Will the Citizens United Ruling Let Hugo Chavez and King Abdullah Buy U.S. Elections?
This post was originally published on January 22, 2010 on the website of the Center for Public Integrity and is reprinted on Sierra Voices with CPI’s permission.
Supreme Court Ruling May Open Door to Foreign State-Owned Corporate Political Spending
By Aaron Mehta and Josh Israel
Some legal observers fear the ruling would open up the floodgates for any [...]
Small Town Takes on Mining Giant
The governing council of Blaine Township, Pennsylvania, decided that they will not allow coal mining giant, Consol Energy, to come in and destroy the township’s farms and streams by doing underground longwall mining, a technique now banned in Germany, where it was invented.
The tool they’re using to fight Consol Energy is something called “democracy.” They [...]
Whose Rights?
Published on Friday, January 22, 2010 by YES! Magazine
A new Supreme Court decision promotes corporate rights at the expense of the rights of citizens. What happens when the legal structure itself stands in the way of democracy?
by Thomas Linzey, Mari Margil
Today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission—giving corporations the ability to spend [...]
Corporate Personhood Must Be Challenged
by Jane Anne Morris
(Editor’s note: The author wrote this article late in 2009 in anticipation of exactly the decision handed down yesterday by the Supreme Court in the case of Citizens United v FEC, a decision that some are calling the “mirror-image” of the Dred Scott decision of 1857. She has written extensively about the Supreme [...]
Notes on Some Wild & Scenic Film Festival Free Workshops
Yesterday we attended two of the many free workshops offered at the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival.
While waiting outside the council chamber in the Nevada City Hall for the first workshop to begin, we checked out the various displays by environmental organizations. We also chatted with the good people of Wildlife Rehabilitation & Release, where we picked up [...]
Most Important Under-Reported Story in American Politics
I’ve written twice recently (here and here) about the percolating issue of ”corporate personhood.”
Why do I say this is the “most important under-reported story in American politics?” Because the consequence of the pending Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission could be to overturn more than a century of settled law establishing [...]
Stephen Colbert on Corporate Personhood
On September 7th, I posted this article about Bill Moyers’ recent program concerning a current Supreme Court case — Citizens United vs FEC — which deals indirectly with the issue of ”corporate personhood.”
Stephen Colbert, in the following two videos, imparts almost as much information on the background of that issue as Moyers’ program does. Which [...]
Should Corporations Have the Rights of Persons?
While watching the riveting debate between Floyd Abrams and Trevor Potter on Bill Moyers’ latest and probably most important program ever, concerning the upcoming Supreme Court case, “Citizens United vs Federal Election Commisson” (which deals with the legality under McCain-Feingold of corporate funding of an anti-Hillary campaign movie), I had the melancholy fantasy that if [...]
