Videos | WAmend

Here is a long but very good talk Senator Jon Tester of Montana gave at Harvard on November 7, 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wY1TJaTio8

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Here is David Cobb, National MTA Spokesperson, on a recent Thom Hartman Show,

explaining what’s happening with money in politics, successes across the country and how states and communities should continue the push to stop the flood of money in politics.
http://youtu.be/2SLV8QFCW9s

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Jeffrey Clements, author of “Corporations are not People”, was in Seattle this past October and gave a talk. The following is a link to the video of his talk. http://freespeechforpeople.org/node/774

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WAmend sponsored a wonderful presentation on September 28, 2013, by young Move to Amend leader Ashley Sanders. Ashley demonstrated that Citizens United was only one case in a parade of legal decisions favoring corporations over people and transforming money into political speech.

Then, watch a delightful, fast-moving, partly-animated, 8-minute video that explores the inordinate power that corporations exercise in our democracy. Stars Annie Leonard. Courtesy of Story of Stuff Project.

Watch a Bill Moyers Show – Dollarocracy Authors Interview – 31 minutes
http://billmoyers.com/segment/john-nichols-and-robert-mcchesney-on-big-money-big-media/

And if you want to get seriously inspired, view Laurence Lessig’s Ted Talk “We the People and the Republic We Must Reclaim” from February, 2013. Lessig believes there’s another path than a Constitutional Amendment, though. WAmend disagrees.

Wealth Inequality in America: Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is. Published November 2012.

Bill Moyers interviews Trevor Potter: The former FEC chairman, a Republican, joins Bill to discuss how American elections are bought and sold, who covers the cost, and how the rest of us pay the price.

Russell Brand on inequality and the corrupted political system – awesome, from October 2013.

RepresentUs – Lobby Lunch – 3 minutes