Forum Post: Start An Election For Presidency

Set up a list of objectives and present a united front for one individual that you have chosen as candidate for the presidency (someone from the 99%).

Create your own 'party' and officials from the 99%. Have your own campaign slogan ... Change You Can Believe In, The People's Party, etc (for example).

Once in power, dismantle the infrastructure of the dishonest representation that is in place and replace it with an honest one. Remove the Federal Reserve Bank and start printing your own money again.

By using more than one avenue in seeking a resolution, there is a greater probability that success will be achieved. The group's power resides in its ability to communicate and work together for a common cause. This doesn't mean that the group is restricted to only one avenue of seeking a resolution.

By presenting ideas that can be actualised, deciding as a group which ideas are to be implemented, and volunteering to be a part of a specific avenue of seeking a resolution, the group can diversify its approach to seeking a resolution. In this way, it also will allow others to become involved in one specific avenue that may well be more suited to what they can offer to the common cause. This could bring more people into a participatory role as they feel that they have something specific to offer it the common cause.

There are many avenues that can be looked into. For example;

• Start a class action law suit against the US government for crimes against humanity (Abu Graihb, Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, etc).
• Start a world wide support network to coordinate between all groups in all countries.
• Start a website to educate people as to how the current system is set up and how it is utilised to enslave them and future generations. Utilise pdf's, documentaries and whatever other means to give people the knowledge to make an informed choice.

etc, etc.

The only limitations are the ones that we place upon ourselves.

Here's the introduction of a book I once read and which has always stuck with me after having read it, maybe it has something to offer in formulating some ideas ...

DECLARATION OF THE FOUR SACRED THINGS

The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water and earth.

Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them.

To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves become the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws and our purposes must be judged. No one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.

All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity.

To honour the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom and beauty can thrive. To honour the sacred is to make love possible.

To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives.

The Fifth Sacred Thing Starhawk