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Scary history, but hopeful suggestions for action. Well worth the read because of the detailed history of corporate "personhood" flim-flam.
A short book, but it has a lot of very good and useful information in it. Read it!
These corporations represent the machinations of the 1% the most significant sections of this book are chapter 7 pages 145-163 and RESOURCES pages 165-188, we the 99% have to fight to save America from the greedy clutches of the 1%, the book sections I mentioned are the ways in which this fight can be waged and won.
This is a political book about the Citizen’s United decision that proposes actions for remediating its negative impacts. Public interest attorney, Founder of Free Speech for the People, and former Massachusetts assistant attorney general Jeffrey D. Clements sharpened his teeth working on litigation against the tobacco industry. He builds on this experience to take on the Supreme Court Citizen’s United decision and calls for a constitutional amendment establishing the difference between corporations and people. Clements discusses how growing corporate power won through the courts undermines human rights. He does a good job highlighting the differences between corporation and people and makes a strong case detailing how extending human rights to corporations erodes the rights of citizens. Clements describes how corporations use their economic power to tilt the playing field to their advantage. The concentration of political power in corporations undermines the American Economy. Clements provides a blue print for restoring democracy by calls for a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizen’s United. He buttresses this by proposing reforms to corporate law to ensure that corporations serve the public interest as they were originally intended to do and details needed reforms to campaign finance laws. The book is an interesting, important easy read. Liberals and some libertarians will like it. Corporate conservatives will loathe it. I give it 4 rather than five stars because I was looking for a more general discussion of the issue of corporate personhood.
This book is an excellent analysis of the nature of corporations and why they should not be considered as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. The author points out that corporations are instruments of public policy and are subject to whatever rules and regulations the state legislatures might enact. It points out why the pro-corporate Supreme Court is dead wrong in its Citizens United and other decisions.
This is by far the best work on the problem of money in politics I’ve ever seen. It comprehensively covers the history of how and why we got into this mess, thoroughly explains the plutocratic mechanisms which are destroying our democratic society, and lays out a detailed plan for recovery. A must read!
EXCELENT BOOK
I have signed on
AND HAVE ENCOURAGED FRIENDS TO BUY THE BOOK I am acquainted with the mother of the author and am eager to have the decisions on citizens United overturned
The only other work I can compare this to is Unequal Protection by Thom Hartman. But Jeffrey Clements was more direct and presented a clearer picture of corporate control. They were both superb works. Jeffrey presented the personhood of corporation from the perspective of a lawyer, and was compelling in his arguments.
I recommend this work for anyone who wants to understand personhood of corporations and who wants to know how to combat this hideous power that wields so much power to influence and fleece the public.
CANP is a terrific book. Clements, a former assistant distict attorney for Massachusetts, dismantles the arguments of the corporate free speech movement– whose propaganda led to the the horrible Citizens United case (2010). Clements traces the the bogus claim that corporations have 1st Amendment right, a movement that started in the 1970s under former Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell. In the last decade, corporations have assumed the \\”right\\” (among others)to make vulgar remarks on their beer bottles, advertise tobacco products near schools, nullify campaign spending rules.
Clements points out ,correctly, that this doctrine of corporate supremacy is not anything the Founding Founders would have supported. John Marshall, the first Chief Justice, explicitly said corporations were mere creations of the government and subject to regulation passed by that same government–as did the staunchly conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist. This is not a left-right issue; it is a democratic issue.
My only major disagreement I have with the arguments in CAAP is Clements’ advocacy of a consitutional amendmentto overturn CU. There will (ironically partly due to the decision) be so much corporate money to fight this amendment it is unlikely to pass. I think it’s a better strategy to fight for Supreme Court Justices that will reverse this decision. Nevertheless, I still think the ideas in the book are convincing, well-reasoned, and vital to the nation’s future propserity.
A very well researched explanation of how corporations being counted as citizens is destructive to our democracy, and that corporations will only corrupt our democratic political system unless we can overturn this law. The author writes so the simple minded reader can understand the important aspects to how we all must take action in over ruling this law to bring back our basic values. A MUST READ!!
There is a growing movement to overturn some anti-constitutional SCOTUS decisions ~
here’s why.
