Reclaim Democracy!

Reclaiming the Bill of Rights, Building a Movement

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ReclaimDemocracy.org dissects current issues to expose how problems are rooted in the illegitimate power wielded by corporations and moneyed interests, and it tries to show clearly how changing the system could directly improve people’s lives.

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Book Review: Unequal Protection

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Unequal Protection offers some valuable new insights into the role of corporations in early U.S. history and the process through which corporate lawyers successfully promoted the “corporate personhood” doctrine.

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Corporate Three Strikes Bill

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Draft language introduced in California Last updated April, 2003 SECTION 1. Title 6 (commencing with Section 4000) is added to the Corporations Code, to read: TITLE 6. CORPORATE THREE STRIKES ACT 40000. This title shall be known and may be cited as the Corporate Three Strikes Act. 40001. The People of the State of California […]

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“Patriot” Act II Bush Administration Escalates Its War on Americans’ Freedom

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The Bush administration’s draft “Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003” (DSEA) indicates that even after the 2001 Patriot Act expanded federal police powers while curtailing privacy rights, the Bush administration thinks Americans are still too free and government too small. Like the Patriot Act, the massive “Security Act” draft contains a few measures that could help catch a terrorist, surrounded by many that merely propel us further toward a secretive police state.

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Orange Alert for Civil Liberties

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The Justice Department’s plans for a “Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003” were revealed only through a Department insider leaking the document to the watchdog group Center for Public Integrity. Dick Cheney and House Speaker Dennis Hastert are the only recognizable elected or quasi-elected officials documented as having obtained the document, which is marked “Confidential: Not for Distribution Draft Jan. 9, 2003.”

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