Flagstaff Is the First Arizona City to Pass the “Get Money Out of Politics” Resolution
On Tuesday, May 1, 2012, the City Council of Flagstaff, Arizona passed a resolution condemning the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Citizens United vs the Federal Election Commission and called for a 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution to overturn the decision and allow states to regulate campaign contributions. The resolution states in clear terms that contrary to the Supreme Court’s ruling, corporations are not “persons” protected by the constitution and do not have “political speech rights” under the first amendment. Flagstaff is the first city in...
Read MoreWe Are Not Alone
There are many people in our movement, across our country. Resolutions or Initiatives have been approved in Missoula MT, Boulder CO, New York NY, Madison WI, Dane County WI, Los Angeles CA and most of Vermont. We are affiliates of Move To Amend. Here is a list of affiliates working with us to restore democracy. Here’s a list of actions being undertaken in 2011. On 3/22/12 the CA Assembly passed a resolution calling for a Constitutional Amendment to overturn Citizens...
Read MoreVermont Arises Against Corporate Control
John Nichols writes that Vermonters went to their town meetings this week and by Thursday morning, sixty-four towns reported they had moved to amend the US Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United ruling—as well as the false construct that says, in the words of Mitt Romney, “corporations are people, my friend.” Here is John’s...
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