Move to Amend Reports

Move to Amend Reports is the weekly radio show that details current events and features guests specializing in movement building, grassroots organizing, amending the Constitution, and issues being addressed by Move To Amend. Each show provides an opportunity for call-in questions and comments from our listeners.

In this edition of Move to Amend Reports, we welcome California organizers Dione Johnson and Michelle Cordova, serving on the planning committee for the US Social Forum, to talk about solidarity organizing and what we can expect in San Jose during the US Social Forum this month.

Move to Amend brings you voices from the movement to amend the Constitution through our internet radio program.

This week features WAmend campaign director Gabe Meyer and secretary Cindy Black to talk about Washington State Initiative-735, a statewide ballot initiative calling for a constitutional amendment ending corporate personhood and money as speech.

For more information, visit www.wamend.org or email [email protected].

This week features Tribal Councilman Wendsler Nosie of the San Carlos Apache Tribe to talk with us about the ongoing occupation of their sacred Oak Flat region, in protest of Arizona's land exchange with mining company Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of London-based multinational corporation Rio Tinto.

For details on the Occupy Oak Flat protest, visit apache-stronghold.com or call 928-475-2930.

This week features author, radio, and TV personality Thom Hartmann to talk with us about the movement to amend the Constitution and House Joint Resolution 48 -- the We The People Amendment.

Thom Hartmann is a progressive national and internationally syndicated talk-show host whose shows are available in over a half-billion homes worldwide. He's the New York Times bestselling, 4-times Project Censored Award winning author of 24 books in print in 17 languages on five continents. Talkers Magazine named Thom Hartmann as the 8th most important talk show host in America in 2011, 2012, and 2013 (10th the two previous years), and for three of the past five years the #1 most important progressive host, in their “Heavy Hundred” ranking. He was born and grew up in Michigan, and retains strong ties to the Midwest, although he and Louise have lived in New Hampshire, Vermont, Georgia, Germany, and Oregon...and now live on a boat in Washington D.C. with their new attack-cat, Fang.

Tune in to the Thom’s radio and TV programs at www.thomhartmann.com.

This week features two segments: actor, filmmaker and anti-racism activist Dixon D. White talks about his viral YouTube videos and the Racial Healing Video Selfie Challenge, and we celebrate the Monahan Brothers' Walk Across the United States with Move to Amend grassroot organizers Robin Monahan and Tom Starkey.

To watch Dixon's videos, visit his YouTube page here.

Don't miss out on A Celebration of the Monahan Brothers: Walking the Walk, Talking the Talk of Democracy this Saturday at 1PM Central in Saint Paul, MN!

In this episode of Move to Amend, we welcome guests Galen Tyler, Deeq Abdi, and Assad Al-Khdir who represent the Poor People's Economic and Human Rights Campaign and also serve on the planning committee for the US Social Forum. Our guests will talk about what we can expect in Philadelphia during the US Social Forum in June.  

Watch the latest video about the US Social Forum here. 

To learn more about the US Social Forum, visit www.ussocialforum.net.

To register for the US Social Forum in Philadelphia, visit ussfphilly.org.

This week features National Leadership Team members David Cobb and George Friday to talk about introducing the We The People Amendment to Congress and the next steps in the movement to amend the Constitution.

Read the text of the We the People Amendment here.

Click here to urge your Representative to sign on as a Co-Sponsor of the We the People Amendment (House Joint Resolution 48)!

This week we replay our July 17th show featuring teacher, author, and activist Jesse Hagopian to talk about the damage done by corporate education reform and the new grassroots movement of teachers, students, and parents building the alternative.

For more information about Jesse and his work, visit: iamaneducator.com

This week we replay our March 12th show featuring our first international guest, clinical lecturer Dr. Erik Monasterio from New Zealand, talking about the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership and its implications for healthcare and affordable access to medicine.

To learn more about Dr. Monasterio, visit erikmonasterioorko.blogspot.co.nz.

Learn more about the Trans-Pacific Partnership at ExposeTheTPP.org.

Take action to stop the TPP! Contact your members of Congress today: https://oneclickpolitics.com/promo/NS.