David Cobb on Move to Amend's Occupy the Court action
Get out and join us! Actions in more than 80 cities at federal district courts--check out MovetoAmend.org.
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Showing posts with label Democracy Movement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democracy Movement. Show all posts
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Solidarity on the bridges!
- Blue Hill on the bridge- Every Saturday 12-1 PM
- Ellsworth on the bridge - Every Sunday 12-1 PM
"Tips for new sign makers and rally attenders: Make signs with big dark letters and not too many words--individuals are reading them while driving. Point the signs toward the drivers. Smile and wave to them."
Ellsworth and Blue Hill are just two of the 1,300 occupations that have formed across the US in the last three weeks. Some are actual encampments, some are regular solidarity rallies. If there's not one near you, hit the streets! Downloadable posters, fliers, etc. are here, suggestions for street theater here!
You can see some pictures from Blue Hill on our Facebook page. AfD'ers are involved with occupations in Portland, Davis, Wall Street, Washington and Boston as well. Read more...
Friday, October 7, 2011
Portland AfD at Occupy Portland, and an upcoming event on the city's liberal rep vs. realities for communities of color
Yesterday AfD'ers were out for the opening Occupy Portland march, collecting signatures for Move to Amend, and spreading the word about Move to Amend Portland and local anti-corporate rule organizing in a march from Waterfront Park to Pioneer Square to Lownsdale Square. Portland chapter president David Delk reports more than 10,000 people in the streets. "It was awesome," he writes. "And just the beginning. The people have started to stir, and in the populist direction we all want."
Here's a link to Shamus Cooke's story in the LA Progressive.
Next week, on Thursday October 13, the chapter will sponsor a talk on "Communities of Color in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile," presented by Julia Meier, Coordinator, Coalition of Communities of Color. Ms. Meier will explore Portland's progressive reputation, and the reality behind the widespread assumption that it is an accepting community dedicated to economic, racial and ethnic equity.
The Coalition of Communities of Color, in partnership with researchers at Portland State University, has spent the last two years documenting racial disparities. In May they released a comprehensive report on the status of racial disparities in Multnomah County across 27 different systems and institutions. Ms. Meier will present the findings and engage the Portland progressive community in dialogue.
The talk will take place at the First Unitarian Church, Eliot Chapel, SW 12th and Salmon, from 7 to 9 p.m. Donations of $5 to 20 will be gratefully accepted, but no one will turned away. All are welcome. The Economic Justice Action Group of the First Unitarian Church is a cosponsor, with the Alliance's Portland chapter. Read more...
Thursday, June 30, 2011
On July 4, declare independence from corporate rule!
What are you doing this July 4th? Need inspiration?
On July 4, 1997, AfD founder Ronnie Dugger and Al Krebs, a former AfD national council member and a great defender of family farms, stood side by side in front of the Liberty Bell. Each read his own version of a "Declaration of Independence from Corporate Rule."
Do your bit! It's not too late to get together with fellow activists and plan your own July 4 action. Check out the ideas sent in by groups and individuals and posted here on the Move to Amend website. Dress as a Supreme Court "In-Justice." Be as outrageous as the idea that corporations are entitled to the same constitutional rights as real people.
Bring along copies of this "Declaration of Independence from Corporate Rule" that Nancy Price, AfD liaison to Move to Amend, helped to write. You can print out a large version or a two-to-a-sheet flier from the Move to Amend's organizing resources, or a four-to-a-sheet version on our "Tools for Organizing" page.
Thanks for all you do for democracy, and have a great 4th! Read more...
Move to Amend--mapped!
Move to Amend has mapped its local affiliates--find one near you, or start one up! Tips on outreach and what to do below the map!
Read more...Wednesday, June 8, 2011
July 4: Declare your independence from corporate rule
As a member of the Move to Amend coalition, we're passing on this alert and we strongly urge our members and supporters to get out and organize actions for Independence Day. And, of course, let us know what you're planning and we'll help publicize it--and send us pictures afterwards!
Join Move to Amend this 4th of July as we Declare Our Independence from Corporate Rule in communities across the nation! Let's educate our fellow citizens about the corporate threat to our democracy, and get them engaged in the movement to take back our country!
