Sharon Delgado

Pastor, Author, Speaker, Activist

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Tag: corporate personhood

  • A Corporate Coup

    The World Trade Organization (WTO) is meeting this week in Bali, Indonesia, where anti-WTO demonstrators have taken over the streets.  On Tuesday, the first day of the talks, demonstrations were held around the world to mark the Global Day of Action Against Toxic Trade Agreements. A particular focus for protestors here in the United States…

  • Corporations Can’t Dance

    According to U.S. law, corporations are “persons” under the law and are entitled to the constitutional rights and protections that we human beings have fought for and won over the centuries.  This has created a crisis in our democracy, because of the huge power imbalance between corporations and regular human beings.  Transnational corporations can harness…

  • 127 Years is Enough

    All of the issues that I write about are tied together and exacerbated by growing corporate power.  Huge transnational corporations now dominate nature, culture, political systems, and the rule-making institutions of the global economy.  As an antidote, I support the movement to Amend the Constitution to make it clear that corporations should not have constitutional…

  • Amend the Constitution to Limit Corporate Power

    Tonight is the first 2013 meeting of our local Nevada County Move to Amend coalition.  We are part of a national coalition that is working to pass a constitutional amendment that would abolish corporate personhood and make clear that money is not the same as free speech. Why get back to work on this issue? We’ve…