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Ending
Corporate Rule:
Amend Our Constitution, Fund Our Elections
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The
Citizens United ruling allows
corporate
financing
of
independent
political
campaigns, scraps
campaign
finance
law
in
24
states,
and
further
entrenches
corporate
rule. We need clean elections and
an end to the legal fiction of corporate
personhood.
Support public
funding
of
elections in your state and nationally!
Online Now:
Read "Courts & Corporations v.
Our Common Good," the new issue of Justice Rising: Grassroots Solutions to
Corporate Domination. Read it online here,
download
individual
articles
here,
or
contact
us to request extra print copies.
Spread
the word: Print the
brochure "Corporations are not People" and learn how to take back
our rights
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Defending Water for Life
What's New:
Another Maine
town says No to Corporate Personhood!
More here
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From
Maine
to
Cochabamba:
El
agua
es
nuestra,
¡¡Carajo!!
AfD's Defending Water for
Life organizers went to Cochabamba for the 10th
anniversary
celebration
of
the
people's
uprising
against
Bechtel
and
the
World
People's
Conference
on
Climate
Change
and
the
Rights
of
Mother
Earth.
Check
out
photos
here,
and
blog
posts
here.
Read the Declaration here,
and
final
thoughts
on
the
events
here.
To
find
out
more
about
the
Alliance's
"Defending
Water
for
Life" campaigns, visit these local campaign websites:
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Justice Rising:
AfD's Quarterly Journal
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The latest
issue of Justice Rising: Grassroots
Solutions
to Corporate Domination focuses on Courts & Corporations v.
Our
Common Good. Available online now as a
complete issue or single articles, and mailed to
members, it covers the judiciary's
role in cementing the false legal doctrine of corporate personhood, and
focuses on how activists and organizations are working to establish
real democracy.
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Health Care for Main Street, Not Wall Street
The fight for single
payer continues!
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NEW! Declaration of
Health Independence and Security
In advance of the US Social Forum, 14
state organizations signed this
declaration stating that access to decent healthcare is key to
"life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Medicare-for-All
advocates say HCR fails to meet needs--
read
the statement here.
Californians!
Support your state's single payer campaign by making a call for SB 810.
Information here.
Get the facts out: Download "Health Care: Truths and Myths"
and learn how single payer will work for all of us!
View the AfD
Single
Payer
Home
Page for AfD
press releases and action
alerts, media coverage--including Justice
Rising's health care issue,
and material for tabling and outreach. |
Building
Democracy,
Fighting
Corporate
Rule:
Democratizing
the
Grid,
Media,
Globalization,
Water,
Elections,
Education
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AfD
National Office
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MA
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Defending Water For Life
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Good Reads!
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Articles by
Topic
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Corporate Rule
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Democracy
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Water
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Economics and Finance
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Health Care
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Environment and Climate Change
Recent "Good
Reads"
Krugman: America Goes Dark
August 9, 2010
ThinkProgress: Why Does Dodd say
Warren's Not Worth the Fight?
August 8, 2010
Debra Ruh: Tax Haven Shell Game Hurts
Small and Emerging Businesses
August 2, 2010
Reich: The Great Decoupling
July 26, 2010
"Tenther" Philosophy's a Danger to
Rights and Reform
July 22, 2010
UN Resolution on Water Threatens to
Split Rich and Poor Nations
July 20, 2010
City Limits: New York's Deputy Mayor is
Indy's ex "King of Privatization"
May 31, 2010
Black Agenda Report: Time for a
Corporate Death Penalty
May 31, 2010
Why Obama Should Put BP Under
Receivership
May 31, 2010
Disclosing the Meekness of the Disclose
Act
May 26, 2010
Will the BP Oil Spill be the Spark?
April 28, 2010
Mother Jones: Citizens United, Take Two
April 28, 2010
Pay of 25 Hedge Fund
Managers = 680K Teachers
April 10, 2010
The Progressive:
Corporations Aren't Persons
April 6, 2010
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Fracking in Pittsburgh?
Action Alert:
