For generations, peace activists—including veterans who’ve seen the reality of war firsthand—have taken to the streets to say “No more.”

And yet, the wars continue.

Now, Veterans For Peace is helping lead a critical shift—making the We the People Amendment (H.J.Res. 54) part of their strategic plan.

Because opposing war is not enough
if we don’t dismantle the system that drives it.

In this powerful reflection, Mike Ferner challenges all of us to confront a deeper truth:

We’ve become experts at fighting fires.
But what would it take to stop them from being set?

This May Day, we face a crossroads. The power we built together through organizing, solidarity, and stubborn love for democracy is being tested like never before. For years, we’ve organized, educated, and grown - hundreds of thousands of Move to Amend supporters committed to ending corporate rule and to claim real democracy. But we have yet to exercise that power in full.

That changes now.

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Just this month, the Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion of your tax dollars to French oil giant TotalEnergies - not to build clean energy, but to stop offshore wind projects off our coasts. They’re pulling that money from an account not even authorized for this use, a backroom raid on the public purse that benefits fossil fuel billionaires while our communities choke on pollution and struggle to pay rising bills

At the same time, the justice Department is going after our allies at the Southern Poverty Law Center, essentially, defending groups like the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist hate groups, while ICE continues its terror campaigns in immigrant neighborhoods - breaking up families, detaining workers, and suppressing dissent with an iron hand. Authoritarian power is consolidating through economic coercion and state violence.

But people power has always been the antidote to tyranny. When ordinary people stood together and refused to cooperate with injustice, they’ve shook empires.

This Earth Day, we're not just confronting a climate crisis, we're confronting a political one. At the very moment our communities need stronger safeguards for clean air, safe water, and a livable future, environmental protections are being stripped back, regulatory agencies are being hollowed out, and the industries driving pollution are being rewarded. Fossil fuel interests poured roughly $219 million into the 2024 U.S. election cycle, helping shape an administration and Congress more willing to serve oil, gas, and extraction companies than the public.

Everywhere we look, the corporate billionaire class is tightening its grip — on our economy, on our politics, and even on our imaginations. Prices soar while wages stagnate. Corporations dodge taxes while our communities fight for schools, housing, and healthcare.

And through it all, the same few voices call the shots - because the system was built for them.

That’s why this May 1, 2026, Move to Amend is joining people across the country in the Workers Over Billionaires day of action organized by May Day Strong. Together with hundreds of labor unions, community groups, and national networks, we’re taking a stand for a simple but urgent truth: a democracy that serves the many cannot coexist with an economy rigged for the few.

Democracy Is on the Line - and So Are Our Lives

Every demand for democracy is also a struggle for economic justice. When corporations have constitutional rights and money is treated as speech, billionaires can buy political access and block the policies that working people need to survive, from living wages to housing to healthcare.

Corporate power isn’t an accident of capitalism; it’s a constitutional arrangement. The courts have granted “personhood” or "inalienable rights" to entities that were never alive, never voted, and never bled. Those same rights have been used to crush unions, poison communities, and silence dissent.

This May Day, we are taking those struggles for justice to the streets

What if the systems shaping our lives aren’t broken—but working exactly as designed?

On April 22, we’re hosting a virtual movie night featuring the powerful documentary:

Movie Night: American Oligarchy

Across the country, Move to Amend affiliates and volunteers continue to do the kind of work that rarely makes headlines—but is essential to building a movement capable of lasting change. It’s happening in community meetings, at public hearings, in conversations with neighbors, and in the steady expansion of a coalition that understands the root of the problem.

Thank you again for being part of No Kings Day 3.

Across the country — in big cities and small towns alike — people stepped into the streets, into public squares, into community spaces… and into something bigger than themselves.

Strangers became allies.
Conversations turned into clarity.
And a shared feeling rippled through it all:

We are not alone — and we are not powerless.

Now the question is: how do we turn that moment into momentum?

March is Women’s Month — a time to celebrate the people who’ve worked for generations to bring us closer to true equality. So first, a huge shout-out to our friends and allies with the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Coalition, who are still leading the way to making equal rights a real part of our Constitution.

Here’s something that might surprise you: women still don’t have guaranteed equal rights under the Constitution. And you’re not alone if that’s news — 76% of people in the U.S. think we already do, and 97% agree we should.

The ERA (the 28^th Amendment) was first approved by Congress in 1972 and needed 38 states to ratify it. It took longer than expected, but thanks to Nevada (2017), Illinois (2018), and Virginia (2020), that 38-state milestone has finally been reached. Now, we just need Congress to stop dragging their feet and remove an outdated deadline so equality can officially become the law of the land.

No Kings Day of Action Toolkit: Bring the We the People Amendment Into Your Community