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• • WHEREAS, large corporations' profits and survival are often in direct conflict with the essential needs and rights of human beings, and; WHEREAS, the recent Citizens United v the Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decision that rolled back the legal limits on corporate spending in the electoral process creates an unequal playing field and allows unlimited corporate spending to influence elections, candidate selection, policy decisions and sway votes, and forces elected officials to divert their attention from The Peoples' business, or even vote against the interest of their human constituents, in order to ensure competitive campaign funds for their own re-election, and; WHEREAS, large corporations own most of America's mass media and use that media as a megaphone to express loudly their political agenda and to convince Americans that their primary role is that of consumers, rather than sovereign citizens with rights and responsibilities within our democracy, and this forces citizens to toil to discern the truth behind headlines and election campaigning, and; WHEREAS, tens of thousands of people and municipalities across the nation are joining with the Move to Amend campaign to call for an Amendment to the US Constitution to Abolish Corporate Personhood, and; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council for the Town of Los Altos Hills hereby calls on Congress to join the tens of thousands of citizens, grassroots organizations and local governments across the country in the Move to Amend campaign to call for an Amendment to the Constitution to Abolish Corporate Personhood and return our democracy, our elections, our communities back to America's human persons and thus reclaim our sovereign right to self-governance. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Town of Los Altos Hills calls on other communities and jurisdictions to join with us in this action by passing similar Resolutions. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of Los Altos Hills supports education to increase public awareness of the threats to our democracy posed by Corporate Personhood, and encourages lively discussion to build understanding and consensus to take appropriate community and municipal actions to democratically respond to these threats. The above and foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills at a regular meeting held on the 16th day of February, 2012 by the following vote: AYES: Larsen, Waldeck, Mordo, Radford, Summit NOES: None ABSTAIN: None ABSENT: None ��^ , • Ric' arsen,Mayor Resolution No.8-12 Page 2