Are Corporations People? A Forum
Thursday, 04 Apr 2013 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
MaryBeth Gardam is the Iowa Coordinator for MoveToAmend, a grassroots organization working to amend the Constitution to establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. Sonia Ashe is the director of IPIRG, Iowa Public Interest Research Group, a consumer group that stands up to powerful interests whenever they threaten citizens' health and safety, financial security or right to fully participate in a democratic society. Jorgen Rasmussen is a Distinguished Political Science Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University, where he taught courses in constitutional law and civil liberties. Tony Smith, professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, will moderate.Cosponsored By:
- ActivUS at ISU
- Ames Social/Issues Book Club
- Graduate Association for Students of Politics
- ISU College Democrats
- ISU Pre-Law Club
- Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
- League of Women Voters
- Occupy Ames/ISU
- Political Science Club
- Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Social Justice
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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