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Editorial: Challenging Corporate Personhood

Submitted by oskebuckley on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:29

MetroWest Daily News

November 17, 2011

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney caused a stir when he told a crowd in Iowa that "corporations are people, too." He went on to explain that corporations employ, serve and are owned by people, which is true enough, as far as it goes.

In Citizens United, the U.S. Supreme Court went further, decreeing that, since corporations are people, they are endowed with all the rights under the First Amendment, including the right to spend corporate money on political activities without limits.

Article: Why Do Cigarette Boxes Have More Free Speech Rights Than Protesters?

Submitted by oskebuckley on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:25

Alternet

Steven Rosenfeld

November 16, 2011

Congressman McGovern Introduces the People's Rights Amendment

Submitted by oskebuckley on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 14:24

CONGRESSMAN JIM MCGOVERN INTRODUCES CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BILL TO OVERTURN CORPORATE PERSONHOOD

‘Corporations Are Not People’

‘PEOPLE’S RIGHTS AMENDMENT’ WOULD REPEAL CITIZENS UNITED RULING AND THE CORPORATE RIGHTS DOCTRINE

 

Q&A: Jeff Clements - New book looks at corporate power shift

Submitted by oskebuckley on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 12:18

Keila Szpaller

The Missoulian

November 13, 2011

Missoula isn't alone in its call for people to have more power than corporations in politics, and a new book called "Corporations are not People" talks about how the balance tipped the other way over the past three decades.

Philadelphia Freedom: Businesses for 28th Amendment and Note on OccupyPhilly

Submitted by oskebuckley on Fri, 11/04/2011 - 13:37

November 4, 2011

Jeff Clements

I’m in Philadelphia to testify at a legislative policy committee on Citizens United and corporate political spending. Here’s a my testimony, Government of and by the People? Corporate Political Spending in America After Citizens United and the Urgent Need for the 28th Amendment.

Jeff Clements to testify tomorrow at campaign finance and Citizens United hearing at Philadelphia City Hall

Submitted by oskebuckley on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 13:50

Join Jeff Clements, FSFP Co-Founder, tomorrow morning, Friday Nov. 4th, in Philadelphia, for a hearing about campaign finance and how to respond to the Citizens United ruling. 

The hearing is being held by the Pennsylvania House Democratic Policy Committee -- that is, the policy-setting arm of the Democratic caucus of elected Representatives at the state level. 

Here are the details:

Constitutional Amendment to overturn Citizens United introduced in US Senate

Submitted by oskebuckley on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 13:42

U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Michael Bennet introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision.  The amendment calls on Congress to correct the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance allowing virtually unlimited corporate and special interest spending in elections.  Joining Udall and Bennet as original cosponsors of the legislation are Sens. Tom Harkin, Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Sheldon Whitehouse and Jeff Merkley.