* PEOPLE v. CORPORATIONS - MOVE TO AMEND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION *

Yet again the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the ruling elite against the interests of the American people. Today in Citizens United vs. FEC they overturned the flimsy federal campaign finance reform laws afforded by the McCain-Feingold law. Corporations can now to spend unlimited money in buying our elections. The Court has legalized corporate bribery of our elected officials.

So if you were already disgusted by the fact that over $5 billion dollars was spent in the 2008 election, watch out. Because the floodgates are now wide open!

And once again, the Court relied on the illegitimate legal doctrine of “Corporate Personhood” in order to justify this profoundly undemocratic decision.

Corporate personhood is the notion that a corporation can claim to be a person, and therefore entitled to basic human rights‚ also described as political and civil rights‚ and have courts overturn laws.

As this decision clearly demonstrates, corporate personhood is not an inconsequential legal technicality. Consider this– the Supreme Court ruled that a corporation was a “legal person” with 14th Amendment protections before they granted full personhood to African-Americans, immigrants, natives, and women.

And literally hundreds of laws‚ perhaps thousands‚ of local, state and federal laws that attempt to protect our environment, our elections, our safety and health, our right to organize have been overturned as a result of this erroneous doctrine.

The world is being destroyed, the federal government is engaged in unending war, and we live in an unjust, unsustainable and undemocratic country.

It’s time to take ourselves seriously– both about what is at stake and what it will require to actually assume and democratically exercise real power. We must address the reality that the federal courts have made real democracy impossible.

It’s time to follow the lead of the American Revolutionaries, the abolitionists, the suffragists, the trade unionists, and the Civil Rights activists and to build a broad-based, multi-partisan democracy movement in the United States.

It’s time to amend the U.S. Constitution to make it clear that only human beings can claim to be “persons” with constitutional rights.

We are under no illusion that this approach will fix the legal system, the political system, the economic system.

But we believe it is time we confront the current Constitutional framework

Are you with us?

1) Go to the website http://www.MovetoAmend.org to announce that you are joining the growing national movement.

2) Contact us at Democracy Unlimited at 707-269-0984 to organize locally to make the promise of democracy a reality.

For More Information on who to contact and how to get involved in this growing movement, go Here

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Join The Call for a Constitutional Amendment to protect our political system from being totally co-opted by corporate money.

The petition here, sponsored by Change Congress which was co-founded by Lawrence Lessig, implies that we have a functionally working democracy now, which is an arguable point. But regardless, the initiative which this represents is necessary, and the importance of signing on to the effort to drive this process forward remains. Go Here for more information.

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Visit USTV Media’s “Corporations, Democracy & USA, Inc.” for more information and research on this topic, as well as the Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy (POCLAD).

Another excellent organization taking on the challenge of organizing local communities to assert their democratic rights from being usurped by corporations is that of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and the Democracy Schools.

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USTV Media Returns With New Information and Action Postings

New postings and updates to UnCommon Sense TV Media are being done in conjunction with the ongoing research work in communication and human rights studies USTV producer Andy Valeri is currently engaged in. This work includes duties as managing editor of an upcoming edition of the Community Media Review on the international dimensions of the use of community media in not only support of human rights, but as a human right. Work is also underway in in developing an artist’s collaborative in support of communication rights. More details to come as these initiatives continue to develop.

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