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  2852 Willamette Street #413

Eugene OR 97405

(541) 255-2946

Our primary objective is education and networking so that, when circumstances are favorable for amending the Constitution or passing national legislation abolishing corporate personhood, the people local to the Eugene-Springfield area will be able to act quickly and effectively.

As corporate anthropologist Jane Anne Morris said,

“Scratch any issue activists are working on today, and underneath you will find corporate personhood.”

We can all work together to cure society's ills when we all work together to Abolish Corporate Personhood.

WELCOME TO "WE THE PEOPLE - EUGENE"

Check out our website at www.wethepeopleeugene.org and share any ideas for things we can put op there.

Our Mission:

The mission of We the People Eugene is to create democracy by building social movements dedicated to:

1. Ending the excessive influence of corporations and other moneyed interests over our political and economic systems, and
2. Building peoples based democratic communities founded on the natural rights of humans and the environment.

Check out the website:  www.wethepeopleeugene.org and

Our Petition

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/corporations-are-not-people/

Please link this page to your social networking pages and spread the word. 

Our local resolution:

We wish to first pursue this by passing a resolution through the Eugene City Council.  Our resolution is below:

OUR RESOLUTION TEXT

Resolved, the City of Eugene calls for reclaiming democracy from the corrupting effects of undue corporate influence by amending the U.S Constitution to establish that:
1) Corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights granted to persons.

 2) Therefore, regulating corporate political contributions and spending is not equivalent to limiting political speech.

Our partner organizations:

Move to Amend

South Central Wisconsin Move to Amend      

Alliance for Democracy

Meetings:  Wednesdays at 7 pm - until further notice

Erb Memorial Union on U of O Campus

Rogue Room or Umpqua Room in EMU fishbowl area next to restaurants on main floor

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Thom Hartman's story on TruthOut entitled 'Unequal Protection, Part I: Corporations Take Over' focuses on corporate personhood's history and has a short video on how the court reporter inserted the headnote that created corporate personhood in the 1886 Santa Clara v Southern Pacific Railroad case.  http://www.truth-out.org/unequal-protection-the-deciding-moment68397

THE STORY OF CITIZENS UNITED

		The Story of Citizens United   Click here to watch the video We have a great new, short video to share with you today.    It tells the story of how corporations have come to take increasing levels of control over our democracy, culminating in last year’s Citizens United decision, and of the new movement that’s growing, led by you and everyone else who’s speaking up to demand a Constitutional Amendment to restore appropriate restraints on corporate power. It tells our story so well that we can make a real difference in our campaign simply by spreading it around.  You can help by forwarding the video to your friends, family, and co-workers, posting the video to Facebook, and tweeting about it if you use Twitter.        Click here to watch the video and spread the word. The video is called “The Story of Citizens United”, and it was created by Annie Leonard, the same person who made the very popular video, “The Story of Stuff” a couple of years ago.  That video went everywhere, and this new one one can too: it has the same high quality content, and the same remarkably accessible narration.  In short, it’s a really excellent way to get our message out to everyone. The video is short and sweet, about 8 minutes long.  So hopefully you can find a few minutes right now to watch it and spread it around.  But if not, why not get together with some friends after work, and watch it together? All over the world people are standing up and demanding that governments democratically serve people. Across the globe, people in Egypt have led the way, and the spirit of democracy is catching fire.  Closer to home, people in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio are speaking up too, refusing to accept new extensions of corporate and big-business power over our lives.   Spreading this video around is a small step, but an important one, and one each of us can take, wherever we are, right now.     Watch the “Story of Citizens United” video and spread the word now. Thanks so much for your help. Sincerely, - John John Bonifaz Free Speech for People Tuesday, March 1, 2011
	As corporate anthropologist Jane Anne Morris said,   “Scratch any issue activists are working on today, and underneath you will find corporate personhood.”   We can all work together to cure our ills when we all work together to Abolish Corporate Personhood.