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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBILL MOYERS: Celebrate the Revolution — And Keep It Going
Celebrate the Revolution And Keep It GoingJuly 3, 2014
by Bill Moyers and Bernard Weisberger
We havent come this far by crawling on our knees.
Stand up and reclaim the patriots dream............
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Recognize that for all of us, these, too, are the times that try our souls. Be peacefully but persistently aggressive. Demand of your representatives at national, state and local levels: either they deliver their votes to break the Money Power or they dont get yours. Nothing less will get their attention. This weekend and in the coming elections they will be showing up in person; find out when they will be where you live and turn up to challenge them.
Dont wait for some far-off organization to send you a petition. Get off the couch and picket their home offices. If you are ignored, or they protest that your defection will lead to their defeat, remind them of the advice of General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox of Revolutionary fame: We fight, get beat, rise and fight again. Thats why the Constitution provides for frequent elections, new chances to turn opinion in your favor. And thats why it ensures your right to be as demonstrative as it takes to be heard. Dont leave it to others. Be as immovable on your side as the tea party is on theirs and dont shrink when the corporate media and partisans on the cable channels and talk radio equate you with them as extremists and sing their love songs to centrism.
Write to the editors of your newspapers or what is left of them, go see them, call on the heads of the networks and tell them to fire their carnival barkers for the one tenth of one percent who have bought our government, or at the very least open their pages and their mikes and cameras to genuine debate with bona fide reformers and radicals of many stripes.
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Take direct action: its your right. Boycott restaurants that wont pay minimum wages to their staffs the way the black citizens of Montgomery boycotted their segregated buses and won. Eat at home and put the money you save into the campaigns of candidates who take no corporate money and will vote for public financing of elections. Dont wait for new parties to form, for organizations to draft platforms. Deny your dollars to food industry conglomerates that push sweet and fattening drinks on your kids. Make the Almighty Dollar your weapon instead of theirs.
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BILL MOYERS: Celebrate the Revolution — And Keep It Going (Original Post)
kpete
Jul 2015
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malaise
(269,187 posts)1. CNN is celebrating with the royal baby christening
And well written.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)3. Indeed Bill Moyers
I refuse to go to Wal Mart, I haven't been there in over a decade. Once I learned more about Amazon I quit them too - you should be ashamed of yourself Jeff Bezos, what a greedy jerk.
The situation is increasingly critical, we need to do what we can to stop the corporate takeover ASAP