Citizens United moves call for constitutional amendment
The furor continues about the outrageous Supreme Court decision last week. The SC ruled in effect that corporations are the same as people, at least with regard to the 1st and 14th amendments – the 1st guaranteeing our free speech rights and the 14th guaranteeing equal protection of the law. The 14th Amendment was enacted following the Civil War to establish that in America any citizen (read male citizen at that time) born or naturalized in the United States shall not be deprived of their rights by either the federal government or any state. No mention there that this included corporations. (more…)
HJR 100: Health Care is a universal right
Our friend, Kris Alman, MD and advocate for single-payer healthcare reform, wrote the following letter to the Oregon House Health Care Committee supporting a bill which would establish a constitutional right to equal health care in Oregon. I think it deserves our support. Call your state representative on Tuesday to support this bill. (more…)
The Greening of Nuclear – Fact or Fiction
On Saturday, Feb 20 starting at 10 AM, Alliance for Democracy and Community for Earth (First Unitarian Church) will present a forum
The GREENING OF NUCLEAR POWER – FACT OR FICTION?
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Hanford EIS hearings and meeting coming up. Links to comment and for more information.
The USDOE has issued another Environmental Impact Statement on the clean up of Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The EIS preferred alternative is for Hanford to the national dump site for the nation’s nuclear waste. Hanford is already the most contaminated sites in the Western Hemisphere. All activity at Hanford should now be directed at clean-up, not storage of additional waste. (more…)
Paul Cienfuegoes, Feb 26th.
The Alliance for Democracy and others have been working for some time to bring Paul Cienfuegos to Portland since he was here for the EconVergence in October. But his appearance is even more timely now in light of the US Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United vs FEC. The US Supreme Court has let loose the corporate treasuries on the political process in the United States. Never has it been more clear that continuing to win our political, environmental and economic battles one at a time will not work and that new approaches are needed. (more…)
Supreme Court Decision – AfD press release
The national Alliance for Democracy released the following on the US Supreme Court opinion released today.
Note the we, Alliance for Democracy, have joined with other groups with a long history of opposing corporate personhood to start a Campaign to Legalize Democracy and, in furtherance of that, have started a movement to amend the US Constitution to deny corporations the rights of people. (more…)
U.S. Supreme Court Unleashes Unlimited Corporate Funds for Political Campaigns on All Levels
This morning the US Supreme Court issued their long awaited decision in the case of Citizens United vs FEC. The case involved the “documentary” film Hillary-The Movie produced by Citizens United. The FEC (Federal Elections Committee) restricted the distribution of the film prior to the 2008 election and Citizens United challenged the decision which went to the Supreme Court. (more…)
Easily Hacked Voting Systems to be Used in MA Special Election for the U.S. Senate
Tuesday Massachusetts voters go to the poll for a special election filling the seat of now deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy. Will this election be stolen also? (more…)
Pres proposes Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee; other needed changes.
The President demanded that “We want our money back, and we’re going to get it.”
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Support M66/67 NOW!
I have lived in Portland and Oregon almost all my life. I never remember a progressive tax measure on the ballot but yet this month we have presented for our approval two measures which puts a little progressive into our state tax structure. (more…)
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