A HURRICANE CAN'T STOP US

TCPA held its third meeting last night. With the off-shore approach of Hurricane Sandy, the weather may have been gloomy, but the rain couldn’t dampen our spirits and the wind couldn’t extinguish our hope – that we can be a force for positive change.

            We talked about Alec, the American Legislative Exchange Council that is a conglomerate of large companies. These companies write sample laws they would like enacted and which legislative members submit as their own. Since July, when Alec came into public view, 29 corporations have left the conglomerate (including: Coca Cola, Pepsi, BCBS, Amazon, P&G, Dell, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation). We would like to pressure Publix to do the same.

            We watched the short movie Unequal Justice: The Relentless Rise of the One Percent Courts, which was about the push to repeal the Supreme Court’s ruling on ‘Citizen’s United’. Corporations exist for one reason and that is to make a profit. They are using this profit to buy elections. They have no mortality and no morals. Corporations are not people. Corporate money is not free speech. To learn more, visit the Move to Amend website and sign their petition.

            Hope to see you at the next meeting, which is the fourth Thursday of November. 

WELCOME

Welcome to the blog of the Treasure Coast Progressive Alliance – we’re glad you stopped by. We could sure use your help and support. We are a group of concerned citizens dissatisfied with the current state of our government, which seems to be run by those with money, for the benefit of those with money. When corporate profit is the government’s primary motivation, the well-being of citizens and the planet are forsaken. We want to turn this around, get government working for us. To this end, we support “Move to Amend” which aims to overturn the Supreme Court’s ruling that corporations are people—and can spend limitless amounts on political campaigns. We seek to get money out of politics—to limit the influence of lobbyists, and promote campaign finance reform. We believe that when the government is working in the best interests of its people, then it will make the right choices and enact policies to assist the poor, sick, and disenfranchised; that it will recognize and protect the natural world in which we live. Corporations may have money, but people have numbers: we are many. But we need you. The future of this country and this planet need you. We need your voice demanding change. Just a few hours a month is all it will take to make a difference. Please join us.