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
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In times that feel heavy and uncertain, how do we keep showing up without burning out? How do we cope with the emotional and psychological toll of living day-to-day life within a polycrisis of urgent, overlapping, and simultaneous tipping points in all realms: environmental, economic, political, and social?”
This work is long, demanding, and deeply human. As we change the system, we also need to care for ourselves and one another.
Join Move to Amend’s 6-part series,
The Way Through: Building Resilient, Sustainable Activists —
a space to meet overwhelm, anger, and despair with compassion, and to transform them into grounded, collective action for a healthier, safer world.
Each session focuses on one section of The Way Through, the newest module from our Movement Education Program (MEP), offering tools to sustain ourselves — and our movements — for the long haul.
Because movements don’t survive on strategy alone — they survive on cultures of care.
NEXT UP on March 30 - Depression, despair, anxiety, fear, frustration, grief, and anger are common and appropriate emotional responses to societal injustices. When we learn the skills to engage uncomfortable emotions, this empowers us to act more effectively on behalf of our world and ourselves.
In this section, we explore ways to lean into the emotion of anger to propel you forward with the right aligned action and how grief can serve as a potent force for activism. And we are encouraged to take our care and pain out of individual isolation into networks of community who can take bold actions.
Session Schedule: You only need to register one time
Jan 26 - Grief, Anger & Emotional Resilience
Feb 16 - What You Love, Your Core Values, and Personal Strengths
Mar 30 - Transforming Emotions into Action: Grief, Anger, Despair & Motivation
April 20 - Socialization & Liberation: Breaking Free from Oppressive Societal Norms
May 11 - Protecting Joy & Taking Collective Action for a Compelling Future (Part 1)
June 1 - Protecting Joy & Taking Collective Action for a Compelling Future (Part 2)
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It’s easy to think that the fight to end corporate rule only happens in Washington. But the truth is, the strongest pressure doesn’t start inside the Capitol—it starts outside of it, in communities where people decide they’re done watching corporations write the rules.
Lives have already been lost — American service members and civilians in the region — while military operations move forward at accelerating speed.
This conflict is unfolding inside a political system shaped by Gulf sovereign wealth, multi-billion-dollar arms deals, expanded U.S. military aid to Israel, defense industry lobbying, and tens of millions in election spending.
The State of the Union was presented as a celebration of “strength” and “prosperity.”
But for millions of people struggling to pay rent, afford groceries, survive medical debt, or keep their farms and small businesses afloat, it sounded like something else entirely:
A victory speech for corporate America — and one filled with multiple false or misleading claims about the economy, jobs, inflation, immigration, and key policy outcomes, according to independent fact-checkers.
On March 28, millions across the country will rise in nonviolent action, demonstration, and protest for the next No Kings Day — a nationwide declaration that we reject authoritarianism, reject oligarchy, and reject a system that concentrates power in the hands of the few.
This is more than a protest - it’s a historic moment to stand up against the legal and corporate foundations of power that have enabled state terror, unchecked federal force, and an oligarchical regime that protects corporations over communities.
We honor the long history of collective action in this country - from the original Declaration of Independence’s promise of self-government to every movement that has ever demanded equity, dignity, and freedom. And now it’s our turn once more: to name the root of power, to dismantle the laws and systems that let corporate rule justify violence, and to build something better from the ground up.
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The flagship action will gather at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul — a powerful site of resistance where Minnesotans continue to demand justice after federal agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Across the country, communities will mobilize in solidarity.
But this moment is about more than protest. It is about vision.
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Move to Amend is a coalition of hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals committed to social and economic justice, ending corporate rule, and building a vibrant democracy that is genuinely accountable to the people, not corporate interests. We call for an amendment to the US Constitution to unequivocally state that inalienable rights belong to human beings only, and that money is not a form of protected free speech under the First Amendment and can be regulated in political campaigns. Move to Amend © Move to Amend
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