<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>FYI</div><div>R </div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Robert Weissman, Public Citizen" <<a href="mailto:publiccitizen@mail.democracyinaction.org">publiccitizen@mail.democracyinaction.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">February 9, 2010 4:16:37 PM GMT-05:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: "</b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Mike Nickerson" <</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><a href="mailto:sustain5@web.ca">sustain5@web.ca></a></span><a href="mailto:sustain5@web.ca"></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Constitutional Amendment Heating Up</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:publiccitizen@mail.democracyinaction.org">publiccitizen@mail.democracyinaction.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 600px; height: 335px; position: static; z-index: auto; "> <tbody> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/476/images/emailbanner.jpg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Robert, [how's that for customizing? mn]<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=z93CZj5aQYPDxTYz8NxUOiOkUBhbrjUS"><img hspace="10" height="200" border="0" align="right" width="275" alt="Don't Get Rolled!" src="https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/476/images/dontgetrolled%20banner.jpg"></a>What sparked the fire?<br> <br> The Supreme Court ruled last month that corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money in our elections.<br> <br> You already joined the fight to defend our democracy from a corporate takeover by signing <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cx0G5BbjBas4fDPuMPwlviOkUBhbrjUS">Public Citizen's petition for a constitutional amendment</a> to counteract this radical ruling.<br> <br> <b>I'm asking you to help grow the resistance by forwarding this email to 10 friends and family members and asking them to sign the petition, too.</b><br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> A real movement is taking shape.<br> <br> Our petition is already 45,000 citizens strong. People instinctively recognize the Supreme Court's decision for the disaster that it is.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> The first step is building our petition.<br> <br> <b>Please forward this email to at least 10 friends and family members today. Ask them to visit <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1VVDBz5xFU5NNJti85vzxSOkUBhbrjUS">DontGetRolled.org</a> and sign the petition, too.</b><br> <br> Thank you,<br> <br> Robert Weissman, President</span></span></p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">To get regular e-alerts about opportunities for activism and other ways to help with Public Citizen's work, <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BK2sA8xusoegEkr06pj6lSOkUBhbrjUS">sign up</a> for the Public Citizen Action Network.<br> This message was sent to <a href="mailto:sustain5@web.ca">sustain5@web.ca</a>. To change your contact information, go to <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MXt27FFa%2B%2FsrIibY04x6AyOkUBhbrjUS">https://secure.citizen.org/profile/login.jsp</a>.<br> To unsubscribe, go to <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TJwrFvaV3Kq6MCj2GKxpPiOkUBhbrjUS">http://action.citizen.org/unsubscribe.jsp</a>.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=W00RvxqlJD%2BeJinaskjWWSOkUBhbrjUS">Contribute</a> | © 2010 Public Citizen | <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iaTEhTPDQVWSnJXRXBtvYCOkUBhbrjUS">Take Action</a></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><img width="1" height="1" src="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/TrackImage?key=1304025616"><diaemailid='1304025616' thread="8370"></diaemailid='1304025616'></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>