Tag: Supreme Court

Middle Fingers Up In Austin After End of ‘Roe’

Activists sit in the streets of downtown Austin, holding up their middle fingers towards the Texas Capitol, under a bright summer sun.

Austin took the streets to protest the end of Roe v. Wade. (Kit O'Connell)

June 25, 2022

Middle Fingers Up In Austin After End of ‘Roe’

Posted in Austin, Journalism, and The Texas Observer

More than 1,000 people marched through downtown Austin on Friday, June 25 to express their anger and sadness over the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe V. Wade and the impending, widespread erosion of abortion access as a result.

Organized coalitions like Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights and others called for protesters to gather at the federal courthouse and in the surrounding Republic Square Park on the night after the Supreme Court decision came down. Word spread rapidly via social networks and posters affixed to lampposts throughout the city.

House Passes Koch-Backed Bill Aimed At Opening Doors To Foreign Donors, Dark Money

At the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, activists project an image readiing "Corporations ≠ People. Money ≠ Speech." (Flickr / Peg Hunter)

June 28, 2016

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House Passes Koch-Backed Bill Aimed At Opening Doors To Foreign Donors, Dark Money

Posted in Journalism, and MintPress News

Rather than following the lead of prominent advocates for campaign finance reform, the House of Representatives recently voted to make American politics less transparent than ever.

The issue of the influence of so-called “dark money” on politics — hidden, high-dollar donations made possible by reforms to campaign finance law like the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision — is receiving renewed attention this election cycle thanks to successful awareness-raising campaigns by presidential candidates like Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein, and legislators like Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

A September poll by Bloomberg Politics found that 78 percent of Americans would like to see Citizens United overturned. And that opposition isn’t coming from just one corner; it’s consistent across the party spectrum, from Democrats to Republicans to independents.