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- | We are a network of people intent on using Massachusetts law to make sure government serves the people!\\ | + | 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 [[legislative bills |]]will be resubmitted as soon as the next session ends, so stay tuned on that! | + | |
- | And please join in our [[http://passmass.server278.com/the_ballot_initiative|petitioning effort]], and gather signatures! We have til mid-November to gather signatures to either get on the ballot (if we get enough!), and even if we don't, the signatures help pressure legislators in your district..\\ | + | 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! |
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+ | Our [[http://passmass.server278.com/state_senate_house_bills|legislative bills ]]have been submitted! Click the link to the left to find out more! | ||
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+ | What is petitioning? [[http://passmass.server278.com/the_ballot_initiative|Click here to find out!]]\\ | ||
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**What we're doing:** \\ | **What we're doing:** \\ | ||
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- | [[Statehouse bills|]] and [[statewide ballot initiative petitions|]] (and associated [[court actions|]]) to get Big Money out of our elections:\\ | + | [[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:\\ |
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- Amend the Mass. Constitution, based on "Corporations Are Not People, Money Is Not Speech"\\ | - Amend the Mass. Constitution, based on "Corporations Are Not People, Money Is Not Speech"\\ | ||
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- Reduce out of state money\\ | - Reduce out of state money\\ | ||
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- | We just filed our 2017 petitions with the state based on our [[Statehouse Bills|]]. We will receive the printed official petition forms first week of September. Stay tuned!\\ | + | 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!\\ |
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Every signature we get, it helps pressure lawmakers to advance these bills!\\ | 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]]\\ |
- | **[[Why amend the Massachusetts Constitution|]]** \\ | + | |
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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 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.\\ | ||
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- | WE NEED YOU! If we're going to be THE PEOPLE,we gotta stand up and BE the people!\\ | + | WE NEED YOU! If we're going to be THE PEOPLE,we gotta stand up and BE the people! |
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- | 2014 MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION endorses PassMassAmendment!\\ | + | |
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- | [[Please get involved!|]] | + | |
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- | ====== 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). ====== | + | |
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- | [[Contact:|]]\\ | + | [[:contact|Contact]]\\ |
Terra Friedrichs: [[mailto:PassMassAmendment@gmail.com|mailto:PassMassAmendment@gmail.com]] 978 808 7173 (team coordination, press/media, etc) Acton/MetroWest\\ | 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)\\ | Nick Bokron: nbokron "at" gmail, 781 715 7822 (finance, legal, administration, etc) (Nahant/NorthShore)\\ | ||
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==== "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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