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Corporations and Democracy
There is looming up a new and dark power... the enterprises of the country are aggregating vast corporate combinations of unexampled capital, boldly marching, not for economical conquests only, but for political power.... The question will arise and arise in your day, though perhaps not fully in mine, which shall rule, wealth or man; which shall lead, money or intellect; who shall fill public stations, educated and patriotic freemen, or the feudal serfs of corporate capital?
~ Edward G. Ryan, Chief Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1873
The corporation is the dominant economic institution of our time. Please read our resources regarding corporate chartering, corporate constitutional rights, and democratizing the corporation. NewsNATIONAL JOURNAL: 'Citizens United' Decision Could Be Catalyst For ReformDate: December 8, 2009MANSKI AND GRAVES: Amend the Constitution to rein in corporationsDate: February 12, 2010MCLARTY: Fighting corporate power in the wake of the Supreme Court's Citizens United rulingDate: February 13, 2010Take ActionMove to Amend: Overrule the Supreme Courtsource: Campaign to Legalize DemocracyBreak Up the Banks!source: A New Way ForwardSupport Benton Harbor leader now!source: Rev. Pinkney Support CommitteeEventsWisconsin: March to Overrule the Court(February 16, 2010)Make plans to join the March to Overrule the Court, Noon, on Tuesday, February 16th as we loudly protest the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that corporations are persons entitled to constitutional rights to influence elections. Rally at the State Capitol, State Street steps, then march to the nearby federal courthouse. Bring a bell to ring, warm clothes, and friends. Click here to get a pdf poster to print out and distribute USSF: End Corporate Rule. Legalize Democracy. Move to Amend the Constitution.(June 25, 2010 - June 25, 2010)Workshop calling for a series of constitutional amendments to make the unfulfilled promise of democracy a reality in the United States. CHICAGO: Illinois Greens to Join Move to Amend the Constitution(July 30, 2010)A featured speaker at the Illinois Green Party convention is Ben Manski, a member of the MovetoAmend.org Executive Committee, the founder of the Liberty Tree Foundation, and a former national chair of the Green Party of the United States. Publications & TalksMANSKI: The Essence of the Corporation(January 11, 2010) "It is hard to imagine a society absent corporations of any kind. Human beings will cooperate, and produce things together, and recognize the product of their collective labors as corporate work. Yet history shows that other key aspects of the modern corporation – namely corporate personhood and liability – are neither inevitable nor to be preferred. Indeed, those corporate qualities are correlated with the strong state and empire, hardly friends of democracy." NICHOLS & MCCHESNEY: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again(February 5, 2010)Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone. Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown. VIDEO: March to Overrule the Court(February 16, 2010)This video footage is from the March to Overrule the Court, a protest march that occurred on February 16, 2010, from the State Capitol Building to the federal courthouse in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. |
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