California’s Assembly votes to support a Constitutional Amendment to overturn Citizens United. Posted on March 22, 2012 (September 11, 2020) Democracy Amendments By HANNAH DREIER, ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, March 22, 2012 State lawmakers are wading into the ongoing battle over corporate money in politics. The California Assembly passed a resolution Thursday calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn the 2010 Citizens United decision, which held that corporations can spend unlimited sums to influence elections. (See the full article here.) Read More
Jeff Clements Talks with The Nation: How Can We Defeat ‘Citizens United’? Posted on March 21, 2012 (September 11, 2020) Democracy Amendments Read More
Yes! Magazine covers our call to revoke the corporate charter of Massey Energy Posted on March 21, 2012 (September 11, 2020) Corporate Abuse of Power "A second tool to discipline corporate wrongdoers is charter revocation…. State governments have the right to revoke charters from companies that do not serve the public interest. Free Speech for People has petitioned Delaware to revoke the charter of Massey Energy. Charter revocation effectively constitutes the death penalty for a corporation. Even occasional use against large corporations would be a major deterrent to corporate wrongdoing." Read More
Stand with Montana in fight against corporate personhood Posted on March 16, 2012 (September 11, 2020) Democracy Amendments The Missoulian C.B. Pearson, Verner Bertelsen and Becky Douglas March 16, 2012 It’s time for Montanans to stand up for themselves. More and more, our individual voices are getting drowned out by big money in politics. The recent Citizens United v. FEC decision by the U.S. Supreme Court has made the situation intolerable. That’s why on Feb. 28, we filed a citizen’s initiative that we hope will appear on the 2012 ballot. Read More
ABC/Washington Post poll: Seven in 10 Would Send Super PACs Packing Posted on March 14, 2012 (September 11, 2020) Challenging Super PACs Super PACs are unwelcome guests at the 2012 election party: Seven in 10 Americans say these private, campaign-spending organizations should be illegal. Echoing widespread disapproval of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that authorized super PACs in 2010, a bipartisan 69 percent in this ABC News/Washington Post poll would ban them now. More than half, 52 percent, feel that way strongly. Read More
President Reagan’s budget director, David Stockman, endorses a Constitutional Amendment to “get corporations out of politics” Posted on March 12, 2012 (September 11, 2020) Democracy Amendments Stockman talks with Bill Moyers about how money dominates politics, distorting free markets and endangering democracy. "As a result," Stockman says, "we have neither capitalism nor democracy. We have crony capitalism." Read More
The Movement Against Citizens United Continues to Build Posted on March 9, 2012 (September 11, 2020) Democracy Amendments The Huffington Post Pearl Korn March 5, 2012 Read More
Book by Jeff Clements Covered by the San Francisco Chronicle: ‘Corporations Are Not People’ Posted on March 1, 2012 (September 11, 2020) Democracy Amendments San Francisco Chronicle Mosi Reeves March 1, 2012 Read More