Given the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority ruling that corporations are persons with the same rights as voters, blogger Chris Glaser posted “Does a Corporation Have a Soul?”
http://www.chrisglaser.blogspot.com/2014/07/does-corporation-have-soul.html?m=1
This conversation about BP, the oil companies, coastal erosion, and the distribution of the BP Settlement Fund took place at Shepherd of the Hill Presbyterian Church in Chaska one week before the 3rd Anniversary of the Deep Water Horizon explosion.
Albert Naquin is Chief of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, a subsistence fishing community whose traditional land and way of life are vanishing quickly.
Kristina Peterson is Pastor of the Bayou Blue Presbyterian Church in Gray, LA and a disaster recovery professional and researcher with the University of New Orleans Center for Hazard Assessment, Response, and Technology. Kristina was a speaker at First Tuesday Dialogues in Chaska, MN one year after the explosion of Deep Water Horizon. She returned with Chief Albert for this conversation on their way to a conference in Duluth, MN of indigenous people who live along the Mississippi River from its headwaters in Minnesota to its mouth in the Louisiana Delta of the Gulf Coast.
The off-camera voice later in the conversation is the editor of Views from the Edge and Pastor of Shepherd of the Hill.
“Something is very wrong with a system that puts corporations above people.” – Kristina Peterson
The Industrial Complex that
doesn’t even need the Military
Corporations have a soul
the Supreme Court decreed.
So it’s better, on the whole,
that they are built on greed,
for the money trickles down
to all of us that way–
CEOs may own the town,
but I still get some pay.
Bailouts go to the big guys,
too big to fail are they.
I have had to lose my house,
Too small to count am I…
I pay my taxes, glad to help!
They hire their big law firms:
here a shelter, there a fudge,
if needed, buy a judge!
– Steve Shoemaker, Urbana, IL, Oct. 23, 2012
Views from the Edge 