TAMPA MOVE TO AMEND/CORPORATE PERSONHOOD-FREE SPEAKING EVENT w/ DAVID COBB
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MOVE TO AMEND TAMPA BAY, WMNF 88.5 FM AND TAMPA UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH WELCOME DAVID COBB, GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN 2004 AND NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON FOR MOVE TO AMEND!
CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE AND $$$ IS NOT FREE SPEECH!
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DAVID COBB, national spokesperson for MOVETOAMEND.ORG, an initiative to create the 28th Amendment to the Constitution to ABOLISH Corporate Personhood gives his RIVETING presentation that is NOT TO BE MISSED! You will be INSPIRED!
DAVID COBB was the attorney that challenged the vote count in Ohio in 2004. He was also the Green Party Presidential candidate that same year.
***Members of ALL political parties and persuasions are encouraged to attend. This is NOT a party issue and it definitely affects us ALL!
In addition to David Cobb, the following will speak on Corporate Personhood at this event:
*Mark Adams from Project Vote Count
*Candidate for Florida District 5, NPA, John Russell
*Activist and Green Party of Florida Co-Chair, Jennifer Sullivan
THIS EVENT IS FREE. However, we will happily accept donations and pass the hat to cover the cost of David's expenses and a donation to the church. Donations are NOT required to attend.
SEE MORE ABOUT MOVE TO AMEND ON THE WEBSITE HERE:
http://www.movetoamend.org/
DAVID COBB'S BIO:
http://movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/BIO-DavidCobb.pdf
MORE:
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. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions. The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.
MISSION:
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to:
- Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
- Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our votes and participation count.
- Protect local communities, their economies, and democracies against illegitimate "preemption" actions by global, national, and state governments.
OTHER SITES:
http://www.movetoamend.org/ (http://www.movetoamend.org/)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/MovetoAmendTampaBay (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Move-to-Amend-Tampa-Bay/138918296196921)
http://www.facebook.com/MovetoAmendFlorida (http://www.facebook.com/MovetoAmendFlorida)
OUR BLOG:
http://movetoamendtampabay.blogspot.com/
Today the business once transacted by individuals in every community is in the control of corporations, and many of the men who once conducted an independent business are gathered into the organization, and all personal identity, and all individualities lost. Each man has become a mere cog in one of the wheels of a complicated mechanism. It is the business of the corporations to get money. It exacts but one thing of its employees: Obedience to orders. It cares not about their relations to the community, the church, society, or the family. It wants full hours and faithful service, and when they die, wear out or are discharged, it quickly replaces them with new material.
The corporation is a machine for making money, but it reduces men to the insignificance of mere numerical figures, as certainly as the private ranks of the regular army."
~ Fighting Bob La Follette, speech on the Dangers Threatening Representative Government (http://www.libertytreefdr.org/publications/la_follette_july_4_danger_threatening_representative_government), Mineral Point, Wisconsin, July 4, 1897