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Announcements
Next meeting: 5/19/12 at noon
May 19, 2012
We will be having our monthly meeting on May 19, 2012 from noon till 2:30pm at at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd., in Clintonville. This will be a brown-bag meeting, so please feel free to lunch with us!
Press Coverage
Protestors ‘Occupy’ The Courts
January 20, 2012
WOSU
Dozens of Occupy protestors gathered in the bitter cold Friday afternoon at the U.S. District Court in downtown Columbus. This time they were protesting corporate campaign contributions.
Protestor Bob Hart said he wants to see corporate money out of elections.
Corporations are not people. Money is not speech.
January 20, 2012
ColumbusActivists.org
That was the message as about 70 people gathered near the federal courthouse on Marconi Blvd as Columbus joined communities across the country to mark the second anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s decision on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
Three of our city’s organizers for Occupy the Courts spoke with the Columbus Free Press recently. Two of them also spoke with WCRS Columbus.
Doug Todd, Bob Krasen, and Michael Greenman work with Move to Amend, Central Ohio. Krasen said the word about today’s protest is out to a fairly good number of organizations.
Council votes in support of abolishing corporate personhood
February 8, 2012
Athens Ohio Today
Athens City Council chambers erupted in loud cheers and applause Monday evening as Council voted unanimously in favor of a resolution calling for the abolishing of corporate constitutional rights.
“It’s a seemingly small step for a small community to take in a battle this big, but it’s one we cannot afford to lose in the long run,” said John Howell, a member of the local group Democracy Over Corporations. “If we want a country that’s a democracy in the way we understand it, we cannot afford to give our children a world that’s run by the corporate bottom line.”