Greg Colvin

Greg Colvin
Hometown: Petaluma, CA
Interests: Progressive Vision
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  • Published How To Choose? So Many Constitutional Amendments.... (Blog entry)
    December 19, 2011 - 9:43am

    There is a growing movement of people fed up with corporations-as-persons, money-as-speech, elections-for-sale in America. They are ready to amend the US Constitution as the only sure way to reverse the Supreme Court’s decisions in Citizens United v. FEC and Buckley v. Valeo. But what’s the best amendment? Sanders/Deutch or Udall/Sutton? Move To Amend or Free Speech for People?

  • Published Bernie Sanders Introduces Powerful Constitutional Amendment in Senate to Undo Citizens United and Buckley (Blog entry)
    December 12, 2011 - 2:43am

    On Thursday, December 8th, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced a constitutional amendment to drive big money out of politics for good. He was not alone. Senator Mark Begich of Alaska joined him.

  • Published Finally, a Constitutional Amendment for the 99% (Blog entry)
    November 18, 2011 - 3:36pm

    Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) offered the strongest constitutional amendment introduced in either House of Congress so far to rectify the imbalance of power between the corporations and the people in our democracy.

  • Published Occupy Wall Street: Crafting a Constitutional Amendment to Stop the 1% (Blog entry)
    November 11, 2011 - 3:28pm

    We’ve seen the signs and heard the chants: “Abolish Corporate Personhood!”

    I’m very sympathetic to the cause of reducing the power of big business corporations to control our government, our economy, our consumer culture, our society, and our lives.

  • Published Let’s Compare the Constitutional Amendments Proposed after Citizens United (Blog entry)
    April 26, 2011 - 3:45pm

    Among those who feel the only way to overcome the Citizens United decision, which opened the door to unlimited corporate spending on elections, is to amend the U.S. Constitution, the question on everyone’s mind is: “So what’s the language?”

  • Published Only People Can Vote—Only People Should Finance Campaigns (Blog entry)
    January 20, 2011 - 12:43am

    Introducing the Citizens Election Amendment….
    Version 1.0

    Since the U.S.

  • Published You Want Reform? Will You Take Revolution? (Blog entry)
    May 21, 2009 - 12:37am

    It is time to ask ourselves, are we progressives for sentimental and marketing reasons, or do we deeply understand the world’s present predicament and our opportunity to fix it?

  • Published Ten Sacrifices We, and the Next President, Will Face (Blog entry)
    October 8, 2008 - 6:44pm

    At Tuesday night’s debate, the presidential candidates were asked a question that I believe deserves much more attention.

    "BROKAW: Sen. McCain, for you, we have our first question from the Internet tonight. A child of the Depression, 78-year-old Fiora from Chicago.

  • Published Still Needed: An Elevator Pitch (Blog entry)
    September 4, 2008 - 11:00am

    At the Denver convention, Sen. Barack Obama gave a very fine acceptance speech, but not a great one. Winning the battle against conservatism requires going beyond personality and empathy and clearly—and extremely briefly—stating the case for progressive reform.

  • Commented The Words Need An Edge ... and Edwin's Site in a discussion on What We Stand For—In Twelve Words (Blog entry) | August 25, 2008 - 2:57pm