April 4, 2014
Supreme Court gives organized greed a boost
Political inequality and organized greed got a boost from the Supreme Court that will cost working people and our democracy dearly
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October 6, 2012
Guide to Big Money influencing North Carolina elections
Read MoreWant to know where all the big corporate cash flooding North Carolina elections will be coming from in 2012? Facing South, a publication from our friends at the Institute for Southern Studies, has some answers.
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July 6, 2012
Calls to overturn Citizens United grow
Read MoreNorth Carolinians will get a chance to hear from the experts about what is being done and what you can do to advance the cause of overturning Citizens United at one of several stops on Move to Amend’s “Barnstorming Tour”, July 7-11.
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April 5, 2012
Flashmob: Citizens unite to oppose Citizens United
Read MoreCheck out this cool video of a flashmob in Los Angeles of people – real persons, not fake corporate “people” – all united in their opposition to Citizens United, the 2012 Supreme Court ruling that opened the floodgates of unlimited and undisclosed corporate spending to influence elections.
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March 16, 2012
AFL-CIO comes out strong against Citizens United
Read MoreBusiness corporations are not people—they are manmade creatures of law that exist to generate economic activity and create jobs and income in communities. The notion that they should enjoy the same rights and protections as natural persons is absurd and it is destructive to our democracy.
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January 20, 2012
Citizens uniting against Citizens United
Read MoreJanuary 21, 2012 is the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC that corporations are people, money is speech, and corporations have the right to spend as much of their money as they like to influence elections.
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October 5, 2011
Coverage of Art Pope Exposé on Rachel Maddow Show
Read MoreOn her October 4 show, Rachel Maddow interviewed Jane Mayer, author of an explosive exposé about North Carolina millionaire Art Pope’s one-man election-buying machine published this week in the New Yorker magazine.
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January 29, 2010
SCOTUS Unleashes Corporate Power in Elections
Read More‘Citizens United’ ruling a disaster for democracy If we thought the flow of money in politics was bad before, we ain’t seen nothing yet. Last week, in a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court of the United States elevated corporations to the level of actual persons with a free-speech guarantee under the first amendment to advocate […]
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