Lucas,From California to Maine and from Alaska to Florida, activists all over the country marked the two-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that unleashed unlimited corporate money into our elections.
Reports are still coming in, but we've already heard about 300 demonstrations against the ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
Several states, such as California, Maryland, Massachusetts and Vermont, kicked off statewide campaigns for a constitutional amendment.
And, so far, more than 20,000 activists like you have joined us in calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require corporations to publicly disclose their political spending.
There's no doubt about it. We're making history.
Join the movement. Tell the SEC to make publicly traded corporations disclose how they're spending money to influence elections.
CEOs of massive corporations are poised to secretly funnel millions of dollars from corporate coffers toward electing corporate candidates in 2012. But The SEC has the authority to expose this hidden influence.
As the federal agency with the job of protecting shareholders from corporate abuse, the SEC can step in to stop Corporate America from using the public's retirement savings and investments as its secret political war chest.
The bulk of this corporate money actually belongs to shareholders -- mostly working people who have a 401k or similar retirement plan.
Tell the SEC: Shine sunlight on corporate spending in elections.
Requiring publicly traded corporations to disclose how they're trying to influence elections is a first step that can make a big difference in 2012.
Stay tuned for more ways to take action, including ways to build the grassroots momentum against Citizens United by passing local resolutions and ballot referendums, and keep an eye out for our recap of this past weekend's nationwide day of action.
Thanks for all you do,
Rick Claypool
Public Citizen's Online Action Team
action@citizen.org