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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 9 - 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 9 - Transforming Emotions into Action: Grief, Anger, Despair & Motivation
Mar 30 - Socialization & Liberation: Breaking Free from Oppressive Societal Norms
April 20 - Protecting Joy & Taking Collective Action for a Compelling Future (Part 1)
May 11 - Protecting Joy & Taking Collective Action for a Compelling Future (Part 2)
Download an outline of the course here
To get our We The People amendment passed, we need a Senate Companion Bill to HJR 54.
Who better to ask than our California Senate Candidates.
Please add your signature below to the letters asking just that! Let’s show our support to keep our democracy intact.
Click links to read the letters.
Senate Candidate Garvey Letter
Senate Candidate Schiff Letter
Citizens United opened a loophole: Foreign governments, foreign businesses and foreign individuals can invest in U.S. corporations, and those corporations can spend unlimited amounts from their corporate treasuries on U.S. elections.
The clock is now ticking with less than a month to pass AB 83, The Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act out of the Assembly!
AB 83, the Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act, (add your name below) closes the loophole that allows foreign money to pour into California campaigns, candidates, political parties, PACs, Super-PACS and ballot measures “indirectly", undermining our capacity for self-governance...
When the U.S. Supreme Court decided that corporations could spend unlimited amounts of money from their corporate treasuries in U.S. elections (Citizens United v FEC, 2010), they justified the decision by saying that U.S. corporations were “associations of citizens.”
However, over 40% of all the shares held in US corporations are held by foreign investors, not U.S. citizens, living outside of the U.S. These corporations then spend millions in California elections, even though U.S. election law stipulates that no foreign money is allowed in U.S. elections, contributed either “directly or indirectly.”
Citizens United opened a loophole: Foreign governments, foreign businesses and foreign individuals can invest in U.S. corporations, and those corporations can spend unlimited amounts from their corporate treasuries on U.S. elections.
AB 83, the Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act, closes the loophole that allows foreign money to pour into California campaigns, candidates, political parties, PACs, Super-PACS and ballot measures “indirectly", undermining our capacity for self-governance.
Earlier this year, Minnesota closed the loophole, prohibiting multinational corporations from spending money on state elections. We can do the same in California. Multinational influence is a threat to U.S. sovereignty and to our national security – international interests can easily, and often do, diverge from U.S. interests. There should not be any foreign money in our elections.
Join us in support of AB 83 and urge the California Assembly to pass this legislation and close this loophole immediately.
Sign now in support of AB 83, the Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act.
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