[WestMALocals] Fwd: [AriseAction] Shays2:May 17th-Overturn Corporate Intrusion

Wed May 3 22:33:31 EDT 2006

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Date: Apr 28, 2006 12:08 AM
Subject: [AriseAction] Shays2:May 17th-Overturn Corporate Intrusion
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*"WE, THE PEOPLE, INC." ???**   or   How Can We Overturn
Corporate Takeover of our Cities, Towns and Elections?

Hosted by Shays 2:Western MA Committee on Corporations & Democracy
www.shays2.org

TIME:  7:30  p.m.    DATE: Wednesday,  May 17th at the
PLACE: Unitarian Universalist Society of Northampton and Florence,
                220 Main Street, Northampton.
*
Kickoff speaker, *John Bonifaz*, general counsel of the *National Voting
Rights Institute*.  He will be the first in a series of speakers on local
control in the face of corporate instrusion.

Bonifaz will offer ways we can work to overturn undue corporate influence in
our region.  An open discussion will follow.

Some of the issues he will raise include how each state can oppose
corporate-provided voting machines without paper trails or access to
computer codes for accountability, with special emphasis on Mass.  Bonifaz
is leading the fight in the courts for a full recount in Ohio of all of the
votes cast for President in the 2004 general election where voting machines
with no paper trail were involved.

Bonifaz will offer us a model of an initiative to *protect local control by
ensuring that only individuals, local organizations and local businesses can
make financial contributions to elections*. The "Measure T" referendum in
Arcata, Humboldt County, CA elections. led by  former Green Party
Presidential candidate David Cobb, slated for June 6th is an example.
www.votelocalcontrol.org/
<http://www.votelocalcontrol.org/><http://www.votelocalcontrol.org/>

He will discuss his involvement in landmark cases against Texaco Oil Co. in
Equador and Unical Oil and Gas Co. in Burma for human rights abuses – and
the Amnesty International report calling for International accountability
for corporations for human rights crimes.

Bonifaz, www.johnbonifaz.com/
<http://www.johnbonifaz.com/><http://www.johnbonifaz.com/>, who
was the plaintiffs' lead counsel in a constitutional challenge to President
George W. Bush's authority to wage war against Iraq absent a congressional
declaration of war or equivalent action, will also be available to discuss
ways we can fight Supreme Court decisions about corporate money equaling
free speech.

*Join us!  We are part of a nation-wide movement to build real democracy in
America. Explore how growing corporate "rights" undermine our Constitutional
rights and democracy … and how we can resist together, advancing our diverse
issues as activists and citizens.
*

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