CHANGING THE WORLD
On
January 6, 2005, Barbara Boxer and 31 patriotic Congressional leaders
(including Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Dennis Kucinich, Maxine Waters, Diane
Watson, Lynn Woolsey, John Conyers and others) started a
revolution. They decided that they would not do business as
usual. They stood up and opposed the theft of the 2004
presidential election. They said no to an installed Nazi Regime.
That day Barbara stood alone in the Senate against the loss of
Democracy. Barbara Boxer continued her fight on January 26,
2005, when she led 12 other Senate Democrats (including Ted Kennedy,
Dick Durbin, Robert Byrd and others) in saying no to a Secretary of
State who herself was responsible for more than 3000 American
deaths. The Boxer Revolution has started and is
gaining ground.
We and groups like ours are the reason for the Boxer Revolution.
We helped get her re-elected by the largest number of votes any Senator
in history has ever received. We called and wrote and faxed
her. We spread the word. Our actions gave her courage to do
what she knew was right. We are also giving others courage to
know that, when they stand up for democracy, they will be
rewarded. This process may seem slow at times but, eventually, we
will win. I wish to congratulate all the members of this group
for their fight to save America. Let's continue to make a
difference.
In addition to fighting the right-wing nominations and the
right-wing agenda, stopping wars and protecting those we care about
from the Nazis who have taken over America, we need to do more to make
America and the world a better place. Here is a partial list of
ways we can work to change the world:
1) Buy blue. We need to support corporations
that support us and fight those that support corporate
totalitarianism. We need to make this an international effort
that drives Bush's backers out of business.
2) Take back the media. We need to dust off our writing skills
and our networking skills and and our speaking skills and reach
out and educate the public. We can do this through the Internet,
through newsletters, through public events and through backing liberal
radio and tv stations and boycotting right-wing ones.
3) Develop a protective network that will protect liberal workers
against the growing fascism so that they never have to face the
horrors the German liberals faced under Hitler. We must
also protect those who do not want to fight in terrorist wars.
4) Iraqi Children's War Memorial. America has killed so many
children in Iraq and Afghanistan that no one currently has the
total. We are probably looking at hundreds of thousands at a
minimum. So that our children will be treated with respect we
need to honor children elsewhere who have lost their lives to Bush's
terrorist policies. At the January meeting,we voted to back this
project which was recommended by members of our youth committee.
5) Stop the unnecessary killing of American citizens by the
government. In May, 2004, we got the California Democratic
Party to adopt (almost unanimously) a resolution calling for a
legislated moratorium on the death penalty. We need to work to
get our legislators to put through that legislation. The death penalty
is too often used to commit genocide on minorities and individuals with
disabilities. We also need to take further stands to protect the
lives of those on death row, including working with death penalty focus
and other anti-death penalty groups. Additionally, we need to
call for the release of people who have been eroneously sent to death
row. One of these individuals is Kevin Cooper, who was eroneously
convicted of a crime that, according to all witnesses, was committed by
individuals of a different race. He has been on death row nearing
twenty years, wondering each day whether the state would soon termate
his life. The jurors joined in the appeal that led to his stay,
in March, 2004, after they learned they were deprived of exonerating
evidence at the time of his trial. However, he is still on death
row and needs to be released and compensated for the theft of most of
his life.