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Welcome to Peace Network of the
Ozarks
While our hope for peace
resides worldwide, our geographical site is Springfield/southwest
Missouri.
Peace Network of the
Ozarks is committed to the promotion of world peace with justice
through active participation in the democratic process in nonviolent
and peaceful ways. True peace will be obtained when all people have
economic justice, personal security, and freedom from oppression.
(about our organization)
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Event: Save
our Springfield Postal Workers' Actions Jan 3 & Jan 4.
Date and Time: Jan 3rd,
3PM-5PM
Location:
Springfield Main Post Office on Chestnut Expressway
(bring your own signs)
Purpose:
Peaceful Protest: Show solidarity for Springfield
Postal Workers
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Event:
Town Hall Meeting Save the Post Office
Date
and Time: Jan 4th 6:30PM
Location: 910
West Battlefield Road The Executive Conference Center
(Kansas City Post Office
Management and Billy Long will be addressing the town
hall meeting)
Purpose: The
Postal Workers Local Union has asked us to attend the
town hall meeting and voice our support for keeping
our post office open, and keeping the jobs in
Springfield. They want enough public there to overflow
the room and spill out to the street. Bring candles in
case we cannot get into the meeting so that the
overflow can hold a candle light vigil to show support
for our postal worker neighbors about to lose their
jobs.
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EVENT:
Who Rules in America :
"We the People" or Corporations?
A Multi-media
Presentation by Mary Lindsay of Kansas City Move To
Amend
DATE &
TIME:
Tuesday,
January 17 at 7PM
Location:
Library Station,
2535 N Kansas Expressway,
Springfield
PURPOSE:
This presentation gives the
astonishing history of how corporations gained
constitutional rights and amassed immense political
influence in America . Just in time for the 2nd
anniversary of the Supreme Court’s
Citizens United v.
FEC decision, Missourians have the
opportunity to learn why the ruling is so
controversial and why it must be overruled by amending
the US Constitution.
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Event: Occupy The Courts:
National Day of Protest
Date and Time:
Jan 20th 2PM-5PM
Location:
Springfield MO Federal Courthouse Sidewalk 222 N John
Q Hammons Pkwy
Purpose: End
Corporate Rule. This is the second Anniversary of
Supreme Court Decision on "Citizens United". We
dispute their decision that a corporation is a person
and money is speech. Join us for peaceful
protest, and street theater. Bring a sign, or we have
extras. Just Come!!!
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We the People, Not
We the Corporations
On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v.
Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that
corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to
buy elections and run our government.Human beings are people;
corporations are legal fictions.
Peace Network of the Ozarks joins local group
Move To Amend 417 and
the National Movement which seeks an amendment to the U.S.
Constitution which states:
We, the People of the United
States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in
Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to:
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Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human
beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to
constitutional rights.
* Guarantee the right to vote and to
participate, and to have our vote and participation count.
* Protect local communities, their economies, and democracies
against illegitimate "preemption" actions by global, national,
and state governments.
The Supreme Court is misguided in
principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people
rule. We Move to Amend.
Please Sign the Petition
Move To Amend is
planning bold action to mark the second anniversary of the
infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision!
 "OCCUPY
THE COURTS"
will be a
one day occupation on Friday January 20, 2012. of Federal
courthouses across the country, including the U.S. Supreme
Court in Washington, D.C., and locally, the Federal Court in
Springfield located at: 222 N John Q Hammons Pky ) More
Information at
www.MoveToAmend417.org
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Learn more about our Current Project
"Pennies For Peace"
In Memory
of our friend Joan Collins
Mariel Caldwell and Pat Chipman busy at work applying stickers
inside each book cover. The labels read
"Donated by Peace Network of The Ozarks & Renaissance Books -
In Memory of Joan Collins Springfield Teacher, Librarian,
Peace Activist" |
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