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DESCRIPTION:A conversation with:\n\nJesse Swanhuyser - Director and Attorney, Voice for 
 the People\n\nand\n\nSarah Burt - Staff Attorney, Earthjustice\n\n\nThanks 
 to Citizens United, you have probably heard about the concept of 
 “corporate personhood” — the idea that corporations enjoy the same 
 Constitutional rights as natural born citizens. But have you heard about 
 corporate nationhood?\n\nCorporate nationhood is a little known threat to 
 socio-economic justice and environmental sustainability. Chevron, 
 Philip-Morris, Koch Industries and other multinational corporations have 
 quietly constructed an international legal system in which they are 
 literally as powerful as sovereign nations. Tucked into U.S. trade 
 agreements, the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system expands 
 Citizens United beyond corporate personhood, and opens the door to a more 
 corrosive force—corporate nationhood. ISDS allows multinationals to 
 challenge virtually any law, using “investment tribunals” where the 
 judges are corporate lawyers and the people rarely have a voice.\n\nAt this 
 month’s Other Voices forum we will examine the Keystone pipeline case and 
 a number of other corporate challenges to domestic, democratically enacted 
 laws. And we will learn about a new strategy to challenge corporate 
 nationhood: strategic legal engagement.\n\nYOU ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF 
 EVERY OTHER VOICES PROGRAM. The forum really is a conversation and that 
 includes you. So come prepared to ask questions or share your 
 opinions.\n\nOther Voices Monthly Forum is held at the Midpen Media Center, 
 where it is recorded for later broadcast on local cable television and 
 streaming on the Internet. Previous forums (and other videos) can be seen 
 at our YouTube Channel or the Video Page at our website.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/07/18788731.php
SUMMARY:Other Voices: Challenging Corporate Nationhood
LOCATION:Midpen Media Center,\n900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/07/07/18788731.php
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