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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.

• Mondays | 7:30pm ET/ 6:30 pm CT/ 5:30 pm MT/ 4:30pm PT/ 2:30 PM HAW (check your time zone)
• Every 3 weeks: 1/26–5/11
• 75-minutes each, focused and supportive
• Attend the full series or any individual sessions (see session schedule below)
• Open to activists and anyone who is struggling and wondering, “But what can I do?”

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)
Download an outline of the course here

Our campaign goal is to secure 100 co-sponsorships for the #WeThePeopleAmendment before the end of 2024.

To achieve this goal, we suggest starting with the closest Representative to you and recruiting constituents in that District to hold a meeting with their target Representative (or their legislative staff). Sign up below to get started! 

Read the Dear Colleague Letter from Rep. Jayapal, Lead Sponsor for The We the People Amendment here.

Also, check out the Press Release: Jayapal Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Reverse Citizens.

If you do not know who your representative is, go to: Find Your Representative | house.gov 

Here's what you'll need to do:

1. Choose which Representative you're focusing on (see below for the target list, or if your Rep isn't on the campaign target list you can elect to lobby them instead)
2. Recruit 3-5 constituents to join you for the meeting.
3. Schedule the meeting (a Move to Amend national organizer will join you for this meeting)
4. Organize a prep call to prepare.
5. Hold the meeting and ask your Representative to co-sponsor. 
6. Follow up
7. If they don't sign on, time to escalate your tactics! We will help you plan an appropriate action from bombarding their office with phone calls, to organizing a letter-writing campaign to dropping in at their house with Move to Amend petitions! We will work together to decide on any appropriate escalation. 

We have provided you with all the tools and resources needed as well as organizing support. You will find the easy step-by-step instructions linked at the bottom of the page.  Expect that this effort will take 2-5 hours a week. 

Sign up below, then get started!

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***Click on each task for related templates and instructions.

STEP 1 -- SIGN UP FIRST!

• Sign up to organize or participate in a lobby meeting on our website.

STEP 2 -- Recruit 3-5 Constituents to Commit to Join a Meeting with the Representative

• Send an email blast to the Move to Amend list asking people to sign up for the meeting
• Recruit your friends and neighbors through social media, email or text messaging
• Phonebank or text bank the Move to Amend list to ask people to commit to joining the meeting

STEP 3 -- Schedule the Meeting

• Contact your Representative's office and ask for a Zoom meeting

STEP 4 -- Prepare for the Meeting

• Watch the August Recess Lobby Training recording!
• Post the meeting date and time to the Move to Amend website to help promote
• Review background information about the #WeThePeopleAmendment
• Line up a Move to Amend national organizer to join you for the meeting
• Hold a prep call to review meeting roles and make sure you are each clear on what you'll say and how to make sure to get to the ask
• Send a blast to constituents on the Move to Amend list a few days in advance to ensure the office gets calls to put the #WeThePeopleAmendment on their radar before your meeting

STEP 5 -- Hold the Meeting

• Follow an agenda because you'll only have 20-30 minutes
• Take good notes, keep track of any questions you get that you can't answer on the spot and commit to following up with the answer(s)
• Enter the details and notes to the Move to Amend national database
• Make a clear ask: Will you co-sponsor the #WeThePeopleAmendment?

STEP 6 -- Follow up!

• Send a thank-you email with any info requests to the staffer(s) and mail a thank you note to the Representative
• Send email blasts to constituents on the Move to Amend list asking them to call each week to keep the pressure up
• In 2 weeks send an email and/or call the office and ask for a response. Be persistent! Keep trying every 2-3 days until you get a response

STEP 7 -- Celebrate or Escalate!

• Often this is all it takes, especially for Representatives who agree with our goals. But if you don't have a commitment yet it is time to escalate your tactics. We will work with you to determine how to escalate appropriately, from stepping up the phone calls, to organizing a letter-writing campaign, to car parades around their office, to delivering Move to Amend petitions to their home, and more!

Ready to Sign Up?