Prof. Reich lays out the case for a constitutional amendment to overrule Citizens United v. FEC and establish definitively that only people are people.

truedemocracy:

“We believe that corporations should not share the same rights as people, that unlimited and unreported corporate donations meant to sway the electoral process should not be considered freedom of speech, and that the government should regulate the raising and spending of money by corporations intended to influence elections. We cannot allow corporate money to manipulate our democracy.”

My favorite question to Weisbrot was “Are you some kind of ghoul?” But he points out some very important issues related to how we (the US) are in Haiti.

Cray gives some very specific perspective on what the SCOTUS decision represents in terms of corporate efforts to garner personhood rights for themselves.