The Personhood Song sung @bechtelaction on #J20, Wall Street West

On Jan 20, as part of the shut down of Wall Street West, members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), Global Exchange, Fellowship of Reconciliation, New Priorities Campaign and others were present outside the Bechtel headquarters all day, protesting Bechtel's practice of greed and destruction. Bechtel spends millions on campaign contributions and lobbyists who secure war contracts, undermining democratic process, while directing billions of public dollars to build nuclear weapons and make its CEO a billionaire.

http://www.occupywallstreetwest.org/
http://www.globalexchange.org/The Personhood Song

by Jan Edwards
Sung to the tune of "This Land is Your Land"

Chorus:
I am a person, you are a person,
With flesh and blood and with mind and conscience.
The corporation is not a person.
That word belongs to you and me.
They rape and plunder the world's resources,
Destroying forests and killing wildlife.
The corporation must turn a profit,
Trampling over you and me.
They dump big money into elections,
Buying our Congress and legislatures.
The corporation a legal fiction,
Now has more rights than you and me.
The Robber Barons bought off the judges
To give them rights in the Constitution.
Who said the courts had the right to do that?
That job belongs to you and me.
The First Amendment protects our freedom
Of free expression and of religion.
The corporations have gone and stole it.
Those rights belong to you and me.
The Fourth Amendment requires warrants
For search and seizure; but corporations
Evade the health codes and regulations
And environmental laws.
Whenever Wal-Mart destroys a Main Street
And all the people rise up in protest,
The corporate cries of "Discrimination!"
Override democracy.
If "We the People" are truly sovereign
And rule the country through our elections,
Then we must take back from corporations
Rights that were meant for you and me.

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