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On January 21st, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. An avalanche of criticism from grassroots organizations, members of Congress, and the President of the United States followed. Hundreds of thousands of Americans signed motions calling for action to overrule the Court -- including amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

"We the Corporations?" Life & Law in the U.S.A. after Citizens United v. FEC is 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. Please use the form at the bottom of this page to register.

• Hosted by the UW-Madison National Lawyers Guild and the Liberty Tree Foundation
  
• Sponsored by the American Constitution Society, Center for Media and Democracy, and Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
• Cosponsored by the A.E. Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change, UW-Madison Legal Studies Association, Madison Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, Student Progressive Dane, and the Student Labor Action Coalition.

Program

2:00pm - REGISTRATION - Please check in at the registration table, located outside of room 5240 of the Law School. Thank you.

2:30pm - WELCOME

~ John Nichols, Esq., co-author, The Death and Life of American Journalism
introduced by Samantha Leonard, UW National Lawyers Guild

3:00pm - PANEL: Understanding Citizens United v. FEC

Moderated by Peg Lautenschlager, former Attorney General, State of Wisconsin

  ~ Cheryl Weston, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin; founder, Cullen Weston Pines & Bach, LLP
  ~ Jeffrey Clements, author of amicus in Citizens United; former Assistant Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; General Counsel to Free Speech for People, freespeechforpeople.org
  ~ Lisa Graves, Executive Director, Center for Media and Democracy; former Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States; Executive Committee, Campaign to Legalize Democracy, MovetoAmend.org

4:30pm - Break

5:00pm - PANEL: Overcoming Citizens United: Responses & Strategies

Moderated by Matt Rothschild, Editor, The Progressive Magazine

  ~ Ben Manski, Executive Director, Liberty Tree Foundation; Attorney at Law, Manski Law & Communications, LLC; Executive Committee, Campaign to Legalize Democracy, MovetoAmend.org 
  ~ Mike McCabe, Executive Director, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign; coordinator, United Citizens Against Citizens United
  ~ Riki Ott, Executive Director, Ultimate Civics; author, Not One Drop; Executive Committee, Campaign to Legalize Democracy, MovetoAmend.org

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