{"id":3403,"date":"2014-12-22T08:14:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T13:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2014-12-22T08:14:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T13:14:59","slug":"corporations-are-not-people-a-lawyers-book-about-fighting-back-against-corporate-personhood-occupy-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3403","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Corporations Are Not People&#8221;: A Lawyer&#8217;s Book About Fighting Back Against Corporate Personhood | Occupy.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.occupy.com\/article\/corporations-are-not-people-lawyers-book-about-fighting-back-against-corporate-personhood\">&#8220;Corporations Are Not People&#8221;: A Lawyer&#8217;s Book About Fighting Back Against Corporate Personhood | Occupy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 1.5em 0px 20px 0px;\">The title says it all:\u00a0<a style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #0054a6; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781626562103\" target=\"_blank\">Corporations Are Not People<\/a>. And Jeff Clements is in a position to know. During his tenure at the Massachusetts Attorney General&#8217;s office, Clements was involved in a number of cases that saw corporations eager to gain all the rights of a person without holding the responsibility of a person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 1.5em 0px 20px 0px;\">Clements highlights one such case in his\u00a0<a style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #0054a6; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781626562103\" target=\"_blank\">new book<\/a>, involving a cigarette company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 1.5em 0px 20px 0px;\">\u201cThe law that we worked on was intended to stop the kind of targeting practices they were doing around middle schools and playgrounds,\u201d Clements explains. \u201cLiterally, part of their marketing included how to addict middle school kids, young teenagers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 1.5em 0px 20px 0px;\">In a trend that is now familiar in what Clements refers to as the \u201cSecond Gilded Age,\u201d the law was struck down by the Supreme Court, suggesting that \u201cthe free speech rights of the cigarette corporation had been violated by limiting their advertising around school yards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 1.5em 0px 20px 0px;\">Anyone with a conscience knows that this feels wrong. Courts, of course, don&#8217;t run on feelings. But here&#8217;s why that ruling, and others like it, are wrong both legally and logically.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.occupy.com\/article\/corporations-are-not-people-lawyers-book-about-fighting-back-against-corporate-personhood#sthash.814cPiRP.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Corporations Are Not People&#8221;: A Lawyer&#8217;s Book About Fighting Back Against Corporate Personhood | Occupy.com. The title says it all:\u00a0Corporations Are Not People. And Jeff Clements is in a position to know. During his tenure at the Massachusetts Attorney General&#8217;s office, Clements was involved in a number of cases that saw corporations eager to gain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[171,1471,2082,2081],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-corporations","tag-corporatism","tag-courts","tag-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3404,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions\/3404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}