As Ordinary Citizens In an Extraordinary Democracy We Must:
Renew the Promise of Our Country for All Its People
Renew Our Promise to Serve Our Country and Each Other
Live Up to The Promise that Was and Is America.
We, the 99%, are tired of having our voices ignored and our needs disrgarded.
We, the 99%, are tired of having our Democracy and our Economy run by and for the corporate elite.
We, the 99%, are unwilling to allow both the demcracy and the economy of this Country to be demolished just to protect and serve the 1% who would rather rule than be governed and whose immense wealth and power have combined with their insatiable appetites for more wealth and power and their dangerously short-sighted visioin to bring both our Democracy and Economy to the edge of ruin.
We are the 99%.
We have occupied hundreds of American cities.
Our occupations have forced the 1% to take notice.
It is time for us to take action.
It's time to Occupy Our Democracy.
As with the Occupy Wall Street movement, there will be many who are impatient to skip to the end. To announce a specific policy or partisan agenda.
But if we are truly intent on reclaiming our Democracy, we must begin at the beginning.
A Democracy Occupied by the 99% must begin by engaging a greater share of the 99% to actively excercise their role as Ordinary Citizens in an Extraordinary Democracy.
We must go about the hard work of clearly establishing the nature and ulimate power of our 'informed consent of the governed'.
This work can be accomplished in hundreds of ways. But it must be accomplished to show both the 99% and the 1% that the inherent potency of democracy in this United States has not been lost.
The many "Occupy" sites have begun this process in their own ways. This is not an effort to either criticize or replace such ongoing efforts.
It is merely an additional suggestion from another ordinary citizen in this extraordinary democracy.
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