"We the People" not We the Corporations....by Jim Hightower

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Jim Hightower
December 24, 2015


In response to the Supreme Court's freakish decision in 2010 to bestow political "personhood" on corporations, I got an e-mail from a guy named Larry, screaming that
"Big money has plucked our eagle."

Yes it has -- and the Powers that Be tell us that we shouldn't even try to undo this theft of our people's democratic authority, but should just try regulating corporate money, like maybe requiring them to disclose how much they're spending on campaigns.
Now there's a bold stand for democracy: "Give us campaign finance reporting regulations or give us death!"

Come on, we're bigger than that.
Here are just a few actions for real change that you can take, teaming up with others right where you live:

AMEND - Two major coalitions are organizing to overturn the court's corporate power edict by amending the Constitution.
One is FreeSpeechForPeople.org and the other is MoveToAmend.org -- and both have action kits for raising the issue locally, petitions to be circulated, video and other good graphics to educate people in your community, and a wealth of other organizing ideas.

LOCALIZE - Pass your own local and state laws to stop the wholesale corporate purchase of our government.
These include outlawing any corporate claim of personhood in your area, providing the alternative of public financing of your local and state elections, and banning campaign donations by corporations that try to get government contracts and subsidies.
For information and help, check out PublicCampaign.org and ReclaimDemocracy.org.

CONFRONT - Yes, get in the face of power.
Ask all candidates where they stand on corporate personhood and demand that top executives of big corporations located in your area publicly agree not to spend corporate cash on your elections.

Remember, the Constitution plainly says,
"We the People," not We the Corporations.


http://freespeechforpeople.org

https://movetoamend.org/

http://www.everyvoicecenter.org

http://reclaimdemocracy.org



http://www.jimhightower.com

[rhett o rick]

1. HRC on one hand says, "now stop that" to Citizens United and on the other hand she quietly says

thanks for the billion dollars gained because of CU. And her supporters that once said they disapproved of Citizens United, now quietly cheer for the billions donated to their candidate. Hypocrites.