... From: Jeffrey Grubler <sideshowjeff@...> Date: Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:06 AM Subject: [DASW] Chevron CEO David O'Reilly To: Direct Action new list...
Scott Munson
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Jun 1, 2009 2:09 pm
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Often we are told corporations are treated as persons in the US, after several amendments to the Constitution. This came up on a group I'm on and Wikipedia...
There's a great Pennsylvania-based group called the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund that's successfully challenged corporate personhood, mostly on a...
... I don't see anything about personhood, just fighting corporate power. From my reading of the wikipedia article, it sounds like the courts have never really...
Here's a corporate personhood case they worked on in Maine: http://www.celdf.org/Default.aspx?tabid=558 And here's a nice history of U.S. corporate personhood...
... Bike lane meeting met with complaints By Vic Lee SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Next month, the San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Commission [BATN: sic;...
the bike lanes in san francisco are really hazard zones. it is a waste of space to give lanes to bicyclists. Streets are already too narrow. parking IS too...
IMO it makes much better sense to ban automobiles from certain city streets entirely (like Montgomery, Market, Mission, Irving etc). Martin is absolutely right...
PeakOilNews The Oil Drum: The Fifth Problem: Peak Capital http://tinyurl.com/proqj7 Full http://tinyurl.com/mfcdht from http://twitter.com/PeakOilNews ...
Scott Munson
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Jun 2, 2009 4:32 am
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Dear Friends: The idea of corporate personhood came about following a Supreme Court decision in the 1890's I believe, under very suspicious circumstances. No...
Thomas Dickerman
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Jun 2, 2009 4:45 am
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... What I seem to be learning (on another list a person actually went to a lawyer to ask) is they tend to be persons when it is convenient. But not always....
No Ammendment, no constitution. In Southern Pacific VS ... The clerk wrote down something like ... "corporations being persons under the 14th ammendment..." ...
Scott Munson
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Jun 2, 2009 5:15 am
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No doubt this is going to done with usual medial flair for some level of "titillation," but the fact it is addressed at all is rather surprising to me. Of...
Campbell is the GOTO man on Peak Oil...How did we get ourselves into this mess? http://tinyurl.com/mtwqgf Dr. Colin Campbell - Peak Oil Presentation - The end...
Scott Munson
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Jun 2, 2009 6:23 pm
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Tue June 2, 7 to 9 pm Transition Marin: A Community Response to Peak Oil and Climate Change An introduction to the international Transition Towns Movement and...
Scott Munson
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Jun 2, 2009 8:17 pm
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"The end of the first half of the age of oil" is not what's happening, nor what's going to happen. A "second half of the oil age" type of powerdown is not...
Jan Lundberg
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Jun 3, 2009 1:05 am
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The Geography of Recession Any comments on the alternative view below? Michele This email is just a fraction of what STRATFOR Members get. Don't miss out on...
[Where I am, in California, gas is already back to or above $ 3 per gallon. SR] Chart of the Day By Kevin Drum Mother Jones Sun May 31, 2009 As I've mentioned...
Michele, To understand how the different countries GDP relate to each other you would first have to understand if the other countries numbers are as fuzzy as...
The Geography of Recession Hi Arlen, Thanks for the great read on GDP. Scary how much we lie to ourselves. The second part of the article was about the USA...
... If we didn't do that, we'd have to face the truth. But overall, even "truth" for most things is fuzzy and may not exist other than for an individual....
Scary how much we lie to ourselves. Actually, it's scary how much we're lied to. Considering that we have 5 super powerful media corporations, it's amazing...
And soon we'll be able to add THC to human genetic code. The question is whether the individual with this code would be high all the time or whether that...
Gas drilling contributes about as much air pollution as car and truck traffic http://www.star-telegram.com/barnettshale/story/1413456.html or ...
Scott Munson
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Jun 4, 2009 6:53 pm
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... Turns out that link was a joke. Dumb me. I figured it was a joke on Monsanto with the name, but the manufacture of stoned tomatoes seemed to keep in line...
http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/is_this_really_our_only_choice.html#comments Tim Redmond of the SF Bay Guardian laments over the Newsom/Brown demo ...
Gang, The Nate Hagens talk next Friday on Potrero Hill is now totally maxed out. I don't think we could squeeze an additional chiwawa (not that any have...
Have you thought of moving it to a larger venue? I got a 50 seat theater laying around at the Redstone Bldg. in the Mission. R Richard Katz wrote: Gang, The...