This video footage is from the March to Overrule the Court, a protest march that occurred on February 16, 2010, from the State Capitol Building to the federal courthouse in downtown Madison, Wisconsin.

Video footage of the keynote speech and the two major panels at this historic conference. "We the Corporations?" Life & Law in the U.S.A. after Citizens United v. FEC was a one-day conference addressing that historic decision, and featuring reactions to it from some of the nation's leading democracy campaigners and experts on the doctrine of corporate constitutional rights

The Spring 2010 issue of Justice Rising (.pdf), the quarterly newsletter of Alliance for Democracy, is entitled:  Courts and Corporations vs. Our Common Good, and takes on the Supreme Court's recent Citizens United decision and the growing popular movement to guarantee free-speech rights for people and not for corporations.

Justice Rising offers a thematic guide for everyone dedicated to ending corporate rule and establishing true democracy, and can be dowloaded as a full newsletter or as individual articles.

GRIT tv host Laura Flanders takes up the topic of the Supreme Court, corporate power, and the Citizens United ruling.  Guest John Bonifaz, the director of Free Speech for People discusses the results we're already seeing from that ruling, how it impacts corporations, unions, and real flesh-and-blood people, (including how it has already impacted our thinking) and what needs to be done. Bonifaz explains how we can amend the Constitution to reclaim our first amendment, and the kind of popular movement that will be required to do it.  He describes what people are doing at the local level in their free time to advance this agenda.  (Discussion begins at 10:22)

Traveling from Venezuela's Communal Councils to Brazil's Participatory Budgeting, from Constitutional Assemblies to grassroots movements, recuperated factories to cooperatives across the hemisphere, Beyond Elections takes us on a journey across the Americas, to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy? The two excerpts below give an introduction and discuss Brazil's participatory budgeting process.

Mary Zepernick, of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy and Womens International League for Peace and Freedom delivered a history of corporate personhood and observations on the need for ending all corporate appropriation of personhood rights through a Constitutional amendment to the organizers of a panel discussion on the Supreme Court's Citzens United Discussion. The organizing groups included North Bridge Alliance for Democracy joined with Concord Carlisle League of Women Voters, Concord CAN, and the Carlisle Climate Action Network.

On March 8, 2010, the Maryland House Health and Government Operations Committee held a public hearing on HB 1037, a bill requiring the governor to request the return of MD Guard units is a federal authorization for use of military force has expired or is no longer valid.

Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland, inteviews historian Garry Wills about Wills' new book Bomb Power, which finds the origins of the Imperial Presidency within the President's power to use nuclear weapons.

Benson Scotch, general counsel to “Bring the Guard Home—It’s the Law!" prepared the following legal memo for the Wisconsin State Assembly's Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs in preparation for hearings held on March 9, 2010 for AB203, the Safeguard the Guard Act, that would require Wisconsin's governor to review all federal orders for Wisconsin Guard troops and to refuse any federal orders determined to be unlawful.

Open Secret is a filmed re-enactment of Alabama's 1901 constitutional convention, which produced the constitution which Alabama currently operates under.  Delegates to the convention openly discussed ways to disenfranchise black and poor white voters, and dismiss women's right to vote.

The Education for All Coalition has developed resources for local organizers in preparation for the March 4 National Day of Action to Defend Public Education.