In the tradition of the mighty Populist Movement, Move to Amend's experienced and acclaimed speakers travel the country, spreading the word about the campaign to amend the Constitution and inspiring action!
Our speakers give rousing talks, telling the story of the American creation myth and the Constitution as it pertains to Corporate Personhood and illegitimate but legal corporate constitutional rights, followed by about an hour of facilitated discussion / Q and A.
Labor Day is a terrific opportunity for Move to Amenders to make personal and issue connections with members of labor unions.
Many fundamental rights and protections of working people (e.g. the weekend, 8-hour work day, collective bargaining, end of child labor, employer-based health coverage, workplace safety) came into being because working people organized powerful movements that created positive change.
Since Move to Amend is also organizing a powerful movement to create real change -- our constitutional amendment to abolish corporate rights and money considered free speech -- connecting with labor unions and the working people they represent makes perfect strategic sense.
Tell your Senators that opposition to corporate personhood must be a litmus test for Brett Kavanaugh or any nominee to the Supreme Court. Send them a Questionnaire to use in confirmation hearings.
Show up publicly to remind your community about the extreme dangers of corporate rule! Act locally and be a part of the national day of action on the 8th Anniversary of Citizen's United!
Collecting petitions is an effective outreach mechanism. It helps spread the word and educates more and more people about our campaign.
Target candidates for local, state and federal office to get their position on record re: the We the People Amendment and make this an election issue.
Take Move to Amend to your neighborhood with a door-knocking effort to learn about what's important to your community and connect our issues with their concerns!
Our Move to Amend Leaders will be in DC meeting with our congressmen and asking them to take action to support our version of the 28th Amendment. Please give them a call. If you already make call on other issues, add this to them as our amendment will help disolve barriers to making progress on our top issue.
Ask your representative to sponsor or support HJR 48. Ask your Senators to introduce a companion bill to HJR 48.
Portman (202) 224-3353
Brown (202) 224-2315
Use our mini documentary about Move to Amend, called "Legalize Democracy".
This film is a 30 minute explanation of why we need an amendment to the Constitution to make clear that corporations are not people and money is not speech. It is fast-paced, educational, and inspirational! It is the perfect "entertainment" for your party, and will give your friends a great introduction for why you support Move to Amend, and why they should too!
Each year, educational institutions which receive federal funding must provide programming on the US Constitution around September 17th, Constitution Day. This provides Move to Amend an opportunity to get into schools and make connections with educators, administrators, and students. We encourage Move to Amend supporters and affiliates to reach out to their contacts in schools as well as make new contacts with local schools and offer to provide materials or present material to students yourself!
This year we need to secure 35 House of Representatives Co-Sponsors of House Joint Resolution 48 (the We the People Amendment) and have the amendment introduced in the U.S. Senate with 5 co-sponsors.
Target candidates for local, state and federal office to get their position on record re: the We the People Amendment and make this an election issue. Recruit 165 candidates to sign the Pledge to Amend.
Each year, educational institutions which receive federal funding must provide programming on the US Constitution around September 16th, Constitution Day. This provides Move to Amend an opportunity to get into schools and make connections with educators, administrators, and students. We encourage Move to Amend supporters and affiliates to reach out to their contacts in schools as well as make new contacts with local schools and offer to provide materials or present material to students yourself!
We’re fast approaching a major milepost in our ten-year plan to pass the We the People Amendment: 25 cosponsors by the end of 2016.
We’re nailing it! We currently have 21 co-sponsors!
Although numerous organizations and individuals numbering in the hundreds of thousands have expressed their opposition to the TPP, a deal was reached on October 5 and the full details released on November 5.
Negotiated in secret among trade representatives for 12 nations and over 500 multinational corporations, this agreement will affect over 40% of the global economy -- yet is completely removed from any semblance of a democratic process.
Once the formalities are achieved, and the president announces he will sign, the deal becomes public and Congress has 60 days to vote it up or down—no amendments. Washington insiders believe the earliest the deal can move forward is April 2016.
Tell your members of Congress to vote NO on the Trans-Pacific Partnership!
