Quite right, too.
OCCUPY DENVER ELECTS LEADER
In response to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s insistence that Occupy Denver choose leadership to deal with City and State officials, and drawing inspiration from the notion that corporations are people, Occupy Denver’s General Assembly has elected a leader: Shelby, a three year old Border Collie. “Shelby is closer to a person than any corporation: She can bleed, she can breed, and she can show emotion. Either Shelby is a person, or corporations aren’t people,” said a Shelby supporter at the time of her election.
Occupy Denver reserves the right to alter leadership status, but for now, Shelby exhibits heart, warmth, and an appreciation for the group over personal ambition that Occupy Denver members feel are sorely lacking in the leaders some of them have voted for on national, state, and local levels. Accordingly, Occupy Denver looks forward to communication with Mayor Hancock and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper sometime this week to introduce their leadership.
Newly-elected leader Shelby will be leading this Saturday’s Occupy Denver march against Corporate Personhood, and invites all other civic minded dogs (and their leash-holders) to join.
Source:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
CONTACT
Occupy Denver
Attn: Media-PR Committee
media-pr@occupydenver.org
occupydenver.org
And an update at 08:45 MT November 19th courtesy of Naked Capitalism where the photo was seen and ‘borrowed’ from.
This is Shelby, Occupy Denver’s newly elected leader.
Shelby, the leader
Paul Handover
If this is “for real“, Paul, it is a truly inspired (and inspiring) choice. May be the Mayor could ask a police dog to deputise for him in forthcoming negotiations (although they may have to restrict time spent sniffing each others you-know-what…)
Martin_Lack
November 19, 2011 at 04:24
Paul Handover
November 19, 2011 at 07:58