Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy from Big Money and Global Corporations
Date: Oct 30, 2014
Timing: 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Speakers : Jeff Clements
Venue : Room C20
More than four years after Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission eased restrictions on political and campaign spending by corporations and labor unions, arguments over the Supreme Court’s ruling rage on. Supporters hold to the court’s assertion that political speech is indispensable to democracy “and this is no less true because the speech comes froma corporation rather than an individual.” Jeff Clements is among the opponents who see a ruinously unfair advantage for candidates who can cultivate the wealthiest donors. Join us on Thursday, October 30, at 1:00pm for a discussion with Clements, the founder of Free Speech for People, a nonpartisan movement to overturn the 2010 decision. He will make his case in a discussion of his Book, Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy from Big Money and Global Corporations.