Solve 90 Percent of Our Problems In One Stroke: Take the Rights of People Away From Corporations

Friday, May 10 is the 127th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad. If you don't understand why corporations - and their executives - get away with lying and stealing and killing when regular citizens have to go to prison, the answer is Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad. 

In that 1886 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that corporations have the same rights as individuals. Every anti-American, anti-democratic, anti-middle-class law, policy and decision favoring corporations since then derives from the travesty of Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad.

The Citizens United decision in 2010 that opened the floodgates for criminal billionaires to buy Congress, state legislatures and the presidency is only its latest destructive descendant.

Find out just what catastrophic damage to our economy, our living standards, our environment and our politics that decision has done by watching The Corporation in Lexington on May 11.

Central Kentucky Move to Amend will be showing the film The Corporation on Saturday May 11, 2:00 PM, at the Farish Theater in the Central Library, downtown Lexington.

The film explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics - including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

To see the trailer, click here: https://movetoamend.org/toolkit/recommended-documentaries.

Admission is free, and it's open to the public! 

Move to Amend is also encouraging people

to write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper for publication ahead of May 10, explaining the significance of that case to corporate control of our government, in fact, our lives.  If you'd like some tips on what to include, you can use information at movetoamend.org 

The U.S. Constitution opens with the Preamble, which begins:

We the People

 not "we the corporations."  Corporations are not mentioned in the Constitution, and there are very excellent reasons why.

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