Recommended Resources

Some of the most frequently searched for and helpful articles are:

• Move to Amend Strategic Plan
  
  
• How Corporate Constitutional Rights Harm You, Your Family, Your Community, Your Environment, and Your Democracy (PDF)
  
  
• The We the People Amendment: The Constitutional Amendment to Counter Political Corruption and the Corporate Hijacking of the Constitution (Move to Amend white paper) (PDF)
  
  
• Why Non-Profit Corporations Do Not Have, Deserve or Need Constitutional Rights (PDF)
  
  
• Not All Responses to Citizens United are the Same
  
  
• What Could Change if Corporate Personhood Were Abolished?
  
  
• Move to Amend’s Quick Guide to the Highlights and Low Points of the Citizens United Decision
  
  
• Move to Amend's Position on a Constitutional Convention

Organizations

• Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD)
• Alliance for Democracy
• Democracy Unlimited
• Liberty Tree Foundation
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

Books

• Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann
• Gangs of America by Ted Nace
• Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy by POCLAD
• You Call THIS Democracy? by Elizabeth Rusch

Videos

Films

SHADOWS OF DEMOCRACY is a collaborative film project between the producers behind the documentaries The Corporation, Shadows of Liberty, and Move to Amend's Legalize Democracy. takes the best of each of these three films into a short one-hour documentary highlighting the nature of corporate power, the absurdity of corporate personhood, and more about the grassroots movement to amend the Constitution to end corporate rule.

Click here to view the documentary. Password: Mashup (case-sensitive)

Click here to view and print a handout to go along with the film! 

LEGALIZE DEMOCRACY is a short documentary about Move to Amend, the national grassroots campaign to amend the US Constitution to unequivocally state that corporations are not people and money is not speech. This documentary details a history of Supreme Court decisions that gave corporations constitutionally protected rights and established that money is free speech.

SHADOWS OF LIBERTY reveals the extraordinary truth behind the news media: censorship, cover-ups and corporate control. Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay takes a journey through the darker corridors of the US media, where global conglomerates call the shots, tracing the story of media manipulation through the years to pose a crucial question: why have we let a handful of powerful corporations write the news?

THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics - including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

PAY 2 PLAY: DEMOCRACY'S HIGH STAKES examines how corporations have taken over our democracy as he follows outsiders using their voice to change the game in American politics.  He ventures through high drama on the Ohio campaign trail, uncovers the secret history of America’s favorite game, and explores the underworld of Los Angeles street art in a humorous odyssey that reveals how much of a difference one person can make.

THE STORY OF CITIZENS UNITED v. FEC: WHY DEMOCRACY ONLY WORKS WHEN PEOPLE ARE IN CHARGE Why we need the We the People Amendment by Peter Coyote: 8-minute video explaining the highlights of why corporation shouldn't have constitutional rights. Oversimplifies things a bit by focusing so much on the Citizens United decision (it wasn't like things were working so well before!) but a great introduction to the issue and starting point for discussion.