Friday, February 15, 2013
Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen greeted Sarasota visitors with his Amend-O-Matic StampMobile Friday night.
Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen arrived in St. Armands Friday to put his own stamp on the American political system. Cohen came with his Amend-O-Matic StampMobile that's a bit of a Rube Goldberg machine, sending dollar bills through a contraption, stamping them with messages to help influence people to ask their lawmakers to overturn the Citizens United decision, giving corporations the power to donate endlessly to political campaigns and political action committees. "Stamp Stampede is part of the larger movement to pass a Constitutional Amendment that corporations are not people, and money is not speech," Cohen told Patch inside the St. Armands Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Scoop Shop. Cohen is in the midst of an extensive road tour with the…
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Ben Cohen is in Sarasota to visit a Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop with his 21-foot long money stamping truck with the hope of winning a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
The co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream is in Sarasota to visit a Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop with his 21-foot long money stamping truck with the hope of winning a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. Ben Cohen is driving cross country from Vermont to West Texas, with dozens of stops in between, in his money-stamping Amend-O-Matic StampMobile. "The Amend-O-Matic StampMobile is an amazing one of a kind machine," Cohen said. "Part Coney Island, part Rube Goldberg, part Kinetic Sculpture and part social action. It's participatory, colorful and interactive." The vehicle will be at the St. Armands Scoop Shop, located at 372 St. Armands Circle, Friday at 4 p.m., where Cohen will spread awareness about the corrupting influence of …
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The St. Armand’s branch of the popular ice cream eatery will offer free cones as a fundraiser for WSLR.
Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, will be visiting Sarasota for the 2nd consecutive year on Saturday, Jan. 29. To honor the occasion, the St. Armand’s Circle Ben & Jerry’s will be soliciting donations for WSLR 96.5 LPFM while doling out free cones from 3 – 4 p.m. WSLR programmers will be on hand to live broadcast the event. “Initially, Jerry just wanted to stop by and say hi,” explained franchise owner Rick Almarode. “But it seemed like a waste to let that celebrity presence go by without taking advantage of it to help someone.” The Sarasota scoop shop has a long history of supporting WSLR. They’ve underwritten the local news programming for years, and the proceeds of the past three annual Free Cone Days have gone …
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Charlesworth Longtooth III
3:02 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
If you study the Citizens United decision, you will see that those donors no longer have to be listed. Citizens United allows foreign investment into our political system and turns it into a buy-a-vote system. Whats to prevent future candidates from providing "free-speech" payments directly to the electorate in return for votes? Nothing. I'd say that is a slightly bigger problem than defacing … more ›