Sun 3/31 @ 2-4PM
Fair elections are the gateway to every other issue you might care about, whether it’s the environment, immigration, gun safety or health care. And there are three legs to the fair-elections stool, all of which are wobbly in the U.S. now: gerrymandering, voter suppression and a concentration of big money from often opaque single sources.
When the Citizens United decision came down in from the U.S. Supreme Court is 2010, followed by lesser-known McCutcheon decision four years later, they opened the floodgates for huge amounts of money to pour into campaigns to the point where a presidential campaign could be funded by a single individual. That’s a landscape voters should be familiar with while Democratic presidential candidates race to virtuously claim they won’t be taking any corporate PAC money this cycle. That’s very noble, but the playing field is not just tilted, it’s upended — and it needs to be restructured.
That’s the mission of the Move to Amend movement, which wants to nullify those decisions by removing their basis through a constitutional amendment which makes two simple, corrective points: that corporations are not people and money is not speech.
Many communities across the country and right here in Northeast Ohio have passed resolutions in support of this amendment. Want to learn more? Keyan Bliss, Move to Amend’s grassroots volunteer coordinator will be speaking at the main branch of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library. He’ll be joined by Antia R. Tobin, Ohio regional director of the Hip Hop Congress, Black Lives Matter Cleveland organizer Kareem Henton, and Taru Taylor, founder/president of the Black Belt Chess Academy.
It’s free and open to the public.
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Cleveland Heights, OH 44118