People's Congress

Activists for a Better World

John Mulkins — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:06:36 +0000

Preamble In a country as rich as ours it is unconscionable that people sleep on the streets, go hungry, lack basic health care, and remain uneducated. The United States is the only Western nation that fails to provide for the basic needs of its most vulnerable citizens. Those who are willing and able to work should be gainfully employed to use his or her skills and talents to contribute to our country’s prosperity and to the common good. We must engage our imaginations, our brains and our talents in a partnership with the main street sector and the government to best utilize the resources that will advance the welfare of all citizens. We must return to being a nation of producers, rather than gambling our future with speculation by paper. We must repair the damage done to the land by plunderers in their greed for profit. We must work to rebuild our family farms, create opportunities for small businesses and political and economic justice for all regardless of race and gender. We respect the right of private property, but we must maintain an equitable balance for the welfare of citizens with laws that are just and taxation that is fair. We must work with the family of nations to maintain peace and justice in a world for all its citizens. We must change the election laws to allow independent parties and all eligible citizens an opportunity to participate in the election system.

Introducing the Idea of the People’s Convention

Kelly Gerling, Ph.D — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:14:22 +0000

This article explains how Constitutional and Structural changes are both provided for and accomplished. If we are to address our grievances, develop an agenda, suggest remedies, we might also consider how to protect those demands by making specific changes to our government, a process which Kelly has described in the following article with amazing clarity. [...]

LIBERALS ARE A USELESS LOT

John Mulkins — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:24:26 +0000

Chris Hedges, author of “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle,” will speak with other anti-war activists at Lafayette Park across the street from the White House at 11 a.m. Dec. 12 in a rally calling for the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

LIBERALS ARE A [...]

Icelands On Going Revolution

John Mulkins — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:28:35 +0000

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/01/1001662/-Icelands-On-going-Revolution

By Deena Stryker

An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were mentioned only in passing, and since [...]

Our government has now given up the concept of right and wrong.

John Mulkins — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:51:15 +0000

Keith Olbermann August 1, 2011 at 10:00 am

I close, as promised, with a Special Comment on the debt deal.

Our government has now given up the concept of right and wrong.

We have, in this deal, declared that we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all political incumbents are created equal, that [...]

Baby Lauren and the Kool-Aid

John Mulkins — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:13:40 +0000

A discussion of renewable energies.
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110729_BabyLauren.pdf
By James Hansen

First the good news. Jake, our son’s first child and our third grandchild, has a baby sister. Jake
is excited about this, as you can see in Fig. 1. Jake is always enthusiastic and a gentle [...]

Tim DeChristopher and Bradley Manning should be Free

John Mulkins — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:48:52 +0000

Justice is not served, nor is it blind when this country locks away those who would expose the crimes this Nation commits while at war and it defends the corporate takeover of our public lands and resources! Tim DeChristopher was standing up for us. Bradley was responding to his highest ideals when he blew the [...]

STOP THE MADNESS: THE DIARY OF A SOLDIER FOR PEACE IN THE WAR TO TAKE BACK AMERICA

John Mulkins — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:15:36 +0000

http://takebackamericaforthepeople.blogspot.com/2009/11/preface.html

By Rick Staggenborg MD, Soldiers For Peace International

This book is a series of essays laying out the case that there is a way to end war by ending the domination of the American government by corporations through a process of passing a constitutional amendment through Congress and ratifying it by the states.

I [...]

In America, who or what is sovereign?

Kelly Gerling, Ph.D — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:50:39 +0000

By Kelly Gerling, on June 26th, 2010

I think it is important to realize that power in the US is largely political. The money in politics is not the real power, but is used to harness that power.

But who or what is sovereign? Is the government and its structures sovereign? Is the Constitution [...]

Meria Heller

Cogmon — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:05:49 +0000

Just in case you missed it, here is John Mulkins and Victoria Collier on the Meria Heller Show on July 4, 2011.Peoples Congress on Meria Heller