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Greg Coleridge is Co-Director of Move to Amend. He previously worked for more than three decades with the American Friends Service Committee in Ohio where he educated, advocated and organized on a range of justice, peace, environmental and democracy issues -- including helping coordinate Move to Amend activities in the Buckeye state. He is the author of The Depth of Change: Selected Writings and Remarks on Social Change (2022); Citizens over Corporations: A Brief History of Democracy in Ohio and Challenges to Freedom in the Future (2003), writer of the documentary CorpOrNation: The Story of Citizens and Corporations in Ohio (2003), and contributed several articles to the anthology Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy - A Book of History and Strategy (2001). He currently maintains and distributes via email a weekly REAL Democracy History Calendar (https://realdemocracyhistorycalendar.wordpress.com/) and Monetary History Calendar (https://monetarycalendar.wordpress.com/) He is a Board Member of the Alliance for Just Money (AFJM). He previously served an elected term on the national governing board of Common Cause and was a Principal with the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD).
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Monday, April 14, 2025Of Course Donald Trump Pardoned a Corporation Trump's recent pardon of a corporation is consistent with his pro-corporate agenda. But was there another reason than simply letting one corporation off the legal hook? Could it be an assertive effort of the Executive Branch to forge ahead of the Judicial and Legistive Branches in normalizing the illogical doctrine that a corporations is a person (aka "corporate personhood")?
Thursday, March 9, 2023East Palestine Train Derailment Caused and Worsened by Real Democracy Derailment The Norfolk Southern Corporation train derailment and subsequent hazardous chemical release in & beyond E. Palestine, Ohio are the inevitable result of multiple anti-democratic realities. Many are interconnected & are the same for all train derailments. Independent people's movements led by individuals who've been historically treated unjustly is a prerequisite for how to get real democracy on track - for the very first time.
Wednesday, August 5, 2020Changed "Modes of Thinking" Needed to Create Real Justice and Livable World Einstein called for changed "modes of thinking" toward cooperation and peaceful conflict resolutions to avoid nuclear catastrophe, the existential crisis of his time. The same is needed today as we face separate but interconnected systemic crises and existential threats.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020Ending the Monetary Pandemic The institutions that create and distribute money in our nation and throughout much of the world are diseased due to money creation and distribution being privatized/corporatized. A democratic money system, which is fundamental system change, is one important piece to addressing our fundamental economic crisis.
Wednesday, February 6, 2019Curing the cancer of the body politic Cancer of the physical body can be fatal. Removing it entirely is the ultimate treatment. But cancer exists in other forms -- including corporate constitutional rights (CCRs) to our body politic-- preventing We the People from protecting our health, safety and welfare. Removing a piece of the CCRs tumor is no more effective that just a piece of a physical tumor. Total removal is only solution via the We the People Amendment.
Monday, June 4, 2018The Pushback Against Ending Corporate Rule Rising anger against the seemingly omnipotent power of corporations to dictate nearly every aspect of society has yielded predictable pushback from corporations and their minions in government. Not as predictable has been pushback against efforts to reassert control over corporations by those across the political spectrum, including "progressives." What's going on?
Saturday, April 14, 2018Knowing History is Key to Saying No to Corporate Rights Corporate entities and individuals of extreme wealth have largely captured our government and economic institutions. However, people have always resisted oppression and created alternatives. The REAL Democracy History Calendar provides 1-2 listings per day of activities, events, quotes from prominent individuals and/or other occurrences on the themes of democracy, human rights, corporate power and rule and wealth in society.
Saturday, April 14, 2018Knowing History is Key to Saying No to Corporate Rights Corporate entities and individuals of extreme wealth have largely captured our government and economic institutions. However, people have always resisted oppression and created alternatives. The REAL Democracy History Calendar provides 1-2 listings per day of activities, events, quotes from prominent individuals and/or other occurrences on the themes of democracy, human rights, corporate power and rule and wealth in society.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017Gorsuch's Gory Expansion of Corporate Personhood Corporations were designed to be subordinate to We the People. SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch didn't invent "corporate personhood," but he did expand it in his Hobby Lobby ruling. His nomination must be defeated. Corporate personhood has been normalized for too long -- with disastrous legal, political, economic, social and environmental consequences. It's not legitimate, democratic or human. It's "fake constitutional law."
Tuesday, December 13, 2016Don't Pursue Rogue Alternatives to Fund Federal Infrastructure Plan A Trump federal infrastructure program could and should be paid for with money from We the People, not banking corporations. The U.S. Constitution authorizes public creation of money to meet our needs.It's time to build a movement to demand it.
