OCCUPY THE COURTS IN TAMPA-MOVE TO AMEND-ABOLISH CORPORATE PERSONHOOD!
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CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE and $$$ is not FREE SPEECH!
http://www.movetoamend.org/
CALL TO ACTION IN TAMPA!
Inspired by our friends at Occupy Wall Street, and Dr. Cornel West, Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision!
Occupy the Courts will be a one day occupation of Federal courthouses across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday January 20, 2012.
Move to Amend volunteers across the USA will lead the charge on the judiciary which created — and continues to expand — corporate personhood rights.
Americans across the country are on the march, and they are marching OUR way. They carry signs that say, “Corporations are NOT people! Money is NOT Speech!” And they are chanting those truths at the top of their lungs! The time has come to make these truths evident to the courts.
We will meet in front of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Tampa at 801 N. Florida at 3PM to OCCUPY THE COURT. PLEASE invite your friends, bring SIGNS and OCCUPY! We hope to have a regular MOVE TO AMEND Meeting after this event at a restaurant/bar/grille which is walking distance from the courthouse. We can also grab a few beers and have something to eat. If anyone wants to then walk to the TAMPA OCCUPY ENCAMPMENT for the General Assembly, this would be a perfect time to attend this as well.
CONTACT: Anita Stewart at 813.312.2292 or anitamstewart@yahoo.com with MOVE TO AMEND in caps on the subject line.
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/
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THIS EVENT IS FREE. However, we will happily accept donations and pass the hat to cover the cost of copies and the Meetup monthly charge.
***Members of ALL political parties and persuasions are encouraged to attend. This is NOT a party issue and it definitely affects us ALL!
“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