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- Dress as corporate judges and corporate "persons" and dance and sing about the takeover of our democracy in your local 4th of July parade
- Host a Corporate Personhood picnic
- Stage a human-corporate mock wedding
- Organize a birthday party for Democracy. Read this "Declaration of Independence from Corporate Rule".
Find tips and ideas for these events and more on our website... or invent your own creative ways to educate your community about Corporate Personhood and the Move to Amend campaign.
Don't have a Move to Amend affiliate group in your community yet? Start one up! The 4th of July is a great time to spread the word and expand the movement.
Help us collect signatures and grow the number of local Move to Amend groups across the country. Americans of all political persuasions are fed up! Let's offer them an opportunity to join our cause.
Yours for democracy,
Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap
Move to Amend Executive Committee & Field Organizing Coordinator Read more...
Monday, June 6, 2011
Hey, Colorado!
The Colorado Move To Amend group's e-newsletter is online here. Highlights include info on monthly meetings in Arvada starting June 9, a screening of "The Corporation" part II in Denver, a possible public bank for Colorado, and links to good videos.
Check it out here.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Today's news and views
● A group of more than 80 business groups have told President Obama to "abandon" a draft executive order requiring federal contractors to disclose political contributions. Groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute, the National Retail Federation and the National Association of Manufacturers claimed the disclosure requirement would "chill their free speech rights" according to The Hill.
● Federal contributions are down 30 percent to the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and Clean Water State Revolving Fund, the two federal programs that offer no- or low-cost loans to upgrade municipal drinking water systems, and small towns are feeling the pinch.
● Five Republican Senators—Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Pat Roberts (Kan.) John Cornyn (Texas), John Thune (S.D.) and Richard Burr (N.C.)—have signed on to a letter to IRS commissioner Douglas H. Shulman asking why the agency has begun investigating potential tax liability in large donations to 501(c)4 groups after decades of looking the other way, and asking whether following the rules represents a violation of donors' constitutional rights.
● Scott McLarty looks for a language to describe a radical ideology for the 21st century.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
5 Ways You Can Fight Citizens United
by Annie Leonard and Allison Cook. Posted Feb 21 at Yes! Magazine
Watch the trailer for "The Story of Corporate Personhood," coming out March 1.
We never expected to be writing an article with this title. Aren’t united citizens a good thing? Civil Rights movement? Egypt? Madison?
Yes, but that’s not the kind of people power we’re talking about here. What we want to fight is the disastrous 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United v Federal Election Commission (FEC) decision Ironically, “Citizens United” is the name of a conservative advocacy group which receives corporate funding and works to promote increased rights for corporations. The Citizens United v. FEC case originally dealt with the question of whether or not airing Citizens United’s documentary about Hillary Clinton was an advocacy ad, and therefore subject to existing restrictions on election ads under the McCain-Feingold law.
Whether your passion is protecting the environment or creating green jobs or improving public education—or really any other issue on which corporate interests are blocking real solutions—this is your campaign too.
But in a brazen act of judicial activism, the court decided to consider the much broader issue of corporate spending to influence elections, which wasn’t even presented in the original case. In a decision that stunned democracy advocates and trampled a number of campaign finance laws, a slim five-Justice majority ruled that corporations—including for-profit corporations—do indeed have a right to spend as much money as they want to elect or defeat candidates in our elections.
This decision effectively grants corporations the same First Amendment Free Speech protections granted to real live people.
The catch is that corporations obviously are not people. Someone get the Supreme Court a biology textbook! There are some really big, and really significant, differences. For starters, people are part of the biological system; we need clear air and water, a healthy environment, a stable climate to thrive. Corporations are legal entities, created by people, and have no such biological needs and thus no inherent reason to safeguard the environment.
People make decisions based on a constant balancing of many interests, including love for our families and communities, compassion, kindness, desire for a better world, as well as economic and material interests. Corporations don’t have families and communities, nor hearts with which to love them. As Justice Stevens said in his dissenting opinion, “corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts and no desires.” Instead, corporations—by both law and the demands of the market—are under enormous pressure to focus on one thing: maximizing profit.
