Save Our Democracy

Submitted by Bob Fertik on January 27, 2010 - 10:33am
19644 of 100000 people have signed this petition.
Background
 
In January, five radical Republicans on the Supreme Court overturned 100 years of American law.

They gave huge corporations a Constitutional right to spend unlimited amounts of money to elect candidates at all levels, from Mayor to President.

As President Obama declared in his State of the Union address, this ruling "will open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections. I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people."

In 2009, the Chamber of Commerce spent $145 million to defeat healthcare and global warming laws - twice as much as the Democratic Party. In November, they could spend 10 or 100 times as much simply to defeat all Democrats.

This radical ruling could destroy American Democracy if we do not act in time for this November's elections. Please join our nationwide movement to keep Corporations out of politics.

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Best of the Blogs

Submitted by davidswanson on March 11, 2010 - 3:44pm

Kramer at Harvard: Student coalition pushing back - What, Harvard students don't support genocide?  But what will they do about it?

Republican Makes Deal With Dodd To Protect Predatory Payday Lenders -- Hey, at least they're protecting somebody!

Do You Eat Meat? -- And you want human life to continue on Earth??

Kucinich on Truthdig.  Kucinich on Democracy Now.

Kucinich is so unusually good and decent that "markos" wants to primary him, but there's One Flaw in the Brilliant Plan.

Democracy Now on Granny D.

FDL Launches “Students, Not Banks” Campaign

The day after the Senate Progressive Media Summit: Durbin and Reid Whipping Against Public Option

John Conyers' wife gets 3 years in prison for bribery.  How much has concern for her fate restrained Conyers from doing his job?  Hard to know.

Polly Want a Crack Lawyer?: Bank of America Again Forecloses on Wrong House and Then Takes Woman’s Parrot

The 3% of America - Privately Run - Public Option Will Not Die: Bernie Sanders: I’m Prepared To Introduce Public Option Amendment

I do love a good debunking of Democracy Corps Corporatism:

Carville/Greenberg strategists and national security -- If only because it makes it a bit less likely their wisdom will be promoted at the next America's Future Yesterday conference, or whatever they end up calling it.

Iran is prosecuting its torturers: Compare and contrast.

Dear Eric Holder: Try Accused Criminals in Courts of Law

Submitted by davidswanson on March 11, 2010 - 1:31pm

http://lawsnotmen.org/node/23

The Robert Jackson Steering Committee, a group of lawyers and journalists founded to uphold the principles of the Nuremberg Trials, is urging the Department of Justice to proceed with trying Khalil Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and other suspected 9/11 terrorists in federal criminal court, and not in military commissions.

In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, the Committee enumerates several substantial problems with military commissions:

You Mean Karl Rove Would Lie?

Submitted by davidswanson on March 11, 2010 - 8:11am

War Is Over (If They Mean It)

Submitted by davidswanson on March 10, 2010 - 7:23pm

By David Swanson

Sixty-five congress members, including 60 Democrats and 5 Republicans, voted to end the occupation of Afghanistan on Wednesday.  But 356 congress members, including 189 Democrats and 167 Republicans voted to keep the war going.  The vote followed three hours of debate created by Congressman Dennis Kucinich's introduction of a privileged resolution.

Alaska Reform Bill Adds Ban on Foreign Contributions to Other Restrictions

Submitted by davidswanson on March 10, 2010 - 9:38am

Foreign contributions banned in an addition to campaign bill

NEXT STEP: Measure advances to House Judiciary Committee.

By RICHARD MAUER, Anchorage Daily News

JUNEAU -- A House committee added a ban on foreign campaign contributions Tuesday to a bill designed to counter some of the effects of a Supreme Court decision that freed corporations and unions to spend unlimited money on elections.

Liveblogging the Vote to End the War

Submitted by davidswanson on March 10, 2010 - 9:14am

Go here and join in:

http://afterdowningstreet.org/afghanliveblog

Danny Schechter and David Swanson

Submitted by davidswanson on March 10, 2010 - 6:42am