Want to learn more about the growing movement to get corporate money out of government? Here are some resources. If you know of others, please tell us.
U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United opinions and dissents
Corporate Personhood Timeline
Books • Articles • Films • Websites
Books
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- Corporations are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It by Jeff Clements (read Bill Moyers’s foreword to the book)
- Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became “People” – And How You Can Fight Back by Thom Hartmann
- Corporate Irresponsibility: America’s Newest Export by Lawrence Mitchell
- The People’s Business: Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy by Charlie Cray and Lee Drutman
- Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy by Ted Nace
- When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten
- The Transformation of American Law 1870 – 1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy (volume 2 of 2) by Morton J. Horwitz (see also volume 1: 1780-1860)
- Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry by Dylan Ratigan
- Money, Politics, and the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United, ed. by Monica Youn
- Fight the Corpocracy, Take Back Democracy: A Mad As Hell Guide for the 99%, by Ralph Estes
- Corporations are Gonna Get Your Mama, ed. by Kevin Danaher
Articles
“Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit,” New York Times, January 21, 2010
Why Corporate Personhood is Bad for Business (A Purple State Platform)
Abolish Corporate Personhood (includes Timeline of Personhood Rights and Powers)
Our Hidden History from reclaimdemocracy.org
Issue Fact Sheet: The Citizens United Ruling and Legislative Fixes for Citizens United from Democracy NC
How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the ‘1 percent’
Films…
…that show how the banks are buying our democracy
Inside Job
Capitalism: A Love Story
…that show how the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries are buying our democracy
Sicko (watch free at http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/sicko/)
…that show how oil companies are buying our democracy
Greedy Lying Bastards (due for release in 2012; watch trailer here)
Gashole
Everything’s Cool
…that show how corporations in general are buying our democracy
The Corporation (2003)
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010)
…that show how we’re fighting back
YouTube video of flash mob in Target and spinoff Corporations Aren’t People video
Websites
National Move to Amend website, including its page on the history of corporations and corporate personhood
Check out these like-minded groups:
Get the Dough Out
Amend 2012
Committee to End Corporate Personhood (Durham)
Public Citizen
Corporations v Democracy Issue Committee (Women’s Intl. League for Peace & Freedom
Reclaim Democracy
Democracy North Carolina
Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy
Corporations Are Not People
Free Speech for People
People for the American Way
The Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC
Liberty Tree Foundation
and more
Track how various legislators and lobbyists are giving and receiving at:
OpenSecrets.org
Dirty Energy Money Campaign