Now we’re talking. These folks are targeting the real bullseye on the issues at hand… so-called corporate ‘rights’. This is ground zero in the effort to bring real democratic accountability to our governing systems.

Today the citizens of Shapleigh, Maine voted at a special town meeting to pass a groundbreaking Rights-Based Ordinance, 114 for and 66 against. This revolutionary ordinance give its citizens the right to local self-governance and gives rights to ecosystems but denies the rights of personhood to corporations. This ordinance allows the citizens to protect their groundwater resources, putting it in a common trust to be used for the benefit of its residents.

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The right to water is a social justice issue and we believe that it should not be sold to those who can afford it, leaving the world’s poorest citizens thirsty. Citizens will do a much better job of protecting this resource than a for-profit corporation.

The multi-national corporation’s allegiance is never to the communities where they do business, as that could conflict with their fiduciary responsibility to make a profit for stockholders.

People throughout the country are saying “enough is enough, large corporations have too much power.” Constitutional Rights were granted to corporations from the bench in the 1800’s and it is time to rectify a wrong! People are saying let’s dismantle the neo-colonial corporate power by starting with their right to personhood.

Read the full article as well as watch video clips from the town hall meetings Here.