EVERYONE CAN SIGN THE PETITIONS linked below, but if you're in NYC you can attend:
NY City Council to Move on Corporate Personhood
~Meeting and Vote Tomorrow, 12 PM
Cities and towns around the country have passed resolutions calling for an Amendment to the US Constitution declaring that money is not speech and corporations are not the same as living people.
See below for link to PETITION you can sign for any municipality.
SIGN PETITIONS to be sent to any city or town's municipal leaders:
http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/...
NYC Event
NY City Council to Move on Corporate Personhood
~Meeting and Vote Tomorrow, Jan 4, 2012 at 12 PM
Cities and towns around the country have passed resolutions calling for an Amendment to the US Constitution declaring that money is not speech and corporations are not the same as living people. The NY City Council is poised to pass such a resolution tomorrow, January 4th. Come cheer the vote and support press efforts scheduled.
When: Wednesday, Jan. 4th, 12 PM
There is supposed to be discussion at 12, and a vote at 1 PM
A press conference is set to happen after the meeting
Where: City Hall
250 Broadway
Watch from the Gallery of the Council Assembly. Arrive
early to get a seat, the vote may not happen right at 1.
THE RESOLUTION:
“Resolution opposing the United State Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution in Citizens United regarding the constitutional rights of corporations, supporting an amendment to the Constitution to provide that corporations are not entitled to the entirety of protections or “rights” of natural persons, specifically so that the expenditure of corporate money to influence the electoral process is no longer a form of constitutionally protected speech, and calling on Congress to begin the process of amending the
Constitution.”
Sponsors: By Council Members Lander, Mark-Viverito, The Speaker (Council Member Quinn), Brewer, Levin, Chin, James, Rose, Van Bramer, Vann and Gennaro
FYI, New Yorkers: WEB PAGE OF NYC PROGRESSIVES:
http://nycprogressives.com/...
P.S. If you want to know more about how Corporate Personhood came into being:
Thom Hartmann.
Unequal protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights, by Thom Hartmann
http://www.buzzflash.com/...
End Corporate Personhood/What Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Have in Common:
http://www.truth-out.org/...
Riki Ott, PhD
THIS C-SPAN VIDEO SHOULD BE REQUIRED VIEWING FOR EVERYONE:
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/...
"Not One Drop"
Riki Ott, PhD. marine toxicologist, community activist, and former commercial salmon "fisherm'am". Discusses her Alaska community fighting Exxon and working to heal themselves. Then she does a brilliant outline of how to take back our democracy through "Ultimate Civics" including the movement to stop Corporate Personhood.
Dr. Ott explains that at the founding of America we made the mistake of letting some people be property. In 1886 Supreme Court let some property become people when corporations were granted Personhood. Americans fixed the founding fathers error and now it is time to fix the Corporate Personhood error and let people be people. Ultimate Civics.
(emphasis is mine)