["6 more words required" for this review???? puh-leeze.]
Insightful, informative and motivational. You can’t read this book and not want to support the 28th amendment. It’s time the voters and taxpayers of this great nation take back our rights from the corporate wealthy elite.
Jeffrey D. Clements hits the nail on the head with this book. Corporations are not people and they shouldn’t be considered people! They are entities who receive a charter granting them as a body, certain powers and privileges from government. Knowing that this is the case we have to be cognizant of the fact that the Citizens United decision has eviscerated our constitutional right to fair elections considering it allows Corporations to spend exorbitant amounts of money influencing elections and lobbying politicians. This Supreme Court ruling must not stand according to Clements, and he offers solutions on how we can overturn this ruling.
Clements proposes that the American people get behind the idea of ratifying a 28th Amendment to the Constitution, which would define what a Corporation is and what rights it has as a Corporation, making sure that it doesn’t impede on the rights of individuals to enacting laws in their state that they would deem necessary insofar as protecting their interest. The only way we can rescind the Citizens United ruling according to Clements is through a grassroots effort, which is growing as more people become aware.
Corporate fascism has nearly eviscerated unions as we know it considering only 7 percent of private sector workers are unionized. Moreover, only 35 percent of public sector workers are unionized. But let’s not forget that unions also participate in lobbying for their own political interest, however, they lack the spending power most Corporations have and they are lobbying on behalf of its members in the hopes of protecting them from corporate disenfranchisement. If you look at the chart on page 81 of this book you will see the top 20 corporate lobbying spenders in Washington from 1998-2010.
Citizens United is a so-called nonprofit corporation organized under Virginia law, and when they petitioned the Supreme Court for an address it opened the floodgates for corporations to have unlimited powerover the body politic in America. Clements’ writes, \\”In 2010 in Citizens United v.s Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court proclaimed that the American people are not permitted to determine how much control corporations may have over elections and lawmakers.\\” In a 5 to 4 decision, the Court \\”struck down\\” the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (aka) the McCain-Feingold bill. The Court deemed that the Act was unconstitutional. \\”The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act banned `electioneering’ spending by corporations for or against specific candidates within sixty days of a federal election.\\” The law’s intent was to stop corporations from circumventing a previous \\”prohibition on corporate political contributions to candidates, passed in 1907.\\”
Citizens United brought this case to court because they wanted to run attack ads \\”against Hillary Clinton, who was running for president when the case began.\\” They claimed \\”the law violated the First Amendment right of free speech because it prevented (them, a so-called not-for-profit corporation,) from engaging in electioneering activity,\\” and this Supreme Court directive has metastasized into the Super-PAC situation that the election campaigns are suffering from. It is this very reason why Mitt Romney was able to outspend his competition during the republican primary.
Clements claims this particular corporate subterfuge started in the 1970’s and it took them forty years to finally satisfy their insatiable proclivities for power and influence, which means the usurpation of our electoral process. Furthermore, the U.S. shouldn’t be held to the standard, or jurisprudence of the \\”Delaware Incorporation Law.\\” This law’s sphere of influence is vast and the Corporations are using it as an apparatus to circumvent rules and regulations.
Overall, there’s a lot of corporate shenanigans to ponder upon in this book and it’s worth reading several times over because you will learn something new from it each time.
Excellent Read!!!!
Other Books that should be read along this one are as follows:
Noam Chomsky: \\”Profits Over People.\\”
Greg Palast: \\”The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.\\”
Ralph Nader: \\”The Good Fight.\\”
Good book, but the concept needs to be expanded to include no funding of candidates by corporations either running for US office nor for those in office.
Obviously corporations are not people – except the Supreme Court says they are. We’re no longer a government of people, but rather of corporate wealth. The only thing left for them to do is to officially put their brands on our government. Is this what the Founding Fathers had in mind?
Chinese corporations are clearly subservient to the government – do what it wants, or you’re locked up, or at least out of business. While it’s also true we have no monopoly on corporate corruption of government, at least Chinese corporations are not undermining the economy and government by wholesale offshoring of jobs, or lobbying for a massive of illegals to lower wage rates.
