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Supreme Court throws its weight behind the corporations...but we say
Public funding for elections!
Amend the Constitution to defend democracy!



Next... corporate candidates!


(but Murray isn't the first! Thom Hartmann debates Rich CorporateSon Inc. here.)

Why we need a movement against corporate personhood



The Supreme Court's opinion in Citizens United v. FEC permits financing of independent political campaigns directly from corporate treasuries, scraps campaign finance regulations in 24 states, and further entrenches corporate rule in our nation.  We need public funding for elections and an end to the legal fiction of corporate personhood.


Continuing our work against corporate rule, Alliance for Democracy has joined the steering committee of the Campaign to Legalize Democracy. We urge you to visit www.MovetoAmend.org for more information about this coalition effort to amend the Constitution to protect our rights as human persons, communities, and voters. Read our statement on the decision here and see our 
AfD Corporate Person Home Page for up-to-date:
  • Information and links on this case and the issue of corporate personhood
  • Analysis and observations from the media
  • Videos on the case and implications for democracy


Health Care for Main Street,
Not Wall Street



Support Single Payer: Health care For All


Watch health care videos on our e-news blog.

Alliance for Democracy is a member of
the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care




 Protect State-Level Campaigns for Single Payer

Californians! Support your state's single payer campaign by making a call for SB 810. Information here.

Call your Representative to have Rep. Kuncinich's ERISA waiver amendment included in the House/Senate bill. This waiver is needed so state single payer efforts can move forward. See full alert here.


Help get the facts out: Download and share
"Health Care: Truths and Myths"
and learn how single payer will work for all of us!
 

View the AfD Single Payer Home Page for up-to-date:
  • AfD press releases
  • Action alerts
  • Follow the real story in independent media
  • Justice Rising's health care crisis issue
  • Download material for tabling, outreach and education


STOP the Casino Economy,
INVEST in the Real Economy




New! Grit TV's critique of Obama's Proposal for Wall Street Regulation


Treasury Secretary Geithner has unveiled his Financial Stability Plan without addressing the casino economy. Tell Congress strict regulation of Wall Street is imperative. Tax dollars should not go to the gamblers. No More Casino Economy--like the totally unregulated $60 TRILLION in "credit default swaps."

New AfD Project! General Agreement on a New Economy
Doesn't it bother you that in this economic crisis Wall Street gets bailed out while families and communities are left to fend for themselves? GANE is a way of thinking about the economy which centers on the local community and builds outward to regional and national levels. Check it out!

What's the Alliance doing about the Casino Economy? See these posts on our e-news blog. We also have good reads on Democracy, Corporate Rule and Economics and Finance. Click here for older archived headlines.


Building Democracy, Fighting Corporate Rule:
Democratizing the Grid, Media, Globalization, Water, Elections, Education




Democratizing the Grid
* New Alliance Project
* Oregonians for Renewable Energy Policy (OREP)

Alternative Media Projects
* Other Voices - Community Cable Project
* Listen to Alliance for Democracy radio: "Corporations and Democracy"

Corporate Globalization and
Positive Alternatives
* AfD Says No to Corporate SPP Coup d'État
* The latest on SPP and NAFTA: The Guadalajara Summit
* Asserting community rights
over corporate rights

* Watch online! New England Roundtable on Popular Governance--building capacity for local decision-making
* Living a new vision: Hundredfold Farm


Defending Water For Life

* "Governator" Vetos California's AB 1242 & Human Right to Water
* Waterville ME Opera House packed for "Tapped" premiere
* Alliance and Barnstead NH make history
* Defending Water in Maine
* Defending Water in California
* Defending Water in Oregon
* Opposing Corporate-led 5th World Water Forum

Honest and Clean Elections

* What's Happening - Ohio,
Arizona, Florida, and more


Tapestry of the Commons

* Listen to Tapestry of the Commons
radio program



Deglobalization/Relocalization Click here to check out the latest edition of AfD's quarterly newsletter. You can also download individual articles from this issue.

Next Issue: The next issue of Justice Rising will look at the judicial system and its links to and support of the corporate elite. Let us know if you want to submit an article or a graphic.

Article Submission Information: 600 word limit. Graphics welcome. Contact JR@thealliancefordemocracy.org

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Barker and Friedman: Hackable machines count MA special election vote
January 15, 2010

LA Times: Giving Corporations an outsize voice in elections
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NY Times: Courts roll back campaign finance regs
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Johann Hari: Our leaders are staging a scam in Copenhagen
December 12, 2009

Millions in US drink dirty water
December 9, 2009

Johnson: If Corporations win Citizens United...
November 1, 2009

Appel: Health Insurance Is a Criminal Enterprise
November 1, 2009

Hodgson Brown: DIY State-Level Economic Recovery
October 31, 2009

Weisbrot: Latin American Leftists Gain Rights and Growth
October 29, 2009

John Nichols: White House Should Take On Insurers, Not Fox
October 26, 2009

Dean Baker: People Power Preserves Public Option
October 26, 2009

William Fisher: Health Care Reform Explained
October 25, 2009

Robert Parry: Drop the Public Option, Lose 2010
October 19, 2009

David Sirota: I Don't Get the Democrats
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