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June 2013

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We the People Listen: Nationwide Community Door-knocking Campaign Launches July 9

Take Move to Amend to your neighborhood with a door-knocking effort to learn about what’s important to your community and connect our issues with their concerns.

Our goal is to speak with 10,000 people before the end of the year — join us!

This project will launch with a webinar on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 4:00pm Pacific to lay out the timeline and details.

Click here to RSVP for the webinar and to get updates and information about this project.

Upcoming Barnstorming Tour Stops

In the tradition of the mighty Populist Movement, Move to Amend’s experienced and acclaimed speakers are crisscrossing the country in 2013, spreading the word about the campaign to amend the constitution and inspiring action!

Southern California Barnstorming with David Cobb and Margaret Koster! (June 7 – 18)
● Saturday, 6/8 – STUDIO CITY, CA
● Wednesday, 6/12 – PALM SPRINGS, CA
● Thursday, 6/13 – OXNARD, CA
● Friday, 6/14 – IRVINE, CA
● Saturday, 6/15 – VENICE, CA
● Sunday, 6/16 – SAN DIEGO, CA
● Monday, 6/17 – LONG BEACH, CA
● Tuesday, 6/18 – ANAHEIM, CA

Colorado Barnstorming Tour with Ashley Sanders (June 16-21)
● Sunday, 6/16 – GRAND JUNCTION, CO
● Monday, 6/17 – STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO
● Tuesday, 6/18 – FORT COLLINS, CO
● Wednesday, 6/19 – COLORADO SPRINGS, CO
● Thursday, 6/20 – BOULDER, CO
● Friday, 6/21 – DENVER, CO

And check our Barnstorming Page soon for details about these upcoming tours:
● Iowa Barnstorming with Ashley Sanders (July 5-11)
● North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee Tour with David Cobb (July 12-23)
● Illinois and Indiana Barnstorming with David Cobb (August 11-20)

Move to Amend Reports Radio Show

Move to Amend Reports is our online radio program hosted by National Leadership Team members Laura Bonham and Egberto Willies. The show airs every Thursday at 8:00 PM ET, 5:00 PM PT.

The show features guests who specialize in movement building, amending the Constitution, grassroots organizing, and issues relating to corporate rule and participatory democracy.

Each show provides opportunity for call-in questions and comments from the listening audience by dialing 646-652-2345 (long distance charges apply).
Tune in live on Thursdays or check out the archives at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/movetoamend.

Upcoming Shows:
● May 30 – Jan Edwards, author of the Corporate Personhood Timeline, to discuss the history of corporate constitutional rights and the impacts on all areas of the law, not just campaign finance.
● June 6 – Richard Monje, new member of the Move to Amend National Leadership Team. Richard is Vice President of Workers United/SEIU. Richard has organized with the Texas Farm workers, I.B.E.W., Steelworkers and Workers United. Richard lives in Chicago.
● June 13 – Pam Brown, new member of the Move to Amend National Leadership Team. Pam was a founding member of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign and Strike Debt. She lives in New York City.
● June 20 – Maria Agosto, new member of the Move to Amend National Leadership Team. Maria is active with the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign and local organizing in St Petersburg, FL. (tentative)

July 19-21: Grassroots Regional Democracy Convergence in Charlotte, NC

Move to Amend is continuing our regional gatherings across the United States in 2013. These events bring you together with Move to Amend activists and supporters from throughout your region of the country. Let’s amplify and multiply the power of all our great local organizing by building deeper organizational connections, and kick it up a notch!

Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte
234 N Sharon Amity Rd
Charlotte, NC 28211

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

David Cobb ★ Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap ★ George Friday ★ Maria Agosto (Move to Amend National Leadership Team Members) — and many more to be announced!

SESSION TOPICS
Building a Multi-Racial Democracy Movement for Social Justice & Constitutional Renewal ★ The State of the Global & US Democracy Movement ★ Engaging Your Community on Corporate Constitutional Rights & the Move to Amend Campaign ★ Building Capacity for the Work to Come — and more!

CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION

If you pay in advance before June 1 we will give you a copy of the book Corporations Are Not People!

Find Move to Amend at a Conference Near You!

We’ll be at several conferences this summer as organizers, speakers, or with information booths:
● Public Banking Institute’s 2013 Conference in San Rafael, CA (June 2-4) — Register using promo code ‘mta2013’ and get 50% off pass for Sunday.
● Left Forum in New York City (June 7-9)
● Netroots Nation in San Jose, CA (June 20-23)
● Free Minds, Free People Conference in Chicago, IL (July 11-14)
● Constitutional Renewal Conference at the Democracy Convention in Madison, WI (August 7-11)
● Occupy National Gathering in Kalamazoo, MI (August 21-25)
● Power Shift in Pittsburgh, PA (October 18-21)

Move to Amend is Hiring! Seeking Applications for Development Coordinator

Reporting to and in partnership with the National Director, the Development Coordinator will create and manage the annual budget and fundraising plan, build financial support and maintain and develop strong relationships with our current and prospective members and funders.

Part-time, 20-30 hours/week, $20/hr, depending on experience.

Click here for further details and application information…

Published in Common Dreams: Corporations Cozy Up to Judges

By: Sabina Khan, Move to Amend

If you were a corporation and wanted to influence government for your own benefit, choosing to persuade judges is a far easier task (and less expensive) than persuading Congress or the White House. Although, Monsanto recently made headlines when they partnered with Senator Roy Blunt to sneak protections for the GMO industry into a recently passed appropriations act, success like this is hard earned in the legislature. Now Monsanto faces what will be a highly publicized repeal effort.

The ability to persuade Judges has immediate benefits. Say, for instance, that your negligence accidentally results in an oil-rig blowing up, killing several workers onboard, and dumping millions of barrels of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
It’s much more expedient to have a judge use creative interpretation of existing law to find in your favor during the consequential lawsuits. It would just be awkward to pursue new legislation to save your tail after the incident had already occurred. Risk adverse corporate giants either recognize the benefits of having courts side with them in these situations, or they are simply big supporters of educating our judges.

Continue reading…

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We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.