[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: Act Now - Sign VT Senator Sanders' Petition on Financial Bailout

[Andrea Dorey]

Another one of our possible partners in Democracy has a useful plan.   
See the petition by Bernie Sanders below.
Andrea

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> From: WILPF US Section <web at wilpf.org>
> Date: September 27, 2008 9:24:00 AM PDT
> To: andid at cagreens.org
> Subject: Act Now - Sign VT Senator Sanders' Petition on Financial  
> Bailout
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> Corporate Power Causes Collapse of US Financial System
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> WILPF Section responds to corporate greed, urges members to sign  
> Senator Sanders petition
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> Click here to sign Senator Bernie Sanders' petition to Secretary  
> Paulson regarding the financial crisis.
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> Click here to view the entire US WILPF statement on the causes of  
> the current financial crisis.
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> The recent collapse of our financial system comes from too much  
> corporate power in government.  These days, to win federal office  
> and stay there requires incredible spending on election campaigns.   
> As campaign finance is the official's lifeblood, a most persuasive  
> way to official favor is the campaign contribution, the bigger the  
> better.  In that contest for official favor, the flush corporation  
> is more likely to win than the average citizen.  The courts have  
> helped to make this so by ruling that corporations are persons with  
> the same freedom of speech as real persons, and that any  
> restriction on money spent would be tantamount to a restriction on  
> speech.  That is why Washington campaign coffers are full of  
> corporate money, and why corporate lobbyists find it so easy to  
> influence legislation.  Follow the money.
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> Our collapse would have come as no surprise to readers of Kevin  
> Philips, Robert Kuttner or William Greider.  In "Everything for  
> Sale" (1997) Kuttner predicted that Congress would overhaul the  
> financial-services industry, and noted the dangers of excessive  
> deregulation. For example, the repeal of the New-Deal era Glass- 
> Steagall Act would let banks become more speculative and tempt them  
> to securitize their worst assets.  It was the commercial banks'  
> blending of their business with investment banking that led to the  
> crash of 1929.
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> This crisis did not begin last weekend or even last year. Women's  
> International League for Peace and Freedom has been shedding light  
> on the problems created by corporate power since our founding in  
> 1915. We offer an analysis of the current situation based on our  
> understanding of the root causes of our economic, political, and  
> social problems.
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> WILPF members are encouraged to sign Senator Bernie Sanders'  
> petition to Secretary Paulson regarding the financial crisis.
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> Click here to view the entire US WILPF statement on the causes of  
> the current financial crisis
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> The economic health of our nation depends as much on the ensuring  
> all Americans have decent paying jobs as it does on Wall Street. We  
> must also ensure that middle and working class families do not bear  
> the brunt of this bailout.
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> -from the WILPF Corporations v. Democracy Committee, Jim and Tomi  
> Allison
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> "We have made but the merest of beginnings in the highest of human  
> arts, that of living and working together on the plane of consent  
> and cooperation without coercion."
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