We also have a long term plan to educate, organize and unite our efforts:
**We've
used education in writing, media and video. We strive for but do not
rely on the corporate media, which is also part of the problem, to cover
our work. We also recognize that too often they are part of the
problem. We make our own media and work with the independent media.
**We've
reached out to allied organizations and allied movements in order to
help develop consistent and coordinated actions. And we've asked our
thousands of members to take actions in unison so our voices are
multiplied.
**We've used the courts and instruments of government to challenge the illegal actions of the Chamber of Commerce and Karl Rove's American Crossroads seeking investigation and prosecution of their abuses in the 2010 elections. See more here, and here. We've done the same when we seek corporate responsibility for companies like Massey Energy and their CEO Don Blankenship when 29 miners were killed in West Virginia. More here and were pleased when he resigned.
While education and organization are critical ingredients to bringing change, this is a slow process and many of the issues the nation faces are urgent. This is why we also pursue acts of protest and resistance. We did this in the health care debate and most recently in the anti-war movement. Resistance has always been an ingredient for bringing change whether it was people sitting in at segregated lunch counters, or blacks sitting in the white section of the bus, or Cindy Sheehan camping outside of George Bush's ranch. In the next year we will see a growing culture of resistance in the United States.
Other acts of resistance are seen around the release of documents by WikiLeaks. The
reaction demonstrated corporations and the government working together
to block the American people from knowing what is being done in our
name. VISA, Mastercard, Bank of America, PayPal, Amazon and various
financial institutions stopped processing funds for WikiLeaks at the
request of the government. But the
truth is getting out and we now know what the government is doing in
our name and must take action to stop it. Knowing the truth and not
acting is complicity.
More and more Americans are acting. We see resistance in the more than 1,000 mirror sites of WikiLeaks, in the more than 100,000 people who downloaded the WikiLeaks "insurance policy" and were prepared to release documents if Julian Assange were harmed. It is seen in Americans organizing for their right to know, and to reaffirm Freedom of the Press. We are organizing under the banner WikiLeaksIsDemocracy.org, with a petition signed by notables and now by thousands. Join us and urge others to as well.
It is going to take education, organization and resistance as part of a persistent independent movement for political change. Those who want real change achieve it by voting for parties dominated by the donations of corporate executives. Voting for corporate parties re-enforces corporate power. We need independent electoral activity along with an independent movement and independent media to shift the power to the people.
There is a growing movement for real paradigm shifting change. It is a slow process than is accelerating and 2011 promises to be a milestone year. Please join us in our efforts at www.ProsperityAgenda.US. We need all Americans who want a democratized economy where power is shifted to the people joining us.
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