Do corporations think?

Do corporations weep?

Do corporations fall in love?

Do corporations grieve when a loved one dies as a result of a lack of adequate health care?

Do corporations have loved ones?

Are corporations even capable of loving?

Do corporations sometimes lose sleep at night worrying about disease, violence, destruction, and the suffering of their fellow human beings?

Do corporations feel your pain?

Can a corporation run for public office?

Is a corporation capable of having a sense of humor? Is it capable of laughing at itself? (EXAMPLE: “So these two corporations walk into a bar….”)

If a corporation ever committed an unspeakable crime against the American people, could IT be sent to federal prison? (Note the operative word here: “It”)

Can a corporation register to vote?

We all know that corporations have made a shit-load of cash throughout our history by profiting on the unspeakable tragedy of war. But has a corporation ever given its life for its country?

Is a corporation capable of raising a child?

Does a corporation have a conscience? Does it feel remorse after it has done something really bad?

Has a corporation ever been killed in an accident as the result of a design flaw in the automobile it was driving?

Has a corporation ever written a novel or a dramatic play or a song that inspired millions?

Has a corporation ever risked its life by climbing a ladder to save a child from a burning house?

Has a corporation ever won an Oscar? Or an Emmy? Or a Tony? Or the Nobel Peace Prize? Or a Polk or Peabody Award? Or the Pulitzer Prize in Biography?

Has a corporation ever performed Schubert’s Ave Maria?

Has a corporation ever been shot and killed by someone who was using an illegal and unregistered gun?

Has a corporation ever paused to reflect upon the simple beauty of an autumn sunset or a brilliant winter moon rising on the horizon?

If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a noise if there are no corporations there to hear it?

Should corporations kiss on the first date?

Could a corporation resolve to dedicate its life to being an artist? Or a musician? Or an opera singer? Or a Catholic priest? Or a rabbi? Or a Doctor? Or a Dentist? Or a sheet metal worker? Or a gourmet chef? Or a short-order cook? Or a magician? Or a nurse? Or a trapeze artist? Or an author? Or an editor? Or a Thrift Shop owner? Or a EMT worker? Or a book binder? Or a Hardware Store clerk? Or a funeral director? Or a sanitation worker? Or an actor? Or a comedian? Or a glass blower? Or a chamber maid? Or a film director? Or a newspaper reporter? Or a deep sea fisherman? Or a farmer? Or a piano tuner? Or a jeweler? Or a janitor? Or a nun? Or a Trappist Monk? Or a poet? Or a pilgrim? Or a bar tender? Or a used car salesman? Or a brick layer? Or a mayor? Or a soothsayer? Or a Hall-of-Fame football player? Or a soldier? Or a sailor? Or a butcher? Or a baker? Or a candlestick maker?

Could a corporation choose to opt out of all the above and merely become a bum? Living life on the road, hopping freight trains and roasting mickeys in the woods?

I realize that this is pure theological speculation on my part but the question is just screaming to be posed: When corporations die, do they go to Heaven?

Our lives – yours and mine – have more worth than any goddamned corporation. To say that the Supreme Court made a awful decision last January is an understatement. Not only is it an obscene ruling, it is an insult to our humanity.

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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

So, we don’t need people to slap up stupid stuff or anything. But, a few meaningful comments with content ain’t a bad thing…

Thanks for the sharing.

That’s about all I really have to say on this subject.

Havel endorses Greens
?TK | 17 March 2010
Prague, March 16 (CTK) – Former president Vaclav Havel, along with other tens of Czech intellectuals, supported the Green Party (SZ) as the sole real political alternative that does not disdain civic society yesterday, ten weeks ahead of the elections.

The group, formed in support of the Greens, was organised by Jan Ruml, former interior minister and former leader of the now marginal Freedom Union, who recently joined the party.

Havel recalled that he has supported the Green Party for a long time.

Havel knew Green Party founder Petra Kelly long before the fall of Soviet Union, and the Berlin Wall. Petra Kelly and the Green Party were key leaders in the velvet revolutions focus on nonviolence…a fundamental Green Party value…

http://praguemonitor.com/2010/03/17/havel-endorses-greens

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-03/17/c_13215041.htm

Green Party news..Greens join forces in Florida

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2010/03/electoral_reform_event_tea_party_libertarians_greens_think_act_lead.php

here’s link for Green Party story above

http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/1381

Picks Green Party presidential nominee

Uribe-Aligned Parties Win in Colombian Legislative Vote

Candidates from four parties in President Álvaro Uribe’s conservative coalition had a strong showing in the March 14 legislative election, winning 66 of 102 Senate seats, reports the Hemispheric Brief blog. In particular, the Partido de la U won 27 seats, giving that party’s presidential candidate, former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, a boost. La Silla Vacia, in a 10-point examination of Sunday’s election, reports on surprisingly high voter support for the Green Party, which likely won more votes than the Liberal Party. Ex-Mayor of Bogota Antanas Mockus won the Green Party’s presidential-candidate primary, also held Sunday.

Could Green Party activists, or Libertarians, take over the Ohio government in Columbus and many offices in D.C. after November ballot choices are made?

Libertarians will run for seven out of eight statewide offices. The Constitution Party and Green Party will run here and there.

A Rasmussen Report says such third-party candidates are getting national attention. As its survey said last December:

“Democrats are attracting 36 percent of the vote. The Green Party candidates picked up 23 percent, and Republicans finished third at 18 percent. Another 22 percent were undecided.

Huffington Post coverage of Rich Whitney’s budget proposals
March 17th, 2010 by Dave Schwab · No Comments
Thanks to Huffington Post Chicago for covering Rich Whitney, Illinois Green Party candidate for governor. In an article entitled “Rich Whitney, Green Party Governor Candidate, Announces Budget Proposals”, HuffPo Chicago compares Whitney’s comprehensive plan to turn the budget deficit into a surplus with Democratic Governor Pat Quinn’s proposed education cuts and Republican Bill Brady’s lack of a plan. You can read the full article at the Huffington Post.

http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/03/17/huffington-post-coverage-of-rich-whitneys-budget-proposals/

Green Party in

Green Party
March for Immigration Reform in Washington DC, Sunday 3/21
Posted by Dave Schwab at March 17th, 2010

Many Greens are planning to march against US wars in Washington DC on 3/20/10, but not all may be aware that a march for immigration reform is planned for the very next day in DC. Participants in Sunday’s March for America will be marching for “Immigration reform for new American families and economic justice for all American families”. The marchers would surely be glad to discover that there’s already a national political party that shares their values. In other words, the March for America is an opportunity for outreach that Greens shouldn’t miss.

http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/03/17/march-for-immigration-reform-in-washington-dc-sunday-321/

And a heartfelt welcome back to the Green Party..

Bring all your friends to the Green Party..

Get on the ballot as a Green Party candidate here and now…

And all your friends, relatives, country folk, city folk, suburbans too…into the Green Party now…