Vermont Arises Against Corporate Control
John Nichols writes that Vermonters went to their town meetings this week and by Thursday morning, sixty-four towns reported they had moved to amend the US Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United ruling—as well as the false construct that says, in the words of Mitt Romney, “corporations are people, my friend.” Here is John’s...
Read MoreWorking to get big money out of politics.
We are working to get big money out of politics. We are working towards passing a resolution through the Flagstaff City Council to fight the Citizen’s United decision of 2010 and support the 28th amendment to abolish corporate personhood and declare that money is not speech. Corporations don’t have a pulse yet they control the pulse. Corporations are Not people, do Not have a pulse, and should Not be allowed to intervene in our elections… at all. Only individual human beings are people, have the right to vote, and the right to donate to campaigns. Allowing corperations into...
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