During the 2010 election, the first after the ‘Citizens United’ decision that allows corporate front groups (and others) to spend millions while hiding donor identities, $126 million was so spent. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce led the way, spending about $75 million of the total. This coming election will undoubtedly smash the 2010 numbers.
The ‘good news,’ if there is any at all associated with this, is that ‘Corporations Are Not People’ purports to tell us how to fight back. Except, with all due respect, I see no reason why doing so could be successful – especially via the suggested petitions, house party kits, draft letters, demonstrations, websites, and shareholder resolutions.
Instead, look forward to innumerable legislation to ‘improve America’s economy’ via destroying our environment, public health, worker safety, and efforts to conserve energy.
The ultimate irony – that the very businesses that decimated our economy via offshoring and lobbying to create tax loopholes now have increased standing because of the urgent need to undo the damage they themselves did.
This is a book that addresses one of the most important issues of our time….. Corporations have to much control over our lives and this is greatly influencing the democratic process. This book shows how corporations have systematically fought for more and more power and gotten it. The book is well written and reads very easily. It’s a great history lesson and a very important book that all should read.[[ASIN:1609941055 Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It]]
Citizens United, the 2010 US Supreme Court ruling that enables corporations to spend unlimited amounts to support political candidates, is a watershed event in US legal history. Liberals believe the ruling represents a blatant conservative power grab. Conservatives hold that free speech should apply to corporations as it does to human beings. Lawyer and political activist Jeffrey D. Clements, a former Massachusetts assistant attorney general, founded Free Speech for People, a group seeking to invalidate Citizens United. Clements argues that this ruling, which allows corporations to lobby year-round and to buy unlimited election-year advertising, is antithetical to American democracy. Although the views expressed are those of the author alone, getAbstract regards Clements’s book as timely material for the citizens of the United States and Europe, where similar issues are under debate. It is sure to provoke discussion and, most likely, an equally passionate conservative defense.
If you’re like most Americans, you may think that the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is the root cause of the stranglehold on U.S. elections by major corporations and the 1%.
If you follow public affairs more closely than most, you’re aware that the situation is more complicated than this — that the misbegotten principle of \\”corporate personhood\\” that underpins Citizens United is a major element in the picture. I knew that much before I read Jeffrey Clements’ eye-opening book, Corporations Are Not People – but I didn’t have a clue where that concept came from, how it grew into one of the dominant judicial doctrines of the last several decades, or the truly pivotal role it has played in recent American history.
In fact, Citizens United was only one of the latest episodes in a four-decade-long history of legal, political, and social change that has moved the center of gravity in public discourse in America so far to the right that our last two Democratic Presidents can only be seen in global context as moderate conservatives, while today’s Republican leaders hold such extreme views that to term them \\”conservative\\” is a gross misuse of the language.
As Jeffrey Clements tells it, the story begins in 1970 with the first Earth Day. The mobilization of more than 20 million Americans in that masterful organizing effort led to the passage of a long series of laws that established the basis for long-overdue environmental regulation: the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Health and Safety Act that created OSHA, the Clean Air Act, and a host of others.
Then the corporate world struck back.
A soft-spoken Southern attorney named Lewis F. Powell, Jr. led the charge. Powell was defending Philip Morris in the growing wave of lawsuits about cigarette smoking in the 1960s and sat on its board. Shortly before accepting his appointment to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon in 1971, Powell wrote a now-infamous memo to a friend at the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the bastion of corporate America. The \\”Powell Memo\\” kicked off the four-decade assault by the corporate elite and the 1% that stifles American democracy today.
Under the title \\”Attack on American Free Enterprise System,\\” Powell explained, \\”`No thoughtful person can question that the American economic system is under broad attack.’ In response, corporations must organize and fund a drive to achieve political power through `united action.’\\” As a lawyer, Powell naturally saw the courts as the centerpiece of the pro-corporate strategy he advocated. \\”Activist judges\\” on courts throughout the land, and especially on the U. S. Supreme Court, would roll back legislation such as the flood of new environmental laws.
The corporate campaign rolled out in the years after Powell’s memo in spheres of activity: lobbying Congress, state legislatures, and the public through industry front groups such as the Tobacco Institute and the Edison Electric Institute; electing or appointing pro-corporate judges such as Powell himself; and influencing public education and shaping public opinion through a flotilla of Right-Wing think tanks including the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the Manhattan Institute, and many others.
