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Forum Post: Ten Steps To Non-Violent Revolution Now

Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 9, 2011, 12:52 p.m. EST by ms3000 (253)
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Ten Steps to Non-Violent Revolution (https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/)

  1. The Occupy Wall Street movement should elect an executive committee. Ideally this committee should represent each city in the U.S. that is being occupied.

  2. The committee will then plan and organize the election of 870 delegates between now and July 4, 2012.

  3. Each of the 435 congressional districts will form an election committee to prepare ballots and invite citizens in those districts to run as delegates to the Third Continental Congress in Philadelphia beginning on July 4, 2012 and convening until October 2012.

  4. Each of the 435 congressional districts will elect one man and one woman to attend the Third Continental Congress. The vote will be by direct democratic ballot voting.

  5. The executive committee will act as a central point to solve problems, raise money to pay for the expenses of the election and Congress and make sure all 870 delegates are elected prior to the meeting on July 4th.

  6. The executive committee would also arrange a venue in Philadelphia to accommodate the Third Continental Congress where the declaration of values, petition of grievances and platform would be proposed, debated, voted on and approved (see https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/). The delegates would also elect a chair from their own ranks to run the meetings of the congress and break any tie votes. We would also need the expertise of a gifted parliamentarian to keep the meetings moving smoothly and efficiently.

  7. The final declaration, platform and petition of grievances, after being voted upon by the 870 delegates would be formally presented by the 870 delegates to all three branches of government and all candidates running for federal public office in November 2012.

  8. The delegates would then vote on a time period (presently suggested as one year) to give the the newly elected government in November an opportunity to redress the petition of grievances. This is our right as a People under the First Amendment.

  9. If the government fails to redress the petition of grievances and drastically change the path this country is on, the delegates will demand the resignation and recall of all members of congress, the president and the supreme court and call for new elections by, of and for the PEOPLE.

  10. There will NEVER be a call for violence by the delegates even if the government refuses to redress the grievances and new elections are called for by the delegates. Nor will any delegate agree to take any money, job promise, or gifts from corporations, unions or any other private source. Any money donated or raised by the executive committee may only be used for publicizing the vote, the congress, and for travel expenses and accommodation at the Congress ONLY. All books and records will be published openly online so that everyone may see how much is raised and how the money is spent each month. There will be no money allowed to "purchase" delegate votes as we have in the current government.

the99declaration@gmail.com

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[-] 1 points by bangbang (61) 12 years ago

What are you going to do to weed out the spies and evil people who want to fuck you up? You keep forgetting that it is evil people who destroy, sometimes evil groups but always evil people. No good man movement ever succeeded because evil men got into the group and fucked it up.