free speech for/by Nike

Guilherme C Roschke groschke at luminousvoid.net
Fri Jan 10 15:26:31 PST 2003



> >From WSJ article about 1st amendment protection for the PR of Nike Corp...
>
> "You cannot, simply on the basis of who's saying it, suspend First
> Amendment rights," says David Remes, a First Amendment attorney who wrote
> a friend-of-the-court brief on hehalf of Exxon Mobil Corp., Bank of
> America Corp., Microsoft Corp., Monsanto Co. and Pfizer Inc. "Then all
> corporate speech is given no more First Amendment protection than a mere
> advertisement."
>
>
> Wow.
>
> Martin
>

more info at:

http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/nike/

including links to editorials and briefs for and against nike. as well as background info.

-gr



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