.\n\nLois and Judy will give a 
 presentation about corporate personhood and ALEC - how both affect our 
 everyday lives in such areas as health care, the environment and the 
 workplace. Both concepts, especially ALEC, have mostly remained in the 
 background, and one aim for this evening is to give details about their 
 effects.\n\nThe speakers will also talk about possible solutions, including 
 a ballot initiative in the works focusing on overturning the idea of 
 corporate personhood. The measure, sponsored by Move to Amend, aims to 
 remedy the advantage that corporations enjoy.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/06/18744438.php
SUMMARY:The American Legislative Exchange Council and Corporate Personhood
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo\n300 E. Santa Inez\nSan Mateo, CA 
 94401\n\nhttp://www.uusanmateo.org/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/06/18744438.php
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