A Gift That Was Not Theirs To Give:
I received this email and thought it
quite worthy of a pass around. Please help the “People For
the American Way” to help undo what the Republican Supreme
Court Has Done To Our Nation's Freedom. If we just sit back and
do nothing we will eventually not have a 2 party system, there
will only be ONE! A SYSTEM OF CORPORATE RULE!
Please sign the petition below. Thanks, thinkingblue
Dear PFAW Member,
Last year, the five-justice conservative majority on the Supreme
Court decided to reaffirm its inclination to rule on behalf
powerful corporate interests by giving corporations a gift that
was not theirs to give: the People's democracy.
January 21 will mark the one-year anniversary of the Citizens
United v. FEC decision, which reinterpreted the Constitution to
give corporations the same First Amendment rights as people and
opened the floodgates of limitless, undisclosed spending by
corporations and their shadowy front groups to influence
elections.
PFAW's marking the anniversary by joining with our friends at the
Coffee Party, Public Citizen, MoveOn and others to hold a weekend
of events in Washington and promote citizen-organized local
events around the country.
Please be a part of next week's grassroots actions to take our
democracy back for the People.
Find a local event near you here:
http://www.movementforthepeople.org/get-involved/organize-locally/distributed-events/find-an-event/
If you know of an event that is not on this list, please add it
or contact Sergio Lopez at slopez@pfaw.org.
If there is not an event near you, and you think you can organize
or hold something yourself (anything from a street protest or a
small rally to a house party or a town hall-style meeting at a
public venue), also please contact Sergio at slopez@pfaw.org for
help doing that.
After the D.C. rally on January 21, we'll be joining with our
allies to deliver hundreds of thousands of petition signatures to
Congress calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to
overturn the Roberts Court's disastrous decision by giving
lawmakers explicit authority to limit corporate spending in
elections.
If you
have not yet had a chance to join our petition, please do so now.
And ask others to join at http://www.pfaw.org/Amend.
Thank you for your activism to reel in the corrupting influence
of unlimited corporate spending, and to take our democracy back
for We the People.
-- Diallo Brooks, Director of Field and Mobilization