[Sosfbay-discuss] A Proposal to endorse that boycott

[Andrea Dorey]

Wes,
You are so right on this that it's eerie.  Korton and Grossman would  
agree with your words, and so would Nader!
You may not agree with one or all of them, but they would agree with  
you right here.
We need to unhorse this concept that corporations are persons.
And that did, indeed, occur here in "River City," Santa Clara County,  
as a result of a transportation lawsuit, as I understand and recall it.
Thanks for illustrating it so well!
Andrea

On Mar 3, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Wes Rolley wrote:

> JamBoi wrote:
>> Yes, and the other part that needs to be mentioned is that the  
>> purpose
>> of the Boycott is to support impeachment!!!
> I support the idea of a boycott. I also think that the association  
> with
> the issue of impeachment is a stretch for most. But, there is a much
> more insidious intrusion of corporations into our lives that needs  
> to be
> called out and stopped. There is trouble right here in River City,  
> oops,
> I meant Santa Clara County.
>
> I would suggest that we are selling our future for a pittance just
> because we fail to take acknowledge what we owe our neighbors, our
> children and grand children, our selves. So, we have HP Pavilion,  
> Oracle
> Arena & McAfee Coliseum. We allow Pepsi and Coca Cola exclusive rights
> to sell food in our schools just to raise a bit more money instead of
> our taxes. We have the Federal government seeking to sell naming  
> rights
> to our national parks. Some have even branded their towns, as in Dish,
> Texas.
>
> According to Friday's Morgan Hill Times,
>
>> The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is endorsing a plan
>> <http://www.sccgov.org/SCC/docs/SCC%20Public%20Portal/keyboard% 
>> 20agenda/Committee%20Agenda/2007/February%201,%202007/ 
>> TMPKeyboard201806071.pdf>
>> to raise money from the private sector by selling opportunities for
>> advertising and marketing.
>>
>> The county is considering several ways to generate additional revenue
>> that include: beverage and snack vending contracts, offering a  
>> variety
>> of advertising opportunities including Web site advertising, selling
>> special event sponsorship packages, selling naming rights and
>> community giving campaigns.
>>
>> The county's consultant, Active Public Enterprise Group
>> <http://www.theactivenetwork.com/>, (1.)outlined the possibilities in
>> presentation Tuesday to the board of supervisors, showing the program
>> could up to $5 million annually by its third year of operation.
>>
>> The board endorsed much of the proposal, but raised concerns about
>> billboards and vehicle advertising being too excessive. The board
>> directed staff to make a few modifications to the proposal and return
>> in April with plans for implementation.
> (1)The Active Public Enterprise Group is a division of The Active
> Network linked above.
>
> There is a desire to have services without paying for it. We want a  
> full
> range of healthy, active, community oriented government services. We
> want to cut our taxes and keep it all for ourselves.
>
> Just how much of ourselves are we willing to sell to have it all?
>
> Think globally, act locally, we are told. The more of our lives that
> gets a Corporate Sponsor, the more of our soul that they sell.
>
> Antonius Bloch
>
> -- 
>
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> Being willing is not enough;
> We must do. –Leonardo DaVinci
> Wesley C. Rolley
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