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Tag Archives: corporate constitutional rights
Abolish “Electoral” Capital Punishment
Ohio prison officials announced this week that they are delaying executions until at least 2017 due to a shortage of lethal injection drugs. Ohio joins several other states that are delaying inflicting “capital punishment” for this reason. We associate “capital … Continue reading
Judge Says Vermont Law Protecting Human Health over Corporate Rights is Legit
An Associated Press article this week reported that a federal judge will allow to stand for now a Vermont law that could make the state the first in the country to require labeling of genetically modified food, despite opposition by corporate food … Continue reading
The Public Can’t See the TPP
What the public can see of the “classified” TPP <><><><><> A briefing was held this week between members of Congress and the U.S Trade Rep Michael Froman and staff at the Labor Department on details of Trans Pacific Partnership, the … Continue reading
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What corporations get away with
Letter to the Editor Akron Beacon Journal, February 25, 2015 http://www.ohio.com/editorial/vop/letters-to-the-editor-testing-students-and-corporate-power-feb-25-1.569531 Corporate officials have used the same strategies to escape democratic control from the public and its elected representatives for more than a century. One strategy is to shift decision … Continue reading
Happy Birthday to “money equals speech!”
Today is the 39th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court Buckley v Valeo decision, decided on January 30, 1976. Of course, 1976 was the year of the 200th anniversary of the American Revolution from Great Britain. That independence was supposed … Continue reading
Dreaming and working for a real democracy after Citizens United ruling: Greg Coleridge (opinion)
Reprinted from cleveland.com, January 21, 2015 http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/01/dreaming_and_working_for_a_rea.html#incart_river It’s a cruel irony that the very week our nation celebrates the life and work for justice and equality of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., our country also marks mark the 5th … Continue reading
Our Swiss Cheese Democracy
Any person who is remotely aware of the state of our political system knows we’re in deep trouble. One doesn’t need a PhD in political science to believe that the “representatives” part of our “representative democracy” increasingly do the bidding … Continue reading
The elections are over, but the rights of corporations and money remain
Letter to the Editor cleveland.com / November 11, 2014 http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2014/11/the_elections_are_over_but_the.html The mid-term elections are over. Some new faces were elected here and elsewhere while many old faces remain. What didn’t change one iota were constitutional rights of corporate entities and … Continue reading
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