Date/Time
Date(s) - Wednesday, May 8
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location
Chalice Sanctuary, Fellowship Hall, and Kitchen

Categories

• Community Forum

   

David Cobb is a fiery speaker, and former Green Party presidential candidate. His talk “Creating Democracy & Challenging Corporate Rule” is part history lesson and part heart-felt call-to-action!

David Cobb is National Projects Director of Democracy Unlimited. He is a lawyer and political activist. David has sued corporate polluters, lobbied elected officials,  run for political office himself, and has been arrested for non-violent civil disobedience.  He truly believes we must use ALL the tools in the toolbox to effect the systemic social change we so desperately need.

Move to Amend is a coalition of over 278,000 people and organizations whose goal is to amend the United States Constitution to end corporate rule.  On 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. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions.

We, the People of the United States of America, 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.

“. . . corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their ‘personhood’ often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.       ~Supreme Court Justice Stevens, January 2010