2024 has been a major challenge for Move to Amend with all the attention, energy and resources directed toward the November election. However, your continued interest, direct involvement and financial support allowed us to continue focusing on the systemic goal of ending the corrupting, unjust and environmental catastrophic effects of undue corporate power by amending the Constitution to establish that only human beings, not corporations, are constitutional “persons” and that money raised and spent in elections is not free speech and can be regulated. 

Help us reach out end of year fundraising goal of $100,000 by donating HERE

2024 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Congressional supporters for the We the People Amendment (HJR54): 90 (sponsor plus 89 co-sponsors) in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  
  
• Endorsing organizations: Now at 789 endorsing organizations - from the local to national.
  
  
• Supportive municipal resolutions / ballot initiatives: Now at 725.
  
  
• Petition signatures: Over 520,000, more than 20,000 in 2024.
  
  
• Grassroots mobilization and advocacy: Staff, board members and volunteers participated in the End Fossil Fuels March and Constitution Day events in New York City, the Poor People’s Campaign march, and the Veterans for Peace march in DC. and May Day for Money events and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. These events allowed us to bring our message directly to the public and make the connections between all of these issues and corporate rule and money in politics. 
  
  
• Public Education & Outreach: Veterans for Peace (VFP) made abolishing corporate personhood part of their strategic plan as featured in Veteran speaks TRUTH about war and government. We held this joint program: End corporate rule to end wars and occupations. We co-sponsored with Democracy Unlimited Whose Constitution Is It Anyway?  We co-sponsored with Cool World and A Radical Guide Manifesto for World Revolution. We co-sponsored with the Alliance for Just Money and several international groups a Summer reading circle on ending banking power.
  
  
• Education/training of our supporters: We produced and shared dozens of insightful articles to our supporters, on our website and to social media, sparking conversations that resonated nationwide. We organized an August recess lobby training and celebrated our 15th Anniversary with a 2-hour virtual gathering. We hosted a Post-Election conversation and a session on “Coping with Anger and Despair: Connecting Inner Growth with Outer Change.”
  
  
• Conferences: Board member Dr. Daniel Lee (presentation here) and Co-Director Greg Coleridge (presentation here) represented Move to Amend at the national Law & Society Association Annual Conference hosted by Next Systems Studies. Co-Director Cole Bennett attended the American Constittuion Society annual conference and virtually the National Lawyers Guild annual conference.
  
  
• Our previously held program on Promoting Laws to Reduce Corporate Power and Increase Democracy, sparked a public and media-covered action in Ohio calling for corporate charter revocation of a major utility corporation involved in the largest bribery scheme in the state’s history.
  
  
• Our Ecological Network (EcoNet): Monthly focus on the connections between ecological destructive policies and corporate rule with grassroots movement leaders and others sharing their stories and engaging in discussions and strategies, with a focus on uplifting the voices of people who disproportionately experience the effects of environmental catastrophes. 
  
  
• ​​Legal profession outreach: Our Statement Supporting Ending Corporate Constitutional Rights and Money as Free Speech, directed to constitutional law and other professors, attracted additional signatories.
  
  
• Media and publications: Articles were published in several arenas, including Common Dreams (here) and OpEdNews, further amplifying our message and reaching a national audience. Just In Time Conversations, Long Live Alternative Parties, Staying in Contact, Flashpoints,  Grassroots Election Protection Coalition, the Green Party and New Hampshire Peace Action featured Greg Coleridge as a guest speaker. MTA Labor Caucus member Lawrence Abbott was interviewed on America’s Workforce Union podcast/radio and Heartland Labor Forum.

We hope you agree it’s impressive work given we operate on a shoestring budget. We continue to be both financially and economically independent (which go together) from political parties, major foundations, big corporations, the government and 1-2 major individual super rich benefactors. We rely on your financial support – be it one time contribution or even better, donating monthly.

That’s what Move to Amend was about this year – educating, advocating and organizing for fundamental change to a political system and government that has been captured by billionaires and mega corporations – and is about to become more blatant and lucrative for those with political access. 

Thank you for supporting our approach: 

√ To focus on not simply reacting to individual harms but responding or pro-acting with a systemic alternative to create fundamental democracy – the We the People Amendment

AND

√ To remain committed to depending on individuals like you (along with a few family foundations) to fund our work – to remain economically and politically independent.

Thank you so much for your support!

Jennie, Tara, Shelly, George, Daniel, Margaret, Michael, Jessica, Katie, Keyan, Alfonso, , Cole, Jason & Greg