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.
". . . 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
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 7pm – 9:00pm (Central Time)
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Since the beginning of the year, many Minnesotans have signed the Move to Amend petition in support of the We the People Amendment. Now, we invite you to take the next step!
This session is an opportunity to:
Learn more about the amendment and why it matters.
Discover how you can help build awareness across Minnesota.
Connect with others who share your commitment to reclaiming democracy from corporate rule.
Together, we can strengthen the movement for real democracy—of, by, and for the people.
Location: Zoom (RSVP Below) - You'll receive a link once registered.
Wednesday | October 15 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 ET
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The New York City Mayoral Race may be the most high-profile in the entire country this November. Millions of dollars have already been raised from individual billionaires and real estate interests white independent expenditures from corporations will likely be in the tens of millions of dollars.
How is all this campaign cash affecting the elections? Are the voices of people without big money being heard by the candidates? What do the major political campaign investors want in return?
Speakers:
Moderator: Kylie Madhav is a seasoned human rights defender with two decades of experience advocating in solidarity with immigrant, asylum-seeking and queer communities in the United States, the Dominican Republic and India. She is currently leading Black community engagement initiatives across New York State and, in conjunction with Equality New York, has built a program to defend the rights of transgender, intersex and non-binary New Yorkers to procure accurate federally-recognized identification.
Kylie began her career as an interpreter for francophone asylum seekers and since then has worked with governments and institutions in the US and abroad to build civil rights frameworks that address the material concerns of often marginalized minority groups. She holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management as well as an MSW and BA in Linguistics and Law & Society from New York University. She is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Haitian Kreyòl and enjoys delving into the extensive literary canon of her fifth language: Tamil. She currently resides in New York City with her husband.
Meghnad Bose is an award-winning investigative journalist with over ten years of experience as a reporter and editor. He currently teaches journalism and heads the MA program in Open Source Investigative Reporting at the University of Memphis. In addition, he continues to work on his own reporting projects. Prior to joining the University of Memphis, Bose was based in New York, as a reporter and Delacorte Fellow at Columbia Journalism Review, and as an independent journalist reporting for publications such as The Intercept, Drop Site News, Documented, Hyperallergic, Votebeat, New York Focus and more. Bose is an alum of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Prior to moving to the US, Bose worked as a reporter and editor in India, where his investigations tracked down discrepancies in a government-run COVID relief fund, exposed the modus operandi of organized anti-Muslim lynch mobs, and uncovered the tampering of marks of millions of high school students. He is a two-time recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award, considered India’s top journalism honor, and a five-time winner of the South Asian Digital Media Award conferred by the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
Greg Coleridge is Co-Director of Move to Amend. He previously worked for more than three decades with the American Friends Service Committee in Ohio where he educated, advocated and organized on a range of justice, peace, environmental and democracy issues -- including helping coordinate Move to Amend activities in the Buckeye state.He is the author of The Depth of Change: Selected Writings and Remarks on Social Change (2022), Citizens over Corporations: A Brief History of Democracy in Ohio and Challenges to Freedom in the Future (2003), writer of the documentary CorpOrNation: The Story of Citizens and Corporations in Ohio (2003), and contributed several articles to the anthology Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy - A Book of History and Strategy (2001). He currently maintains and distributes via email a weekly REAL Democracy History Calendar and Monetary History Calendar.
Greg is a Board Member of the Alliance for Just Money (AFJM). He previously served an elected term on the national governing board of Common Cause and was a Principal with the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD).
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Every candidate for Mayor has been invited to speak during the program on the issue of the influence of big money on the election.
There will be time for audience questions and comments!
Join us!
{{recipient.first_name_or_friend}}, another government shutdown is upon us. Once again, working families are forced to go without paychecks, small businesses lose customers, and communities lose vital services. Meanwhile, corporate interests continue to collect their subsidies, tax breaks, and special access.
This dysfunction isn’t an accident—it’s a strategy. Manufactured crises are used to justify privatization of public goods, funneling our tax dollars into corporate profits while leaving us with higher costs and fewer services. It’s corporate rule at work.
That’s why we need the We the People Amendment (H.J.R. 54) —to end corporate power and put human needs first.
Even in the middle of this chaos, our movement is gaining traction!
This month we’re thrilled to shine a light on two inspiring Affiliates who are carrying the Move to Amend mission forward in their communities.
ninth in the series
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the South was a continuation of the earlier Abolitionist Movement. Its major achievements were the enactment of the post-Civil War 13th, 14th, and 15th “Reconstruction Amendments” to the U.S. Constitution which abolished slavery, established equal protection and due process under the law, and guaranteed voting rights for Black men.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtsy91iCGKM&list=PLrFE8GFuZltEcMb0JntddjsEpMqS10ozd&index=14
This panel includes John Mulkins, Luke Pickrell, and Greg Coleridge as they discuss democratizing the U.S. constitution, with background on our history as a democracy, the undemocratic features of the constitution, what can be done to democratize our constitution, and what can participants do to further the conversation.
Presented by Move To Amend
See all the Convergence sessions at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUT4Q3RTbFE&list=PLrFE8GFuZltEcMb0JntddjsEpMqS10ozd&index=1
In solidarity,
Greg, Margaret, Katie, Alfonso, Jessica, Jason, Tara, Cole, Shelly, George, Daniel, Kelsey, Jennie, Keyan, Michael & Alfonso.
P.S. We are living through a constitutional crisis. Every generation has the opportunity to define history. Together, we must act and do our part to create a Constitution that affirms justice, a livable world and an authentically democracy Your support makes this vision real. Join us with a gift today!
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