From the Citizens United dissent of Justices Stevens (joined by Justices Sotomayor, Ginsburg)
, ". . . . corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their “personhood” often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established."
Move to Amend Northwest!
April 20-22 in Eugene, OregonREGISTER TODAY!
This will be the first of seven regional Move to Amend Convergences to be held coast to coast this year.
This event will bring you together with Move to Amend activists and supporters from throughout the Pacific Northwest, and will be a valuable opportunity to:
Friday, March 23, 2012 6:30-8:30 pm
First Unitarian Church
1011 SW 12th, Rm. B302
(enter the church between Main and Salmon)
Portland, OR 97201
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Thursday, January 12, 2012 the Portland City Council approved a resolution that declares that money is not speech and that corporations are not people and that the US Constitition needs to be amended to reflect this. With passage, this resolution now becomes part of the official Federal Legislative Agenda.
Read Mayor Adams' comments about the resolution and view it here.
On Friday, January 20, citizens across the nation gathered at over 140 courthouses to protest the US Supreme Court decision, issued on January 21, 2010, called Citizens United which declared that because corporations are people they could not have their free speech rights subject to regulation. Corporations and unions were freed to spend their corporate funds directly on so-called "independent" campaigns.
