corporation=individual?! since when, in real life...

... as opposed to how our supreme court has been seeing it lately. for information on this transformation (and if you like your info in movie format), see corporation. the trailer is below, though i don't recommend watching it WUIS (watching under the influence of sleepiness... i had to try a few times, but it was my first year of grad school... it is a really good and informative film).

why am i bringing this up now? well b/c the supremo court, with it's newest wise latina, is hearing arguments that corporations deserve the rights of individuals in terms of 1st amendment.

the skinny is that citizens united, a group that has produced such titles as "aclu: at war with america" and "intelligence failure: how bill clinton's national security policy set the stage for 9/11", produced a movie called "hilary: the movie." they wanted to air it, but it the elections officials found it violated the mccain-feingold campaign finance law, which bans the broadcast, cable or satellite transmission of “electioneering communications” paid for by corporations in the 30 days before a presidential primary and in the 60 days before the general election.

according to the nyt, citizens united are set to win against the federal elections commission. the question is by how much. here's hoping a very narrow exception that is made, and our next campaigns are not even more heavily financed by the corporations that already create havoc through their lobbyist, etc.

nyt article about the case

titles by citizens united

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