Newsletter - November 2024


Affiliate Spotlight - November 2024

In this month's Affiliate Spotlight, we celebrate the Tuscaloosa Move to Amend affiliate group, with special thanks to Kiki Karatheodoris for her contributions. Their recent outreach efforts have led to significant endorsements, and they are actively engaging the community through tabling events. With plans for an unmanned information table at the local library and outreach to the University Democrats, the Tuscaloosa team is setting an inspiring example of grassroots activism.

Read the full story on our website to learn more about our volunteers' incredible efforts and how they helped drive our mission forward.

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Our Boxed in Elections and Elected Officials

If you already voted or will tomorrow, you know that elections involve boxes. It may be the box where you drop your ballot outside a Board of Elections headquarters. It might be the 3-sided box stand where you place your ballot to vote in private. Or it could be the secure receptacle where your completed ballot is transported from your voting location to the country Board of Elections for tabulation.

But there’s still another box that involves elections, actually more like the winners of elections. That’s the ever diminishing space elected officials face on all sides to govern, especially if their goal is to genuinely serve the public interest and to ensure a livable natural world. 

The U.S. Constitution boxes in the actions of public officials and, for that matter, all of us. It delineates the extent of our democratic space, rights and responsibilities. Its size has expanded when many Constitutional Amendments like abolishing slavery and the poll tax and granting women the right to vote were passed following broad peoples’ movements. The box has also been enlarged following Constitutional interpretations by the Supreme Court.

But other Supreme Court interpretations have vastly decreased our democratic space – the box that was never was very large to begin with since We the People have never included all the people.

Many of those interpretations involved Supreme Court rulings affirming the power and rights of corporations over the power and rights of citizens and workers. Following each Supreme Court decision, our democratic space contracted. The democratic box became smaller.

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15th Anniversary


Volunteer Welcome Call

We are excited to invite you join the fight against the scariest monster of all - corporate personhood and influence over our democracy. 

Please mark your calendar for Monday, November 18 and join us at one of two scheduled virtual programs to hear more about the many upcoming opportunities to get involved and volunteer with Move to Amend. Both times will cover the same material and provide opportunities to answer questions.

The programs will be at 12pm PT / 3pm ET and 5:30 pm ET / 8:30pm ET

 

We need YOU to help clean out the skeletons in Congress's closet!

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Political Influence of the Health Industry

Healthcare is one the main concerns of voters in the 2024 elections. Fifty-nine percent of the public think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage,

The U.S. health system is dead last among high income countries when it comes to “affordability, administrative efficiency, equity, and healthcare outcomes.” Every other “developed” country on the planet provides health coverage for all its citizens. The U.S. has the world’s highest healthcare spending per capita, one of the results of nearly two-thirds of the population being covered by private/corporate insurance.

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Election Season is in full swing!

As early elections begin across many states, the time to act is now! We’re just steps away from reaching our goal of 100 cosponsors for H.J.R. 54, the We the People Amendment, and we need your voice to make it happen. Currently, we have 87 cosponsors on board (87 + lead sponsor)—let’s rally together to reach our goal!

 

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Time's Running Out!

As we approach the upcoming elections, time is running out! We’re just a few steps away from reaching our goal of 100 cosponsors for H.J.R. 54, the We the People Amendment, and we need your voice to make it happen. Currently, we have 87 cosponsors on board (87 + lead sponsor)—let’s rally together to reach our goal!

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Just-In Time Conversations: Greg Coleridge, National Co-Director, Move To Amend Coalition

October 8, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4oYVBZ_qkU

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November election and beyond

The November election is three weeks away. Several million individuals have invested time, energy and money on candidate campaigns and ballot measures. 

Elections are important – arguably more so this year than most. Electing representatives who genuinely value democracy is essential – including those who are knowledgeable about and committed to ending corporate rule and the corrupting influence of massive money spent/invested in elections. 

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