Move to Amend: End Corporate Rule. Legalize Democracy.
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
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Upcoming events
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 07:00 PM · 2 rsvps
OnlineMayday for Money -TEACH-in Livestream
Join us for a special livestream panel discussion hosted by the Alliance for Just Money in collaboration with Move to Amend. This event serves as a TEACH-in leading up to the Mayday for Money March taking place in Chicago, IL, outside the Federal Reserve.
The Alliance For Just Money has issued a distress call for our current monetary system, which is structurally incapable of serving our people and planet. As Earth faces environmental crises and wealth inequity grows, it's clear our monetary system is failing us. The Mayday for Money March seeks to address these issues and advocate for Just Money for Just Democracy!
We invite all movements concerned about economic and ecological chaos to come together and advocate for change. Let's build a future with Just Money for a Healing Future!
Join the live stream to learn:
- Just Money for a Dignified Life: Addressing basic needs and creating sustainable systems.
- Just Money for Just Transition: Transitioning towards a more equitable and sustainable economy.
- Just Money for Just Democracy: Exploring legislative solutions and the journey to change.
- Just Money for Just Exchange: Promoting equality and peace on a global scale.
Tune in to the livestream panel discussion on April 17th at 6pm MT and don't miss this opportunity to learn, engage, and advocate for a more just monetary system!
See all events or Host your ownThursday, April 25, 2024 at 07:00 PM
FLORIDA: Statewide Coalition Monthly Meeting
Corporations are not People and money is not speech!
Join us in Moving Florida to Amend. The Florida state coalition meets on the fourth Thursday of the month at 7 pm EST.
Due to COVID -19, we are currently meeting through the Zoom Platform from 7:00-8:30 pm. EST.
For more information contact Jennie Spanos at [email protected].
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Railroaded: Derail Corporate Rule & Advance Real Democracy
Continue reading →A Call to Take Public Action on May 10 in your Community
May 10th is the anniversary of the Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company Supreme Court decision of 1886. The case first established under the 14th Amendment that corporations are considered “persons.” The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S, included former enslaved human beings, and provided all citizens with “equal protection” and other rights under the law. It was not intended to apply to corporations.
The Supreme Court granted corporations other constitutional rights since then, including the 4th Amendment search and seizure rights, 5th Amendment takings rights and 1st Amendment free speech rights to spend money corrupting politics. The 2010 Citizens United decision expanded corporate 1st Amendment free speech rights.
It’s a common belief that the corporations first acquired corporate constitutional rights (“corporate personhood”) in the Citizen United decision. They did not. Corporate power to hijack democracy precedes Citizens United and corporate spending money in elections by nearly a century.
Armed with constitutional rights, corporations have “railroaded” people, communities and elected officials – overturning democratically-passed laws ensuring safe food and products, protecting workers and workplaces, and ensuring a livable world – in ways that have nothing to do with Citizens United or corporate “free speech” rights.
Ending ALL corporate constitutional rights – not just overturning Citizens United and corporate “free speech” rights – is what makes Move to Amend unique. It is why we call for enactment of the We the People Amendment. And it is why May 10 is such a very important date.
You are invited to organize a public action in your community on Friday, May 10 – a vigil, rally, press conference, picket, or march – at a Congressional office, court building, corporate headquarters or other symbolic location
- To educate the community on why ending corporate rule is so much more than simply reversing Citizens United and corporate money spent in elections
- To advocate for passage of the We the People Amendment, HJR54
- To organize people and allied organizations to make the direct link between furthering the issues and solutions they care about and abolishing “corporate personhood.”
Contact us HERE to indicate your interest. We will contact you to offer assistance, including materials.Thanks for considering.
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"Only the little people pay taxes"
Continue reading →We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.
- Leona Helmsley, billionaire real estate tax dodger
Source: Ralph Nader images
Happy Tax Day! Only kidding.
The very rich and corporations try harder and are more effective in general in avoiding paying taxes than the rest of us. Here are a few numbers reflecting current tax priorities, legislative responses to promote tax fairness and economic and political equality, and how we, "the little people," can become more active in promoting tax fairness and beyond.
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Call Your Rep
Continue reading →Is your Representative a We the People Champion? Find out and call them urging them to support the We the People Amendment!
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Degrowth By Monetary Reform: Money For the People By the People! - video
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link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D___uoeIa2w
People are drowning in debt and suffering from inadequate health care, rising inflation, and endless wars. We must degrow the destructive economic system that enriches a financial elite at the expense of people, planet and peace. The privatized money system is unstable and wreaks havoc as it grows exponentially. The Green Party's "Greening the Dollar" initiative outlines how to scrap the Fed for a Constitutional system that circulates permanent, stable, and debt-free sovereign public money. This will allow us to grow a caring economy that nurtures what we hold dear. Hear from:
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Oppression Eclipses Democracy
Continue reading →As millions of people across the country gaze skyward today at the rare astronomical event, let us compare it to a growing human condition.
Just as the moon blocks out the sun during a total eclipse, oppression blocks out authentic democracy.
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