Occasionally, I scoop AnnArbor.com, like yesterday, with my story about the break-in at Beezy’s. But, more often than not, they scoop me. This, I suppose, is to be expected, as, from what I’m told, they employ several people who work all day, and not just at night, after they’ve put their daughters to bed. At […]
Tag Archives: Constitutional amendments
State Senator Rebekah Warren to propose constitutional ban on for-profit schools in Michigan
Posted in Corporate Crime, Education, Michigan Also tagged charter schools, corruption, eucation reform, for profit jails, for profit schools, kids for cash, Mark Ciavarella, Rebekah Warren 34 Comments
Move to Amend chapter to open in Ypsi/Arbor, challenge concept of corporate personhood
Some local folks are starting an Ypsi/Arbor chapter of a national organization dedicated to the elimination of so-called “corporate personhood.” Their names are Reagan M. Sova and Joel Skene, and I thought that I’d take the opportunity to ask them some questions. Following is our brief, but dense conversation. MARK: So, I hear that you’re […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Economics, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 14th amendment, abuse of power, Adam Smith, are corporations people, Article V, Brown v. Board of Education, Buckley v. Valeo, Citizens United, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, constitutionalists, corporate fascism, corporate personhood, corporate speech, corporate takeover of politics, corporations, corporations are not people, Fire Rick Snyder, First Amendment, fourteenth amendment, Fourth Amendment, Free Speech, Frenchie's, Glenn Greenwald, graduated income tax, grassroots organizations, Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court 1865-1903, J.C. Bancroft Davis, Jean Baudrillard, Joel Skene, Julian Assange, Laurence Goldstone, legal precedent, masters of mankind, Michele Bachmann, money as free speech, Move to Amend, Nancy Reagan, National Lawyers Guild, New York Railway, Noam Chomsky, organic institutions, Reagan M. Sova, Reagan Sova, recall, reconstruction, Rick Snyder, Ronald Reagan, Santa Clara Blues: Corporate Personhood and Democracy, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, Sheila Tate, slavery, Supreme Court, the rule of law, threats to Democracy, William Meyer 26 Comments
Saving Democracy from activist judges
It was announced today, in response to the recent Supreme Court ruling giving corporations unprecedented influence over the American elections, that Representatives John Conyers and Donna Edwards had introduced a Constitutional amendment to remedy the situation. The amendment, which is being called the Free Speech for People Amendment, reads as follows: Amendment XXVIII Section 1. […]