Post by jeffolie on Mar 25, 2012 7:57:29 GMT -6
TeaParty+Unions battle corporations' 1st Amendment attack
The 10st amendments to the Constitution were designed to protect against an abusive central government trumpling individuals as was common then. Now, the corporations at times supercede governments because some have no allegence being multinationals shifting incomes and assets worldwide often to skirt taxation and corporate citizenship obligations.
Here, the corporations sponsored special legislation that avoids simple citizens rights to speak out in protest ... a 1st amendment issue. As it stands, the US Supreme Court weighs the competing and conflicting values when deciding 1st Amendment issues. The classic example is that people are not permitted to yell fire(free speech suppressed) in a crowded theather because of the danger to life (the competing Constitutional liberty). Here, I doubt many reading this would have much sympathy for private residents rights competing with picketing.
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In Georgia, Tea Partiers And Occupiers Unite To Fight Corporate Assault On The First Amendment
Zaid Jilani 3.24.2012 at 9:20 AM
In the peach state, battling the corporate assault on the first amendment is uniting tea partiers and occupiers.
As we reported earlier this month, Waffle House executive and Georgia state senator Don Balfour is pushing a bill, SB469, that would prohibit picketing outside private residences, a law that would’ve put the Founding Fathers themselves in jail. The law is being pushed with the help of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and Corporate America, and is primarily targeted at labor unions.
One group that has protested the bill is Occupy Atlanta, which has held large rallies at the state capitol. After Republic Report made the connection to Waffle House, Atlanta Jobs With Justice leafleted at Waffle Houses across the state to fight back against this corporate assault on free speech. Watch one of Jobs With Justice’s activists explain the leafletting campaign:
Now, Georgia’s Tea Partiers have joined the occupiers and labor unions in battling against Corporate America’s war on free speech. On Monday, the Atlanta Tea Party sent a message to its 50,000-person list opposing the bill. One of its main activists, Debbie Dooley, also testified against it in the state legislature.
“Labor unions have First Amendment rights just like Tea Parties,” Dooley told Salon. “I don’t see how you can say it’s OK for one group to go and protest in front of CNN but a labor union can’t.”
The alliance between occupiers, tea partiers, and union members in Georgia against this corporate assault on the First Amendment is a promising sign that Americans of all ideologies are waking up and fighting back against the capture of our democracy by monied interests.
www.republicreport.org/2012/in-georgia-tea-partiers-and-occupiers-unite-to-fight-corporate-assault-on-the-first-amendment/
About
Corruption of our politics poses an existential threat to the core of our republic. Will we be a self-governing nation of the people, by the people and for the people, or will we be ruled by special interests and big money lobbyists?
Republic Report is a blog dedicated to rooting out the corruption that is so corrosive to American values. We will investigate and uncover the buying and selling of politicians and of institutions entrusted with upholding the public interest. We will expose how big money distorts major policy decisions – harming our economy and our people.
The 10st amendments to the Constitution were designed to protect against an abusive central government trumpling individuals as was common then. Now, the corporations at times supercede governments because some have no allegence being multinationals shifting incomes and assets worldwide often to skirt taxation and corporate citizenship obligations.
Here, the corporations sponsored special legislation that avoids simple citizens rights to speak out in protest ... a 1st amendment issue. As it stands, the US Supreme Court weighs the competing and conflicting values when deciding 1st Amendment issues. The classic example is that people are not permitted to yell fire(free speech suppressed) in a crowded theather because of the danger to life (the competing Constitutional liberty). Here, I doubt many reading this would have much sympathy for private residents rights competing with picketing.
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In Georgia, Tea Partiers And Occupiers Unite To Fight Corporate Assault On The First Amendment
Zaid Jilani 3.24.2012 at 9:20 AM
In the peach state, battling the corporate assault on the first amendment is uniting tea partiers and occupiers.
As we reported earlier this month, Waffle House executive and Georgia state senator Don Balfour is pushing a bill, SB469, that would prohibit picketing outside private residences, a law that would’ve put the Founding Fathers themselves in jail. The law is being pushed with the help of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and Corporate America, and is primarily targeted at labor unions.
One group that has protested the bill is Occupy Atlanta, which has held large rallies at the state capitol. After Republic Report made the connection to Waffle House, Atlanta Jobs With Justice leafleted at Waffle Houses across the state to fight back against this corporate assault on free speech. Watch one of Jobs With Justice’s activists explain the leafletting campaign:
Now, Georgia’s Tea Partiers have joined the occupiers and labor unions in battling against Corporate America’s war on free speech. On Monday, the Atlanta Tea Party sent a message to its 50,000-person list opposing the bill. One of its main activists, Debbie Dooley, also testified against it in the state legislature.
“Labor unions have First Amendment rights just like Tea Parties,” Dooley told Salon. “I don’t see how you can say it’s OK for one group to go and protest in front of CNN but a labor union can’t.”
The alliance between occupiers, tea partiers, and union members in Georgia against this corporate assault on the First Amendment is a promising sign that Americans of all ideologies are waking up and fighting back against the capture of our democracy by monied interests.
www.republicreport.org/2012/in-georgia-tea-partiers-and-occupiers-unite-to-fight-corporate-assault-on-the-first-amendment/
About
Corruption of our politics poses an existential threat to the core of our republic. Will we be a self-governing nation of the people, by the people and for the people, or will we be ruled by special interests and big money lobbyists?
Republic Report is a blog dedicated to rooting out the corruption that is so corrosive to American values. We will investigate and uncover the buying and selling of politicians and of institutions entrusted with upholding the public interest. We will expose how big money distorts major policy decisions – harming our economy and our people.