*Who believed that millions of people would come into the streets so quickly and could organize thousands of Indivisible groups almost overnight?
There is a real opening for a visionary politics that protects and enhances the common good. But much more needs to be done to connect us together.
Petition Every Politician?
To keep the Sanders agenda alive, we should further refine it, turn it into a petition, get 25 million people to sign it and shove it under the noses of every politician in the country.
Hard? Yes, but not impossible.
We can start right now by building a mass educational network that reaches millions of Americans with the facts about runaway inequality, financial strip-mining and why a powerful common agenda is both needed and possible. In the 1880s the Populists, who then were engaged in an all out war with the moneyed interests, fielded 6,000 educators to build their movement among small farmers. We need 30,000 today, a number well within our reach.
This educational effort can help us see that the many issues we care about are deeply connected by runaway inequality. It will help us see why we need a common movement that goes beyond our issue silos, interest groups and identities. It does not ask people to give up their issues and identities. Rather, it asks that we make issue silos more porous and interconnected.
It asks that we add one more identity to each of us -- the identity of movement builder. (For more information about this educational effort, please join us at runawayinequality.org)(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
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