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The history of the United States could be told as the story of who is and who is not a person under law. Women, poor people, slaves, and even corporations had long been considered persons for purposes of following the law. This is because early laws were written "No person shall . . ." Corporate lawyers had tried to avoid these laws by claiming corporations were not persons and therefore not required to follow the law. So it was decided that for purposes of following the law, corporations were persons. This allowed corporations to sue and be sued in court among other things.

Derrick Jensen explains in 'Forget Shorter Showers' why personal change does not equal social change.
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801/

Hello friends,

Would you be able to help brainstorm for an event on October 24th?

We're having a meeting to plan --what can we do to get the "350" message out?

Can you help us with this?

Thanks so much,

Cheryl Wolfe

Polson, Montana

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PLANNING MEETING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE EVENT

The Flathead Reservation Human Rights Coalition will host a meeting at

7:00 p.m. September 11 at the Polson Library to plan an event or events

to lift public awareness and possibly avoid the imminent and disastrous

05/11/09
I came across this in the list archives and found it quite interesting, thanks for sharing Paul!

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*The Evergreen Manifesto*

1. *greens define greens in terms of greens*
2. *neither right nor left but forward green*
3. *the pre-Berlin wall toolkit can't fix wto-era problems*
4. *real persons not corporate persons*
5. *matriotism not patriotism*
6. *proactive before reactive*
7. *power-to and power-with before power-over and power-against*
8. *think like a sequoia, not a weed*
9. *empathize with our opponents*

We start anew.

If it is true that our core belief is that government should be decentralized, then there is plenty for us to do right here.

We have at least one serious flaw in our Montana State Constitution, and we have negligible representation in our state legistlature.

We have time and time will prove that we have need.
We keep going.