Keep the petition going on Supreme Court decision

I hope everybody that sees this will consider signing, and pass it along.

From Robert Weissman at Public Citizen:

Outside, Washington, D.C. is smothered in near-record amounts of snow. But inside - inside the halls of government, to be specific - things are heating up.

What sparked the fire?

The Supreme Court ruled last month that corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money in our elections.

I’m asking you to do two things right now to join the fight to defend our democracy from a corporate takeover:

1. Sign our petition at DontGetRolled.org for a constitutional amendment to counteract this radical ruling.

2. Help grow the resistance by forwarding this email to 10 friends and family members and asking them to sign the petition, too.

We must preserve First Amendment rights for actual people and the press. The First Amendment was never intended to apply to artificial constructs like profit-hungry corporations.

Many members of Congress are introducing amendments and signaling their support, including Representatives Donna Edwards, John Conyers, Marcy Kaptur, Leonard Boswell and Dennis Kucinich, and Senators John Kerry, Arlen Specter and Chris Dodd.

A real movement is taking shape.

We need you. And everyone you know who cherishes democracy.

Our petition is already 45,000 citizens strong. People instinctively recognize the Supreme Court’s decision for the disaster that it is.

But constitutional amendments do not come easy. We need a groundswell of support from every corner of the nation. We need hundreds of thousands of people to drive the legislative push in Congress.

The first step is building our petition.

Sign the petition.

Forward this email.