Idea: Corporate Personhood Bibliography

Introduction

Corporate Personhood is the most significant legal term that nobody knows.

• Every aspect of our economy and our democracy is impacted by the growing hegemony of corporations. Nothing in our society is as consequential to our lives and our ability as a free people to control the world we live in as is Corporate Personhood.
• Every aspect of our economy and our democracy is impacted by the growing hegemony of corporations. Nothing in our society is as consequential to our lives as Corporate Personhood is to our ability as a free people to control the world we live in. And, you probably don't believe that this is true.... yet.

Questions

• What happens to people's moral sense of what is "right" or "wrong" when they are given a shield that limits their responsibility for the actions of their enterprise?
• What effect does the profit motive have on how people make decisions about what their enterprise should or should not do?
• What recourse do states, municipalities and citizens have when an enterprise harms them, their children or their property?
• What recourse do people have when large enterprises establish policies and make use of otherwise public resources that act to reduce the people's ability to earn a living and live healthy, productive lives?
• Where can people turn to protect themselves from life threatening commercial activities?
• What actions are taken by large financial enterprises to insure their access to land and other resources?

Definition of Corporate Personhood

In a U.S. historical context, the phrase 'Corporate Personhood' refers to the ongoing legal debate over the extent to which rights traditionally associated with natural persons should also be afforded to corporations. (Wikipedia)

Corporate Personhood Wikipedia Article

• Philadelphia City Council Resolution June 21, 2012
• The Corporation (Film 2003)
  **The Corporation - on YouTube (full version in parts)
• The Corporation (full version)
• How Supreme Court Turned Corporations into People - Mother Jones 2014/07
• Timeline of Personhood Rights and Powers - WILPF
• History.com on the effects of Citizens United
• Paul Craig Roberts – How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds (brief review by True Publica
• TED Talk: Lincoln didn't fight the civil war to free the corporations: Thom Hartmann at TEDxConcordiaUPortland
• Move To Amend Coalition
• HuffPost article: A Simple, 4-Step Method to End Corporate Personhood
• why+is+corporate+personhood+complicated
• Challenging Corporate Personhood Theory: Reclaiming the Public
• Corporations like Exxon are using spurious free speech claims to fend off regulation - Vox
• The Top Ten Problems with “Corporate Personhood” - Gorgist Journal

Google Searches

• Google Search: can a corporation run for office
• Google Search: Challenging Corporate Personhood Theory
• Google Scholar: Challenging Corporate Personhood Theory

Articles

• 10 Supreme Court Rulings—Before Hobby Lobby—That Turned Corporations Into People - Mother Jones

See Researchgate

Protecting People From Corporations

• TED Talk by Fredrik Gertten: Filmmaker and Director about battling corporate Interests
• Thom Hartman Show, CDLF, Civil Disobedience Just Became a Civic Duty
• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Corporate Frankenstein Monster

Foreign Ownership of U.S. Corporations

• Who controls the world
• Google Search: Foreign Ownership Of u.s. Stocks
• Foreign Ownership Of US Stocks - finance.townhall.com
• How much of America do foreigners really own? - MarketWatch, Sept 27, 2016
• Ending-foreign-influenced-corporate-spending-u-s-elections - americanprogress.org
  • Current election laws and Supreme Court precedent are clear when it comes to foreign influence: It is illegal for foreign governments, corporations, or individuals to directly or indirectly spend money to influence U.S. elections. These laws are foundational to U.S. democracy and exist primarily because foreign entities are likely to have policy and political interests that do not always align with America’s best interests.
  • Unfortunately, the Citizens United decision opened an unexpected loophole that makes the United States more vulnerable to foreign influence. Because foreign entities can invest in U.S. corporations—and those corporations can in turn spend unlimited amounts of money on U.S. elections—foreign entities can now exert influence on the nation’s domestic political process. This is especially noteworthy as foreign investors now own a whopping 35 percent of all U.S. stock.
• Fact Sheet: ending-foreign-influenced-corporate-spending-u-s-elections-2/ - Center for American Progress

Politics

• testing_theories_of_american_politics
• Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)
  **Democracy School Online
  • Tom Linzey Appearances on Thom Hartmann Show
• RepresentUs
• Move to Amend (The local Wikidelphia page)
• Unpartisan Politics
  • Money In Politics Podcast: Historical Background
    • Show Notes
• Video: PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy's High Stakes (1 hour & 29 minutes)
• Citizens United vs. FEC: How Did It Happen? - From PAY 2 PLAY http://pay2play.tv (11 minutes)

Adoption of Ideas

• Idea: Diffusion of Social Innovation
• Cognitive Bias and Democracy Stan's Notes...
• Design Wisdom: How Good Judgment Creates Effective Intentional Change - Hosted by CJ Fearnley
• Google Search: why+should+we+be+concerned+about+income+inequality
• RepresentUs - A movement to repeal corruption
• The Story of Solutions!
• The Story of Change
• The Story of Citizens United vs. FEC
• The Story Of Stuff Project
• Move to Amend

Possible Presentations

• One stab at an event description: Cognitive Bias and Democracy