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Back in November Russell Simmons made a historical announcement, presenting a Constitutional amendment written for a true democracy by a leading Senior Congressman.

The amendment bars all but public financing for Federal candidates running for public office.

STORY: Russell Simmons Makes Historic Announcement  

Since then, the momentum has built across the country with the help of Occupy Wall Street leaders, states like Montana, California and New York have made efforts to get the money out of politics.

The Montana Supreme Court ruled that Montana had a compelling interest to impose a ban on corporate political expenditures.

The court held that corporations are not deprived of political speech and they can form political committees, as many other groups have done, but must file reports disclosing where they raised their money and how they spent it.

In New York, the NYC General Assembly reached a consensus that corporations are not people and money is not speech.

“Be it resolved that the New York City General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street joins the millions of citizens, grassroots organizations and local governments across the country in calling for an Amendment to the Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights, and that the rights of human beings will never again be granted to fictitious entities or property.”

And in California, Assembly member Bob Wieckowski helped author Resolution 22, calling for a constitutional amendment to repeal corporate money in politics. 

The wheels of progress are spinning faster every day and change is coming.

The momentum is building for the Constitutional amendment and the corporate greed in politics is fading away faster than Jordan taking a last second shot. 

Below is the Constitutional amendment that was presented by Uncle Rush back in November.

The amendment goes as follows:

Section 1. All elections for President and members of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate shall be publicly financed. No political contributions shall be permitted to any federal candidate, from any other source, including the candidate. No political expenditures shall be permitted in support of any federal candidate, or in opposition to any federal candidate, from any other source, including the candidate. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to abridge the freedom of the press.

Section 2. The Congress shall, by statute, provide limitations on the amounts and timing of the expenditures of such public funds and provide criminal penalties for any violation of this section.

Section 3. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 4. This article shall be inoperative unless it is ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution.