The Court went on at great length about the risks of preventing corporations from speaking in political campaigns and how their inability to speak purported to damage our political process. Because it believes that any regulation would be too complicated to enforce, the Court threw out all regulations on speech by corporations.
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By Ralph E. Stone and Judy Iranyi
January 28, 2010
It is with great sadness that we heard the news about the passing of Howard Zinn. He died of a heart attack at the age of 87 while he was working on a speaking tour in Santa Monica California.
This internationally known historian and author of A People’s […]
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By Joel S. Hirschhorn, guest editorial
January 27, 2010
Sensible, intelligent Americans are furious over the recent Supreme Court 5-to-4-decision referred to as Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that struck down limits on corporate spending in presidential and congressional elections. Those of us who wail against the corpocracy, with its corruption of government, could hardly […]
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Supervisor Sean Elsbernd.
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Hope Johnson
January 26, 2010
District 7 Supervisor Sean Elsbernd is mad as hell that a city charter amendment he urged voters pass in 2007 is not as fiscally responsible as previously hoped. He’s made it clear someone is going to pay for his mistake and it damn well better not […]
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By Ralph E. Stone
January 26, 2010
As we all have no doubt read or heard, the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission invalidated the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (2 U.S.C. §441b), ruling, among other things, that the “government may not suppress political speech on the basis of the speaker’s corporate identity.” According […]
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In all the noise over healthcare reform and the election in Massachusetts, you might not have noticed that democracy took a gut punch last Thursday, as the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can give unlimited amounts of money to political campaigns, candidates, and parties. They can do this directly from their own general fund, without the permission of their shareholders.
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Yet the talking heads on the network and cable news, and the op-ed pieces in so many papers across the country haven’t yet grasped this simple truth that the American public intuitively understands. We are joyfully refusing to let any spin unravel this most refreshing example of the people reining in this out-of-control healthcare overhaul.
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Cover illustration of the 2010 San Francisco Public Defender’s annual calendar, available for free!
From the Office of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi
January 21, 2010
An attorney argues vehemently before a jury during a murder trial. A former inmate counsels others after turning his life around. A defense investigator questions a potential witness as the man […]
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Ignoring people needs during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Obama administration supports business, militarism, and homeland repression. He backs open-ended banker bailouts, aggressive wars, repressing dissent, privatized healthcare, free, not fair trade, a war on Islam and Latino immigrants, torture, illegal surveillance, military commissions, preventive detention for dozens of detainees facing no charges, and extraordinary renditions to offshore hellholes, most of them secret.
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