Idea: Corporate Personhood Bibliography

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

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