South Central Wisconsin Move To Amend

Date Established: 

May 2010

We are a citizens group organized to regain the liberties and privileges guaranteed in the US Constitution to human beings, but now being usurped by corporations.

On January 21, 2010, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a bitterly divided Supreme Court overturned a century of established precedent by ruling that corporate spending on candidate elections cannot be limited under the First Amendment. SCWMTA began petition drives for the City of Madison and Dane County, calling for the abolishment of corporate personhood.

Once the petitions were collected, they asked the Madison City Council to include a resolution on the Spring 2011 ballot. Then, the Dane County Board voted to also include a ballot resolution on the Spring 2011 ballot. The resolutions passed by 84% in Madison and 78% in Dane County! Now we are expanding our efforts to the rest of Wisconsin, reaching out to other communities and organizations in the state.

This process of networking, education, training will facilitate the creation and development of other MoveToAmend (MTA) groups throughout Wisconsin.

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In the wake of Citizens United v. FEC, Local Grassroots Organization Leads the National Fight Against Unlimited Independent Expenditures on Elections

March 27, 2012
Madison Guild Newsletter

On January 20th, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a now-infamous ruling in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. In its 5-4 decision, the court held that the First Amendment of the US Constitution prohibits the government from restricting political expenditures by corporations and unions.

ISTHMUS Democracy Convention kicks off, boosted by Wisconsin Capitol protests

August 23, 2011
The Isthmus

The timing could not be better, but organizers say plans for this week's Democracy Convention in Madison were set before Gov. Scott Walker's introduction of his collective bargaining bill and the ensuing protests that led some to compare the uprising in Wisconsin to democratic rebellions in Egypt and Tunisia.

Move to Amend Sees "Pearl Harbor for American Democracy"

January 25, 2010
Wisconsin Radio Network
Last week’s controversial Supreme Court ruling has some calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Madison attorney Ben Manski says the decision, which is expected to allow corporate and union money to pour into political campaigns, was itself based on a precedent which gives corporations the same rights as individuals.
 
“This decision enshrines the rights of corporations above the rights of the people to govern ourselves,” says Manski. “The majority essentially decided that corporations have the same rights as flesh-and-blood human beings.”