Wow! Yesterday Los Angeles became the first major U.S. city to pass a resolution opposing corporate personhood and to call for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution using the language proposed by Move to Amend.
In a press conference after the vote, Council President Eric Garcetti stated:
"I want to thank Move to Amend and this entire coalition that has come together... Every struggle to amend the constitution began as just a group of regular Americans who wanted to end slavery, who thought women should vote, who believed that if you're old enough to be drafted, you should be old enough to vote. These are how American amendments move forward from the grassroots when Americans say enough is enough.
We're very proud to come together and send a message but more than that, this becomes the official position of the City of Los Angeles, we will officially lobby for this. I also chair a group which oversees all the Democratic mayors and council members in the country and we're going to share this with all our 3,000 members and we hope to see this start here in the west and sweep the nation until one day we do have a constitutional amendment which will return the power to the people."
Tennessee does not have an initiative/referendum process but communities can adopt the Resolution! See Move to Amend's toolkit page for information, resources and model resolutions.
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