The tasks vary depending upon the campaign:  Pledge to Amend, Caucus Resolution, Summer Tabling, Passing Legislation, Imagining Real Democracy Education, etc.  Tasks are started and sometimes completed during the Meet.

Tuesday, May 24,  5 pm PT / 8 pm ET

Lucille Eckrich is a founding member of the Alliance For Just Money, and has served on its Board and Executive Committee since its inception in 2018.

Steve Norris is the Alliance For Just Money Vice President and member of AFJM’s Youth Caucus. He is also Cleveland Move to Amend Co-Coordinator

(full bios below)

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Private commercial banks are arguably the most powerful corporate sector in the US and globally today because they secured—first in 1694 England and in 1913 in the US—the legally sanctioned privilege to create, via interest-bearing loans, almost all of the means of payment denominated in the currency of our nation that the rest of us, and our governments, use to engage in any and all means of commerce. Though this system failed within 20 years in the US, legislation in the 1930s shored it up and it has more or less survived ever since, extracting more and more wealth from our planet and the 99% into the pockets of the 1% and financial corporations, even on shakier grounds ever since the 2007-08 financial crises.

This is why members of the Alliance For Just Money (AFJM) believe that changing our money system is necessary to change our world, and that Just Money reform is in concert with Move to Amend’s We the People Amendment. AFJM’s Mission is to research, educate, and organize to pass legislation that makes our money a sovereign liquid asset of the people whose name it bears, whose commerce it circulates, and whose public good and democratic practice it exists to serve now and in perpetuity.

Hear the presentation and join the discussion about the nature of our existing money and banking system and how to correct its flaws to achieve the justice, sustainability and democracy that MTA and AFJM espouse and that our children and grandchildren demand of us now to ensure a livable world.

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SPEAKER BIOS

Lucille Eckrich is a founding member of the Alliance For Just Money, and has served on its Board and Executive Committee since its inception in 2018. She majored in economics and African studies in college, and then worked in rural Botswana for three years, after which she did anti-apartheid and urban education work in Chicago until she started graduate school in 1990. It was through her 1998 dissertation on Value in Economics, Ethics, and Education that she came to a critique of modern money that has informed her life's work ever since. Lucille is an Associate Professor Emeritus at Illinois State University, where she taught leadership ethics and philosophy, sociology, and history of education in the College of Education 2001-2020. She has published on the student debt crisis, public school funding, urban education, and philosophy of education. She is married to a master cabinetmaker from Germany who fully renovated their 1896 home in central Illinois and with whom she raised three children who now live far afield. A bit more, including links to some of her publications, is available here. 

Steve Norris is a software developer in Ohio. He studied computer science and music at Denison University where he met his now wife Emily. He took an interest in Socially Responsible Investing when looking into saving for retirement and barriers to structural reforms. Increasingly concerned with the big money in politics, he became co-chair of Move to Amend Cleveland. He heard about monetary reform through John Howell’s presentation for a Move to Amend event and deepened his connection with the Alliance For Just Money through the Youth Caucus. As Vice President of AFJM, Steve has supported social media outreach and diversity, equity, and inclusion work.

Join us the last WEDNESDAY of every month at 5PM PT / 8 PM ET on Facebook or Twitter for our monthly Live Report!

Get the #CorporateRule news that we're tracking, learn about what we've been working on, get the latest updates from our grassroots chapters across the country, and find out what's ahead for next month and beyond! 

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YOUTH v GOV is the story of the Juliana v. The United States of America constitutional lawsuit and the 21 American youth, ages 14 to 25, who are taking on the world’s most powerful corporations and government. Since 2015, the legal non-profit Our Children’s Trust, has been representing these youth in their landmark case against the U.S. government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty, personal safety, and property through their willful actions in creating the climate crisis they will inherit. Trailer: https://www.youthvgovfilm.com/

Wednesday May 25, 7 pm   Join Zoom Meeting:

https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/8859032836?pwd=MlF1TFd2QzRwcHRBS2wvbjlVMjlIQT09

Meeting ID: 885 903 2836  Passcode: 088746 

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The documentary will be followed by a moderated discussion.  More info: [email protected]

The tasks vary depending upon the campaign:  Pledge to Amend, Caucus Resolution, Summer Tabling, Passing Legislation, Imagining Real Democracy Education, etc.  Tasks are started and sometimes completed during the Meet.

After the biggest known bribery scandal in Ohio history...

Could we do it? If so, how?

Is it even a good idea?

Without FirstEnergy Corporation, where and how could we get our electricity?

Any other implications?

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Wednesday, June 1

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm ET

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PRESENTERS 

Philomena Farley, Ohio Green Party

Mike Ferner, former member of Toledo City Council and the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD), Coordinator of Lake Erie Advocates

MODERATOR

Greg Coleridge, Move to Amend

R.S.V.P. below NOW for this virtual meeting of the Move to Amend Ohio Network

Background

Judge orders FirstEnergy to turn over records tied to bribery scandal

First Energy dissolution? An historic opportunity to remove key player in corrupt political culture

To reclaim Ohioans’ historical power, First Energy’s corporate charter should be revoked

Petition calling on Ohio Attorney General to Dissolve FirstEnergy Corporation

You are invited to join Ecology Network Call! RSVP below!A space focused on the relationship between corporate power and environmental catastrophe. We’re interested in gathering with folks who, like us, want an end to corporate destruction of the Earth for-profit and to create alternatives for a truly livable world. 

Move to Amend has focused on ending the constitutional rights for corporations in the United States which are used to get away with; dangerous fracking and pipelines, spewing oil and toxic waste into the water, mountaintop removal, usurping community rights and violating treaties, and every other shameful action corporations take in the pursuit of maximum profit. 

We have one perspective and hold one piece of the work, but the fight for the survival of animals and ecosystems will take many of us. The is a space where we invite folks who are fighting this fight to come and share with us, help strengthen the public education we do and uplift your work, and connect with other threads of the movement.

We are an active group that meets regularly on the first Thursday of each month. Due to COVID-19, we are currently meeting through the Zoom Platform from 7:00-8:00 pm. You are invited to join us online or via phone!

For more information please Contact Mike Potters at 850-512-4893.

The tasks vary depending upon the campaign:  Pledge to Amend, Caucus Resolution, Summer Tabling, Passing Legislation, Imagining Real Democracy Education, etc.  Tasks are started and sometimes completed during the Meet.

The tasks vary depending upon the campaign:  Pledge to Amend, Caucus Resolution, Summer Tabling, Passing Legislation, Imagining Real Democracy Education, etc.  Tasks are started and sometimes completed during the Meet.