October 10: Portland, OR - Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy From Big Money And Global Corporations

In its Citizens United v. FEC decision in 2010, the Court swept away a century of precedent that barred corporate money in our elections. And, it endorsed the dangerous fiction that corporations have the same constitutional rights as living, breathing people. In effect, this gives corporations a veto over our democratically enacted laws , because a constitutional right trumps a regular law when the two conflict. This threatens our laws protecting the safety of our food, the air we breathe, our health care, our civil rights, and the fundamental underpinnings of our democracy – essentially, any law that could get in the way of corporate profits.
The author of Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy from Big Money and Global Corporations speak about the problem and the solution under law.

Title:
Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy From Big Money And Global Corporations
When/Where:
Friday, October 10, 2014
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Stoel Rives
900 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 2600
Portland, OR
Speaker:
Jeffrey Clements, Author, Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy from Big Money and Global Corporations; President, Free Speech for People
By:
American Constitution Society
Credit:

Jeffrey Clements

CLE credit of 1.5 hours is pending.
Cost:
Free
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