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From: Move to Amend <info@MovetoAmend.org>
Sent: November 02, 2011 3:32 PM
To: Daniel Stafford <aquarianm@gmail.com>
Subject: CORRECTION: Boulder Colorado Occupies the Ballot Box. Help us Spread the Word!
The national campaign to Abolish Corporate Personhood and Defend Democracy.
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Apologies everyone!
The link to our press release about Boulder was incorrect! (not enough sleep last night) Here's the
correct link:
http://movetoamend.org/news/boulder-votes-constitutional-amendment-abolish-corporate-personhood
-Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap
Move to Amend
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Good morning Daniel
Last night Boulder became the second city in the nation to pass a ballot measure
calling for an amendment to the US Constitution that would state that corporations
are not people and the legal status of money as free speech! At midnight, with 93%
of the ballots counted, the measure was handily winning with 74% of voters in support.
Boulder's campaign is the latest grassroots effort by Move to Amend, a national coalition
working to abolish corporate personhood.
"From Occupy Wall Street to Boulder, Colorado and every town in between, Americans are
fed up with corporate dominance of our political system," said Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, a
national spokesperson for Move to Amend. "Local resolution campaigns are an opportunity
for citizens to speak up and let it be known that we won't accept the corporate takeover
of our government lying down. We urge communities across the country to join the Move
to Amend campaign and raise your voices."
Earlier this year voters in Madison and Dane County, Wisconsin overwhelmingly approved
similar measures calling for an end to corporate personhood and the legal status of money
as speech by 84% and 78% respectively. Next week voters in Missoula, Montana will have
an opportunity to vote on a similar initiative in their community.
Move to Amend volunteers in dozens of communities across the country are working to place
similar measures on local ballots next year.
"Working on this campaign was electrifying," said Scott Silber, a local Move to Amend organizer
in Boulder. "We had such an outpouring of enthusiasm from our community. Folks were so thrilled
to finally have an opportunity to have their voices heard and resoundingly call for an end to
corporate corruption of our democracy. From here we're taking the campaign to Denver, and then
on to Washington, DC."
Move to Amend's strategy is to pass community resolutions across the nation through city councils
and through direct vote by ballot initiative. "Our plan is build a movement that will drive this issue
into Congress from the grassroots. The American people are behind us on this and our federal
representatives will see that we mean business. Our very democracy is at stake," stated
Sopoci-Belknap.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Help Move to Amend get on the Daily Show with John Stewart and the Colbert Report!
With both John Stewart and Stephen Colbert talking about Corporate Personhood a lot these days,
we think that a Move to Amend spokesperson would be perfect for these shows! Help us
make the case by writing to the Daily Show and the Colbert Report and urging them to
contact us. Include the link to our press release about Boulder!
Email the Daily Show [thedailyshow@comedycentral.com] - Let John Stewart
know you want to see him interview MTA!
Email The Colbert Report [colbertweb@gmail.com] - Let Stephen Colbert know
you want to see him interview MTA!
Pass a resolution in your town! Click here to get started. We'll be offering a special
webinar soon with organizers from Boulder so they can tell you what they did to get it
done - stay tuned!
FOR PRESS INQUIRIES ABOUT THE BOULDER CAMPAIGN
Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, National Field Director, (707) 362-0626, Move to Amend,
kaitlin@movetoamend.org
Scott Silber, Boulder Move to Amend, (510) 485-6586, scott.silber@fouryearsgo.org
Move to Amend
P.O. Box 260217
Madison, WI 53726-0217
United States
End Corporate Rule. Legalize Democracy. Move to Amend.
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