Corporations Are Persons?

San Francisco Green Party, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and New College of California present: CORPORATIONS ARE PERSONS? New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street., San Francisco Free Public Workshop Live Webcast: To listen go to: http://newmedia.newcollege.edu:8000 What is corporate personhood? How has it allowed corporations to amass power and wealth? How did it become law? Why is it a threat to democracy? Learn what we're doing about it in San Francisco! As legal persons, corporations have more rights than human beings. Corporations: (1) use free speech to make gigantic political contributions, (2) use the 4th Amendment to prevent random inspections intended to prevent labor abuse and pollution, and (3) leverage anti-discrimination laws to force Big Box Stores into small communities. And more. Join these presenters for an evening of education, enlightenment and empowerment: Jan Edwards (a California leader of the WILPF campaign to Abolish Corporate Personhood); David Cobb (General Counsel for the Green Party of the United States); Bill Meyers (author of "Santa Clara Blues" & co-author of the Point Arena Resolution on Corporate Personhood); Marc Kasky (citizen activist and plaintiff in Nike vs. Kasky, a lawsuit currently pending in the US Supreme Court). Sponsors: the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the San Francisco Green Party, and New College of California. For more information call 866/280-1409 x600.