Whitehall Man Leads Group of Local Residents' Letter to P-G

Thirty-one area residents, including writer Thomas Dufour, of , signed a March 27 letter to the editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that encourages the Allegheny County Council to formally oppose the recognition of "corporate personhood."

Dufour's letter also praises the Pittsburgh City Council for already doing so.

Indeed, on Dec. 30, the Pittsburgh Council passed the following legislation:

"NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby calls on our elected officials join the tens of thousands of citizens, grassroots organizations and local governments across the country in the Move to Amend campaign to call for an Amendment to the Constitution to Abolish Corporate Personhood and return our democracy, our elections, our communities back to America's human persons and to thus reclaim our sovereign right to self-governance. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh calls on other communities and jurisdictions to join with us in this action by passing similar Resolutions."

Writes Dufour, "While the Citizens United Supreme Court decision (supportive of corporate personhood), which enabled an influx of unlimited sums of money into political campaigns, was a setback for our self-governance, we're confident that, with the support of our local leaders and citizens, that we can win this fight."

Read Dufour's full letter here.

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