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Move To Amend:

On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission , the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions. We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule. We Move to Amend. Amendment Section 1 [ Corporations are not people and can be regulated ] The rights protected by the Constitution of the United States are the rights of natural persons only. Artificial entities, such as corporations, limited liability companies, and other entities, established by the laws of any State, the U...

"When the World Outlawed War"

New David Swanson Book "When the World Outlawed War" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7kpzT8Sr5E&feature=share via @youtube 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact

Mario Savio: Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964

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""...But we're a bunch of raw materials that don't mean to be - have any process upon us. Don't mean to be made into any product! Don't mean - Don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We're human beings!...There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all." Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964

We Are The Many - Makana

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Notice to redress We'll occupy the streets. We'll occupy the courts. We'll occupy the offices of you. Until you do the bidding of the many, not the few.

What is the Cost of Civil Dialog?

I have a question: Is C-SPAN, Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network ,  a privately owned for profit corporation, or does it provide us with good independent journalism? "And yet, we gave this guest 43 minutes!" - C-Span Host in response. We need to confront those in Washington D.C as Americans, not as Left or Right, but as Americans, and ask them why they are so untrustworthy. We have no confidence. We have a TRUST-Deficit. Watch this 43 minute Interview with Anabel Park of the Coffee Party and see what a real patriot looks like. We must respect the politics of those who disagree with us. Citizens Intervention Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission

Write your City Council and send them a copy of this note.

We have been occupying the Civic Center for 19 days.  Today we attended the San Diego City Council meeting for the second time in two weeks, again asking the City Council to pass a resolution supporting our occupation, as the City of LA did for Occupy Los Angeles. Last week we asked the Council to put Occupy San Diego on the agenda. They did not. So we were again limited to the public discussion portion of the meeting, which only gives 3 minutes to any individual topic.  Individuals from our occupation signed up to discuss various topics related to Occupy San Diego, such as the people’s library, sanitation and health, the evolution of Democracy, free speech and the first amendment. One of our occupiers Jersey, got up to speak on the topic of Occupy San Diego in general.  She called a mic check and about 50 of us delivered the message through a people’s mic.  This is what we said: I am Michelle Doich, I usually go by 'Jersey'. I am a concerned citizen,...

Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight

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Imagine if we spent as much on peace as we do on war?