California bill AB 1671would criminalize publishing undercover video footage provided by whistleblowers.
“The bill would criminalize publishing undercover video footage of ‘health care providers’ and subject third parties, including journalists, to penalties for reporting and distributing the illegally recorded footage.” — Jon Rappoport
“Let’s see, Mr. Reporter. You received an undercover recording of a medical researcher confessing his crimes. You posted the recording and wrote about it. You’re the one who is guilty of a crime. Next case!”
PAY 2 PLAYfollows filmmaker John Ennis’ quest to find a way out from under the Pay 2 Play System, where Politicians reward their donors with even larger sums from the public treasury — through contracts, tax cuts, and deregulation. Along the way, he journeys through high drama on the Ohio campaign trail, uncovers the secret history of the game Monopoly, and explores the underworld of L.A. street art on a humorous odyssey that reveals how much of a difference one person can make. PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy’s High Stakes is the layman’s guidebook to taking back our democracy.
It is a very important time in the context of our movement earlier this week David Cobb, also of the Move to Amend National Leadership Team debated Jams Bopp who argued the Citizens United case before the Supreme Court, today the senate failed to pass SJR 19 and Move to Amend’s Pledge to Amend 2014 campaign is in full swing seeking to get elected officials on record as to whether they support the “We The People” amendment. READ MORE
“The California State Senate passed a resolution calling upon Congress to amend the U.S. Constitution and eliminate the notion that corporate money equals First-Amendment-protected speech. The resolution, which explicitly calls upon Congress to convene a constitutional convention pursuant to Article V of the Constitution, makes California the second state, along with Vermont, to seek a legislative reversal of ‘corporate personhood’ enshrined in the Citizens United decision. ” — FROM DAILY KOS
http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/signature-needed-senate
We urge you to support Sen. Tom Udall’s constitutional amendment. Money is not speech, and the Supreme Court’s decisions have perverted our democracy. As Sen. Udall said: “elections have become more about the quantity of cash and less about the quality of ideas.” It is time to bring some balance.
Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. “Your rights matter,” he says, “because you never know when you’re going to need them.” Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.
THE PRISM PROGRAM A program about content. It could deputized corporate america to do the work of the NSA. Each company handles it in a different way, some are more responsible than others.
*Note: The secret FISA courts have reviewed over 33,000 warrant requests and only 11 have been rejected.
Boundless Informant is a program hidden from Congress
More communications are being collected on Americans than anywhere else.
The NSA has violated its own rules 1,000s of times a year.
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