We Move to Amend!

SUBHEAD: We must re-establish that money is not speech, and corporations are not persons entitled to constitutional rights. Image above: Corporate Logo of America flag. From (http://openesf.net/projects/esf-activists-news-network/blog/category/labour-and-globalisation-network-news) By staff on 22 January 2010 in Move to Amend - (http://www.movetoamend.org) On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions. The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.

We Move to Amend!

We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United, 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.
• Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our votes and participation count.
• Protect local communities, their economies, and democracies against illegitimate "preemption" actions by global, national, and state governments.

MovetoAmend.org is a project of the Campaign to Legalize Democracy, a coalition dedicated to ending the illegitimate legal doctrines that prevent the American people from governing ourselves.

We were initiated by Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County (DUHC), the Independent Progressive Politics Network (IPPN), the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution (Liberty Tree), and Ultimate Civics. A full list of campaign co-organizers and endorsers appears to your right.

If your organization, business, union, faith community, or local governmental organization would like to sign on as a supporter of this effort, please let us know.

If you are a member of the news media and interested in learning more about Move to Amend, please contact us.

“Today the business once transacted by individuals in every community is in the control of corporations, and many of the men who once conducted an independent business are gathered into the organization, and all personal identity, and all individualities lost. Each man has become a mere cog in one of the wheels of a complicated mechanism. It is the business of the corporations to get money. It exacts but one thing of its employees: Obedience to orders. It cares not about their relations to the community, the church, society, or the family. It wants full hours and faithful service, and when they die, wear out or are discharged, it quickly replaces them with new material.

The corporation is a machine for making money, but it reduces men to the insignificance of mere numerical figures, as certainly as the private ranks of the regular army. See also: Ea O Ka Aina: Freedom od Speech Destroyed 1/21/10 Parx News Daily: Lappin' it right up 1/22/10