'Tremendous Victory' in Growing Rebuke of Citizens United
an astounding 76.6 percent of Los Angeles voters “emphatically endorsed” the growing national call for a constitutional amendment, declaring “Only People Are People.”
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Independence Day 2012
Americans are dependent upon foreign manufacturing, foreign oil, centralized power production and distribution, factory farming and food distribution to name but a few essential services. We are not an independent nation or a free people.
Read MoreChris Hayes – UP – It’s rough out there for plutocrats
Montana learned the hard way about the impact of money on politics and established its own ‘Corrupt Practices Act’ more than a century ago. A panel discusses money and politics ad Citizens United and seem to universally agree that money buys ads which in turns buys seats in federal, state and local elections.
Read MoreThe OCCUPIED Amendment seeks to outlaw corporate influence in democracy
Roosevelt went on to say that every person will have a fair chance to reach their highest potential “unassisted by special privilege” and “unhampered by the special privilege of others”.
Read MoreThought control-Koch Bros exert political influence on employees
Koch Industries and other corporations, thanks to Citizen United Supreme Court decision are now legally allowed to apply political pressure on their workers. An election packet obtained by The Nation for Washington State and distributed to almost 50,000 workers “included a cover letter from its president and COO, David Robertson; a list of Koch-endorsed state and federal candidates; and an issue of the company newsletter, Discovery, full of alarmist right-wing propaganda”.
Read MoreVermont takes initiative to abolish corporate personhood
This astonishing fictional “person,” accorded all the rights of a human, can split off pieces of itself to form new fictional persons, can marry many other similar persons in a process called a merger, is immortal, can change its name and identity overnight,
Read MoreUS Chamber of Commerce not for the little guy anymore
This election revealed some startling statistics about the lengths big business will go to influence policy on a national scale. Decades ago the Chamber of Commerce enjoyed a Norman Rockwell-like image in the minds of many...
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