Move to Amend
Mission: To end corporate rule and build “a vibrant democracy that is genuinely accountable to the people, not corporate interests.”
Move to Amend is a grassroots organization supporting a coalition of hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals committed to social and economic justice at the forefront of the movement to overturn Citizens United.
Current Democracy Work
Move to Amend advocates for a constitutional amendment that would clearly establish that money is not speech, corporations are not people, and does not allow loopholes. The coalition’s strategy is to build a grassroots movement at the local level that is organized and powerful enough to force the state and federal levels to act. (Note that except by a constitutional convention, which few advocate and has never been used, amending the Constitution requires two-thirds of both Houses of Congress to approve it and then passage by three-quarters of state legislators.) Move to Amend’s primary organizing tool is the local-resolution campaign that calls for a 28th Amendment ending “corporate personhood” and money as speech. The goal is to build public pressure, forcing Congress to act.
Recent Successes
So far, more than 500 communities around the country have passed Move to Amend’s resolution calling for a 28th Amendment! Move to Amend’s “We the People Amendment” was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives on April 29, 2015 as HJR 48 and has 14 cosponsors.
Your Entry Points
Sign the online petition in support of a 28th Amendment. Find a group near you and organize to pass a local resolution in your community. Use Move to Amend's online lobbying toolkit and ask your state legislators to pledge support for the We the People Amendment and recruit co-sponsors for it in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. Apply for an internship and get involved in Move to Amend’s organizing, communications, development, legislative and lobbying, or research activities.