Greg Coleridge

 Greg Coleridge is Co-Director of the national Move to Amend coalition, which works to enact a Constitutional Amendment to abolish corporate constitutional rights - or “corporate personhood” for short - and political money defined as First Amendment-protected “free speech.”

He previously worked for more than three decades for the Midwest Region of the American Friends Service Committee in Ohio where he educated, advocated and organized with diverse individuals and organizations at the local, state and national levels. They worked to employ a range of strategies and tactics on issues of peace and anti-war concerns, nonviolence, and international trade. Also, of course, they worked to bring about economic conversion regarding local and federal budget priorities, and monetary reform…which included housing, privatization/corporatization of public services, hunger, jobs, poverty, and local currencies. Additional issues are and were alternative media, toxic and radioactive pollution, campaign finance reform and corporate power - rule - and rights.

Greg Coleridge (he/him) 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 and Monetary History Calendar.

Greg 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).

He loves camping, hiking, walking and swimming – especially with his wife, daughter and son-in-law -- and almost everything else outdoors! I’m fairly sure Greg has some thoughts on our current situation - so - Welcome, Greg, thanks for being here!