Their single minded focus, plus their enormous scale, means it’s dangerous to invite them into our democracy. If corporations spend even a tiny percentage of their profits on influencing election outcomes, they can dwarf the contributions from real people, skewing election results to favor corporate interests, which aren’t always the same as the interests of workers, families, and the environment.
At the Story of Stuff Project, we have partnered with organizations working for solutions to issues as diverse as climate change, toxics in consumer products, and the wastefulness of bottled water. In every case, when we ask these experienced organizers what the biggest obstacles to progress are, the answer is the same: corporate influence in the political process.
The Citizens United v. FEC decision makes this problem even worse. Reversing it is a critical step to reclaiming our democracy by the people and for the people. Yes, we know that reversing this case won’t immediately prevent the myriad other ways that corporations exert influence in our democracy, but it is a really, really important place to start. Reversing a Supreme Court decision requires a new Constitutional Amendment so we’re joining with a number of organizations launching a national campaign to obtain one. It’s not going to be quick or easy, but working for big changes requires big efforts. And while we’re working on it, we can be building a broad-based national movement to get corporations completely out of our democracy—and get the people back in.
This is a really important fight. Until we wrestle control back from the corporations, we can’t leverage our amazing democracy for real progress on any of the issues we care about. So, whether your passion is protecting the environment or creating green jobs or improving public education—or really any other issue on which corporate interests are blocking real solutions—this is your campaign too. Here are five ways to plug in and get started.
Five Ways to Fight Citizens United:
1. Watch The Story of Stuff Project’s latest film, The Story of Citizens United v. FEC: Why Democracy Only Works when People are in Charge at www.storyofcitizensunited.org. Then share it widely! Post it on Facebook, tweet about it, blog about it, organize a showing in your school or church, put a link on your website. Help turn the volume up on this much needed conversation!
2. Party for the Cause. Hold a house party to screen the The Story of Citizens United v. FEC and invite others to join the campaign. Invite friends, neighbors, family members over to your place for an evening of democracy in action! You can download our House Party Guide, which has house party tips and action ideas, here.
3. Sign on. Sign Public Citizen’s petition calling for a Constitutional Amendment clarifying that free speech is for people, not corporations. We need a lot of signatures to launch this ambitious campaign. Please download the petition here, make copies and carry them around with you collecting signatures—and thus telling others about the campaign—everywhere you go. If you want to sign electronically, please do so here.
4. Get National. If corporations spend even a tiny percentage of their profits on influencing election outcomes, they can dwarf contributions from real people, skewing election results to favor corporate interests, which aren’t always the same as the interests of workers, families, and the environment.
Join a national organization working on taking back our democracy. This way your local efforts can be magnified and it’ll be a lot easier to track this issue and identify opportunities to get involved locally and nationally. Check out Public Citizen, Free Speech for People, People for the American Way and Move to Amend.
(blog editor's note: Alliance for Democracy is a member of the Move to Amend coalition, which supports an amendment barring corporate access to all constitutional personhood rights, not just those under the First Amendment--if you'd like to support a wide ban check out the site--organizing resources, including a petition, are here.)
5. Democracy: Use it or Lose it. One reason corporations have been able to hijack our democracy is that many of us haven’t engaged much in it ourselves lately. If we want policy makers who prioritize public good, healthy jobs, and a sustainable environment, we need to get involved, hold them accountable, and engage as active citizens every day—not just on voting day. Join a local organization working on an issue you care about, host a community event to share information, write letters to your congresspeople and local newspapers to share your opinion. There are an infinite number of ways to get involved and once enough of us do, we can take back our government so that it really is by the people, for the people. Then, we can get to work solving today’s pressing problems with a government working for us, instead of big business.
Annie Leonard and Allison Cook wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Annie is the author and host of The Story of Stuff and the director of the Story of Stuff Project; Allison is special project coordinator for the Story of Stuff Project.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Today's the day to check out War is a Lie
David Swanson's new book, War is a Lie, is out today and there is a campaign to bump it up the Amazon sales lists to #1.Why not support a worthy author and the common wealth by buying a copy for your local library? You can read all about it at www.warisalie.org.
