New Paltz: Forum on recent Supreme Court ruling on corporate election spending, with Rep Hinchey
Date : 18 April 2010
From : 4:00pm
Category : General / Misc
Location : 12561
Event Description :
"We, the People: A Forum to Defend Democracy"
A forum to educate and mobilize people to oppose the recent Supreme Court ruling (Citizens United v FEC) that allows for unlimited corporate spending on US elections.
Congressman Maurice Hinchey (Dem, 22nd district) will give the keynote address. An expert panel will include; John Bonifaz, director of Free Speech for People and legal director of Voter Action; Joan Mandle, PhD executive director of Democracy Matters and Marge Baker, executive vice-president for People for the American Way.
Video excerpts from the "Defend Democracy Street Rally" from April 10 will be shown. That event is listed here: http://ActivistResource.org/13727
Participants will leave with action steps, resources, "new connections and new hope."
From the organizers:"This appears to be one of the first forums on this subject in the country. Be on the ground floor of a massive grassroots efforts to mitigate the effects of this ruling and to eventually overturn it."
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