John Nichols: Vermont town meetings will battle big money by moving to amend - You can too!!!
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/john_nichols/john-nichols-vermont-town-meetings-will-battle-big-money-by/article_673875c1-ddc2-5fd5-ba68-e31a26d3a347.html
If the polls are to be believed, big money — in the form of Mitt “Corporations Are People, My Friend” Romney — will be on the march this Super Tuesday in much of the country. But it will lose some ground at the grass-roots in Vermont.
At town hall meetings across the state, in a great show of small “d” democratic determination to renew the promise of the American experiment, thousands of Vermont voters will vote on resolutions urging that the U.S. Constitution be amended to declare corporations are not people.
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The Vermont communities that move to amend the Constitution will not be the first in the country to do so. A year ago, Wisconsin’s capital city of Madison and surrounding Dane County voted overwhelmingly to support proposals to amend the Constitution so that the money power does not overwhelm democracy.
Since then, legislatures in two states (Hawaii and New Mexico) and counties, cities, villages and towns across the country have endorsed amendment proposals. Members of Congress, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, have begun to propose such amendments.
So get to your town hall meeting, and propose an ammendment!!
Here's Bernie's version.
Here's the version backed by Michael Moore which I find more satisfying.