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Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap

Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap serves on the Executive Committee Move to Amend. She is Field Organizing Coordinator for the campaign. She can be reached at kaitlin@MoveToAmend.org.

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	Views Saturday, April 21, 2018 A Cancer on Society: Monsanto Claims Right Not to Speak About Roundup It's no secret that Monsanto Corporation's trademarked pesticide Ready Roundup has become one of the most widely used herbicides in agriculture since its introduction in the mid-1970s. What might be a surprise to most is that, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Agency... Read more
	Views Monday, April 16, 2018 Death By a Thousand Tax Cuts Every year at this time, US taxpayers (who bother to read news) are treated to a parade of stories about taxes and tax policy. We learn about the citizens who work multiple jobs and pay their taxes, while falling farther and farther behind in an economy that clearly exists to redistribute wealth... Read more
	Views Monday, June 02, 2014 Corporations Are Not People. Period. Remember back in 2009 before the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court ruling when the U.S political and legal system wasn’t about prioritizing the interests of the extraordinarily wealthy, but instead was fair and just no matter what your social status? Remember when the electoral system wasn’t... Read more
	Views Tuesday, October 08, 2013 Hell No! to Citizens United 2.0 The Supreme Court of the United States is poised to continue dismantling restrictions on money in politics in a new case that begins today: McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission . Read more
	Views Friday, June 28, 2013 Constitutional Right to Vote Needed More Than Ever After Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act It’s a shame when the very people appointed to safeguard justice are the same people who vote to destroy one of the most powerful equal-opportunity shields from injustice in American history. Read more
	Views Wednesday, May 29, 2013 Corporations Cozy Up to Judges If you were a corporation and wanted to influence government for your own benefit, choosing to persuade judges is a far easier task (and less expensive) than persuading Congress or the White House. Although, Monsanto recently made headlines when they partnered with Senator Roy Blunt to sneak protections for the GMO industry into a recently passed appropriations act , success like this is hard earned in the legislature. Read more
	Views Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Confront Corporate Personhood: Take Back our Planet With the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day this week, we have to wonder why the health of the planet is at an all time low. Read more
	Views Sunday, February 17, 2013 Congress Responds to Move to Amend Grassroots Organizing with “We the People” Amendment The growing grassroots democracy movement took another huge step forward this week when Congressional Representatives Rick Nolan (DFL-Minnesota) and Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin) joined Move To Amend coalition organizers Ben Manski and George “Leesa” Friday at the National Press Club to announce that the “ We the People Amendment ” was being introduced in Congress ( H.J.Res. Read more
	Views Sunday, January 20, 2013 Move to Amend: Citizens United is Just the Tip of the Iceberg It’s been three years since the Supreme Court issued its outrageous decision in Citizens United vs. FEC, overturning the flimsy campaign finance protections afforded under McCain-Feingold law. The case opened the floodgates to billions of dollars perverting our elections, much of it completely unreported, and some amount even coming from foreign corporations and governments. The Court literally legalized bribery, and wealthy individuals and special interests took full advantage of it. Read more
	Views Friday, July 01, 2011 Movement to Abolish Corporate Personhood Gaining Traction In the year and a half since the Citizens United decision, Americans from all walks of life have become concerned about corporate dominance of our government and our society as a whole. In Citizens United v. FEC , the U.S. Supreme Court (in an act of outrageous “judicial activism) gutted existing campaign finance laws by ruling that corporations, wealthy individuals, and other entities can spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns. Read more