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.
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