Move to Amend Poems – By Greg Coleridge

February 2014

 This Sunday is the Academy Awards
Which will be seen by the hordes

But a film that wasn’t nominated
Shows how we’ve been dominated
By those who’ve ruled, plundered and oppressed
Hijacking those for democracy who have pressed

Persons of the wrong gender, ethnicity and race
Have never had in this nation an authentic democratic place

The film also shows how rights for corporations & big money
Are as realistic as the Easter Bunny
This entire system of oppression, oligarchy and corporatocracy
Is documented in the short film, “Legalize Democracy”

[Note: Legalize Democracy is produced by Move to Amend]

May 2019

No decree, regulation or law is sufficient
No election of any public official is efficient

Not simply about Citizens United cursing
Nor even Buckley v Valeo reversing

The only way to set our sites
To abolish corporate constitutional rights

Is an amendment to end corporate personhood
-- a big step toward making government good

And the only proposed Constitutional Amendment that is great
is the We the People Amendment, H.J.R. 48

January 2020

For the past decade, Move to Amend has tried to help others set their sights
On not only the need to abolish big money in elections and corporate constitutional rights

But to also end all oppressions and to understand that we’re facing multiple crises at their heights
That can only be solved not piecemeal, but systemically, which is as clear as day is to night

The power of those we face — corporations, the political elite, the super rich — have incredible might
Which use it to distort, distract, co-opt, threaten, legally bribe, and/or confuse many people from seeing the light

That authentic justice, peace, a livable world and democracy is a possible future that is bright
But can only be achieved by a powerful, independent democracy movement that has real nonviolent bite

MTA is doing its part to work for systemic change, despite finances that have always been, especially now, tight
Yet, we’ll together — despite the odds, powers-to-be, even pandemics — continue this now-more-than-ever-important fight.

November 2021

Among some groups the current trend
It to just work to Citizens United end
But what we feel
And what we spiel
If that corporations are NOT people, my friend

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Claims that corporations are persons by the High Court
To existing Amendments have been a major contort
So one must ask
And seek to unmask
What up their noses did and do Justices snort

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While a democracy crisis equaled the capital breach
As well as the twice Congressional efforts to impeach
But just as much a threat
Has been the High Court’s duet
Rulings that corpses are people and money is speech

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Is it enough for the Constitution to be reformed
Or is it so fundamentally deformed
That the only solution
For a democratic evolution
Is for it to be transformed