I started this discussion in
an earlier diary.
Below is a vision statement, mission statement and a "who we are" statement. Feedback on the statements is requested.
Vision: A federal government--executive, legislative & judicial branches--where extreme elements of the Republican Party--bigots, xenophobes, theocrats & apologists for consolidation of economic power--no longer make the final decisions.
Mission: To use volunteers from the Chicago area to build indigenous precinct organizations and a virtual community to hold accountable members of Congress that have supported radical elements of the Republican agenda. (this includes defeating them in elections); to provide a venue for discussing alternative visions of government outside the control of the Democratic Party; to hold the media accountable when it is wrong or biased; and to lobby public officials in support of the vision statement.
Who we are:
We are people of the Chicago area who disagree with the radical aspects of the agenda of President George W. Bush and the Republican Party. We are angry about the re-drawing of Texas House districts engineered by Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX). Conventional wisdom holds that DeLay's unprecedented non-census-based re-districting will shift power to the Republican Party--currently controlled by people that put their ideology ahead of facts, cooperation and common sense--for the foreseeable future. We disagree with this conventional wisdom. We know that if we band together with other people concerned about this radicalism that has taken control of our government, we can change course; we can set the direction. We will cooperate with each other to affect elections, the political debate, media coverage and how our elected officials vote. Because we have this power.