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TravisLent-
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Post Amendment
on: January 12, 2012, 17:15

I would like to keep the statement simple and broad like the movement. Don't really define the role of Government just state we need one that isn't about appeasing financiers:

In solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and countless other Occupy movements across the world, Occupy Tacoma is part of a peaceful and nonviolent movement after the tradition of great activists of our past, fighting to end the corporate abuse of Democracy.

Our mission is to identify and implement solutions to rebuild a healthy and thriving community for everyone. We are here to combat both the silence and the propaganda of corporate-backed media by bringing attention to the disastrous impacts of unregulated and criminal corporate activity on political, economic and environmental systems by exercising our Constitutional rights of free speech and peaceable assembly.

By developing initiatives and supporting third-party candidates, we can establish publicly funded elections and dissolve the current political order depended upon appeasing financiers. Policies can serve the stakeholders instead of the shareholders but as John Dewy put it 50 or 60 years ago:

"As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance."

It is therefore the mission of Occupy Tacoma to raise a guiding light upon the shadow until the substance of politics is of society itself.

TruthMerch-
ant
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Posts: 220
Post Re: Amendment
on: January 26, 2012, 14:35

I will put the down twinkle on this right here and right now. I have no intention of being co-opted by "Get Money Out of Politics". We are here to fight corporate abuse of our government and our citizens. Telling people how they can spend their own money and/or turning the elections over to the TwoParty is not my idea of what we should be about. We seek an amendment to the constitution that bars corporate activity in federal elections. Once that is done, the congress and the states will grow the necessary backbone to manage the rest of the task. You are falling into the same trap as all other well intentioned lefties. You forget the fact that the 99% is composed of conservatives and Libertarians as well as progressives and liberals, Overreach will shoot your feet off.

Hard Day on the Planet -- Loudon Wainwright III

TravisLent-
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Posts: 88
Post Re: Amendment
on: February 7, 2012, 20:31

TM, how unlike you to down twinkle my idea without understanding it. I'm not talking about getting co-opted by anybody. Corporations abuse our government and citizens with their ability to use money in the political arena. What the hell you're talking about handing over elections to the Two-party? Telling people how to spend their money? Where you coming up with this? - please point it out.

Yes I too seek an amendment to the Constitution that bars corporate activity in federal elections. There's only a couple ways in which they do that, all of which involves the enticing politicians with their abundance of money. The democrat/republican company works to appease their financers like any other company -- which ain't you or me. Get money out of politics and a couple other incentives like future high paying job positions and the 1% should be rendered powerless. Just have potential candidates jump through X, Y and Z loop to become eligible for the nomination. They can all have equal resources and media coverage. Considering our government's unspeakable abuse of military supremacy to appease their financers, putting the constitutional amendment we're both talking about into law is perhaps the most important thing in the world today and should be our primary, or preferably sole, undertaking.

Create a functioning democracy first and all the other battles we are currently fighting may actually be all but won just as a result of rendering corporate abuse of power, via control of those who determine under what conditions a person may commit an act of terrorism (i.e. lawmaker), nonexistent.

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