Saturday, October 23, 10-11:30am, this on-line event requires advance registration

Welcome to a discussion about the Fourteenth Amendment and its connection to ending Qualified Immunity.

Special guests: Professors Pam Brooks and Charles Peterson (Oberlin College) and Cynthia Brown (Ohio’s leading advocate for the state’s Repeal Qualified Immunity campaign)

Background: Within twenty years of the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification in 1868, “Big Money” successfully claimed that corporations are people (“constitutional persons”) that likewise deserved constitutional “We the People” rights. Since then, successive Supreme Court rulings have granted corporations other U.S. Constitution rights, all based on the Fourteenth Amendment. This important session will illustrate how powerful forces have subverted its guarantees of full citizenship for emancipated black people to instead legitimize laws that put property rights over black lives.

The Fourteenth Amendment: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

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Hosted by Move to Amend Central Ohio.