Photo by Pam M.
Today, hundreds of people gathered in Cesar Chavez Plaza today to protest against the excesses of the Corporations and Super-rich, and a call for reform. With various issues, but mostly a sense of serious dissatisfaction with the current state of the country and economy and society. The government has stopped working for the citizenry and instead for the corporations. The Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court, and an entire series of decisions going all the way back the 19th-century Santa Clara decision have given corporations more and more “rights” previously reserved for real human beings. The idea that cash is equal to speech is abhorent to natural human rights, and to the idea that all citizens are equal. If a corporation or super-wealthy individual can drown out all other conversations and ideas, then the best idea may not get heard, and the country cannot progress.
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