Court decision opens floodgates to corporate spending on electoral campaigns
| October 31, 2011- Artist: Kaja Rebane
- Title: Court decision opens floodgates to corporate spending on electoral campaigns
- Album: Redeye: Vancouver Cooperative Radio
- Genre: Interview
- Year: 2011
- Length: 13:36 minutes (12.45 MB)
- Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Show Notes:
Last year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people, giving them the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns. This decision lifted a 63-year-old ban on private financing of elections. Kaya Rebane is with Wisconsin Move to Amend, one of the groups oranizing at the local level to fight this decision.
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