THE ROOT CAUSE
Corporate power is consuming our democracy and corrupting our constitutional republic. This is the movement working to build what comes next.
The world is running out of time.
We are watching war and genocide unfold while corporations profit. Authoritarianism is advancing in plain sight. ICE agents are killing people in our streets, armed National Guard troops are being deployed throughout our nation’s capital, and dissent is increasingly met with intimidation, surveillance, and force. Corporations poison our air and water, ravage the planet, and sacrifice entire communities for profit as the climate crisis accelerates. Billionaires buy elections and hoard unimaginable wealth while working families struggle to afford food, housing, and healthcare. Systemic racism determines whose neighborhoods are polluted, whose votes are suppressed, whose bodies are criminalized, and whose lives are treated as disposable. These are not isolated emergencies. They are the consequences of a political and economic system built to concentrate power, protect profit, and place corporations and the ultra-wealthy above people and the planet.
This is not normal. It is not accidental. And these are not separate crises.
They share a root cause: a system that places corporate power, and concentrated wealth over human life and democratic self-government
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The Supreme Court manufactured corporate constitutional rights and transformed political spending into protected “speech”—giving corporations and billionaires (now a trillionaire) the power to overwhelm elections, shape public policy, control the information we receive, and shield themselves from democratic accountability.
Thank you for supporting the movement demanding a constitutional amendment based on two transformative principles: constitutional rights belong to human beings, not corporations, and money is not speech. The stakes could not be higher. When weapons manufacturers profit from endless war, fossil-fuel corporations dictate climate policy, private prison and surveillance companies benefit from mass detention, and billionaires can spend unlimited sums to control government, political equality becomes impossible. Every fight for peace, climate justice, healthcare, workers’ rights, racial justice, immigrant rights, reproductive freedom, voting rights, and human survival eventually collides with the same wall: a political system engineered to protect wealth and corporate power. Millions of people are resisting corruption, authoritarianism, corporate abuse, war, genocide, deportation, and state violence. But resistance alone cannot dismantle the machinery producing these emergencies. This moment demands more than protest. It demands constitutional transformation. America has amended its Constitution during moments of profound moral crisis. Abolition, equal protection, voting rights, and women’s suffrage were once dismissed as impossible. They became possible because organized people refused to accept injustice as permanent. Now another defining struggle has arrived. Can a government dominated by corporations, billionaires, weapons manufacturers, and private profiteers still call itself a democracy? Can the people remove the constitutional foundation of corporate rule before authoritarianism closes the door? Can we build, for the first time, a political system in which human life matters more than profit and every person has an equal voice? We must harness the energy of this moment and do more than resist. We must confront the power driving these crises, remove the constitutional foundation of corporate rule, and build something new. The system is broken. Human lives are on the line. The root cause is corporate rule—and the Constitution is the battleground. In solidarity and fierce determination, Alfonso, Jessica, Jason, Tara, Cole, Shelly, George, Daniel, Kelsey, Jennie, Keyan, Greg and Katie |
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