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rman

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Sun Mar-26-06 08:27 AM
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19. "Why do we not hold a business that's paying slave wages accountable"

Because these corporations have obtained the right to to pay slave wages from instutitions that do the facto over-rule the laws of souvereign nation states. These are instutitions such as the IMF, WTO - instutitions created by corporate interests. So called Free Trade Agreements are the vehicle for these rights.

In many US states the old laws for regulating corporations still are in the books, it just takes a lot of activism to have them put to use. 'Corporate Personhood' is derived from abuse of a law that was never intended for corporations (14th amendment).
http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/

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