Move to Amend Olympia
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Occupy Tacoma, Involved Democracy, League of Women Voters (Tacoma-PC), Washington Public Campaigns, Sustainable Tacoma-Pierce, and others
For Immediate Release (360) 412-1519
To Overturn US Supreme Court Decision:
Local Groups Call Masses to the Streets of Tacoma
The US Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United ruled that corporations are people and that they can give unlimited amounts of money to political candidates. Move to Amend Olympia and numerous groups in Tacoma present “Get the Money Out of Politics” on the second anniversary of that decision -- January 20th.
Beginning at 2:30 pm, at Fireman’s Park (corner of South 9th and A Streets.), hundreds of marchers including Supreme Court Justices and corporate robots will parade through downtown Tacoma behind a 30-foot banner of the Bill of Rights heading toward the Federal Courthouse.
At 4:00 “We the People” speakers, elected officials, and musicians arrive in front of the Courthouse. Dr Riki Ott, the woman who fought the Exxon oil spill, will cite gains in the movement to amend the Constitution. Ott will rally the crowd to work toward overturning the disastrous Citizens United decision, which enables unlimited foreign and multinational money to buy our elections.
See details on four workshops and guest speakers at www.MovetoAmend.org, as well as the “We The People” amendment, which will restore power to the electorate.
“Right now our government is not ‘of, by and for the People,’” said Martin Nyberg of the Tacoma Chapter of Washington Public Campaigns. “Until we Amend the Constitution so that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United is overturned, multinational corporations and extreme wealth will continue to hold their boot to the neck of the People and the popular will.”
Terri Baker, President of the League of Women Voters of Tacoma-Pierce County wrote, “I love the fact that people are finally mad enough to be uncomfortable. I’ve been wondering for the last ten years just how bad it had to get before people would act.”
In a stirring closing event, hundreds will create a human chain from the Courthouse to Occupation Park, to visually emphasize that government must be connected to We the People.
Beginning at 2:30 pm, at Fireman’s Park (corner of South 9th and A Streets.), hundreds of marchers including Supreme Court Justices and corporate robots will parade through downtown Tacoma behind a 30-foot banner of the Bill of Rights heading toward the Federal Courthouse.
At 4:00 “We the People” speakers, elected officials, and musicians arrive in front of the Courthouse. Dr Riki Ott, the woman who fought the Exxon oil spill, will cite gains in the movement to amend the Constitution. Ott will rally the crowd to work toward overturning the disastrous Citizens United decision, which enables unlimited foreign and multinational money to buy our elections.
See details on four workshops and guest speakers at www.MovetoAmend.org, as well as the “We The People” amendment, which will restore power to the electorate.
“Right now our government is not ‘of, by and for the People,’” said Martin Nyberg of the Tacoma Chapter of Washington Public Campaigns. “Until we Amend the Constitution so that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United is overturned, multinational corporations and extreme wealth will continue to hold their boot to the neck of the People and the popular will.”
Terri Baker, President of the League of Women Voters of Tacoma-Pierce County wrote, “I love the fact that people are finally mad enough to be uncomfortable. I’ve been wondering for the last ten years just how bad it had to get before people would act.”
In a stirring closing event, hundreds will create a human chain from the Courthouse to Occupation Park, to visually emphasize that government must be connected to We the People.
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