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Colorado Citizens organizing to oppose the rule of corporations. |
Greetings!
Members, Friends and Supporters of Colorado Move to Amend (CoMTA):
This Thursday, June 9th, and every 2nd Thursday of the month, Colorado Move To Amend will hold our monthly meeting at Panera Bread in Arvada at 77th Ave and Wadsworth Blvd at 630pm (map here) . You are invited. We are working on several campaigns, tactics, and strategies, including local City resolution sponsorships, public banking, poltical theatre, educational slide show presentations, and collaborative events with other like-minded organizations. So if you would like to participate or learn more please come. (see Agenda below).
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Colorado Move to Amend is collaborating with 350.org, Move On, Argus Fest, and Health Care for All Colorado in a public showing of the award winning documentary, "The Corporation" Part II:
Wednesday, June 8, 5:30 p.m. - 7:50pm DENVER Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St, Denver CO
Download the poster for this event here.
For more information contact Michael Melio, Director, Colorado Move to Amend CO.
End Corporate Rule. Legalize Democracy. Move to Amend.
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Best regards,
Michael David Melio
"History records that moneychangers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance." - James Madison (4th President, and principal architect of the Constitution).
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Agenda for June 9th Monthly Meeting at Panera Bread |
- Introductions
- Public Banking Update (Ken Roberts and Michael Melio)
- David Cobb tour - debriefing.
- Resolutions updates: Boulder, Lafayette, Centennial
- New Affiliates: Colorado Springs, Fort Collins
- Move On and Colorado Move to Amend viewing of "The Corporation"
- Juneteenth Festival
- Other business
Meeting will be held at Panera Bread in Arvada at 630pm, Thursday, June 9th. |
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Colorado Groups / Representatives examine Public Banking | |
The interest for Public Banking in Colorado is growing, as representatives of several organizations, including Colorado Move to Amend, Public Banking Institute, Colorado Enterprise Fund, Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, Colorado Progressive Coalition, Rocky Mountain Micro Finance Institute, and Bell Policy Center, gathered together with 2 Colorado State Representatives on Thursday, June 2nd, to discuss if and why a "Main Street Partnership Bank" (aka "Public Banking") is necessary. All those who spoke agreed that funding to the State institutions has nearly dried up; loans to small business and other needy institutions are down sharply, and there appears to be no end in sight to the downturn. We will keep you posted of further developments in this area.
Colorado Move to Amend's mission statement calls for an End to Corporate Rule. Upon careful analysis of the current economic and political realities in the United States, we have concluded that the major Banks (which are also the so-called 'Federal Reserve') are the largest corporations driving the country into massive debt, corrupting the political process, starving the States and small businesses of funding, while fueling the speculators and gamblers on Wall Street. Hence, we are working on Public Banking as one solution to this problem.
For more information on Public Banking, please see this website:
www.publicbankinginstitute.org
If you are interested in helping with this project, please contact Michael Melio, or Ken Roberts for more information. |
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Exxon Mobil: the corporate 'person' whose corporate 'free speech' fouls the air, water, and earth. | |
Watch the video of their activity in the Canadian "Tar Pits" here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoKW771tG_Q |
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A Song for our times: "Call it Democracy" by Bruce Cockburn | |
Canadian artist, Bruce Cockburn, may be the only singer / song writer to write a song about the International Monetary Fund, the "IMF". Warning, the "f" word is used. Watch and listen here
 | | Bruce Cockburn "Call it democracy" (w/ subtitles) |
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David Cobb on democracy, persons, and the Constitution. | |
If you haven't heard David Cobb of Move To Amend lecture on the origins of the Constitution and Corporate personhood, you are in for a real treat. Watch his video here.
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Sign the Move To Amend petition here. I leave you with my mantra for a better world: - Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember the earth.
- Relocalize the economy; subsidize local American jobs.
- Go green, eat green, grow green, be green.
- Build democracy, establish community, vote.
- Abolish corporate personhood.
Democracy is not something you believe or a place to hang your hat, it is something you do. You participate. If we stop participating democracy crumbles. (paraphrasing Abby Hoffman).
Best regards,
Michael Melio
Colorado Move to Amend
Legalize democracy. End corporate rule. Move to Amend. |
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