This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Act Out! [113] - What Is Free Speech & Who Gets It + Black Left Perspectives
While I want to see the internet stay open, is there a line to be drawn between opinion and overt threat? When does the legal system step in? How far does free speech extend in the collegiate world? What about hate speech vs. free speech?
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New IRS Rules on Partisan Political Activity Make Nobody Happy
After Sept. 30, political and civic activists of all ideologies may need to reassess their action plans, as the IRS substantially revises regulations governing the tax-exempt status of political speech by 501(c)(4) organizations.
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The Billion-Dollar Question: When Will the U.S. Repair Its Damaged Democracy?
To watch American politics today is to watch money speaking – and the sums involved dwarf those in any other mature democracy.
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In Absence of Accountability, General Motors Kills Hundreds of People for Profit
Unless we end the corporate rule over our government, executives at General Motors will continue to get away with negligent murder.
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Extremists On the Bench: Five Years After Citizens United, Our Rogue Supreme Court
Five "unelected, unaccountable kings in black robes" are systematically stripping Constitutional rights from real, live human beings and giving those rights to corporations and a very small group of plutocrats.
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Money or Voters: Senate Weighs "Democracy for All Amendment" To Overturn Citizens United
Senate Joint Resolution 19 calls for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court Decision that opened the floodgates for corporate spending to influence political elections.
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A Hardy Welcome: Wyoming's U.S. Senate Challenger Rages Against the Money Machine
Charlie Hardy, the 75-year-old former Catholic priest now running for Senate, wants to halt NSA spying on ordinary citizens and overturn Citizens United with a Constitutional amendment.
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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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Corporations Are Not People. Period.
80% of the American public believes corporations should not have the same rights as people. Yet our community is one of thousands that has been slapped down in the name of “corporate personhood.”
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Can't We Just Say the Roberts Court Is Corrupt?
John Roberts knows he was appointed to be the Supreme Court Chief Justice for one reason: to decide relevant cases on behalf of corporate interests.
