<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Another one of our possible partners in Democracy has a useful plan. See the petition by Bernie Sanders below.<div>Andrea<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">WILPF US Section <<a href="mailto:web@wilpf.org">web@wilpf.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">September 27, 2008 9:24:00 AM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:andid@cagreens.org">andid@cagreens.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"><b>Act Now - Sign VT Senator Sanders' Petition on Financial Bailout</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:web@wilpf.org">web@wilpf.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div id="1fme"> <div> <div><p><img height="157" width="800" alt="WILPF E-News" src="http://wilpf.org/files/images/header_0.jpg"></p> <div> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td width="183" valign="top"> <div><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">WILPF is a dues paying, membership organization. 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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 </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Washington</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;"> campaign coffers are full of corporate money, and why corporate lobbyists find it so easy to influence legislation. Follow the money.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Our collapse would have come as no surprise to readers of Kevin Philips, Robert Kuttner or William Greider. In "<u>Everything for Sale</u>" (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.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">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.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L4PEDo4cO7k4SPkl7v3ekcZgWtvQdL5%2F" target="_blank"><br> WILPF members are encouraged to sign Senator Bernie Sanders' petition to Secretary Paulson regarding the financial crisis.</a></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><o:p><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MMUJw%2BKhhFFRcILnh48qT8ZgWtvQdL5%2F"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Click here to view the entire US WILPF statement on the causes of the current financial crisis</span></a></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">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. <br> <br> -</span><i><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">from the WILPF Corporations v. Democracy Committee, Jim and Tomi Allison</span></b></i></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffff33"><blockquote><p class="style1">"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."</p> </blockquote><p style="text-align: left;" class="style1">Emily Greene Balch, WILPF's first International Secretary General <br> and Nobel Prize Laureate</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2"><p><img height="75" width="725" alt="Footer" src="http://wilpf.org/images/footer.png"></p><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div> <div>--<br> If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, <a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yZ3%2FT1E%2BssmwbBVTsrCe4cZgWtvQdL5%2F">unsubscribe here</a><br> <br> To update your preferences, get plain text emails, and to unsubscribe visit <a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2uIYYxaXn%2Fle%2BCXh0Zayg8ZgWtvQdL5%2F">this link</a></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </div> <img width="1" height="1" src="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/TrackImage?key=26563474"><diaemailid='26563474' thread="187"></diaemailid='26563474'></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>