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Big Brothers: Thought Control at Koch

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Legal experts interviewed for this story called the blatant corporate politicking highly unusual, although no longer skirting the edge of legality, thanks to last yearĂ ‚¬ „ s Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which granted free speech rights to corporations.According to UCLAĂ ‚¬ „ s Stone, although Citizens United frees Koch Industries and other corporations to propagandize their employees with their political preferences, the same doesnĂ ‚¬ „ t hold true for unionsĂ ‚¬"at least not in the workplace. Ă ‚¬Ĺ"If a union wanted to hand out political materials in the workplace not directly relevant to the workersĂ ‚¬ „ interestsĂ ‚¬"such as providing a list of candidates to support in the electionsĂ ‚¬"the employer has the right to ban that material,Ă ‚¬ ť says Stone. Ă ‚¬Ĺ"They could even prohibit its distribution on lunch breaks or after shifts, because by law itĂ ‚¬ „ s the companyĂ ‚¬ „ s private property.Ă ‚¬ ť
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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