[GPCA Updates] ADVISORY Today: Green pres. candidate Jill Stein speaks at 'Occupy the Courts' at steps of the US Supreme Court

[Green Party of California Updates]

Jill Stein for President
A Green New Deal for America
http://www.jillstein.org


TODAY ~ WASHINGTON D.C. ~ 11:45 AM

Dr. Jill Stein rallies movement to "Occupy the Courts" at steps of U.S.
Supreme Court

"To restore the rights of the people, we must take our Constitution back from
the corporation."


(WASHINGTON D.C.) ~ Tens of thousands of Americans in over 130 cities gather
today at federal courthouses and in public squares, nearly the two-year
anniversary of Citizens United v. FEC, to reject the doctrines of corporate
personhood and money is speech. Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party presidential
candidate, is a lead speaker today in Washington, D.C., where she joins
protesters on the steps of the court building of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Dr. Stein joins leading members of the Move to Amend coalition,
as well as Thom Hartmann, Medea Benjamin, and others in this role.

"Since 1996, the Green Party has called for a constitutional amendment to
abolish the doctrine of corporate personhood," said Stein. "Greens have been
ahead of the curve, but today, the curve has caught up with us, and now this
movement for a constitution that serves we, the people, has gathered a
historic momentum."

The Move to Amend coalition, responsible for today's Occupy the Courts
actions, is by far the nation's largest and most diverse coalition working to
overturn Citizens United v. FEC. In addition to today's actions, local Move to
Amend affiliates are instigators of the dozens of municipal and local
government resolutions already adopted this year calling for constitutional
reform.

Move to Amend is a genuinely non-partisan coalition in that its leadership
includes members of various political parties, as well as independents. Among
the prominent Green Party members who are co-founders of Move to Amend are
David Cobb (2004 Green Party presidential nominee), Leesa George Friday
(co-chair of the Black Caucus of the Green Party of the United States), Ben
Manski (former national party co-chair, 2001-2004), and Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap
(a local elected official in northern California).

http://www.jillstein.org/dr_stein_rallies_movement_to_occupy_the_courts

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