Two deeply important days require more understanding
and your civic action.
With or without the official you voted for now in
power the next 30 days is the best time to put your civic super-power to work. Our constitutional/inalienable right* to “petition” our
government is infinitely more powerful than any vote we cast. Once
elected, winners too often go largely unsupervised except for the paid
lobbyists pleading their special interests instead of ours “we
the people”. We can no longer leave our Members of Congress unsupervised
between elections. We need to let them know what we expect of
them now and until holding them accountable in 2020.
Consider taking at
least one civic action each day for the next 30 days devoted to informing your
Congressperson about what you want to see happen-- which is hopefully what we, our
community, our country, and the world needs.
Starting Veterans Day, a blog will be posted focusing
on a specific issue related to that day. It is intended to assist you in a
focused action for building a friendly and working relationship with your
U.S Representative -- and any other constituents in your district that share
your vision of a planet that our children can inherit with sustainable liberty
and justice for all -- for all time.
A new blog each day, offers another linked focus. Use each bog however you like. Edit it to
make it yours. Then use it wherever you can with the intention of
informing and motivating your Congressperson to take an action related to the pledge every American has taken.
What we pledged is “liberty and
justice for all”. Never before has it been more important to make
this our civic priority until 2020.
Connect the dots
(everything is connected!).
See the web (of
life).
Insist on
justice for all (17 Sustainable Development Goals).
Or prepare for
the catastrophic consequences (Global
Catastrophic Risks 2018 https://globalchallenges.org/en/our-work/annual-report/annual-report-2018).
FACT: Every aspect of your life in your
home and community is influenced by a variety of global factors that you have
virtually no immediate personal control over. But the quality of our
lives, even our very survival, has been forever tied to the lives of people we
never knew and may never know. From job losses, to infectious diseases,
to extreme weather events, we are all connected together. Earth is our
home. It deserves better than we've given it. Fortunately, our political
system gives us the power to make things better. Especially if used between elections.
"A revolution is
coming - a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough;
compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough - but a
revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its
character; we cannot alter its inevitability." - Robert F. Kennedy
- [Report to the United States Senate on his trip to Latin America and the
Alliance for Progress, May 9-10 1966]"
“…all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which
they are accustomed." Declaration
of Independence.
"Progress is impossible without
change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
-- George Bernard Shaw
*Nov. 12: Systems thinking Day? Direct vs Systemic
causation.
*Nov. 13: World kindness day:
Nov
14: World Diabetes Day: Three types of
laws: and International law
Nov 16: International
Day of Tolerance. Genocide, ICC…..
*Nov 17: TRUTH Day!
Freedom Security Dilemma.
Nov 18: Science &
Engineering day. Words Should Mean Something!
Terrorism. Health care. “Resilience”. “Rule of Law”
*Nov 19: World Toilet Day &
International Men’s Day:
Nov 20: Universal Children’s
Day: The hidden holocaust:
Nov 21: World Television Day:
The media, cyber threats, AI, Deep Fakes.
Nov 22: Thanksgiving:
For Earth’s biosphere.
Nov 23: Loony Liberal’s
and Crazy Conservative’s Day.
Nov 24: Money Day.
24/7/365 Economics is an art not a science.
What do we value?
Nov 25: Int’l Day on Violence
Against Women:
Nov 26: National Law Day or National
Constitution Day:
Loss of trust in Govt.
Nov 27: Community security day. Local health, wealth
and security vs global injustices
Nov 28: Freedom
Day or Declaration of Independence Day:
Nov 29: International Day of Solidarity with the
Palestinian People:
Nov 30: National Flag Day
Dec 1: World AIDS Day
Dec 2: World
Pollution Prevention Day:
World
Computer Literacy Day, Intl
Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Dec 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Dec 4: Evolution of weapons and war day. 24 factors to consider for security.
Dec 6: Justice day
: Religion as a force
for good. Justice for all.
Dec 7: International
Civil Aviation Day:
Dec 8: Civic power Day:
Dec 9: International Anti-Corruption Day: $32 Trillion in
offshore accounts…
Dec 10: Human Rights Day: 70th
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
*Our
Right to petition our Government is a God given right acknowledged in the First
Amendment of the US Constitution.
The right
to petition government for redress of grievances is the right to make a
complaint to, or seek the assistance of, one's government, without fear of
punishment or reprisals, ensured by the First Amendment to the United States
Constitution. Article 44 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European
Union ensures the right to petition to the European Parliament. The right can
be traced back to the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, the Bill
of Rights 1689, the Petition of Right, and Magna Carta.
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