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DESCRIPTION:"Green Sunday": Move to Amend and Efforts to End Corporate Rule\n\nOn 
 January 21, 2010, with its ruling in "Citizens United v. Federal Election 
 Commission", the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, 
 entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. 
 The Supreme Court’s misguided principle failed to recognize that 
 corporations are legal fictions and only human beings are people. The 
 corruption resulting from this and previous Supreme Court rulings has 
 consolidated our political system into a single party plutocracy – a 
 single “Business Party” with Democratic and Republican wings controlled 
 by corporate money. Move to Amend formed in response to "Citizens United". 
 We have built a Congressional coalition around the “We the People 
 Amendment” (HJR48) that will reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in 
 "Citizens United" and other related cases, and move to amend our 
 Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human 
 beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. 
 This forum will address the history of corporate rule, including more 
 recent consolidation of corporate power ushered in with neoliberalism, and 
 describe how HJR48 is a good first step in revoking corporate rule and 
 establishing that “that government of the people, by the people, for the 
 people, shall not perish from the Earth.”\n\n\nLawrence Abbott is a 
 retired Teamster, and Wildlife Biologist working as a Seasonal Political 
 Organizer for the AFL-CIO Alameda Labor Council, and as a volunteer 
 Organizer for Move To Amend, MoveOn, and Indivisible SF/East Bay.\n\nPhoebe 
 Anne Sorgen is a delegate to the Green Party USA National Committee.  A 
 long time organizer for a nuke-free, just and sustainable world, she was 
 2005 Outstanding Woman of Berkeley and 2015 Tom Paine Courageous Spirit 
 awardee. Years ago, she decided to focus on the overarching cure, getting 
 the laws changed that gave profit-motivated corporations the power to ruin 
 our world; so she serves on the Move to Amend Bay Area Steering Committee.  
 She is currently also tackling 5G wireless telecom, an egregious symptom of 
 the corporatocracy.\n\nJames McFadden is a UC Berkeley research physicist 
 who facilitates the local East Bay Move to Amend steering committee. He is 
 also an active member of the Green Party of Alameda County and several 
 other political 
 groups.\n\n*******************************************************\nGreen 
 Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics "du 
 jour" sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and are held on the 
 2nd Sunday of each month. \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/12/18829669.php
SUMMARY:Move to Amend and Efforts to End Corporate Rule -- One decade after "Citizens United"
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., near Alcatraz, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/12/18829669.php
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