From the website: War is a Lie is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those wars that have been most widely defended as just and good. This is a handbook of sorts, a manual to be used in debunking future lies before future wars have a chance to begin.
“David Swanson despises war and lying, and unmasks them both with rare intelligence. I learn something new on every page.” — Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR and author of Cable News Confidential.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Amend the Constitution to end corporate personhood
"Proud, patriotic and pissed-off American citizen" David Cobb talks about corporate personhood and the need for a constitutional amendment to abolish it. David is a former Green Party USA presidential candidate and a member of the steering and executive committees of Move to Amend. This is part 1 of a talk he gave in Florida recently, sponsored by the Green Party of Florida and Progressive Democrats of America. More of the talk is available at the DUHC (Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County) website.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Video of Laird and Robin Monahan speaking for Move to Amend in Denver, Colorado
Free Speech TV shot this interview with Laird and Robin Monahan at the State Capitol building in Denver; the brothers made a detour up to the city to join Move to Amend Colorado for a rally calling for a Constitutional amendment to take personhood rights back from corporations and to end the legal definition of money as equivalent to speech.
The brothers have been walking across country down Route 50 since June to support the amendment campaign and Move to Amend; they've been blogging here. As they head east they can use homestays, financial support, and opportunities to speak to media and community groups--contact them through their website. You can also follow their walk at the Move to Amend site.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Solidarity Economy Means Cultural, Environmental and Political Transformation
by Jim Tarbell
In 2007, at the Atlanta US Social Forum I witnessed the formation of the US Solidarity Economy Network. (USSEN). This past week, I used my time at the Detroit Social Forum to investigate how the Network was progressing. When I mentioned this to my colleagues, they nodded approvingly, but then stared at me quizzically asking, “What is the solidarity economy.”
That question is being answered as more people become involved with identifying and defining this organic, transformative phenomenon. Nancy Neamtan of the Quebec Chantier de L’Economie Sociale points out that “for years everyone was defining themselves as a community radio or a fair trade association or a workers co-op or a housing co-op and there was no common umbrella for defining ourselves as part of the economy. So the leap we made in 1996 was to come together as a broad network of co-ops, non-profits, and social movements in urban and rural areas that shared a vision of a solidarity economy that is democratic, inclusive and equitable.” She goes on to say that the solidarity economy is “citizen-based action within the economy through cooperative, collective or non-profit organizations that are producing goods and services based on a logic that sees the primacy of people over capital, that are democratically controlled, that respond to the needs of the community and that promote a philosophy of empowerment.”
Among the many workshops on the solidarity economy at the USSF, the Center for Community-Based Enterprise (C2BE) hosted one called Building Local Community and Creating Jobs through Cooperation. It featured several businesses across the country and included a Detroit neighborhood of community-based enterprises that hosted lunch the next day for a tour of Detroit community-based enterprises.
The US Solidarity Network (www.USSEN.org) helped organize a whole track of workshops at the Detroit Social Forum including one on how to map and organize solidarity economy members locally. Meanwhile, the Intercontinental Solidarity Economy Network (RIPESS) offered reports from solidarity networks across the planet. Representatives from Quebec, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America reported back on laws, forums and networks that are being developed around the world to support and strengthen the solidarity economy.
At the Friday night plenary, Daniel Tygel, Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Forum on the Solidarity Economy captured the imagination of the entire Social Forum saying, “We must be able to deal with our differences, and we must be able to find what we have in common to get over the individual or organizational perspective, so that we can get to a massive perspective to propose transformation. . . We are always thinking about the transformation of the economy and the transformation of society. The main project of the solidarity economy is to combine economy, culture, the environment and politics. What we are fighting for is a kind of termite method of killing capitalism. The termites are eating the wood, but if you look at the house, it looks like it is there, but the termites are eating the wood and one day this house will fall down.”
The next issue of Justice Rising will highlight the solidarity economy and how we can all participate in the coming transformation. Let me know if you want to participate in this issue or have ideas about its content. We are all in this together and it will take a massive effort to come together and create a truly transformative solidarity economy.
