FUSsa-talk Mailing List: YOUR VOTE PLEASE: Repeal Corporate Personhood - MAP Action

[MADELINE SIMON (madeline-mpls]

As FUS' MAP delegate and Admin for MAP, I can place a vote indicating the level 
of support for this Action.  Please let me know if you approve my voting for 
FUS as supporting it.  The Action can be viewed at: 
http://mapm.pjep.org/actions/?id=3925

Peace,
Madeline


  




To: admin_mapm [at] npjep.org
Subject: Repeal Corporate Personhood - New Action (MAPM)
From: admin_mapm [at] npjep.org
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:02:29 -0600
 

Greetings:


A new action has just been added on MAPM.
The details are as follows:



ACTION URL: http://mapm.pjep.org/actions/?id=3925

ACTION NAME: Repeal Corporate Personhood

DATES: Jan 25, 2010 through Jan 31, 2011

ORGANIZATION: Veterans for Peace, Chapter 27

DESCRIPTION: We greatly encourage all concerned citizens to read and sign this 
petition which asks Congress for an amendment to the constitution which would 
reverse the recent ruling of the Supreme Court allowing corporations to 
exercise first amendment rights of free speech as if they were individual 
citizens:

Public Citizen "Don't Get Rolled!" Petition:

"The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are entitled to spend unlimited 
funds in our elections, rolling back a century of modest limits. The First 
Amendment was never intended to protect corporations.

This cannot stand. Join our campaign to protest this decision. Protect our 
democracy! Two things that can be done now:

1) Fair Elections Now Act: Give congressional candidates a public financing 
alternative to elections bankrolled by corporations. Also fix the presidential 
public financing system.
2) Shareholder Accountability: Give shareholders a say over corporate spending 
in elections. 

But ultimately, we must pass a constitutional amendment to ensure corporate 
money does not overwhelm our democracy and clarify that the First Amendment is 
for people -- not corporations. Add your name to the petition to Congress today!

http://action.citizen.org/t/10315/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=2190#Petition