A protest against corporate personhood - KC Move to Amend - a MetaphorMedia video

On January 20 & 21, 2012, Kansas City Move to Amend (kcmovetoamend.org) hosted events in protest of the US Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which gave coporations the power to spend unlimited amounts of their vast resources to campaign for or against candidates running for office. On January 20 Occupy the Courts was a protest held in cities throughout the United States, including at the steps of the Federal courthouse in Kansas City, MO. On January 21, a post-protest celebration was held which included poetry, song, and a mock wedding between a corporation and another "real" person. Video also contains footage of Bill Drummond's arrest, the first protest-related arrest since the Occupy KC movement began, and an improv rant by Val Baul, a Kansas City-area radio personality whose show, Val's Vibes, can be heard on KKFI radio (90.1 FM) in the KC metro area.

Camera Operators: William Peck, Marc Saviano, Dave Michael, Connor Peck
Video Editing: MetaphorMedia

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• occupy
• occupy KC
• Kansas City
• courts
• supreme court
• US Supreme Court
• corporate personhood
• corporations
• economic justice
• protest
• protests
• MetaphorMedia
• Metaphor Media
• Metaphormediakc Protest

[TheAmericanMoron]

It's our own fault. Once we sat back and allowed the supreme court to "deny" personhood to certain human beings - ie children in the womb - we, at the very same time, opened the door to the supreme court being empowered to "bestow" personhood on something that isn't actually a person. There's your slippery slope. The supreme court now has the power to deny or bestow personhood upon whoever or whatever it wants. We, the people, let it happen and now we whine about it? You reap what you sow.

[amommamust]

Gettem' KC!

[xlla]

Very Good!

the world is waking! :)

[Evildoodoer]

Keep fighting the good fight, my friends.

[yahshay]

I shared this video.

[sharlenemusiclover]

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[10231898]

Corporations must educate for the jobs of the future. They can't complain that there is no talent out there to fulfill the job requirements without creating schools to educate those who would like to work for a large corporation.

Where are the posters? Where is the outcry from corporations to locate, entice, and welcome fresh "blood" to the work force?

[10231898]

Seems corporations would love for Americans to be HAPPY with low incomes and barely survival standards ... quoting, "the poor have always been among us" ... the rich must have the opportunity to start over ... the poor should have a chance to enter the journey to the top.