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Corporate Personhood

The legal idea of corporations having the same rights under the Constitution as actual human beings, including Citizens United and Santa Clara  rulings by the Supreme Court.

Learn about Move to Amend This Tuesday

Join us for our next UAPA General Membership Meeting this Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at the Upper Arlington Main Library, 2800 Tremont Road, from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Our guest speaker will be Michael Greenman of Move to Amend, who will be speaking on "We the People," not "We the Corporations." Constitution rewritten to begin "We the Corporations ...</body></html>

Koch-Blocked

March Book Club News - Corporations Are Not People

Occupy the Courthouse/Protest Citizens United

Friday, January 20, 2012

3 pm to  5 pm

It is the second anniversary of the Citizens United decision. How are you enjoying the concept of Corporations = People and Money = Speech? Keep enjoying all the television commercials in this election year paid for by anonymous donors to Super Pacs.

Corporate Power Seminar

Corporate Power: The Legacy of Santa Clara

The legal precedent that led to the doctrine of corporate personhood.

Wednesday, April 20, noon

Saxbe Auditorium, Ohio State Moritz College of Law, 55 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus

Free and open to the public

Speakers and topics include:

- Corporate power and elections: Jennifer Brunner, attorney at Brunner Quinn and former Ohio Secretary of State;

- Santa Clara and the 14th Amendment: john a. powell, Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law and executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State;

- Corporate power and taxation: Wendy Patton, senior associate, Policy Matters Ohio; and

- Corporate power and privatization: Stephen Menendian, attorney/senior legal research associate, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.

Sponsor: Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, The Ohio State University

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