OpEdNews - Quicklink: Maine Town Passes Ordinance Asserting Local Self-Governance and Stripping Corporate Personhood

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Maine Town Passes Ordinance Asserting Local Self-Governance and Stripping Corporate Personhood

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

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Local rights, what a sane and brave thing to do. by Robert N Smith on Monday, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:30:15 PM