NY City Council Passes Resolution Declaring that Corporations Are Not People. NY City Council Passes Resolution Declaring that Corporations Are Not People FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 4, 2012 CONTACT: Mary Tek, Coordinator 212-341-9509 / nyccprogresscaucus@gmail.com City Council Passes Resolution Declaring that Corporations Are Not People NEW YORK, NY — The Progressive Caucus of the City Council commends today’s passage of a resolution opposing the United States Supreme Court Citizens United decision, which gave corporations the same First Amendment rights as people.
As our support of this resolution demonstrates, restoring confidence in government and strengthening democratic participation is a core principle of the Progressive Caucus. As Justice John Paul Stevens recognized in his dissent in the Citizens United decision, “corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Like this: Like Loading... About nycprogressives. The question of representation. This week, the Guardian has published research by Kira Cochrane that quantifies something so obvious that it is rarely discussed; the field of publicity in Britain is an overwhelmingly male preserve.
Men vastly outnumber women as named writers in newspapers and as contributors to the most influential broadcast panel discussions (Any Questions and Question Time on Radio 4 and BBC1 respectively) and radio news broadcasts (Radio 4's Today Programme). In almost every medium, authoritative speech that reaches a national audience is much more likely to come from a man than from a woman. This is a serious problem in itself, and it is a problem that relates to other inequalities in the media. On one recent edition of Any Questions the reporter, Jonathan Dimbleby, announced jauntily at the outset that three of the four panelists were the sons of fathers who had themselves appeared on the programme.
Dimbleby is, of course, the son and the brother of famous broadcasters. Class. No meaningful debates. LOS ANGELES POISED TO BE THE FIRST MAJOR U.S. CITY TO CALL FOR END TO CORPORATE PERSONHOOD. Grassroots Momentum Builds Toward Passage of a Constitutional Amendment LOS ANGELES, CA – Next week the Los Angeles City Council will vote on a resolution that calls on Congress to amend the Constitution to clearly establish that only living persons -- not corporations -- are endowed with constitutional rights and that money is not the same as free speech.
If this resolution is passed, Los Angeles will be the first major city in the U.S. to call for an end to all corporate constitutional rights. The campaign in Los Angeles is the latest grassroots effort by Move to Amend, a national coalition working to abolish corporate personhood. “Local resolution campaigns are an opportunity for citizens to speak up and let it be known that we won’t accept the corporate takeover of our government lying down," said Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, a national spokesperson for Move to Amend. "We urge communities across the country to join the Move to Amend campaign and raise your voices.”