The choice? Amendment or corporate rule!
While the mainstream media didn't pay a heck of a lot of attention to the US Social Forum, alternative media were there, writing, audio and videotaping. Kevin Gosztola of OpEd news did this interview with David Cobb, speaking on behalf of Move to Amend and the need to strip corporations of their illegitimate claims to be "persons" with constitutional rights continues to grow.
Did you sign the organizing petition? Did you forward it to family and friends? The corporate media is not going to cover us until we are so large and loud that they can't ignore us, so please help us make that happen.
Bagdad to Flint: Chris Hedges talks to Michael Moore on corporations, imperialism, illusion and collapse
Grim but good. Chris Hedges and Michael Moore discuss "the avalanche that's come down the mountain." Thanks to friends at Concord (MA) Climate Action Network for forwarding.
David Cobb tours Ohio: Bring friends, family and colleagues to learn more about Move To Amend
Start Independence Day out right by coming to hear David Cobb discuss the growing national movement to amend the US Constitution to abolish corporate personhood and create real democracy.
David will be speaking Wednesday, June 30 in Athens; Thursday, July 1 in Wooster; Friday, July 2 in Cleveland; and Saturday, July 3 in Akron. See venue info and times below.
David is an executive committee member of the Move to Amend coalition, composed of more than 60 grassroots and national organizations working toward a 28th Amendment to declare that corporations are not people, and that money is not equivalent to free speech. (Alliance for Democracy is a steering committee member of Move to Amend.) He's also a principal of POCLAD (Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy) and was the Green Party's presidential candidate in 2004.
Wednesday, June 30: Athens
7:00 p.m., Talk, Christ-the-King Church, 75 Stewart St.
Contacts: John Howell, 740-592-5789, howell@frognet.net; Dick Hogan, 740-664-4028,greenfirecenter@gmail.com
Thursday, July 1: Wooster
7:00 p.m., Talk, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 3186 Burbank Rd.
Contact: Dave Sears, 330-262-WNET (9638), RenDave@raex.com
Friday July 2: Cleveland
7:00 p.m., Talk, Unitarian Universalist Society, 2728 Lancashire Rd., Cleveland Heights
Contacts: Lois Romanoff, 216-231-2170, loisromanoff@gmail.com; Greg Coleridge, 330-928-2301gcoleridge@afsc.org
Saturday July 3: Akron
10:00 AM, Talk, Maple Valley Branch Public Library, 1187 Copley Rd., Akron
Contact: Mary Nichols-Rhodes, 330-957-6167, pdaohio@gmail.com; Greg Coleridge, 330-928-2301,gcoleridge@afsc.org
For more information, see the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee page on"Corporations vs Democracy", the "Create Real Democracy" blog, and the Move to Amend website.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Pair walks country for a cause
AfD Co-chair Nancy Price is hosting Laird and Robin Monahan in Davis today at the Farmer's Market--here's an advance. Read more about their walk at their website.
by Nancy Price. Published May 19 by the Davis (CA) Enterprise
A pair of brothers who are walking across America to protest what they call 'the legal fiction that corporations are persons with constitutional rights' will be in Davis on Wednesday.
Robin Monahan, 67, and his brother Laird, 69, will be at the Farmers' Market beginning at 4:30 p.m. They left San Francisco on Saturday and will set off for Sacramento on Thursday morning.
The Monahans are walking the old Lincoln Highway to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., hoping to arrive by Election Day, Nov. 2. Their progress can be tracked online at http://lairdandrobin.org.
Local residents are invited to meet and talk with them Wednesday and sign the new 'Declaration of Independence from Corporate Rule.'
The Monahan brothers were motivated by a Jan. 21 U.S. Supreme Court decision against the Federal Election Commission in the Citizens United case. The 5-4 decision not only confirmed corporations as persons with constitutional rights, but also expanded corporate political free speech rights under the First Amendment to allow corporations to spend unlimited money in politics for or against candidates in local and national elections.
