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 Artful Activism and the Global Corpocracy Art Project

August 18, 2016

Move to Amend brings you voices from the movement to amend the Constitution through our weekly podcast. New shows released every Thursday morning!

This week, we explore the role of Artists and Cultural workers in creating social change and revolution with Christian Sarkar and Ruthi Engelke as we discuss the collaborative art + activism project Global Corpocracy and Move to Amend’s Art & Culture Caucus. 

Move to Amend Reports on Progress and Actions From the National Conventions

August 11, 2016

Move to Amend brings you voices from the movement to amend the Constitution through our weekly podcast. New shows released every Thursday morning!

Join us for a special report on Move to Amend’s activities during the Conventions with Move to Amend Ohio coordinator Greg Coleridge, Imam Paul Hasan of the American Friends Services Committee, Move to Amend Outreach & Engagement director David Cobb, Move to Amend National Leadership members Daniel Lee and Egberto Willies (Move to Amend Reports co-host), who served as a Houston delegate to the DNC.

Move to Amend Reports on Cooperation Jackson’s Struggle for Economic Democracy in Mississippi

August 4, 2016

Move to Amend brings you voices from the movement to amend the Constitution through our weekly podcast. New shows released every Thursday morning!

Mississippi gets some deservedly bad press. The plethora of far-right Koch-sponsored bills that swept through its legislature is the stuff of nightmares. But some good folks in Jackson are having none of it.

Cooperation Jackson is an emerging network of worker cooperatives and supporting institutions fighting to create sustainable community development and economic democracy.  Join us for an enlightening conversation with the founder and organizing coordinator of Cooperation Jackson, Brandon King.

You're Needed for We the People Lobby Week

August 2, 2016

This month we're blitzing Congress urging support for the We the People Amendment when our representatives are in their home districts for the August Recess. Citizen Lobbyists across the country will be visiting their district offices urging House members to sign on as co-sponsors to House Joint Resolution 48, and Senate members to prepare to introduce the amendment next year. 

Move to Amend Reports on Intersections between Immigrant Rights and Democracy Movements

July 28, 2016

Move to Amend brings you voices from the movement to amend the Constitution through our weekly podcast. New shows released every Thursday morning!

United We Dream is much more than a lovely thought. It’s a cutting edge organization run by youth for undocumented youth. Ambar Pinto is one such youth coming from Bolivia to the US with her mother at age 12, and now works for United We Dream fighting deportations, and at the intersections of commonality within the undocumented and other oppressed communities. Join us for this eye-opening discussion!

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