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Supreme Court Decision is an Outrage: Sign the Motion to AmendOn January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government.
Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions. The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.
Join Liberty Tree and our many partners in the Campaign to Legalize Democracy, as we move to overrule the Supreme Court. Go to www.MovetoAmend.org right now and sign the motion. Events:U.S. Social Forum II(June 22, 2009 - June 26, 2010)Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary! GLOBAL ACTION: Education is not for Sale! ~ November, 2009(November 5, 2009 - November 19, 2009)Students, teachers, workers and parents around the world ask themselves: Is the public education system still serving the interests of the public, or is the focus shifting to implement education systems that primarily serve private and business interests? Tuition fees are – once introduced – sky-rocketing, universities and schools are turned into businesses, student debt keeps increasing and education budgets cut. Latest News:GRANT: Voters of both parties object to Supreme Court activismDate: January 26, 2010WASH POST: On pins and needles ahead of Citizens UnitedDate: January 14, 20102009 IN REVIEW: Education protests go globalDate: January 7, 2010BOOK: The Death and Life of American JournalismDate: January 6, 2010NICHOLS: Feingold Fears Lawless Court RulingDate: January 12, 2010Take Action:Move to Amend: Overrule the Supreme Courtsource: Campaign to Legalize DemocracyIt's NOT such a wonderful life!source: BanksterUSA.orgPublications & Talks:MANSKI: The Essence of the Corporation(January 11, 2010) "It is hard to imagine a society absent corporations of any kind. Human beings will cooperate, and produce things together, and recognize the product of their collective labors as corporate work. Yet history shows that other key aspects of the modern corporation – namely corporate personhood and liability – are neither inevitable nor to be preferred. Indeed, those corporate qualities are correlated with the strong state and empire, hardly friends of democracy." PRICE: Milwaukeeans vs. the Privatization Pandemic(December 6, 2009)"Yet here it is, that same message: “educate to outcompete the rest of the world, or die,” emblazoned on the flag being carried by the Obama administration as it wages a zero tolerance war on America’s public schools at the same time as it plays Santa Claus to the banking industry, the industries that profit from defense manufacture and war, and the private health insurance industry." |
