October 2011

AND CHANGE IS DEFINITELY AFOOT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WHERE A BRIGHT LIGHT OF HOPE IS NOW SHINING! ALL AWAKENED AMERICANS SHOULD RALLY AROUND THIS CALL, SPREAD THE WORD AND PREPARE FOR THIS... THE NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION IS ABOUT TO BEGIN!...

History is Knocking: Join the October 2011 Coalition AN ABSOLUTE MUST WATCH!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KjXARZDKdHk

Glen Ford: Why I Will Be There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeNMy4YwJn0&NR=1

We Stand With the Majority of Americans: Human Needs, Not Corporate Greed http://october2011.org/welcome
A large majority of the American people consistently support the following agenda:

- Tax the rich and corporations
- End the wars, bring the troops home, cut military spending
- Protect the social safety net, strengthen Social Security and improved Medicare for all
- End corporate welfare for oil companies and other big business interests
- Transition to a clean energy economy, reverse environmental degradation
- Protect worker rights including collective bargaining, create jobs and raise wages
- Get money out of politics

The government, dominated by elite economic interests, is going in the opposite direction from what the people want. The American people's agenda is our agenda.

MUCH MUCH MORE THROUGH http://october2011.org/standwiththemajority

Pledge: October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions. Read more.

"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza to demand that America's resources be invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning."

SIGN THE PLEDGE

From: http://october2011.org/blogs/organizer/it-can-be-done-now-time

It Can Be Done. Now is the Time. Americans Can Stop the Corporate Machine and Create a New World
By Kevin Zeese -- 23 July 2011

October2011.org seeks to Stop the Machine and Create a New World. It can be done. Indeed, it must be done and now is the time to do it. The thousands who have joined October2011.org know the challenges we face but we also know that the disastrous direction the country is going is unacceptable. We have seen that the normal tools - elections, lobbying and education - do not work. The U.S. is facing a crisis on many fronts - economic, environmental and in foreign relations - and the government does not respond or even makes things worse.

We certainly understand the despair, lost hope and discouragement that many Americans feel about the U.S. political system. The system seems designed to make change impossible. We also see the power and sophistication of the corporate propaganda media machine. But, we also see people in the United States seeing through the propaganda, understanding the truth and getting angry. In every rebellion around the world that has occurred in the last year - from Egypt to Spain - the view that it can't be done, the people will not rise up would have been the belief of 95% of the population before it happened. Predicting the future is not as easy as it looks. There is a lot of evidence that the time may be right for an American Awakening. The past is not always the future.

The organizers of October2011.org are well aware of the challenges we face and aware of the power of the U.S. police forces to stamp out dissent. We have faced them before. We are developing contingency plans to deal with those issues. And, we know if the police remove us on the first day, October 6, we will come back in the days that follow with even more people. We will not give up. Indeed, in Spain on the first day, the police cleared out a few hundred people, and then they came back two days later with thousands more and stayed for a month. They continue to pressure the government with their indignant independent movement demanding real, fundamental change starting with real democracy, not the phony two party charade they encounter in Spain as we also do in the United States.

October2011.org is a peoples led effort. The people who have signed up are doing their part: Spreading the word; Urging their friends and families to come; And, coming themselves. We all know we cannot let business as usual continue -- it is literally killing us and others, degrading the environment, destroying the middle class and creating massive transfers of wealth to the richest 1%.

One thing that stops many from doing anything is fear of failure. We don't fear failure. October2011.org will be a success. The issue is what level of success will it be? That is up to you, dear reader. If you see the misdirection of the country, do not despair, join us. Unified with confidence in our power we cannot be stopped.

CLIP - Continue reading at http://october2011.org/blogs/organizer/it-can-be-done-now-time and get involved! Check their Tool Kit at http://october2011.org/pages/toolkit and check their EXCELLENT Fifteen Core Issues The Country Must Face at http://october2011.org/issues

Are the American People in a Pre-Revolutionary Stage? (10 August 2011)
http://october2011.org/blogs/organizer/are-american-people-pre-revolutionary-stage
A new opinion poll shows that the American people by an overwhelming majority do not feel the government has their consent. Nearly 70% believe the government does not have the consent of the American people; only 17% believe it does. This is unprecedented. As we show in We Stand With the Majority of Americans: Human Needs, Not Corporate Greed, the public wants to go in the opposite direction the government is going. The corporate, market solutions advanced by both parties, the lack of a truly progressive tax structure where the extreme wealth pay more, the expansion rather than ending of war and the austerity measures being put in place are all major examples of how the two-party corporate duopoly is out of step with the American people. The people see government as corrupt, members of Congress as too partisan, member of Congress not listening to their constituents and disapprove of the debt ceiling deal. October2011.org may turn out to be exceptionally well timed. We need to keep pushing so people realize we have the power and that the people can govern better than the corporations and their lackeys in Congress and the White House. CLIP

How We Can Challenge Corporate Power: Lessons from the History of Change (7 August 2011)
http://october2011.org/blogs/organizer/how-we-can-challenge-corporate-power-lessons-history-change
Brice Levine provides us all with some very important lessons in this excellent article. Read the whole article but here are some key points:- Individual self respect and collective self confidence. We can succeed and make good decisions for ourselves. We are worthy of self-power and capable of using it wisely.- The economic elite want to keep us divided. Division is in their interests. We must trust each other, be respectful and cooperative.- Recognize we are in an abusive relationship, forgive ourselves for it and even have humor about it.- Use our energy to provide respect and create confidence in others, doing so will make us stronger, individually and collectively.- Liberate ourselves from fatalism. We can in fact change things. Those in power are more fragile than they seem. We need critical self-consciousness to realize we have limited our own power. We are taking action, learning and taking more powerful action.- Seemingly impossible change has happened over and over in history. This may be one of those moments. With persistence, confidence and our willingness to seize the moment, the impossible will become the inevitable.History is knocking. Answer the call. We can create the history we want. No Fear! CLIP

Debt Ceiling Deal Trickery: A Catalyst for an Uprising? (3 August 2011)
http://october2011.org/blogs/organizer/debt-ceiling-deal-trickery-catalyst-uprising
Kevin Gosztola of FireDogLake.com ties the Debt Ceiling deal to the uprisings being planned around the United States including October2011.org. No doubt the deal that protected the wealthy while undermining the functions of government will add to the furor. Many of us have seen this for quite some time and were already angry at the Wall Street bailout, the continuation of the Bush tax cuts, the continuation of the Patriot Act and the expansion of wars. Corporatism and militarism are running rampant and it is going to take an independendent political movement that demands an end to corporatism and militarism to stop it. We started October2011.org because deals like the one to raise the debt ceiling are the inevitably result of shifting wealth to the top and not requiring corporations and the wealthy to pay their fair share as well the constant expansion of empire wars. CLIP