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Robert Jensen on Talking Radical in a Mainstream World
Click here to see the video. Robert Jensen gives a teach-in on Talking Radical in a Mainstream World for Occupy Austin’s Independence Day gathering. Occupy Austin (7/4/12) describes the goal of the gathering: “We are coming together to write a new declaration. A Declaration that reminds us of the uncertain road that those who founded […]
Moyers> Media Giants Fight Proposal That Could Shed Light on Who’s Buying Our Elections
Moyers: Media Giants Fight Proposal That Could Shed Light on Who’s Buying Our Elections The new rule would require the ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox affiliates in the top 50 markets to make their files on political advertising available on line immediately. by Bill Moyers April 18, 2012 BillMoyers.com By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship […]
Video> Flashmob: Citizens Unite to Oppose Citizens United (with Marisa Tomei)
Uploaded by StopCitizensUnited on Apr 2, 2012 Hundreds of Angelenos unite to oppose “Citizens United vs FEC” – the 2010 Supreme Court decision that allowed corporations to make unlimited/undisclosed political contributions. Join our call for real campaign finance reform. Please share this video and Like “Stop Citizens United” on fb to help spread the word: http://facebook.com/StopCitizensUnited Join Us! Subscribe […]
Bill Moyers> How Can Ordinary People Fight Citizens United?
How Can Ordinary People Fight Citizens United? February 1, 2012 Click here for the full video and transcript.
Rob Kall> Is The USA The Only Nation in the World With Corporate Personhood?
Is The USA The Only Nation in the World With Corporate Personhood? By Rob Kall Posted: 02/ 8/2012 Huffington Post It’s not surprising to learn that no nation on earth enshrines in its constitution the right of corporate personhood. Mila Versteeg, associate law professor at the University of Virginia, is probably the only […]
Video> How to Reverse the Corporate Coup d’Etat> A Conversation with Lawrence Lessig and Chris Hedges
How to Reverse the Corporate Coup d’Etat A Conversation With Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig Monday 30 January 2012 TruthOut Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig, Yes! Magazine | Interview and Video Protesters against Citizens United demonstrate outside the Sacramento Capitol, California, January 21, 2012. (Photo: Public Citizen) “We’ve undergone a corporate coup d’etat in slow motion. And it’s […]
Video> Democracy Now> As States Take on Citizens United, Lawrence Lessig Offers Bold Plan to Get Money Out of Politics
As States Take on Citizens United, Lawrence Lessig Offers Bold Plan to Get Money Out of Politics January 4, 2012 Democracy Now Amy Goodman California and New York City lawmakers are introducing measures today calling for a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United, the controversial 2010 Supreme Court ruling that characterizes political spending […]
Video> Thom Hartmann> David Cobb – ‘Citizens united’ Doesn’t Fly in Big Sky State
David Cobb – ‘Citizens united’ Doesn’t Fly in Big Sky State Thom Hartmann talks with David Cobb, Spokesperson-Move to Amend / Attorney / National Projects Director-Democracy Unlimited, about Montana’s Supreme Court issuing a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed corporations had constitutional rights to directly spend […]
How the Oligarchs Took America by Andy Kroll
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, How the Oligarchs Took America Posted by Andy Kroll December 2, 2010. (Editor’s note: An older article, but still applicable now.) Tomgram: We already know that it’s party time for the financial elite who gave real meaning to the phrase “economic meltdown” in 2008, that bonuses are soaring, that corporate profits for the third quarter of 2010 […]
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