We the People, Not We the Corporations

 

On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions.

We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.

The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.

We Move to Amend.

". . . corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their 'personhood' often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established."

             ~Supreme Court Justice Stevens, January 2010

 

Announcements

Move to Amend Reports on Solidarity Organizing with Reverend Anne Dunlap

February 18, 2016

Move to Amend brings you voices from the movement to amend the Constitution through our weekly podcast. Every Thursday morning!

She’s known as “The Fierce Good Reverend of the Revolution.” As a pastor in the United Church of Christ, the Reverend Anne Dunlap has spent over 25 years, working in freedom movements across the social divides of race, gender and class. Join us for a conversation with a focus on solidarity organizing for racial justice within white communities in this episode of Move to Amend Reports.

Move to Amend Reports on Detroit’s Water, Education, & the Grassroots Response to Reclaim the City

February 11, 2016

Move to Amend brings you voices from the movement to amend the Constitution through our weekly podcast. Every Thursday at 7am Pacific/10am Eastern.

This week join us for a conversation with Tawana “Honeycomb” Petty, organizer and artist extraordinaire on the takeover of Detroit’s Municipal water system by Violia Water North America Corporation, the decay of public education, and the rise of great organizing models Detroiters are employing to take their city back and establish real democracy.

Move to Amend Reports on the Flint Water Crisis

February 4, 2016

Move to Amend brings you voices from the movement to amend the Constitution through our weekly podcast. Every Thursday at 7am Pacific/10am Eastern.

This week join us for a conversation about the contamination of Flint’s water supply leading to lead poisoning in the population and its connections with the Detroit Water Crisis with grassroots organizers Nayyirah Shariff of the Flint Democracy Defense League and Shea Howell of the Detroiters Resisting Emergency Management.

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