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<TT><FONT COLOR="#3c3c3c">Letter to the Milpitas Post</FONT></TT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">The bad news on the Climate Change crisis just keeps coming. In the same week that we learn CO2 levels of greenhouse gases worldwide jumped more last year than any year in recorded history, the climate change negotiators in Durban fail to agree on meaningful climate change actions. Already, this year is record-breaking in terms of costs to deal with weather disasters – which, of course, will continue to grow as the Earth warms.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Major policy changes are required – and strongly supported by public opinion – to address our environmental, economic and governance problems, but changes are being blocked by the 1% (actually the top 0.1% or 1/1000) and their corporations. We are screwed! But hopeful signs are appearing.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">The Sunnyvale City Council blew off threats from the chemicals industry by passing a ban on single-use plastic bags. Hopefully, our Council will soon do the same.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">The Occupy Movement has evolved again. Now, they are giving the banks grief by occupying homes being foreclosed upon. “Put pressure on your bank by inviting Occupiers to set up an encampment on your property.” That's the invitation from </FONT><A HREF="http://www.occupymyforeclosure.org/">Occupy My Foreclosure!</A> <FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://www.occupymyforeclosure.org/">http://www.occupymyforeclosure.org/</A></FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">The biggest challenge to corporate dominance came from Los Angeles. There, on Dec. 6, “the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to support a resolution calling on Congress to amend the Constitution to clearly establish that only living persons -- not corporations -- are endowed with constitutional rights and that money is not the same as free speech. The vote makes Los Angeles the first major city in the U.S. to call for an end to all corporate constitutional rights.” - <A HREF="http://snipurl.com/214mqv8">http://snipurl.com/214mqv8</A></FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">That last one – corporations are not people and money is not speech – is a big deal! If we could pass a Constitutional Amendment accomplishing that, we could probably reverse the decline of the middle class in this country.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Until then, many other non-violent options for resisting corporate dominance are waiting for us. For example, join me and many others by moving your money from one of the monster banks to a credit union. <A HREF="http://moveyourmoneyproject.org/">http://moveyourmoneyproject.org/</A> </FONT><BR>
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Rob Means,1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035-6913
408-262-0420h, 408-262-8975w, <A HREF="mailto:rob.means@electric-bikes.com">rob.means@electric-bikes.com</A>
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