[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Make sure we're heard

[Gerry Gras]

FYI,

Gerry


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Subject: 	Make sure we're heard
Date: 	Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:14:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: 	Move to Amend <info at MoveToAmend.org>
Reply-To: 	info at MoveToAmend.org
To: 	gerrygras at earthlink.net



*/The National Campaign to End Corporate Personhood and Demand Real
Democracy!/* Move to Amend
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       Reminder, today is the National Call-in Day to Senator Dick
       Durbin's office. Please take 5 minutes to make a quick call.
       Details are included again below:


       *National Call-in Day for Move To Amend on June 29 ~ TODAY!
       *

The Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil
Rights and Human Rights, chaired by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), will be
holding hearings on July 17, 2012, to examine the three proposed
constitutional amendments currently introduced in the Senate, which
address /Citizens United v. FEC/.

Invitations will be issued to the senators who have introduced
amendments and to a panel of advocates/experts, who will testify to:

   * The impact of Citizen's United v. FEC
   * The rise of SUPER PACs
   * The impact of unlimited corporate spending on individual candidates

Move To Amend (MTA) has not been invited to participate yet. We have
been in touch with Senator Durbin, who has complete discretion over who
to invite, and MTA members in the eleven states of the individual
committee members have already been in contact with their senators in
pursuit of an invitation.
/*
We are now calling on all of our members to contact Senator Durbin --
please make a quick call tomorrow: *//*(202) 224-2152. */

Click here for call in details and a script.
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*/Question:/*//Why should we care about being invited to this hearing,
despite the fact that our amendment has no Senate sponsor yet?

*/Answer: /*We don’t expect that the Senate will actually pass an
amendment any time soon, but it is important that our viewpoint be heard
inside the beltway. Our movement is growing, our demands are clear. When
and if Congress begins to move, it is imperative they know what the real
solution is and that there is a broad movement supporting it.

We must make clear to them that the issue goes beyond Citizens United.
The amendment must address corporate personhood and money as speech --
nothing short of that will do.

*Tomorrow, June 29, is National Call-in Day for MTA! *Please call
Senator Durbin’s office and express your desire that Move To Amend be
invited to the July 17 hearing. Find a short script, talking points, and
the phone number here.
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We’re hoping to raise a polite and non-violent ruckus by generating
thousands of calls, and we’re counting on you to raise your voice
tomorrow. It will take no more than five minutes of your time, so please
add this event to your schedule.
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MOVE TO AMEND*
PO Box 610, Eureka CA 95502  |  (707) 269-0984 **| www.MoveToAmend.org
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*

/We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme
Court's Citizens United ruling, 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. /

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