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Thread: Democracy Spring: Sit in with thousands. Save democracy for millions.

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    Arrow Democracy Spring: Sit in with thousands. Save democracy for millions.

    http://www.democracyspring.org/

    It’s time to take mass nonviolent action on a historic scale to save our democracy. This April, in Washington, D.C., we will demand a Congress that will take immediate action to end the corruption of big money in our politics and ensure free and fair elections in which every American has an equal voice.
    The campaign will begin on April 2nd with a march from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. where thousands will gather to reclaim the US Capitol in a powerful, peaceful, and massive sit-in that no one can ignore. Over 3,000 people have already pledged to risk arrest between April 11th-18th in what will be one of the largest civil disobedience actions in a generation. Together we can open the door to reforms previously considered impossible and reclaim our democracy. Join us!
    WHY THIS? WHY NOW?

    Every American deserves an equal voice in government. That is our birthright of freedom, won through generations of struggle. But today our democracy is in crisis. American elections are dominated by billionaires and big money interests who can spend unlimited sums of money on political campaigns to protect their special interests at the general expense. Meanwhile, as the super-rich dominate the “money primary” that decides who can run for office, almost half of the states in the union have passed new laws that disenfranchise everyday voters, especially people of color and the poor.
    This corruption violates the core principle of American democracy “one person, one vote” citizen equality. And it is blocking reform on virtually every critical issue facing our country: from addressing historic economic inequality, to tackling climate change and ending mass incarceration. We simply cannot solve the urgent crises that face our nation if we don’t save democracy first.
    But if the status quo goes unchallenged, the 2016 election already set to be the most billionaire-dominated, secret money-drenched, voter suppression-marred contest in modern American history will likely yield a President and a Congress more bound to the masters of big money than ever before. And our planet and people just can’t afford that. But there is another possibility.

    What if we can intervene in a way that no
    one can ignore to make this election a turning point toward reform?


    The moment is ripe. Poll after poll shows transpartisan public frustration with the corrupt status quo reaching new, nearly unanimous highs. Voters in Maine and Seattle just passed bold new anti-corruption laws to enact citizen funded elections. A growing democracy movement has lifted this issue into the public debate. Yet Congress refuses to act.
    The stage is set for a bold intervention to turn the tinder of passive public frustration into a fire that transforms the political climate in America, that sparks a popular movement that can't be stopped. How?From Selma to Occupy Wall Street, the Tar Sands Action to Black Lives Matter, everyday people have proven the power of mass, escalating nonviolent action to rapidly shift the political weather and open the door to reforms previously considered impossible.

    Now it's our turn.


    This spring, in the heart of the primary season, as the national election begins to take center stage, Americans of all ages, faiths, political perspectives, and walks of life will bring the popular cry for change to Washington in a way that's impossible to ignore: with nonviolent civil disobedience on a historic scale.
    We will demand that Congress listen to the People and take immediate action to save our democracy. And we won't leave until they do — or until they send thousands of us to jail, along with the unmistakable message that our country needs a new Congress, one that that will end the legalized corruption of our democracy and ensure that every American has an equal voice in government.
    With hundreds of patriotic Americans being sent to jail, day after day for at least a week — simply for sitting in to save our democracy — the drama in Washington will rock the business-as-usual cycle of this election and catapult this critical issue onto center stage. We will focus the nation’s attention as never before on the urgency of this crisis, the existence of solutions to it, and the strength of the popular demand to enact them. We will make this election a referendum on whether our democracy should belong to the People as a whole or to the billionaire class alone.
    That’s a referendum we can win, setting the stage to achieve fundamental reform that will give us — finally — the democracy for all we were promised.

    We know that this is no ordinary ask.
    But these are not ordinary times.


    This is the hour to stand tall, to challenge each other to rise to this historic moment in which we did not choose to live, but which we now must choose to face. With love, with courageous hope, with the legacy of those who struggled for freedom before us in our minds — we must act with a determination matching the urgency of this crisis.
    Already, many leaders and public figures have pledged to risk arrest and over 100 organizations have signed on to this non-partisan campaign (as listed below). We are ready to take this bold step and will provide the necessary training and legal support to all who will join us. But to do this successfully, we need to know we can do it at a historic scale. We need to know that enough people who believe as we do and love our country as we do are ready to join us.
    Take the pledge: help us make history and save our democracy.




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    Democracy - ugh.

    ensure that every American has an equal voice in government.
    No no no no no.

    Abolish the 17th. THAT I will sit in for.

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    I don't think that the people touting Democracy really know what it is. And they compound the problem by actively participating in coercion. Which is something else that they don't understand. People who participate in coercion rarely understand what it is. Well...until it comes back to bite them. When there is nobody left to speak for them.

    Is a bit of irony that I'd referenced a good piece a bit ago in another thread along those lines.

    I may as well share it here, too.

    An Important Distinction: Democracy versus Republic
    Last edited by Natural Citizen; 04-05-2016 at 08:44 PM.

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    Democracy is perhaps the most evil institutional form of government in existence. It is quite literally the wolf dressed in sheeps clothing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    Democracy - ugh.

    No no no no no.

    Abolish the 17th. THAT I will sit in for.
    Now imagine, if you would, a scenario out of fairytale land, where the liberty movement could muster a massive sit in like this movement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Son_of_Liberty90 View Post
    Now imagine, if you would, a scenario out of fairytale land, where the liberty movement could muster a massive sit in like this movement.
    They would spend their time fighting about who gets to sit where.
    "The Patriarch"

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    Why not SOCIAL democracy, while we're at it?

    Yeah, that's the ticket.
    freedomisobvious.blogspot.com

    There is only one correct way: freedom. All other solutions are non-solutions.

    It appears that artificial intelligence is at least slightly superior to natural stupidity.

    Our words make us the ghosts that we are.

    Convincing the world he didn't exist was the Devil's second greatest trick; the first was convincing us that God didn't exist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    Democracy - ugh.

    No no no no no.

    Abolish the 17th. THAT I will sit in for.
    How can you abolish something that was never ratified



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