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The National WILPF office has put together a calendar of events appropriate to or involving WILPF. We can finally link with other branches if we want to coordinate events, etc. Please print it out and let everyone know if any particular dates or events trigger your passion
WILPF Calendar 2011
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
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What: Move to Amend, South Central Indiana will present "The Prosecution of Judge Waite"
Date: Friday, May 25 and Saturday, May 26
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Unitarian Universalist Church, 2120 North Fee Lane
* Reception to follow both evenings *
Play Exposes Truth behind 'Santa Clara' Decision by U.S. Supreme Court
The 45-minute play, by James Allison, presents the modern-day prosecution of former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite (1874-1888), played by local activist and minister Bill Breeden. Waite presided over the Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific decision (1886) that gave birth to the myth that corporations should be granted the same legal rights as a human being, serving as a legal foundation for the Citizens United ruling in 2010. That decision gives corporations a First Amendment right to "speak" through unlimited monetary contributions to political campaigns. Through her interview with Judge Waite, the prosecutor, played by actress Gladys DeVane, exposes the true background behind the Santa Clara decision.
Move to Amend calls for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to unequivocally state that inalienable rights belong to human beings only, and that money is not a form of protected free speech under the First Amendment and can be regulated in political campaigns.
For more information about the play, contact Barbara Carlson, barbarac1700@aol.com.
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Branch Meeting
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The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was founded in 1915 during World War I, with Jane Addams as its first president. WILPF works to achieve, through peaceful means, world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all.
Bloomington, Indiana Branch
3940 N. Whitewood Way
Bloomington, IN
47404
bloomingtonwilpf@bloomingtonwilpf.org
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