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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmerica's Most Dynamic (Yet Under-Covered) Movement: Overturning 'Citizens United'
http://www.thenation.com/blog/175129/americas-most-dynamic-yet-under-covered-movement-overturning-citizens-united#axzz2YGu3cLFZThe most under-covered political movement in the United Statesand there are a lot of under-covered political movements in the United Statesis the broad-based national campaign to enact a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court rulings that ushered in a new era of big-money politics.
On the eve of the nations Fourth of July celebrations, Oregon became the sixteenth state to formally call for an amendment. With bipartisan support, the state House and Senate requested that Congress take necessary steps to re-establish the basic American premise that money is property and not speech, and [that] the Congress of the United States, state legislatures and local legislative bodies should have the authority to regulate political contributions and expenditures
Oregon is the fifth state to make the call for corporate accountability in three months, making 2013 a banner year for a movement that began with little attention and little in the way of institutional support after the US Supreme Courts 2010 ruling, in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, that corporations could spend as freely as they like to buy favorable election results.
Support for an amendment now stretches from coast to coast, with backing (in the form of legislative resolutions or statewide referendum results) from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and West Virginia. The District of Columbia is also supportive of the move to amend, as are roughly 500 municipalities, from Liberty, Maine, to Los Angeles, Californiawhere 77 percent of voters backed a May referendum instructing elected representatives to seek an amendment establishing that there should be limits on political campaign spending and that corporations should not have the constitutional rights of human beings.
Read more: America's Most Dynamic (Yet Under-Covered) Movement: Overturning 'Citizens United' | The Nation http://www.thenation.com/blog/175129/americas-most-dynamic-yet-under-covered-movement-overturning-citizens-united#ixzz2YH0bo200
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America's Most Dynamic (Yet Under-Covered) Movement: Overturning 'Citizens United' (Original Post)
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Jul 2013
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zbdent
(35,392 posts)1. Please, you're trying to get me away from the really important news story ...
Kim Kardashean (sp) having a gas attack ...
Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)3. That could be explosive!