News
July 1, 2012
TAKE ACTION: Email & call the Bellingham City Council with this message: "I am very concerned that the Bellingham City Council is putting democracy at risk by trying to block the ballot initiative to ban coal trains from passing through the city.... Read more
News
June 15, 2012
If you're visiting a candidate this summer and looking for a thoughtful house gift, might we suggest a nice Super PAC? Thanks to the Supreme Court and Citizens United, they're all the rage among the mega-wealthy. All it takes is a little paperwork... Read more
News
December 12, 2011
I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now thank you.... Read more
News
December 4, 2011
"But eventually, the greater danger to the movement is that it may dovetail into the presidential election campaign that's coming up. I've seen that happen before in the antiwar movement here, and I see it happening all the time in India.... Read more
Essay
October 12, 2011
Thanks to the Occupy Wall Street movement, millions of Americans are finally shaking off their depression and torpor of the past decade, heeding the mass-consciousness call to take back power from corporatist forces that have hijacked our country,...
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August 8, 2011
In the wake of a super-nova of exploded hope in President Obama, a power vacuum is now spinning in our political universe. A desperate need to fill the void (lest it someday be filled with the unthinkable; a babbling Bachmann or weeping Boehner)...
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April 3, 2011
All of a sudden the news media is full of stories about President Obama about to officially announce his 2012 reelection campaign, with headlines that he may end up raising a billion dollars in the process. Read more
News
October 29, 2010
Part of the reason for the record-high campaign spending in this year's midterm elections is the Supreme Court's January ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled corporations have First Amendment... Read more
News
February 3, 2010
Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline. On that day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government may not ban corporations from political spending on elections-a decision that profoundly... Read more
News
January 22, 2010
In Wisconsin, conservative and pro-business groups said Friday that they were considering a lawsuit to block a proposed law that would ban corporate spending during political campaigns. Read more
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