They worked many late night hours
since this past spring creating a unique vehicle -- part grassroots initiative
and part cutting-edge technology -- for countering the most corrupting force in
American politics today: corporate dominance now controlling too many elected
leaders on Capitol Hill.
Months before the Occupy Wall Street movement captured attention, inspiring millions across America while alarming this nation's political/corporate class they began fashioning plans to find ways to run honest people for elected office.
A problem was how to get those
honest, regular people to run for Congressional office without the need for
those candidates taking money from lobbyists to afford the purchase of TV ads
traditionally presumed required for effective campaigning.
Their solution: new open source software that affords candidates opportunities to get their messages to voters with full transparency circumventing the staged manipulation of traditional televised political debates in tandem with social media.
Recently they launched
OccupyGovernment.org during an informational activity at ground zero of the
Occupy Wall Street effort -- the former Liberty Plaza Park now known as Zuccotti
Park in New York City.
The immediate goal of the non-partisan OccupyGovernment.org is to elect a majority of new representatives in Congress next year thus flushing-out those members on both sides of the political isle beholding to the interests of corporations and private wealth including Tea Party aligned representatives.
Interestingly, that launch occurred
not too far from the kitchen of the Greenwich Village townhouse where planning
for this campaign began this past spring under the umbrella entity of the
BeYourGovernment.org.
"Take the buck out of the ballot" was a call to action voiced at the activity by OccupyGovernment.org co-founder Liz Abzug, the director of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute -- the entity furthering the work of late Congresswoman, feminist and social activist Bella Abzug.
"The reason we are creating BeYourGovernment.org is that the corruption of our political system by large corporations, lobbyists and billionaires has grown so extreme that our nation's democratic process has been transformed," said Liz Abzug, daughter of Bella Abzug.
"As a result, the U.S. has experienced the largest redistribution of wealth upward in modern history, while our nation's middle class is under assault like never before," explained Abzug, who teaches Urban Studies at Bernard College in New York City.
A press statement issued by the non-partisan OccupyGovernment.org states:
"We, the people, can take back our corrupt government if millions stand up and use our social networks to replace the multi-million dollar TV ad campaigns, financed by corporate bribes, that members of Congress in both parties rely on to get elected and re-elected."
Perverse policies emerging from the corrupted Congress include naked favoritism to corporations and billionaires resulting in their paying the lowest level of taxes ever while corporate profits soar at an all time high, the press released notes.
"Let's Occupy our corrupt government now!" the OccupyGovernment.org release urges. "Not by shutting it down, but by opening it up to the 99% of us that it has been stolen from."
OccupyGovernment.org asks citizens to only vote for candidates who pledge to represent the interests of people not corporations but vote for candidates who do not accept large corporate contributions.
Occupy.org does not align itself with any political party nor does it seek to become a political party, its founders stress.
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