Newsletter # 2 -- January 29 2024

Your Democracy - Your Power, NY22 Is Organizing

NEWSLETTER # 2 – JANUARY 28 2024

Edition:   2          January 29, 2024

In this edition:

1. This is Your Movement 

2. Our First District Is Organizing: New York-22

3. Join In & Add Your Voice

4. Culture Corner

These newsletters are issued twice a month. They are designed to keep you up-to-date on our progress together and to outline events and challenges we face along the way.

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Share this newsletter with your friends, family and neighbors. Only by uniting together do we embrace our power.

We are in a class war. We know what the 1% is up to. It is time for us to come together and determine what we are up to. Our first step is to get ourselves together. From there, we will work out every single next step — together.

This Is Your Movement

How many people are fed up with the broken corrupt system we exist in?  Are you one of them?

Ask yourself those two questions.  And give yourself honest answers.

You should be outraged.  And — at this point — we have to fight back against it.  We do that by organizing ourselves together.  

But, there is another reason to organize.  It’s the only way we have to build the communities and society we all want.  Let’s get real — these people who have created the broken corrupt system have zero intention of changing course.  They do not represent us — they represent the moneyed interests of the 1%.  They have zero intention to change course.

Together, we will change it. Welcome to The Permanent Occupy Movement.  

You wanted a peaceful action that would change absolutely everything.  That is what this is — a peaceful action.  We are organized to unite people across each of the 435 Congressional House districts.  The mission is simple and it is peaceful.  To unite people together to call for, and build, the new system we all want.  Together, we can do that.

It is peaceful.  Our weapon is democracy. Our venue is local.  And it is completely legal and completely authorized.   In fact, it is so legal that democracy itself demands we take this step so that our democratic power is fired up.   

We cannot predict what the 1% will do.   They have proven that they feel free to erode and remove our rights.  They may dig deeper.  I sure as hell would not put it past them — they will not give up their power wilfully.   Should things transcend into a more physical approach — at least we will be united and organized to deal with it.  We will be together.  And together we will take the steps required.

But — our approach is peaceful and it is designed to stay that way. 

Let me make one thing clear.  This action is for you.  There are no leaders in this.  We are each organizers, facilitators, coaches and participants.  Some of us will participate more than others — everyone has their comfort level and they will be respected.  But the leadership is you — it is you standing with your neighbors in your community.  All decisions are created by you, discussed by you, and decided by you.  Democracy is a participative tool.  Bring your voice and send your community in the direction you want it to go.

We present no platform beyond elevating democratic power and placing it into your hands.  We believe — and trust — you will make every right decision from there.  As such, here is our platform — in its entirety.  

That is the entire platform of The Permanent Occupy Movement.  Make it happen in your district and we are there to help you make it a reality for you and your neighbors.

We endorse no political party.  In fact, we do not believe in political parties.  Who are they to set a platform for you?  Standing united with your neighbors, you can do that yourself.  

We present no politicians.  Again, choose your representative from among yourselves.  You choose who represents you.  We will call out and monitor the actions of whoever represents you.  Accountability to your wishes is important.  Holding them accountable is an action we are designed to take and we will take.

We do not exist for election cycles. We exist continuously and permanently. The work to chart your community forward is ongoing. There is no dependency on election cycles.

This is your movement.  Add your voice to it.  Consider organizing your district.  We are here for the sole purpose of having democracy delivered to your community.  You have to take it from there.   This is your movement.  Your weapon is democracy.  Your strategy is to create regular ongoing Town Hall meetings for your neighbors to gather at and wield your democratic power.  Your destination is to build the community you want.  Your mission is to change absolutely everything.  You can do it.  Together we can support each other to get it all.

We built The Permanent Occupy for you.  Now it is up to you to accept it.  Join us because it is through our unity that we will win this class war.

The nefarious 1% has used their money and power to corrupt all of our institutions to meet their ends.  This includes our political representatives, our justice system, our media, and our institutions from schools to regulatory authorities and everything in-between.   

They fail to deliver on democracy — while they are there to deliver democracy.  They take oaths of office to uphold our democratic interests - and then act to thwart our constitutional rights.  

None of this is a new revelation.  We all know it.   We all know they are corrupt and complete failures in their representation of us.  But let’s be honest with ourselves.  They tell us they are giving us democracy.  They tell us they exist to “protect our democracy”.   While they steal it from us.

Let’s get to the bottom line here.  To hell with them.  We will embrace democracy ourselves.  Together.

Our First District Is Organizing: New York-22

Our first district’s organizing effort is underway.  New York’s 22nd Congressional House District is having their first Town Hall meeting on February 6th.  The agenda has been set.

The first meeting’s agenda includes performing the required organizing resolutions to register as a local non-profit entity.  It also includes approving an open letter to their current incumbent House Representative and the local media outlets to notify them of this organizing effort.

The agenda also includes three platform issues which will be opened for discussion — and ultimately will lead to votes for that district.  Each district will create their own platform on issues they decide to discuss.  That is how democracy works.  Anyone can add issues to their district’s agenda.  Everyone can have a say.  And — ultimately — everyone will get a vote on its outcome.

Consider that this same approach can also be taken to select candidates for office.  Candidates for elected positions that run the gamut from President of the United States to local Dog Catcher and everything in-between.  You decide what issues are important to your community and who should represent your interests in elected office.  This is 100% authorized.  It is democracy.

Following this first meeting, regular Town Halls will be scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each and every month.  Permanently.  This is how democracy comes to life.  

In between meetings, effort is taken to canvas and grow participation.  The dynamics of power rise quickly — and they continue to grow until everyone in the district is participating.  The mission is to make the residents of the district the only authority.  

Each district may not agree on the same issues as other districts.  That is expected and welcome.  Each district may not reach 100% consensus on every single issue — they are not expected to.  But — everyone agrees to accept the majority consensus.  That is how the community attains their democratic power.  That is how a community determines its course going forward.  

The people will work it all out.  And — you know what — we believe they will get it all right.

Join In & Add Your Voice

The people in New York’s 22nd Congressional District are embracing their power.  They have picked up the power of democracy that was sitting silently at their feet — waiting for them.  They chose to reach down and pick it up.  They now have regular Town Halls where they can meet up and chart the course for their community together.

Consider organizing your district.  You are not alone in this.  The Permanent Occupy Movement is here to help you with a detailed step-by-step organizing guide. Contact us and we will send it to you.  We are here to amplify your effort.  We are here to coach you.  We are here to build coalitions across organizations that all seek to dismantle the corrupt failed broken system and to build a system that works for us all.  We are here to engage independent media.  We are here to work with you.

Together — we will change absolutely everything.

Did you know?   That there is a wonderful bonus to this effort.  As we build our communities, we actually start bringing our communities to life.  People start to know their neighbors.  People start engaging with their neighbors.  Your community becomes alive.  This is a beautiful bonus.  

Power to the people.  Visit our website and Join Us.  You can add your voice to ours and — together — we are united to change absolutely everything.

Power to the People!

Culture Corner