Public Citizen is planning a "Pledge to Protest":

"The Supreme Court on September 9 hears a case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, that reopens the question of unlimited corporate money in our elections. In a stunning move, the Court will reach back and reconsider two other pivotal campaign finance cases settled long ago. The potential result? A century-old pillar of campaign finance doctrine could be swept away.

Sound like a good idea? Sounds so very last, last century — except this time it wouldn’t be the robber barons — it would be the giant, multinational corporations buying our politicians outright."

Join them by pledging to protest in any form that speaks to you on 9/9 -- soem groups are even organizing protests and rallies around the country. Some simple ideas that I really like are just putting up a sign in your window and using 9/9 as a day to sit down and write a letter about corporate-run governance. In a tangential kind of activity, you can agree to sign a a petition that hones in on another root cause of corporate dominance beyond campaign finance issues: the regulators are in the pockets of the corporations. Here's the petition to tease out the problem of the Fed relaxing regulation for the largest banks without any real oversight or accountability to the taxpayer. We'll be going bigger with the petition pretty soon.

• tiffiniy's blog
• Add new comment