added on Sunday, 5-27-2012:
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added on Thursday, 4-19-2012:
added on Wednesday, 3-14.2012:
added April 5, 2012: "CONTACT:
Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, National Field Organizing Director,
707-269-0984, info@movetoamend.org
Mary Laan, Move to Amend Southeast Wisconsin Coordinator,
414-265-5801, sewmta@movetoamend.org
Voters in West Allis, Wisconsin Move to Amend
WEST ALLIS – Last night West Allis, Wisconsin, a conservative
Milwaukee suburb, voted overwhelmingly to reject the Supreme Court’s
2010 Citizens United v. FEC ruling. Republican Party primary voters
approved a resolution calling for an amendment to the US Constitution
to establish that corporations are not people and money is not speech
by 70%, becoming the most recent community to vote to support the Move
to Amend campaign.
“Last night’s vote clearly shows that corporate personhood is an issue
that cuts across party lines,” said Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, a member
of the Move to Amend coalition’s national Executive Committee. “Our
volunteers in West Allis received as much support as our campaigns in
Madison or Boulder last year. Americans from all sides of the
political spectrum are ready to get corporations out of the
Constitution and out of our political process.”
The Move to Amend coalition has already seen a great deal of success
using the municipal resolutions strategy. Los Angeles is the largest
city to date to pass a Move to Amend resolution through their city
council, and resolutions have passed in dozens of other cities
including Duluth, MN, Albany, NY, Asheville, NC, and Key West, FL.
Last month residents of Vermont approved resolutions in over 60 towns
through their town meeting process.
Move to Amend volunteers have also taken the campaign directly to the
voters of others towns. In Madison, WI, Boulder, CO, and Missoula, MT
local Move to Amend groups were able to pass resolutions through voter
initiatives last November. In all communities the resolutions passed
with 75% of the vote or more.
Communities with initiatives underway this year include Salt Lake
City, UT, and Mendocino and Lake Counties in California. Several
additional communities are expected to ask their city councils to
refer initiatives to the ballot as part of Move to Amend’s
“Resolutions Week” campaign this June. Resolutions Week is a joint
effort of many organizations to pass another round of resolutions
across the country in June.
Currently, polling indicates that almost 80% of Americans are in favor
of overturning the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, with a
majority supporting an amendment to establish that corporations are
not entitled to Constitutional rights.
Move to Amend, which has experienced exponential growth in recent
months, is a national grassroots coalition seeking to pass a
constitutional amendment that states that Constitutional rights belong
to human beings only, not to artificial legal entities such as
corporations or labor unions; and that money is not a form of speech
protected under the First Amendment.
For a list of cities that have passed resolutions or that have
campaigns in progress see: http://movetoamend.org/
Added Fri, May 4 2012:
Had my final Influencing Elder Policy class at the University of Massachusetts this week. The teacher, Robin Sherman, posted this and I feel it was too easy a way of explaining why Citizens' United is NOT a stand alone problem:
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