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National News See other National News Articles Title: No more corporate personhood in LA, Unanimous Standing room only, unanimous vote against 'corporate personhood': Money is not free speech Thanks to ground work by the U.S. Green Party, the wave of Occupy Wall Street empowerment and Human Rights Alert, today, Los Angeles became the first major U.S. city to vote against corporate personhood and call for a Constitutional Amendment asserting corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights and that money is not free speech. The vote was unanimous. The unanimous vote was witnessed in Council chambers packed by a standing room only crowd of hundreds of people as well as an overflow room filled to capacity by enthusiastic supporters. The resolution was sponsored by City Council President Eric Garcetti and seconded by Council Members Bill Rosendahl and Paul Krekorian with passionate support by Council Members Richard Alarcon, and Paul Koretz. Mary Beth Fielder, Move To Amend - LA founder, who spearheaded bringing the resolution to the LA City Council said, "It's a great day for Los Angeles and it's a great day for the United States of America." "I hope this is the vote heard around the world and that it will inspire other who want to reclaim our democracy to begin organizing in their communities. Together we can build the grassroots support we need to actually amend our constitution." Information about the amendment can be read at movetoamend.org/amendment "Every struggle to amend the constitution began as just a group of regular Americans who wanted to end slavery, who thought women should vote, who believed that if you're old enough to be drafted, you should be old enough to vote," said Council President Eric Garcetti. "What we saw in that chamber today was the beginning of a sea change in the way people think about politics in America and I hope that this will be the first day of a long and sustained movement that changes the way we represent ourselves and the way we demand the kind of government that we deserve," said Council Member Paul Krekorian. "I could not believe the coalition of energy that filled the council chambers today," said Council Member Bill Rosendahl. "It made a huge difference. It was democracy at its best." In May, Dr. Joseph Zernik, director of Human Rights Alert, took the case of corporate personhood head on and proved it to be a bogus ruling from its start. In a Breaking News article in May, "Corporations have no First Amend. Rights. Ruling invalid," Deborah Dupré reported that Human Rights Alert challenged that corporations have First Amendment Rights, as ruled by the Supreme Court. Furthermore, the rights group had proven the "corporate personhood" to be a bogus court ruling according to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) response that the human rights project received. The response evidenced that the FEC produced invalid records about the case including no NEF on the ruling documentation, as reported by Dupré who furthered: "Citizens United v Federal Election Commission (FEC) (08-205), a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court, was reported to have accorded corporations First Amendment rights." The ruling was a 'decision holding that corporations and unions can spend unlimited amounts of money in election campaigns… a stunning example of judicial activism,” Dr. Zernik had said. In Breaking News in May, Dupré reported that Dr. Zernik evidenced the Corporation Corporate Rights ruling "cannot possibly be a valid court record." Dr. Zernik listed the following four reasons for the impossibility: “Our plan is build a movement that will drive this issue into Congress from the grassroots,” stated Fielder. “The American people are behind us on this and these campaigns help our federal representatives see that we mean business. Our very democracy is at stake. "Our goal is for 50 towns and cities to put Move to Amend’s resolution on the ballot for the Presidential election in November, 2012.” Poster Comment: Bravo, LA! Links to further info at the article site. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
#1. To: GreyLmist (#0)
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#2. To: Eric Stratton (#1)
Romney might wanna rethink his campaign speechifyings like this'n in that area or sumthin'. Mitt Romney- Corporations Are People!
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