Since Powell’s memo circulated in the upper echelons of corporate America in 1971, corporations, primarily the large transnational companies that dominate the Chamber of Commerce, have poured billions of dollars into these activities. However, until his death in 1998, Lewis Powell continued to lead the pro-corporate effort from his seat on the U. S. Supreme Court. In the early and mid-1970s, Powell was thwarted by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, but the tide turned in 1978 when Powell prevailed over strenuous objections from the Chief in a case that firmly established the \\”right\\” of corporations to flaunt laws passed to keep them in check by establishing the principle of corporate personhood.
Corporations Are Not People is an activist plea for readers to join the gathering movement to overturn Citizens United, wrest political power from the corporations, and put it back in the hands of people. As Jeffrey Clements sees it, there are \\”three essential steps to roll back corporate dominance of government: (1) a twenty-eighth amendment to the Constitution that will overturn Citizens United and corporate rights and restore people’s rights; (2) corporate accountability and charter reform to ensure that corporations better reflect the public policy reasons for which we allow the legal benefits of incorporation, such as limited liability, in the first place; and (3) election law reform, including increased public funding, greater transparency, and an end to legal political bribery.\\”
As an advocate for public funding of elections since 1972 and a long-time participant in electoral politics at every level – local, regional, statewide, and national – I find Clements’ three steps to be right on target. The structural reforms he proposes would strike at the heart of the forces that are strangling our political rights and advancing the interests of the 1% against those of the 99%.
Much of Corporations Are Not People is devoted to the many resources offered readers at the back of the book: the wording of the proposed 28th Amendment; a draft resolution favoring passage of the amendment that organizations and local governmental bodies may adopt; and contact information for the growing list of organizations that are coming together in the new movement to roll back corporate power.
Jeffrey D. Clements is an attorney in Concord, Massachusetts. A former Assistant Attorney General of his state, he cofounded Free Speech for People following the ruling in Citizens United.
(From […])d. Corporations Are Not People is an activist plea for readers to join the gathering movement to overturn Citizens United, wrest political power from the corporations, and put it back in the hands of people. As Jeffrey Clements sees it, there are \\”three essential steps to roll back corporate dominance of government: (1) a twenty-eighth amendment to the Constitution that will overturn Citizens United and corporate rights and restore people’s rights; (2) corporate accountability and charter reform to ensure that corporations better reflect the public policy reasons for which we allow the legal benefits of incorporation, such as limited liability, in the first place; and (3) election law reform, including increased public funding, greater transparency, and an end to legal political bribery.\\” As an advocate for public funding of elections since 1972 and a long-time participant in electoral politics at every level – local, regional, statewide, and national – I find Clements’ three steps to be right on target. The structural reforms he proposes would strike at the heart of the forces that are strangling our political rights and advancing the interests of the 1% against those of the 99%. Much of Corporations Are Not People is devoted to the many resources offered readers at the back of the book: the wording of the proposed 28th Amendment; a draft resolution favoring passage of the amendment that organizations and local governmental bodies may adopt; and contact information for the growing list of organizations that are coming together in the new movement to roll back corporate power. Jeffrey D. Clements is an attorney in Concord, Massachusetts. A former Assistant Attorney General of his state, he cofounded Free Speech for People following the ruling in Citizens United. (From […])
It is critical that everyone read Jeffrey Clement’ Corporations are not People. Virtually everyone agrees with his title, but we are all confused as to how we got into a world where the highest legal authority proclaimed the exact opposite – with immediately damaging results and with the prospect of a permanently disabled democratic society. How did this happen? Clements does a superb job of bringing together the myriad of materials that can answer this question. What can we do to solve the problem created by Citizens United. That is more difficult. What is plain is how we can start – we can learn the facts. These are clearly cogently and calmly made available in this book — all should read it.
Corporations are not people.
A very straightforward notion, and also the name of the wonderfully straightforward book by Jeff Clements, a long time protector of the public interest.
Whatever your personal interests are, or wherever your own passions reside – be it healthcare, food safety, energy, small business entrepreneurship and/or education – There is something in this book that will fascinate you and that will also make your blood boil.
