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.
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The Way Through: Building Resilient, Sustainable Activists —
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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 February 16 - What You Love, Your Core Values, and Personal Strengths: The things that we love, our core values, and our sense of our personal strengths and unique gifts often exist as vague feelings, we know they are there but we often don’t explicitly name them. In this section, we explore what we love, our core values, and personal strengths. Making these clear and specific and then acting on them with intention can be a powerful resource to channel our energy to where we feel most helpful and engaged. And this in turn, supports our resilience for the difficult and painful experience and emotions.
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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)
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Every day, corporate influence tightens its grip—drowning out the voices of everyday people and shaping policies that put profits over our communities, our environment, and our future. From poisoned water to skyrocketing healthcare costs, from environmental devastation to economic inequality, the consequences are clear: corporate power is undermining our democracy.
The We the People Amendment (H.J.Res 54) is the solution.
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Movements are not built in a single place, nor do they advance through a single tactic. They grow because people, in communities large and small, decide to show up—again and again—and connect what’s happening where they live to a larger structural problem.
Across the country, Move to Amend affiliates are doing exactly that: organizing locally while keeping their eyes on the constitutional crisis at the root of corporate power.
Recent actions in Ohio, Alabama, and Minnesota — now at the center of national attention in the fight to reclaim self-government — reveal what it looks like when communities organize for systemic change.
Corporate lobbying just hit record levels — who is government really working for?
Something important is happening in Washington right now — and most people only see it in fragments.
Banks are increasing lobbying spending. Tech companies are flooding Washington with influence campaigns. Defense contractors and financial firms are expanding their political operations. Lobbying firms themselves are reporting record profits as corporations race to shape policy before it is written.
This isn’t speculation. It’s happening in plain sight
Two hundred and fifty years ago, people had the courage to say enough.
They didn’t politely ask an empire for reform. They didn’t wait for permission. They took direct action against concentrated corporate power and declared independence from a system that extracted wealth while denying self-government. The Boston Tea Party wasn’t just rebellion... it was resistance to corporate rule.
Today, we are living under a new empire.
Our unalienable rights are being stripped away in real time - not by monarchs or wannabe kings, but by corporations empowered through courts. Through judicial fiat, corporations have been granted constitutional rights they were never meant to have. These fabricated rights now serve as armor - shielding corporations from accountability while allowing them to dominate elections, write policy, poison communities, and extract wealth with impunity.
Meanwhile, We the People are told to accept shrinking freedoms.
Voting rights are under attack. Political equality is a myth when money determines whose voices are heard. The promise of democracy is hollow when artificial entities wield more power than living, breathing human beings.
The U.S. Constitution was never a democratic document.
It was written to protect the political and economic power of a narrow ruling class: white male property owners. Enslaved people were excluded. Women were excluded. Indigenous nations were excluded. Poor people were excluded. Democracy, such as it exists at all in the United States, was not a gift from the founders — it was wrestled into existence through centuries of struggle.
The Constitution only began to move toward democracy through amendments: evidence of popular pressure forcing the system to expand who counts as “We the People.”
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