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The United States upholds the ancient, barbaric practice of intentional and premeditated killing of citizens as a form of punishment. We know this as “the death penalty.” There are too many horror stories of failed/botched executions, executions of children, and wrongful convictions to know that this practice should have come to an end a long time ago.

We have already drafted an entire Constitutional Amendment that not only abolishes the death penalty, but so much more that needs public attention. Read our 36th Amendment on Criminal Justice Reform now, and share striketoamend.com with your network! Without a public movement, this terrible practice will likely continue indefinitely…

William S. Becker, the executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project and a former regional director at the U.S. Department of Energy, recently wrote an enlightening article for The Hill entitled “Presidential immunity is not the only fix the Constitution needs.” Becker makes a cogent and common-sense argument for a list of various constitutional amendments.

Perhaps not suprisingly, all of them are addressed by the Strike-to-Amend program. Here’s a summary of his suggestions with our proposed Amendments linked behind each one:

1. Changing the way the Constitution is amended. (28th Amendment)
2. Elimination of presidential immunity (31st Amendment)
3. Abolition of electoral college (30th Amendment)
4. Abolition of bribes and campaign donations for political candidates (30th Amendment)
5. Prohibition of gerrymandering (30th Amendment)
6. Ensure the right to privacy (32nd Amendment)
7. Ensure children’s rights (32nd Amendment)
8. Ensure animal welfare/rights (32nd Amendment)
9. Ensure protection of the planet (29th Amendment)
10. Ensure reproductive care (32nd Amendment)
11. Ensure healthcare (35th Amendment)

Our 14 Amendment program includes many more improvements in addition to these (see Amendments).

We are encouraged by the public discourse of Constitutional Amendments—whether in this article by Williams, or by President Biden regarding the Supreme Court (see our 31st Amendment for a solution to that issue), or by Governor Newsom regarding gun safety (see our 37th Amendment text). We also encourage this constructive dialogue about how to build a better future within America—a troubled settler colonial state captured by capital, notoriously corrupt and dysfunctional, and running out of time.

July 2024 marks the soft-launch of Strike-to-Amend. We are busily finishing the website, updating draft texts of the Amendments, launching social media accounts, and establishing networking relationships.

Interest is already growing with the rise of “general strike” searches and topics in social media, and with the probable election of Donald Trump and Project 2025. Americans are highly disillusioned with the two-party system and looking for radical change as the country eats itself inside out, one court decision, executive order, and election at a time.

If you’re interested in supporting this movement, do what little you can: follow us on social media, share links to the website, and get the word out by all means possible. This is going to be big.