But Clements doesn’t just recount incredulous facts about the power and actions of for-profit-corporations and how they changed the rules in their favor. Instead, Clements convinces us that change is possible using historical examples, he leads us in believing that change is doable using specific social tools, and he blazes for us a path forward to amend the situation using tangible actions on the ground.
This is the perfect book for this spring season of celebrating patriotism, liberty and freedom from bondage. \\”Corporations Are Not People\\” will cause you to seek out your local peer citizens, and to join the non-partisan movement to take america back to \\”We, the people\\”.
Buy it now for yourself and for your friends.
This book is required reading for anyone who cares about the health of our democracy and the ability of American citizens — human beings — to have a say in who is elected and what government does.
I find this book one of the best new books on a zeitgeist topic that must be addressed by the masses: People and corporations are not equal. Jeff’s technical background with the legal system qualifies him to guide us forward. His work on a new constitutional amendment will happen and will free us from the
tyranny of abusive corporations. A must read.
this is a great non-partisan analysis of how we got to the current state of a dysfunctional society. Must read for anyone concerned about the future of the PEOPLE of our country. No hippy, left wing rhetoric, just an objective review of the chain of events since 1971 until 2011 reducing the rights of PEOPLE and granting rights to corporations.
There is a flaw from the beginning when corporations are viewed as not being people. They can only function with people and only do good or do harm as a result of the actions of the people operating inside the corporate structure. The problem is less one of corporations having too much power but one of the people inside corporations being able to act with often complete impunity from the criminal laws in the countries in which they operate.
A Union Carbide executive can decide to save money and increase profits by shortcutting safety procedures and not installing safety equipment at a chemical plant in Bhopal, India and cause the needless deaths of more than 15,000 men, women, and children. None of the men responsible at Union Carbide were ever prosecuted for their crimes. The US coal mining companies break the law more than 60,000 times each year and when miners die in the resulting explosions none of the executives at the offending companies are ever prosecuted. All the incentives are to increase profits and with all the rewards and no downsides it is small wonder that unethical business executives continue to behave in this manner.
Now little leftist guardeians of internet purity, commence screeching how I didn’t read the book.
Oh, and how about rich individuals? They aren’t corporations. Can they not spend their money on voicing their opinion?
You are all socialist totalitarians, and sadly the state you’d build couldn’t feed 1/20th our people, but you live off us like parasites spouting your lies and feeling like the good people. When you win you’ll have to decide what 19/20th to kill, but hey, that’s just a theoretical problem for the future right?
Jeffrey D. Clements, \\”Corporations are Not People\\” is a must read for all Americans. It is well written and insightful. The information in the book gives an historical perspective on how corporations have gained the same protections given to the citizens of the United States under the Constitution. Even though the topic is difficult, the author gives a positive spin on how to change corporate \\”citizenship\\”. I will be buying copies of the book for my friends and family.
I have read this book (library copy), now I am buying it. I need to mark it up and its notes are an amazing resource. Buy this book, get on board. Help to fix the mess we are in before we …
If you care about our democracy and the value of your vote in local, state and national elections, then this is a MUST READ! First read the Constitution of the United States of America – all ~4500 words which take about 1/2 hour to read. Then read this book. It is an intelligent, reasoned, thorough and complete handbook every American should read.
This book carefully outlines the case for the need for a new Constitutional Amendment to put the brakes on the power grabbing of big multi-national corporations. Our democracy is at stake and a constitutional amendment is one of the important steps that need to be taken to get democracy back into the hands of The People. I wasn’t so sure that a 28th amendment was needed but after reading this book about the history of Corporate power building in the legal system, I was convinced. Working for The People’s Rights Amendment to declare that Corporations are not people should be a non-partisan grassroots effort to jump start the REAL CHANGE that is needed in Washington!
As a social-change activist since 1969, and one who has been studying and writing about \\”The Pernicious Fiction of Corporate Personhood\\” for many years, I can heartily recommend Jeff Clement’s book. It brings the work of the late Richard Grossman (Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy) and Thom Hartmann (Unequal Protection) up to the present moment, lucidly explains the effect of corporate dominance on our daily lives, and paves a path for all those who care about restoring our \\”improbable\\” experiment in republican democracy both back to its foundations and forward to its promise.
