Los Angeles becomes first major U.S. city to vote against corporate personhood

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Wednesday December 07, 2011 · 10:12 AM PST

2011/12/07 · 10:12

Just received this, and thought I'd pass it along. Let's hope it's the first of many!

Los Angeles - December 6, 2011 - Los Angeles today became the first major U.S. city to vote against corporate personhood and further call for a Constitutional Amendment asserting that corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights and that money is not free speech. The unanimous vote was witnessed in Council chambers packed by a standing room only crowd of hundreds of people as well as a overflow room filled to capacity by enthusiastic supporters. The resolution was sponsored by City Council President Eric Garcetti and seconded by Council Members Bill Rosendahl and Paul Krekorian with passionate support by Council Members Richard Alarcon,and Paul Koretz. The action is in response to Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which gives corporations the same 1st Amendment protections as people and allows them to spend unlimited funds on campaign finance.

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Sunday March 28, 2010 · 10:37 AM PDT

2010/03/28 · 10:37

My esteemed Uncle Bob, a retired professor, forwarded to me a copy of Charles Blow's Op-Ed in yesterday's NY Times, Whose Country Is It?

It suggests that the anger and frustration of the Tea Party movement is largely due to irreversible changes in our culture:

A woman (Nancy Pelosi) pushed the health care bill through the House. The bill’s most visible and vocal proponents included a gay man (Barney Frank) and a Jew (Anthony Weiner). And the black man in the White House signed the bill into law. It’s enough to make a good old boy go crazy.

Blow is right to an extent, but I believe he misses the larger reason for the rage:

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Tuesday August 14, 2007 · 6:44 PM PDT

2007/08/14 · 18:44

And why does it need revision? Why aren't the American people having a discussion with their representatives on the topic? Bush says FISA has problems, but we really don't believe him anymore. But you guys seemingly agrees with him at least to some degree. So what gives?

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Saturday August 11, 2007 · 11:51 PM PDT

2007/08/11 · 23:51

If you would like to help spread this meme by affixing these four words to the bumper of your car, I've made it just a little easier for you:

Buy a bumpersticker or a T-Shirt.

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Friday August 10, 2007 · 9:08 PM PDT

2007/08/10 · 21:08

Thanks to people like Bill Moyers, Bruce Fine, and Jessalyn Radack, among a growing crowd of courageous patriots: The meme is starting to spread.

Impeachment is the cure.

75% of the population knows that we've got a serious problem here. Democratic and Republican citizens alike know, deep down in their hearts, that there's really only one solution to the morass in which we find ourselves.

Bruce Fein is the first from whom I have heard the meme articulated in these simple and concise four words:

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Tuesday July 17, 2007 · 6:39 PM PDT

2007/07/17 · 18:39

...but make them do it the good old-fashioned way, just like Jimmy Stewart did in "Mr. Smith". Let them lose a little sleep.

And in the end, if enough time elapses with no appropriations bill, who will the voters hold accountable?

Let the light of day lay bare the brutal, self-serving, undemocratic priorities of our Republican fellow-citizens.

George Bush Sr: Destroy the Glaciers to Mine the Gold

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Thursday May 25, 2006 · 11:12 AM PDT

2006/05/25 · 11:12

Last night my wife and I went to see An Inconvenient Truth, and as expected, it was among other things, very sobering.

Today I received the following email from a relative. If true, it serves to strengthen the relationship between the Bush family, their greed, and how their actions and policies are dramatically worsening health of the planet.

It is disgraceful, despicable, and disgusting.

Read on.. Read More

Sends a chill down my spine.

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Wednesday March 22, 2006 · 8:08 PM PST

2006/03/22 · 20:08

I can't quite put my finger on it, but this kind of tinkering with the judicial system cannot be a good thing for the american people. David Swanson alerts us to something that frankly scares the hell out of me.

Let me see if I can follow the plot:
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King George The Corporatist

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Monday February 27, 2006 · 10:55 AM PST

2006/02/27 · 10:55

Three generations of Bushes & their associates belong to a very elite caste which includes, among others, kings, princes, corporate titans, sheiks, as well as an occasional despot and dictator. Whether we like it or not, they are the world's power brokers, the aristocracy. Their connections and allegiances have been cultivated and developed over generations, they transcend nations, and their membership to this society neither begins nor ends with any particular term of public office.
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Count voters not dollars

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Thursday October 13, 2005 · 4:23 PM PDT

2005/10/13 · 16:23

There needs to be a better, more constructive metric by which to assess a given campaigns' prospects of success versus its opponent(s). Each time I read about how a particular campaign is going in terms of who has raised how much money (frequently within these dKos diaries), my reaction generally falls somewhere between dismay and disgust. Read More

Right Wing: Yes! Let's 'Blame Bush'

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Saturday September 17, 2005 · 1:57 PM PDT

2005/09/17 · 13:57

Unfortunately, I seem to be one of the few non-Republicans in my entire extended family. One of my family forwarded an email to me today that enumerates a whole list of reasons we should "Blame Bush".

Because of the dangers inherent in traversing such a political divide in one's own family, I usually try to exercise restraint when I get these widely-forwarded right-wing scripts. But today I couldn't help myself; This was just too far over the top. I had to respond.

One of the things that I truly have difficulty understanding is how this corrupt administration has successfully and completely deceived such a vast portion of our US population, many of whom are intelligent, decent people, and some of whom are members of my own family. Perhaps it has to do with their mastery and control of the mass media. Perhaps Karl Rove really is an evil genius. However they are able to do it, it really is quite sad. The history books that my grandchildren (and hopefully my children) will read will not reflect kindly on the Bush legacy.

Take a deep breath. Here goes... Read More

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