Community Currency - 01/19/12

Occupy The Courts!

Guest: Greg Coleridge

In the year following the outrageous Supreme Court decision blatantly granting corporations the right to buy elections, Move to Amend inspired by Occupy Wall Street and Dr. Cornel West is calling for a national day of protest and bold actions to mark the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision! Occupy the Courts is a call for a one day occupation of Federal courthouses across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday January 20, 2012.

People are responding to the call and organizing actions across the country.

Greg Coleridge Greg Coleridge is the Director of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee (AFSC); member of the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD) national collective; and an original Move to Amend national steering committee member. He is author of Citizens over Corporations: A Brief History of Democracy in Ohio and Challenges to Freedom in the Future, writer of the documentary CorpOrNation - The Story of Citizens and Corporations in Ohio, and contributor of several articles to the anthology Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy - A Book of History and Strategy. He helped organize a 2008 municipal campaign opposing the privatization/corporatization of the wastewater system and a citizen-led initiative requiring voter approval of any future sale or lease of any public utility.

Greg's Blog is Create Real Democracy.

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