In the tradition of the mighty Populist Movement, Move to Amend's experienced and acclaimed speakers travel the country, spreading the word about the campaign to amend the Constitution and inspiring action!
Our speakers give rousing talks, telling the story of the American creation myth and the Constitution as it pertains to Corporate Personhood and illegitimate but legal corporate constitutional rights, followed by about an hour of facilitated discussion / Q and A.
In the tradition of the mighty Populist Movement, Move to Amend's experienced and acclaimed speakers will be stopping in towns and cities around the country, spreading the word about the campaign to amend the constitution and inspiring action!
Target candidates for local, state and federal office to get their position on record re: the We the People Amendment and make this an election issue.
Despite the uproar from every corner of the country, Congress approved the fast track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, meaning the horrible deal will sink or swim on an up or down vote from Congress with no debate.
Did you know that May 10, 2015 marks the 129th birthday of corporate persons?
That’s right—more than a century before Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court first recognized corporations as people with Constitutional rights in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad on May 10, 1886. Move to Amend is marking the occasion with some light-hearted fun to drive home the point that corporations are not people.
2016 Presidential candidates are already visiting New Hampshire, soliciting support for their campaigns due to the state having such an early primary.
We have the opportunity to make ending corporate personhood and getting big money out of politics central to the next national election.
In the tradition of the mighty Populist Movement, Move to Amend's experienced and acclaimed speakers will be crisscrossing the country in 2014, spreading the word about the campaign to amend the constitution and inspiring action!
Our passionate spokespeople all give rousing one hour talks telling the story of the American creation myth and the Constitution as it pertains to Corporate Personhood and illegitimate but legal corporate constitutional rights, followed by about an hour of facilitated discussion / Q and A.
Take Move to Amend to your neighborhood with a door-knocking effort to learn about what's important to your community and connect our issues with their concerns.
In the tradition of the mighty Populist Movement, Move to Amend's experienced and acclaimed speakers crisscrossed the country in 2013, spreading the word about the campaign to amend the constitution and inspiring action!
Our speakers give rousing one hour talks telling the story of the American creation myth and the Constitution as it pertains to Corporate Personhood and illegitimate but legal corporate constitutional rights, followed by about an hour of facilitated discussion / Q and A.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR ACTION ON MAY 10.
When the Supreme Court decided for corporations in the Citizens United v. FEC case, it elevated knowledge of the doctrine of "corporate personhood" to new heights. Hundreds of thousands of people now know what those words mean.
But as awful as Citizens United is, corporate personhood wasn't created with that case. Corporate Personhood was concocted by corporate lawyers 127 years ago.
Since it’s now fair to say that Move to Amend has caught on like wildfire on the local level, it’s time to kick it up a notch! Let’s amplify and multiply the power of all that great local organizing by building deeper organizational connections on the regional scale.
Join Move to Amend this 4th of July as we Declare Our Independence from Corporate Rule in communities across the nation!
Let's educate our fellow citizens about the corporate threat to our democracy, and get them engaged in the movement to take back our country!
➤➤ Register for our April 10 Webinar to find out how to get started. (click the link on April 10 on the calendar to register)
Organize in Your Home Town for a Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United and Limit Campaign Contributions and Corporate Power
Since the Move to Amend coalition launched in 2010, our grassroots activists have successfully passed dozens of community resolutions declaring public support for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v. FEC by establishing that a corporation is not a person, and money is not speech!
May 2012 marks the 126th anniversary of the Supreme Court granting corporations the rights of human beings. That’s right, Corporate Personhood didn’t begin with Citizens United!
In 1886 the U.S. Supreme Court declared that under the law corporations were “persons” and gave them the same rights as human beings. But a corporation exists only on paper. It is simply a legal creation that allows a group of people to engage in activities as a single entity.
January 20, 2012 marked the culmination of Move to Amend's Occupy the Courts campaign, and was the day democracy went viral in America!
On May 16, 2010 democracy activists Robin and the late Laird Monahan dipped hands and feet in the Pacific, and set out on foot from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Their goals: reach the Lincoln Memorial in Washington by mid October, and, most importantly, build grassroots awareness of the need to amend the Constitution to end corporate personhood along the way.
