Ben and Jerry’s Co-Founder and Occupy Activists to Stamp Dollar Bills

This summer, in collaboration with the Move to Amend campaign and Occupy activists across the country, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, will distribute stamps with anti-corporate personhood messages to be printed on U.S. dollar bills. Slogans to be printed include, “Corporations are not people,” “Money is not speech,” and “Not to be used for bribing politicians.”
    Move to Amnd and Cohen plan to kick off the money stamping project in Philadelphia at the Occupy National Gathering on July 4 to encourage “thousands of people to buy rubber stamps and stamp any currency that comes into their possession,” Cohen told Yahoo! News. Later this summer the group will launch a giant traveling money stamping machine to visit communities across the nation. This campaign targets the controversial Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate money in elections.
    “This action will be a way for citizens to express their outrage at the ties between big money and political corruption,” says David Cobb, national spokesperson for the Move to Amend coalition. “Politicians rubber stamp legislation that benefits profit over people. We are stamping money to remind lawmakers that they serve ‘We the People,’ not ‘We the Corporations.’”

For more information, visit www.MoveToAmend.org/stampede