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Building a democracy movement for the U.S.A.

 
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Supreme Court Decision is an Outrage: Sign the Motion to Amend

On 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.Sign the Motion to Amend


Events:

    ASSEMBLY HEARING: Safeguard Wisconsin's Guard Bill

(March 9, 2010)
Assembly Bill 203, the bill to enact legal safeguards to protect Wisconsin's National Guard from unlawful overseas deployments, has been scheduled for a hearing before the Assembly's Veterans and Military Affairs Committee on March 9, 2010. Please join us, so that the hearing room is wall-to-wall with people who care about our Guard members and families and want to see them protected from misuse by the federal government.


    Wisconsin: March to Overrule the Court

(February 16, 2010)

Make plans to join the March to Overrule the Court, Noon, on Tuesday, February 16th as we loudly protest the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that corporations are persons entitled to constitutional rights to influence elections.  Rally at the State Capitol, State Street steps, then march to the nearby federal courthouse. Bring a bell to ring, warm clothes, and friends.

Click here to get a pdf poster to print out and distribute

Latest News:

    MADISON CAPITOL TIMES: Safeguard the Guard

Date: March 9, 2010

Take Action:

    March 4 National Day of Action to Defend Education

source: California students, staff and faculty

    Move to Amend: Overrule the Supreme Court

source: Campaign to Legalize Democracy

Publications & Talks:

    PERLSTEIN: 'Bomb Power' examines roots of Imperial Presidency

(March 14, 2010)

Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland, inteviews historian Garry Wills about Wills' new book Bomb Power, which finds the origins of the Imperial Presidency within the President's power to use nuclear weapons.

    SCOTCH: Legal memo on Wisconsin Safeguard the Guard Act

(March 13, 2010)

Benson Scotch, general counsel to “Bring the Guard Home—It’s the Law!" prepared the following legal memo for the Wisconsin State Assembly's Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs in preparation for hearings held on March 9, 2010 for AB203, the Safeguard the Guard Act, that would require Wisconsin's governor to review all federal orders for Wisconsin Guard troops and to refuse any federal orders determined to be unlawful.



 
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