With clarity and eloquence unexpected in such a treatise, Jeff Clements articulates a positive vision and a practical guide for Tea Partiers and #Occupiers alike to join hands in the most important work that American citizens can take on at this pivotal moment in our common journey. It is an inspiration and an invitation. Read it and you will want to do your part in creating a legacy worth leaving to our progeny.
In 1776, Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense, which laid out the historical precedents and current sad state of affairs of America, and proposed that we unite in drawing a line and standing together for \\”the rights of mankind and of the free and independent states of America\\”. That pamphlet inspired a revolution. Two hundred thirty-six years later, almost to the day, Jeffrey Clements published another clarion call for restoring our human rights and the independence of our nation, with a similarly common sense strategy for a second American revolution.
I came away from this book asking (in outrage!): Why do we as a nation allow the little state of Delaware to continue writing laws of incorporation that make it a haven for transnational corporations? This is NOT a states’ rights issue. I don’t get it.
This book should mainstream the campaign to end corporate personhood.
Clements traces the development of the legal doctrine of corporate personhood back long before the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision two years ago this month, in particular to President Richard Nixon’s appointment of Lewis Powell to the Supreme Court in 1972. Led by Powell’s radical new conception of corporate rights, Clements shows, the court began striking down laws that protected living breathing persons’ rights in areas including the environment, tobacco, public health, food, drugs, financial regulation, and elections.
In 1978 the Supreme Court ruled that corporations had speech rights that prevented banning their money from an election, a conclusion that might have been nearly incomprehensible a decade earlier before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and various corporate foundations began filling our public discourse with phrases like \\”corporate speech.\\” In 1980 Congress forbade the Federal Trade Commission from protecting children or students from junk food advertising and sales. In 1982 corporate speech rights in the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a state law that had attempted to block energy companies from promoting greater energy consumption. In the 1990s, the Monsanto corporation, whose genetically engineered drug was banned in many countries, won the right to include it in milk in the United States and the \\”right not to speak,\\” thereby overturning a law requiring that milk be labeled to indicate the drug’s presence.
Decision after decision has extended corporate rights to a position of priority over actual human rights on everything from food and water and air to education and healthcare and wars. The ground has shifted. In 1971 Lewis Powell argued on behalf of the cigarette companies that they had a corporate person’s right to use cartoons and misleading claims to get young people hooked on nicotine, and he was laughed out of court. In 2001, the Supreme Court struck down a state law banning cigarette ads within 1,000 feet of schools and playgrounds. The reason? The sacred right of the corporate person, which carries more weight now than the rights of the people of a community to protect their children … er, excuse me, their \\”replacement smokers.\\”
And why do corporate rights carry so much weight? One reason is that, as Clements documents and explains, \\”transnational corporations now dominate our government\\” through election spending. This is why a civilized single-payer health coverage system like those found in the rest of the wealthy nations of the world is not \\”practical.\\” This is why cutting military spending back to 2007 levels would mean \\”amageddon\\” even though in 2007 it didn’t. This is why our government hands oil corporations not only wars and highways but also massive amounts of good old money. This is why we cannot protect our mountains or streams but can go to extraordinary lengths to protect our investment bankers.
\\”Since the Citizens United decision in 2010,\\” Clements writes, \\”hundreds of business leaders have condemned the decision and have joined the work for a constitutional amendment to overturn expanded corporate rights.\\” You might not learn this from the corporate media, but there is a widespread and growing mainstream understanding that abuse by oversized mega-corporations has been disastrous for ordinary businesses as well as communities, families, and individuals. Clements’ turns out to be a pro-business, albeit anti-U.S. Chamber of Commerce, book.
And what can be done? We can build an independent, principled, and relentless Occupy movement and include as a central demand the amending of the U.S. Constitution to end corporate personhood. Clements’ book offers a draft amendment, a sample resolution, a collection of frequently asked questions (and answers), a list of organizations, websites, resources, books, and campaigns.
Thisis doable, and it is what we should do this election year so that in future election years we might actually have elections.in future election years we might actually have elections.