Our 8 New Year’s Resolutions
We love celebrating New Year’s, and we love making resolutions. We came up with eight that will make us, and hopefully the planet, pretty happy in 2017.
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Join the growing movement of engaged citizens and responsible business leaders working together to get “Citizens United” overturned and Get the Dough Out of Politics!
Keep the Dough In Ice Cream, Take it Out of Democracy
At Ben & Jerry’s, we love dough so much, we invented Cookie Dough ice cream. But dough doesn’t mix so well with democracy. In fact, there’s so much big money flooding into our elections in the United States that the voice of regular folks is being drowned out. In the 2010 election cycle, nearly half a billion dollars was spent by ‘outside groups’ to influence Congressional elections alone, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That’s on top of the almost 2 billion dollars raised and spent by candidates.
Things have gotten even worse since 2010, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its now-infamous Citizens United decision that corporations are allowed to spend unlimited money to influence election outcomes. Ouch! That’s not democracy!
What Can We Do?
We think it’s time to Get the Dough Out of Politics and make our elected leaders more accountable to the people — not just to their big donors and allies. But it’s going to take a huge movement of citizens taking action to protect our elections from the flood of money from corporations, SuperPACs, and other deep pockets. The movement is already building. You can get involved by visiting our friends at Free Speech for People.
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10 (Better) Ways to Spend the $5 Billion Predicted to be Spent on This Election
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127,000 People In Florida Want Fairer Campaign Funding . . . But Will It Happen?
Miami-Dade County, Florida, is the site of a heated campaign reform battle this year. This measure that could restore some sanity to campaign funding in the Sunshine State, but it is in danger of being unfairly blocked.
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Does Your State Have a Big Money Problem?
Big money has crept into the most local of local elections. Even school board elections aren’t immune to being bought by big donors. Has your state been overtaken by big bucks?
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Free Speech For People works to challenge the misuse of corporate power and restore republican democracy to the people.
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Business For Democracy is a collaborative effort of companies and business leaders in support of government by the people - and opposed to the Citizens United decision.
Reverse Citizens United – End Unrestricted Campaign Donations
Under the banner of United For The People, organizations and public officials are calling for constitutional remedies to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and related cases.
Learn More About Efforts to Amend the Constitution to Rectify our Broken Democracy