'The Supreme Court's decision,' Robin says, 'will allow corporations to become the greatest intimidators of our senators and representatives ever before witnessed in our country. We felt we had to do something beyond letter-writing or drafting and signing petitions. Our anger over this gutting of our political system called out to us for a physical sacrifice to stop it.'
The brothers are following the example of Doris Haddock, who, at age 89, began her walk across the country for campaign finance reform on Jan. 1, 1999. Fourteen months later, at age 90, she arrived in Washington, D.C.
Embraced as 'Granny D,' her walk created a groundswell of support for legislation to limit corporate money in politics. That led to Congress' approval of the bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (McCain-Feingold) and more than 20 state campaign finance laws, now all struck down by the Supreme Court.
The Monahan brothers are sponsored by MovetoAmend, a consortium of more than 50 organizations promoting a constitutional amendment to abolish corporate personhood and corporate constitutional rights. You may sign the motion to amend at http://www.movetoamend.org.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Four days left for you to vote "abolish corporate personhood" into the final round at Change.org
Annually, Change.org sponsors Ideas for Change in America, a crowd-sourcing competition that empowers citizens to identify and build momentum around a diverse range of ideas for addressing the challenges our country faces.
During the last two months, more than 2,500 ideas were submitted and voted on by 100,000 people across the country. The top three rated ideas from each issue category qualified for the final round. Among those that qualified, "Abolish Corporate Personhood"--which currently has the most votes in "Government Reform and Transparency".
The wording of the proposal is a combination of two ideas on corporate personhood, and reads:
On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government.Final round voting ends on March 12. The 10 most popular ideas will be presented to relevant members of the Obama Administration, and Change.org will subsequently mobilize its full community to support a series of grassroots campaigns to help turn each idea into reality. Read more...
Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions. The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law.
We need to restore our right to rule, to democracy. To do so requires creating major changes in our legal system; changes like abolishing corporate personhood. Hence, we support a constitutional amendment that will:
1. Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
2. Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our votes and participation count.
3. Protect local democracy: The economies and governance of local communities must be free from control and domination by large corporations or other entities like the World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Bank.
You can take action right now at www.movetoamend.org. But help spread the word by promoting this idea here on change.org!
Monday, February 15, 2010
AfD co-sponsors Riki Ott and David Cobb in Ashland, OR, on the need to "Overrule the Court"
Environmentalist and writer Riki Ott, of Ultimate Civics, and Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb, of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County, will be speaking in Ashland, Oregon next week as part of a west-coast tour to facilitate community dialogue on how the challenges of the Citizens United decision can be met at the grassroots level.
The Ashland talk is co-sponsored by Alliance for Democracy, along with Jobs with Justice, the Pacific Green Party and Peace Village Festival 2010. It takes place Thursday, February 25, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Bellview Grange, 1050 Tolman Creek Road, near Siskiyou Boulevard.
You can download the flier below to print and post, or email to friends if you know folks in the area who would be interested in hearing what the speakers--and the community--has to say.
This is only one stop on a tour of several cities. Other tour dates and venues include:
- Friday, February 26: Portland OR
- Monday, March 1: Portland OR
- Tuesday, March 2: Olympia WA
- Thursday, March 4, Seattle WA
- Friday, March 5, Lakewood, WA
- Monday, March 15, Monteray CA (Riki Ott only)
- Tuesday, March 16, Santa Cruz CA (Riki Ott only)
Both speakers represent groups on the steering committee of the Campaign to Legalize Democracy.
Questions or more info? Email afd@thealliancefordemocracy.
Ashland flier for Ott/Cobb talk Read more...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Hey Wisconsin!
If you're close to Madison next week, join the March to Overrule the Court, which starts at 12 noon on Tuesday, February 16, at the State Capitol, State Street steps, in Madison.
The rally is followed by a march to the nearby federal courthouse at 120 North Henry Street. Bring a bell to ring and friends to help speak out against corporate rule. It's being organized by Liberty Tree Foundation for Democratic Renewal.
You're also invited to a pre-march planning meeting on Thursday February 11th, 5:30pm at the Madison Public Library Central Branch, 201 W. Mifflin, second floor. Help make signs, pick up fliers for distribution, and discuss plans for further actions against the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC.
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