The Dollars Fly Against Citizens United (Video)
Occupy protesters in Seattle tossed $5,000 out of a top window of downtown Seattle’s Roosevelt hotel on the Fourth of July. The action was against the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which removed a federal ban on corporate spending in political campaigns.
Occupy protesters in Seattle tossed $5,000 out of a top window of downtown Seattle’s Roosevelt hotel on the Fourth of July. The action was against the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which removed a federal ban on corporate spending in political campaigns.
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MicCheckWallStreet, an offshoot of the Occupy movement, staged the demonstration at 5pm. The group’s website declared that it is “time we declared independence from Citizens United” – citing the supreme court case which effectively ruled that corporations can make political contributions.
… The group had signalled its intentions on its website, asking for donations to a wepay.com account. The wepay page shows that McCheckWallStreet exactly met its $5,000 goal, collected from just 37 donors.
“Every dollar you donate is guaranteed to be thrown off a building and is tax deductible, what more could you ask for?!,” said a statement on MicCheckWallStreet’s website.
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