Accountability and Justice Issue Organizing Team conference call, 3/10/10

Over 80 PDA members joined this special call with Guest David Cobb, attorney and Green Party activist and a founder of Move to Amend, which has as its goal amending the constitution so that human beings—not corporations—have rights. David laid out the problem by defining corporate personhood and gave background on the constitutional amendment granting corporations the same rights as people, and brought the group to the present time, with the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which, by confirming corporate personhood opened the door to unlimited corporate influence over elections and our government. David answered the questions submitted in the PDA chatroom, giving generously of his time in this call that ran over its usual hour. David also participated in after-call dialog in the chatroom, which had lively activity among its participants, both developing questions for David and generating discussion within the group.