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<DIV><FONT size=3 face=Arial>If anyone is a registered voter who lives in the
city of Champaign, please contact Colan Holmes at the e-mail address
below.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>David Johnson</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=colanholmes@gmail.com href="mailto:colanholmes@gmail.com">Colan Holmes</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=occupycu@lists.chambana.net
href="mailto:occupycu@lists.chambana.net">occupycu@lists.chambana.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 19, 2012 4:36 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [OccupyCU] Move to Amend petitioning update,reactions to
"We're from Occupy"</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi all,<BR><BR><B style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">The basic (from
Facebook):</B> Chandler, Pat and Gabe petitioned yesterday, gathering a total 40
signatures to place a vote regarding corporate personhood and election finance
on the agenda of the Cunningham and City of Champaign townships' April 10 public
meetings (see below for the resolutions' formal wording). The petitions will be
submitted to the Township Clerks in a week, allowing for more to sign in
support. Mostly positive responses to statements we were from Occupy CU. Streets
covered were Nevada, from Lincoln to McCullough, and Church, from Wright to
1st.<BR><BR style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><B style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">More
detail:</B> We have plenty of signatures from Urbana, but are one short for the
required 15 needed to put the proposal on the City of Champaign township meeting
agenda. Surpassing the 15 required signatures shouldn't be to hard to do in one
week though.<BR><BR>When I submit the paperwork, I will get the date and time of
any township meetings that would probably be a good idea to attend: the April 10
meeting is certainly a must (to be present to vote), but there may be another,
March meeting in which the Township Boards (City Councils) decide on whether the
resolution is "proper business" for people to vote on on April
10.<BR><B><BR><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Reactions to the statement
that we were from Occupy CU:</SPAN></B> We talked with about 60 people. There
were no outright negative reactions, perhaps due to the petitioning routes being
in progressive areas. Two people did mention they were afraid of increasing
violence within Occupy, but they both signed the petition. One man in Northeast
Champaign (Church St) challenged me to explain how the petition was relevant to
everyday working people like himself -- after pulling some statistics/the graph
from Michael Weissman's flier and juxtaposing corporate power with everyday
worker's rights (unions, pay, benefits) he shook my hand and wished me luck. A
woman in the same area was very happy to hear we were doing something locally,
and said she was going to tune in to Occupy The Air when I mentioned it was
currently on.<BR><BR>"Thank you for doing this. Godspeed, you. I will pray you
all are successful."<BR><BR>Solidarity,<BR>Chandler<BR><BR>The proposed
resolution(s):<BR>The U.S. Supreme Court held, in "Citizens United v. FEC", that
corporations have the rights of real human citizens and are entitled to spend
unlimited amounts of money in support of political campaigns. To undo that
decision, the people of the [Cunningham Township/City of Champaign Township]
support an Amendment to the United States Constitution to establish
that:<BR><BR>1. A corporation does not have the same rights as an actual person,
and<BR><BR>2. Money is not speech and, therefore, regulating political spending
is not equivalent to limiting political speech.<BR><BR>We further request that
our city, state and federal representatives enact resolutions and legislation to
advance the two positions proposed as part of the Amendment, with reference to
the need for an Amendment.
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