Move to Amend Reports

AUGUST 11, 2016

While millions of people were tuned in for the political party conventions in Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Houston as the presidential Move to Amend was on the ground connecting and building relationships with activists and organizers from across the political spectrum. Join us for a special report on Move to Amend’s activities during the Conventions with Move to Amend Ohio coordinator Greg Coleridge, Imam Paul Hasan of the American Friends Services Committee, Move to Amend outreach & engagement director David Cobb, Move to Amend National Leadership members Daniel Lee and Egberto Willies (Move to Amend Reports co-host), who served as a Houston delegate to the DNC.

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.

AUGUST 4, 2016

Mississippi gets some deservedly bad press. The plethora of far-right Koch-sponsored bills that swept through its legislature is the stuff of nightmares. But some good folks in Jackson are having none of it.  Cooperation Jackson is an emerging network of worker cooperatives and supporting institutions fighting to create sustainable community development and economic democracy.  Join us for an enlightening conversation with the founder and organizing coordinator of Cooperation Jackson, Brandon King.

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.

United We Dream is much more than a lovely thought. It’s a cutting edge organization run by youth for undocumented youth. Ambar Pinto is one such youth, coming from Bolivia to the US with her mother at age 12, and now works for United We Dream fighting deportations, and at the intersections of commonality between the undocumented and other oppressed communities. Join us for this eye-opening discussion!

JULY 21, 2016

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.

At Move to Amend's First Inaugural Leadership Summit this spring, our local affiliates met and heard presentations from organizers across the democracy movement to learn about intersect between different issues and the importance of anti-oppression organizing to build relationships across communities.

One of those speakers, Elsa Lakew, organizer for Black Lives Matter DC, Maryland, Virginia, is joining us again to update us on the Black Lives Matter movement and to deepen our conversation on the intersections between movements for democracy, racial justice, and amending the Constitution to abolish corporate rule!

JULY 14, 2016

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.

This is the moment: white rage, homophobia, islamophobia, and xenophobia are growing stronger as the presidential elections get closer. We cannot let this moment divide us, or let corporate-backed demagogues pit us against each other. Get on board the People’s Caravan! Cindy Weisner, national director of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance is driving this action connecting the Republican and Democratic Conventions to the growing unrest among the nations frontline communities. Join us learn all about it.

JULY 7, 2016 

The League of Revolutionary Black Voters 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 the League can inform us as we build our own movement for genuine democracy. Don’t miss out on this enlightening discussion!

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

JUNE 30, 2016

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. 

The call for “political revolution” is strong in the 2016 election cycle, with many Americans turning to “outsider” political campaigns. Is it the role of political campaigns to be at the helm of popular movements, or is it the other way around? Join us for an extended conversation with international, labor, and racial justice activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. as we examine the difference between political campaigns and social movements in the context of history, followed by a discussion about the importance of labor organizing and the role of unions and race in building an inclusive democracy movement.

JUNE 23, 2016

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. 

S the We The People Amendment in the US House of Representatives (House Joint Resolution 48) has picked up!  Tune in for our conversation with lead co-sponsor and Move to Amend Champion, Representative Rick Nolan of Minnesota to talk about the fight against corporate power on Capitol Hil followed by a conversation with Move to Amend Outreach Director, David Cobb, about building a trans-political movement in 2016.

JUNE 16, 2016

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. 

In the great tradition of Cesar Chavez and the California farmworkers, Familias Unidad por la Justicia, the first independent farmworkers union in Washington State, is calling for a berry boycott against Driscoll’s/Sakuma Farms, with the aim of ending the exploitative practices against farmworkers.  This spring Familias Unidad por la Justicia is undertaking a West Coast tour to strengthen the boycott.  Join us for a conversation with three organizers to discuss the labor abuses farmworkers face and the steps they are taking to protect themselves and the food we eat.

JUNE 9, 2016

REPLAY: To build a movement strong enough to amend the Constitution, we must include and embrace all people across race, age, gender, and class lines. Move to Amend centralizes anti-oppression and movement-building education to help our organizers be knowledgeable and sensitive to the realities of racism and other oppressions -- both institutionally and personally -- so that we build effective relationships with  communities on the frontlines of struggle against injustice and corporate rule.

As a pastor for the United Church of Christ, the Reverend Anne Dunlap has spent over 25 years, working in freedom movements with folks across social divides of race, gender and class, with a focus on solidarity with black, immigrant, worker and indigenous communities. Join us for a conversation about solidarity organizing within white communities for racial justice and how this education about oppression is integral in building sustaining movements to combat corporate rule.