Two MOVE To AMEND Events in Venice this Saturday, June 15th 2:00 at Google Headquarters - The Binoculars Building - 340 Main Street, Venice
7:00 PM at 2429 McKinley Avenue, Venice Both Events Will Be Streaming Live at: www.ustream.tv/channel/blueskyorganics More Information Below: The National Campaign to End Corporate Personhood & Demand Real Democracy! <http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmovetoamend.org%2F&ut m_campaign=socalbarnannoun&n=1&e=461ea675f75f7a0689944ade39a1817d114b396d&ut m_source=movetoamend&utm_medium=email> Move to Amend <http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmovetoamend.org%2Fabo ut-us&utm_campaign=socalbarnannoun&n=2&e=461ea675f75f7a0689944ade39a1817d114 b396d&utm_source=movetoamend&utm_medium=email> About | <https://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/donate?e=461ea675f75f7a0689944ade39a1 817d114b396d&utm_source=movetoamend&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=socalbarna nnoun&n=3&recruiter_id=206159> Donate | <http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmovetoamend.org%2Ftak e-action&utm_campaign=socalbarnannoun&n=4&e=461ea675f75f7a0689944ade39a1817d 114b396d&utm_source=movetoamend&utm_medium=email> Take Action * * * PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WIDELY: David Cobb <http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmovetoamend.org%2Fspo kespeople%23david&utm_campaign=socalbarnannoun&n=5&e=461ea675f75f7a0689944ad e39a1817d114b396d&utm_source=movetoamend&utm_medium=email> , a fiery speaker and former Green Party presidential candidate, is touring Southern California with Margaret Koster, our Mendocino County (CA) coordinator, giving the talk "Creating Democracy & Challenging Corporate Rule." All Events Are Free and Open to the General Public. MOVE To AMEND finances these tours, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Click the links below for more info. _____ Saturday, June 15th, 2:00 PM at Google Headquarters The Binoculars Building 340 Main Street, Venice 90291 PRESS CONFERNCE GOOGLE: We're Watching You! CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE END INTERNET SPYING STOP GENTRIFYING VENICE Speakers Include: David Cobb - Founder, Move to Amend; 2004 Green Party Candidate for President Kendra Moore - President, Holiday Venice Tenant Action Committee Hamid Khan - Stop LAPD Spying Coalition BRING YOUR BINOCULARS Media Liaison: Mark Lipman - (310) 392-9700 - [email protected] Occupy Venice; Move to Amend; Revolutionary Poets Brigade; POWER (People Organized for Westside Renewal) announce a poetry-rally, press conference, www.facebook.com/GoogleWereWatchingYou ------------------------------------- Saturday, June 15th, 7:00 PM - David Cobb & Margaret Koster At 2429 McKinley Avenue, Venice 90291 ______________________________________________________________ Both Events Will Be Streaming Live at: www.ustream.tv/channel/blueskyorganics Starting at 2:00 PM www.facebook.com/GoogleWereWatchingYou Starting at 7:00 PM www.facebook.com/events/194367144054269 For more information or to arrange a media interview with David, please email us at: [email protected]. In Solidarity, Brian Alenduff Field Organizing Team -- Move to Amend Coalition (707)269-0984 <tel:%28707%29269-0984> _____ UPDATE: SUPREME COURT SHIELDS US CORPORATIONS IN KIOBEL CASE Several months ago, we reported on a case before the Supreme Court, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, in which nine activists from the Ogoni community in the Niger Delta (the 'Ogoni Nine') were executed for protesting against the devastating impact of Shell's operations there. A case was filed under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) in the US, and was decided in April. The case hung on two points: 1. Can the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) be used to seek redress for victims of human rights abuses when foreigners carry out such abuses in foreign countries? 2. Can corporations, as opposed to individuals working for corporations, be held liable for human rights violations under the ATS? kiobel_v_shell.jpg <http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/movetoamend/mailings/599/attachments/o riginal/kiobel_v_shell.jpg?1370377491> On the first point, the Court found that the location of human rights abuses is the primary factor, and that the ATS applies only to defendants in the US or on the high seas. With this decision, the Supreme Court has done away with the most effective tool human rights activists have used to seek redress for the victims of global human rights abuse and have overturned thirty years of precedent. On the second point, a US corporation could be sued under the ATS provided those abuses took place in the US or on the high seas. The Court has unanimously given to US corporations a free pass to go into business with any foreign despot or tyrant and to partake in human rights abuses with impunity in any foreign country in their endless pursuit of profits. How this ruling affects the hearts and minds of the global community once American corporations, in cahoots with anti-democratic regimes, employ human rights abuses as a routine course of business, to run roughshod over the protest of local communities, is yet to be revealed. Now is the time to get involved - we must reign in giant, multinational corporations run amok! We must start by getting them out of the US Constitution so we can put them in their place domestically and offer support to people of the world whose human rights, natural environments, and communities are being trampled. 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Yours in the struggle, Ashley Sanders, Daniel Lee, David Cobb, Egberto Willies, George Friday, Jerome Scott, Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Laura Bonham, Maria Agosto, Nancy Price, Pam Brown, Richard Monje Move to Amend National Leadership Team _____ MOVE TO AMEND PO Box 610, Eureka CA 95502 | (707) 269-0984 | <http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmovetoamend.org&utm_c ampaign=shell_blast&n=9&e=02b8936e4d9b18d18334b7732c19c5f3e241059d&utm_sourc e=movetoamend&utm_medium=email> www.MoveToAmend.org We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. <http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FM ove2Amend&utm_campaign=shell_blast&n=10&e=02b8936e4d9b18d18334b7732c19c5f3e2 41059d&utm_source=movetoamend&utm_medium=email> Facebook <http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FMoveTo Amend&utm_campaign=shell_blast&n=11&e=02b8936e4d9b18d18334b7732c19c5f3e24105 9d&utm_source=movetoamend&utm_medium=email> Twitter <http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/r/o?e=461ea675f75f7a0689944ade39a1817d 114b396d&utm_campaign=socalbarnannoun> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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