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

Still Not Sure?

May 6, 2018

Thank you so much to the 562 of you who have contributed so far this month  to help us raise $40,442 towards our $150,000 goal. Your response to our requests is humbling, and we are almost 1/3 of the way there!

I want to invite all of you to a special webinar series we are doing this month, on Why the World Needs Move to Amend.

Hello Is Anybody Out There?

May 5, 2018

Wall St. has recovered.

"Hooray, hooray," say the media pundits, telling us we're doing better than ever as incidents of violent hate crime rise against a backdrop of thinly veiled hate speech, spewing from the U.S. president. Stuff like that doesn't really matter to financial corporations or their officers and major stockholders. The only thing that matters to them is making more and more money, every single quarter. Presto! Income inequality drives scapegoating.

S.O.S Times 100

May 2, 2018

Yesterday we sounded the alarms because we are facing a major budget shortfall. If we don't raise at least $150,000 in the next 30 days, we are going to need to make drastic cuts from which we may not recover.

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