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Corporate Constitutitutional Rights Resources - Move to Amend
The Corporate Weaponization of Government - Greg Coleridge, Common Dreams
Could Today's Crises Help America Reject Corporate Personhood? - Thom Hartman
Ending "Money as Speech" is the Only Way to Restore Democracy - Thom Hartman
Corporate sedition is more damaging to America than the SCapitol attack - Robert Reich
HR1, 2021 - A major step toward reform reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 4, 2021. There is a companion bill, S1 in the Senate.
HR1: A bill to expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and implement other anti-corruption measures for the purpose of fortifying our democracy, and for other purposes.
Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy, Jeffery D. Clements - A must-read!
"Since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling that the rights of things—money and corporations—matter more than the rights of people, America has faced a crisis of democracy. In this timely and thoroughly updated second edition, Jeff Clements describes the strange history of this bizarre ruling, its ongoing destructive effects, and the growing movement to reverse it. He includes a new chapter, “Do Something!,” showing how—state by state and community by community—Americans are using creative strategies and tools to renew democracy and curb unbalanced corporate power. Since the first edition, 16 states, 160 members of Congress, and 500 cities and towns have called for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, and the list is growing. This is a fight we can win!" (http://bit.ly/2nCzvGw)
Open Secrets on dark money (https://www.opensecrets.org/dark-money)
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder
"The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience."
On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. (http://timothysnyder.org/books/on-tyranny-tr/on-tyranny-el)
Democracy in Chains, Nancy MacLean
Kochland, Christopher Leonard
Dark Money, Jane Mayer
Corruption in America, Zephyr Teachout
Hand to Mouth, Linda Tirado - A plainspoken account of the view from the lowest rung of the economic ladder.
Illinois Public Interest Research Group, https://illinoispirg.org/feature/ilp/big-money-out
The Constitution of the United States (https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript)
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Film
Koch Brothers Exposed, Brave New Films (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N8y2SVerW8) - When it comes to U.S. elections, the Kochs are a prime case study in the impact of the Supreme Court's 1970 Citizens United case that unleashed an unlimited deluge of unaccountable dark money on our electoral system.
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