Facilitate: Itzhak Notes: John present: john, itzhak, rick, kathrine flowers, susan bernofsky, noreen connell, josh wolinskiy, alex tufel,cecelia Rick made a presentation about why a constitutional amendment needs to be our first step to virtually all OWS goals – including a description of the prohibitioin amendment success & the amendment process today. followed by many [...]

Minutes04&11/2012 Roz facilited John notes We are adding mickorn7@gmail.com poetjo@gmail.com billjohnsenwalkfordemocracy@gmail.com hvaccooling@hotmail.com karmakirospring@gmail.com John reported info on 501c3 rules Jo Robin from VT Occupy gave us info on VT progress & Bernie Sanders Itzahak informed us of DC trip plans We discussed voting bloc in more detail and will get more Albany feedback from Itzhak [...]

minutes 3/21/2012 Facilitator Itzhak Minutes John Rick Lou Peter Lener Naomi will create a twitter account Cathrine will create a facebook page We discussed article III investigations John will post to NYC OWS forum about Cobb meeting

minutes 3/14/2012 facilitator Itzhak minutes John Naomi Cathrine John reported that the ATP / Montana case seems to be moving forward and a letter from Jim Dean, Director of Democracy for America We met with Micharl from Occupy San Diego livingupto@yahoo.com Itzak reported his progress on organizing our yahoo site We met with Matt & [...]

minutes 3/14/2012 facilitator Itzhak minutes John Naomi Cathrine John reported that the ATP / Montana case seems to be moving forward and a letter from Jim Dean, Director of Democracy for America We met with Micharl from Occupy San Diego livingupto@yahoo.com Itzak reported his progress on organizing our yahoo site We met with Matt & [...]

IDEAS TO USE FACEBOOK IDEAS TO USE TWITTER IDEAS TO INVESTIGATE ARTICLE III & past uses research to compile a word doc list of state & local resolutions with dates and votes

2012/03/07 Minutes Rick- facilitator John- notes Julia reported on an idea to appoint supreme court justices for a single 18 year term Itzhak & John will meet as a subgroup to reorganize yahoo group files John updated on the Montana / ATP issue Cat will create a facebook page for the group Naomi will create [...]

The Constitutional Remedy for Judicial Tyranny of Citizens United Article III’s Exceptions Clause By Larry Kachimba http://www.opednews.com/articles/3/Reversing-Citizens-United-by-Larry-Kachimba-120112-189.html The Exceptions Clause ( Article III, Section 2, Clause 2, Sentence 2) of the US Constitution, states that, ” the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such [...]

2012/02/29 MINUTES facilitator – Itzhak notes-John Itzhak & Cathrine (Cat) were consensed as “Financial Point Persons” Jack asked some questions about CU Itzhak discussed Single Transfer Vote “HARE” system Itzhak & Rick discussed the idea of a NEW yahoo group Chris asked about CU on which we can post our final documents that will be [...]

MINUTES 2012/02/22 Facilitator Rick Notes John Micheal is going to be otherwise busy in the future Itzhak dicussed moving documents from yahoo to nycga John will work on it Cat asked questions about the MT case & John explained John will move the bill table to yahoo MT case was discussed & John will post [...]

Facilitator Rick Notes John The RD working group consensed on the following: ********************************************************************* That if the ECP sub-group decides to merge with RD, we will continue our work as a sub-group on constitutional amendments. OR That if the ECP sub-group decides to become independent without merging with RD, we will recommend the establishment of a [...]

facilitator – rick notes – john long discussion of how to share with ECP lou introduced the corporate veil issue cat asked additional questions about what’s next gruop discussed the details of “our” amendment John wanted a 3 part CU-Buckley-Disclosure Rick & Itzhak wanted only a CU amendment

minutes – john facilitator- Itzhak We discusussed what’s next. We consensed unanimously to approve the Visions & Goals Document We met with ECP sub group and presented our ideas for what’s next

facilitator – rick minutes – john we discussed existing amendment details and plans to develop a long term. Jack suggested the best way to get to various pols. Rick will draft our ideas and send it to us for review .

THE BIRTH & ASCENDANCY OF AMERICAN CORPORATE PERSONHOOD ver 4.0 In 1791, the 10th Amendment left control of corporations to state legislatures. Corporate charters were very explicit about what a corporation could do, how, for how long, with whom, where, and when. Corporations could not own stock in other corporations, and they were prohibited from [...]

FACILITATOR ITZHAK NOTES JOHN WE DISCUSSED WORK FOR WEEKEND MARCH EXPLAINED OUR PAST WITH TWO NEWBIES REVIEWED OUR APPROACH TO THE 14 DIFFERENT AMENDMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN PROPOSED OR OUT THERE – SUCH AS MOVE TO AMEND Section 1 [A corporation is not a person and can be regulated] The rights protected by the Constitution [...]

NOTES 2011 / 1 / 11 Itzhak – facilitator John- notes discussed the new GA resolution decided to put our GA resolution on hold as it seems redundant at this point worked on jan 20-21 marches and demonstrations TO DO john will write all of the sponsors of the proposed constitutional amendments to get more [...]

  Decided to always use mod con 75% Decdided by mod con:  a standard format for notes and files on our yahoo site File name: NOTES_yyyymmdd        Facilitator  Name                Note taker name Working on: Passed by mod con: Assignments to do : Set to do in next meeting: New signups:     Members can add to notes by [...]

”Restore Democracy” WG – Notes from Meeting Held 11/30/11 Our goal: To have the OWS-GA endorse a resolution such as: “The Occupy Wall Street General Assembly endorses the Peoples’ Rights Amendment to the US constitution (H. J. Res. 88) ending corporate personhood, demands that each member of the 112th Congress and each candidate for the [...]

MEMBER…….GROUP…………..  ACTION & RESULTS JOHN….. ARTS+ CULTURE…… REQUESTED JOHN….. MOVEMENT BUILD… REQUESTED JOHN…..PEOPLE OF COLOR…… REQUESTED JOHN….. SUSTAINABILITY…… REQUESTED

A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO END ‘CORPORATE PERSONHOOD’ Whereas >The OWS Declaration of the Occupation of New York City states “a democratic government derives its just power from the people, not from corporations” and, whereas >An ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 83% of Americans oppose the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which affirmed that corporations [...]

Why OWS Should Endorse A Constitutional Amendment to end corporate personhood   A Constitutional Amendment to end corporate personhood will reverse the Supreme Court’s insideous Citizens United  decision, ending the absurd legal fiction that corporations are persons. The General Assembly’s OWS Declaration of the Occupation of New York City states that a democratic government derives [...]