By now, David Cobb's visits to Duluth are enough to garner the attention of mainstream politics.
"We started out with 12 people in a living room in 2010," said Cobb of his movement to limit the influence of money on elections by amending the Constitution. "Now we've got 75 affiliates with 405,000 people and growing."
Move to Amend's David Cobb discusses the Next System with Kathy Swift of Radio Occupy.
On the Acronym Podcast, Dennis Trainor Jr. speak with Keyan Bliss (Communications Coordinator for Move To Amend) about the road to revolution and where (if at all) that intersects with electoral politics.
This is an update about where things stand with Citizens United at the local, state, and national level. Our local Duluth MTA now has over 350 FB members. Our state now has over 10,600 members, starting from just a few hundred three years ago, while our national movement now has over 400,000 members. Move to Amend is now working in coordination wth dozens of other like-minded organizations. Thanks for taking the time to consider this.
Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, National Director of Move to Amend, joined us to discuss that group’s latest efforts to “legalize democracy” by challenging corporate personhood and the involvement of big money in elections.
On this episode of “Watching the Hawks” Tyrel Ventura & Tabetha Wallace sit down for a full show discussion with David Cobb, representative of the Move to Amend organization, which is seeking to get the corrupting influence of money out of politics!
OPINION: Major political campaign donors don't give out of civic virtue, they give for results - and the recipients are inclined to provide them.
May Day is an international holiday commemorating the struggle and solidarity of working people around the world, but May Day has its roots planted firmly in American soil.
This year is the 130th anniversary of May Day protests in 1886 that still resonate in American history, and right here in Athens today, the spirit of May Day will echo through the downtown area at the 38th Annual Athens Human Rights Festival. Athens for Everyone, a local community activist group, will lead a Workers for Human Rights March that will step off from the festival stage on College Square at 1 p.m.
". . . 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
The Interfaith Caucus of Move to Amend, a national coalition seeking to obtain this amendment (See HJR 48 in the U.S. House of Representatives), is reaching out to all faith and ethical communities who believe, as the pope said, that we are “stewards of creation."
