Koch Brothers Student Protest

At a meeting of Corporate Billionaires strategizing their takeover of 2012 elections, Students called for "Corporations Out of Democracy."

Students from universities across Southern California converged in the desert with thousands of other citizens on Sunday to uncloak the Koch Brothers and Corporate executives meeting to discuss how to dominate the 2012 elections. The Supreme Court ruled last year in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that corporations are protected as people under the First Amendment and therefore can spend unlimited amounts of money in democratic elections.
"Our democracy, our health, and our prosperity should not be in the hands of the polluters, bankers, and secret groups of billionaires meeting behind closed doors. We need a Power Shift -- and that begins by taking corporations out of our democracy and giving our government back to We the People," said Joel Francis, a senior at Cal State LA, a former student body President, and a Marine Corps veteran.

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[jggm2011]

One vote, one person.

[jggm2011]

Koch Industries has spent more than $50 million to lobby in Washington since 2006, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

[zenryo6]

Wonderful and powerful!