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amendment to remove corporate personhood
Senator Sanders (I) introduced a Constitutional Amendment to overturn Citizens United by affirming corporations are not people, and prohibiting campaign spending by same. Article includes a video that is not subtitled nor does it have a transcript provided (it shows … Continue reading
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Tagged bernie sanders, campaign finance reform, citizens united, constitutional amendment, corporate personhood
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lacking war on poverty, more die
The one war, if we engaged in it, that would save lives: [Audio: English; Captions: auto-decent] While the auto captioning on this has some flubs (poppy is poverty, buy for die, etc) it’s overall good enough to understand what he … Continue reading
bernie sanders
If you have some free time (as Sander’s twitter feed wryly notes, “9 hours or so”), you can read the transcript of his filibuster of December 10, 2010 here: Full Congressional Record Transcript of Sanders Filibuster. More info at his … Continue reading
this n that
Boosting the signal: Guest Post – Carl Siciliano Youth homeless shelters in NYC are taking a severe beating with the budget cuts. Carl Siciliano, the Executive Director of Ali Forney Center describes the magnitude of the problem. If you can … Continue reading
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Tagged bernie sanders, dadt, economics, religion, tasers, wealth inequality
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filibernie — Bernie Sander’s Filibuster
This is going to result in one hell of a set of video clips when all is done. Bernie Sanders has been filibustering against the GOP-Obama tax cuts and he’s on fire. Sen. Bernie Sanders enters sixth hour of Senate … Continue reading
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Tagged bernie sanders, congress, filibuster, tax cuts
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