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===== **Welcome to PassMassAmendment** ===== | ===== **Welcome to PassMassAmendment** ===== | ||
- | \\ We are a network of people intent on using Massachusetts law to make sure government serves the people!\\ | + | |
- | PETITIONING will be starting again this fall! Our [[state_senate_house_bills|legislative bills ]]are still in play, but the session is ending soon. So if you want them to be voted on, please let your legislator know! Please join us in our work at [[state_senate_house_bills|the statehouse]]! We'll be meeting on June 9th (at the Democracy Center, 1:30-3:30, 45 Mt Auburn St Cambridge) to organize our next round. Stay tuned! | + | \\ |
- | \\ {{::we_the_corporations_jpeg.jpg?nolink&657}}\\ \\ **What we're doing:** \\ \\ [[state_senate_house_bills|Statehouse bills]] and [[the_ballot_initiative|statewide ballot initiative petitions]] (and associated [[court_actions|court actions]]) to get Big Money out of our elections:\\ \\ - Amend the Mass. Constitution, based on "Corporations Are Not People, Money Is Not Speech"\\ - Disclose dark money\\ - Reduce out of state money\\ \\ We just filed our 2017 petitions with the state based on our [[state_senate_house_bills|Statehouse Bills]]. We will receive the printed official petition forms first week of September. Stay tuned!\\ \\ Every signature we get, it helps pressure lawmakers to advance these bills!\\ \\ **[[why_amend_the_mass._constitution|Why amend the Massachusetts Constitution?]]**\\ \\ We feel like we have no other option. We've asked our legislators to **do something** to get **Big Money OUT of our elections**, and they have not acted.\\ \\ \\ WE NEED YOU! If we're going to be THE PEOPLE,we gotta stand up and BE the people!\\ [[contact|Get on our email list for updates!]]\\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ 2014 MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION endorses PassMassAmendment!\\ \\ \\ | + | We are a network of people intent on using Massachusetts law to make sure government serves the people! |
- | [[how_can_you_help|Please get involved!]] | + | |
- | \\ | + | The state has accepted our [[https://www.mass.gov/info-details/ballot-initiatives-filed-for-the-2022-biennial-statewide-election-proposed-laws-and#20-01-passmass-amendment-|2020 Original Signers Petition]]! Please help collect signatures this fall! |
- | ====== We meet every 2nd Saturday at 1:30 pm @ Democracy Center, 45 Mt Auburn, Cambridge (EXCEPT for September to November, we do not hold meetings during petitioning time). ====== | + | |
- | \\ | + | Our [[http://passmass.server278.com/state_senate_house_bills|legislative bills ]]have been submitted! Click the link to the left to find out more! |
- | ====== ====== | + | |
- | [[contact|Contact:]] | + | What is petitioning? [[http://passmass.server278.com/the_ballot_initiative|Click here to find out!]]\\ |
- | \\ Terra Friedrichs: [[mailto:PassMassAmendment@gmail.com|PassMassAmendment@gmail.com]] 978 808 7173 (team coordination, press/media, etc) Acton/MetroWest\\ Nick Bokron: nbokron "at" gmail, 781 715 7822 (finance, legal, administration, etc) (Nahant/NorthShore)\\ \\ See news/updates:\\ [[https://www.facebook.com/PassMassAmendment/posts/1275156112560246|Facebook page]] [[https://twitter.com/PassMassAmend|Twitter]] [[https://twitter.com/PassMassAmend| #PassMassAmend]], [[https://twitter.com/PassMassAmend|#PassMassAmendment]], [[https://twitter.com/PassMassAmend|#PMA]]\\ \\ \\ | + | {{:we_the_corporations_jpeg.jpg?nolink&657|we_the_corporations_jpeg.jpg}}\\ |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | **What we're doing:** \\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | [[http://passmass.server278.com/state_senate_house_bills|Statehouse bills]] and [[http://passmass.server278.com/the_ballot_initiative|statewide ballot initiative petitions]] (and associated [[:court_actions|court actions]]) to get Big Money out of our elections:\\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | - Amend the Mass. Constitution, based on "Corporations Are Not People, Money Is Not Speech"\\ | ||
+ | - Disclose dark money\\ | ||
+ | - Reduce out of state money\\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | We plan to file petitions again with the state based on our [[http://passmass.server278.com/state_senate_house_bills|Statehouse Bills]]. We will receive the printed official petition forms first week of September. Stay tuned!\\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | Every signature we get, it helps pressure lawmakers to advance these bills!\\ | ||
+ | [[http://passmass.server278.com/why_amend_the_mass._constitution|Why amend the Massachusetts Constitution]]\\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | We feel like we have no other option. We've asked our legislators to **do something** to get **Big Money OUT of our elections**, and they have not acted.\\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | WE NEED YOU! If we're going to be THE PEOPLE,we gotta stand up and BE the people! | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[:contact|Contact]]\\ | ||
+ | Terra Friedrichs: [[mailto:PassMassAmendment@gmail.com|mailto:PassMassAmendment@gmail.com]] 978 808 7173 (team coordination, press/media, etc) Acton/MetroWest\\ | ||
+ | Nick Bokron: nbokron "at" gmail, 781 715 7822 (finance, legal, administration, etc) (Nahant/NorthShore)\\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | See news/updates:\\ | ||
+ | [[https://www.facebook.com/PassMassAmendment/posts/1275156112560246|Facebook page]] [[https://twitter.com/PassMassAmend|Twitter]] [[https://twitter.com/PassMassAmend| #PassMassAmend]], [[https://twitter.com/PassMassAmend|#PassMassAmendment]], [[https://twitter.com/PassMassAmend|#PMA]] | ||
==== "Article VII. Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it." ==== | ==== "Article VII. Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it." ==== | ||
- | //source:// [[https://malegislature.gov/Laws/Constitution|Massachusetts Constitution]] | + | |
- | \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ | + | //source:// [[https://malegislature.gov/Laws/Constitution|Massachusetts Constitution]] |
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