Move to Amend Reports

December 29:

The League of Revolutionary Black Workers were not your average superheroes. They were ordinary men, struggling to survive against the odds, against exploitation by white Corporate America. Move to Amend National Leadership member and revolutionary Jerome Scott discusses the League’s history, their contribution to solidarity organizing within Labor Unions, and what lessons from this history can inform today's revolutionaries building the movement for genuine democracy. Don’t miss out on this enlightening discussion!

December 22: As you enjoy holiday celebrations with friends and family, we’re sharing a unique music compilation featuring artists, activists, and cultural organizers supporting the movement for real democracy. Special thanks to Soul Circuitry for their support and pro! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from Move to Amend!

See the artists & full set list HERE!

December 15

Move to Amend stands in solidarity with Standing Rock, with national staff and volunteers recently traveling to Oceti Sakowin Camp to deliver supplies and support the resistance at Standing Rock. This week, we’ll be exploring the Standing Rock movement features on the ground interviews with movement organizers, the most current analyses of the US Army Corps’ decision, and reflections from the Move to Amenders who travelled to Standing Rock delivering supplies & standing in solidarity.

Move to Amend Reports is the weekly podcast that details current events and features guests specializing in movement building, grassroots organizing, amending the Constitution, and issues being addressed by Move To Amend.

DECEMBER 8 (REPLAY)

When you’re speaking truth to power, how do you make them listen? In the great American tradition, non-violent civil disobedience has been on display across the US: Occupy, Wisconsin Uprising, Black Lives Matter, and many other less well publicized incidents. In this podcast, we speak to Scott Parkin of Rainforest Action OKNetwork and Rising Tide/North America about non-violent civil disobedience and it’s role in transformative change.

Move to Amend Reports is the weekly podcast that details current events and features guests specializing in movement building, grassroots organizing, amending the Constitution, and issues being addressed by Move To Amend.

December 1

It’s hard to ignore the military-industrial complex in the United States: our government spends more than HALF of the national budget on the military, awards trillions of dollars in military contracts to private corporations, and then receive hundreds of billions in lobbying money to increase that military spending. The connections between corporate oligarchy and the US military are rarely explored within "mainstream" corporate-owned news. In fact, it's more likely for corporate media to defend the American war economy with nationalist propaganda while attacking any critic or anti-war activist who might work against it.

"Made Love, Got War" is how journalist, author, media critic, and activist Norman Solomon describes the military-industrial complex in his book by the same name. Solomon’s lifetime in journalism and anti-war activism have combined to provide his readers with accurate and responsible reporting and analysis. Don’t miss the conclusion of our enlightening two-part conversation about the future of democracy and the fates of whistleblowers and anti-war advocates with one of the country’s foremost independent journalists and experienced activists.

November 24, 2016

Howard Zinn provides some food for thought during the Harvest Holidays as he discusses America’s "Holy Wars." Recorded November 11, 2009, at Boston College, this is one of Zinn’s final lectures before his death in January 2010. 

Howard Zinn was an American historian, social critic, and activist. He is best known as author of the best-seller A People’s History of the United States. 

Watch the video or read the transcript featured on Democracy Now.

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

As the rollercoaster that is the 2016 election has (finally!) concluded, Move to Amend has won BIG in mutliple states across the country!

For those who  missed it, join us for a replay of our post-election special as we talk about the results of the 2016 election with local campaign organizers for California's Proposition 59 and Washington's I-735, along with a roundtable discussion featuring regular host Laura Bonham and Move to Amend's National Director Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap joined by special guests political Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight and Eleanor Goldfield of Act Out and Rooftop Revolutionaries!

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As the rollercoaster that is the 2016 election has (finally!) concluded, Move to Amend has won BIG in mutliple states across the country!

Join us for a LIVE post-election special as we talk about the results of the 2016 election with local campaign organizers for California's Proposition 59 and Washington's I-735, along with a roundtable discussion featuring regular host Laura Bonham and Move to Amend's National Director Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap joined by special guests political Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight and Eleanor Goldfield of Act Out and Rooftop Revolutionaries!

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

2016 has been a big year for organized protests and civil disobedience, from Democracy Spring, to the presidential election, and Dakota Access Pipeline Water Protectors.  This week we talk with Daniel Lee from Move to Amend’s National Leadership Team about civil disobedience, the impacts activists have in their communities, the cyber-collective Anonymous, and its warning about government security forces posing as hackers and activists.

Move to Amend Reports is the weekly podcast that details current events and features guests specializing in movement building, grassroots organizing, amending the Constitution, and issues being addressed by Move To Amend.

OCTOBER 27, 2016

[Replay] Although the corporate media spotlight has moved on, the people of Flint, Michigan continue to have unsafe drinking water.  This week join us for a conversation about the contamination of Flint’s water supply leading to lead poisoning in the population and its connections with the Detroit Water Crisis with grassroots organizers Nayyirah Shariff of the Flint Democracy Defense League and Shea Howell of the Detroiters Resisting Emergency Management.

Move to Amend Reports is the weekly podcast that details current events and features guests specializing in movement building, grassroots organizing, amending the Constitution, and issues being addressed by Move To Amend.