This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Mapping The Money: A New Tool To Track Political Influence This Election Season
A group of watchdogs at Maplight has introduced an interactive tool to track not only the level and location of political donations, but how the money impacts specific pieces of legislation.
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California Voters Outraged As "Citizens United" Measure Removed From Fall Ballot
On Monday, the state Supreme Court took the unexpected and widely condemned act of blocking Proposition 49, which would have enabled voters to reject Citizens United in November.
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How Corporations Are Creating a Life-Threatening Water Shortage
Nestlé is draining America's vital groundwater resources at a stunning rate – with 29 water bottling facilities across North America, it pocketed $4 billion in revenue from bottled water sales in 2012 alone.
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Rising up, Again: Occupy, 99Rise and Activism’s Comeback in the California Capital
Sacramento is playing host to the Occupy National Gathering just after 99Rise's state-long march ended there to protest the influence of big money in politics.
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Watching the Judges: Court Transparency Advocates Say It's Time to Turn the Lights On
The Coalition for Court Transparency, which advocates greater openness and accountability in judicial branch, launched a campaign to install TV cameras in the chambers of the Supreme Court.
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Rebalance the Scales Of Justice: Here Are Five Ways to Reform the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has largely failed at its most important tasks of enforcing the Constitution and protecting the rights of minorities – as the court's recent decisions starkly showed.
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Rolling this Rebellion Forward – And Ending the Influence of Money In Politics
One week and nearly 20 actions later, the Rolling Rebellion to get corporate money out of the political process was a successful jump-off point for bigger, better, brighter and louder actions soon to come.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Backs Amendment to Overturn Citizens United
"We must pass an amendment that will restore integrity to our elections," says Senator Tom Udall, "so that a billionaire in one state cannot have more influence than working families in the other forty-nine."
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Why is Washington Still Protecting the Secret Political Power of Corporations?
Regulators at the SEC could illuminate the future of campaign donations – but they aren't interested in disclosing the truth, even though voters are.
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Supreme Court to American Public: Corporations Are Your New Gods
Corporations are our new gods. “Some animals are more equal than others.” - George Orwell, Animal Farm
