Why Now (cont.)
It is time for us to reflect on the root causes of our common concerns. This is the focus and intention of the People’s Congress. Here and now, organizations, individuals, children, grandmothers, teachers, nurses, environmentalists, soldiers, are coming together to express their desire for a return to a truly representational form of government. We the People are coming together here, now, to express our desire for a more just society. And it is not only those goals which we seek to fulfill, but more specifically, a reform of the laws and abuses which foster the criminal takeover of our banking system, the endless barrage of propaganda by the media, the notion that war is an endless condition which needs to be fed by tax dollars which could otherwise be used for building community and truly protecting our future. We seek a restoration of our electoral system, and finally demand transparency returns to Government.
Would you give up one week of your life to make these changes? The answer is a resounding yes! People from every corner of the nation are realizing that until they stand for their health, stand for their property, stand for their children’s education, until they stand up for our democracy, the nation will be taken from them as surely as their pensions. By joining together, we ensure that this will never happen.
“Presently, about 1,500 large corporations control or block the votes of most members of Congress on very important matters. It is not beyond the realm of realization to look forward to a time when a few million modestly organized Americans, representing the values of much greater numbers of their fellow Americans, turn the national legislature into a Congress of the people, by the people, and for the people.” —Ralph Nader
Join your friends and neighbors along with tens of thousands of patriots, stand up for our right to live in a free and equitable society as we seat the first People’s Congress, in the open, on the mall in D.C. Stand up for reform and be a part of the one movement which brings together all groups who are fighting for an end of oligarchy and plutocracy. The underlying systemic dysfunction which has been institutionalized and is now destroying our nation from within must and will be dismantled. Time is running out on our planet. This is no longer a drill. There is too much at stake and we must preserve a better future for the generations to come. Stand together with your friends and family for one week to let Congress and the President know we demand change. Together, one place, one time, one voice.
