Call for nonviolent civil
action.
Sit with us and bake bread for WORLD PEACE starting July 4, 2009 in Lafayette
Park outside the White House in Washington D.C.
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The Flyer | The Pledge | Organize a local action
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TOWN RESOLUTION 00-00
We the Town Council recognize the need for participation in the
initiative of the Change We Knead Now Petition and we support and
endorse this petition and nonviolent legal action outside the White
House in Washington DC.
We petition the Honorable Barak Obama, President of the United States to
implement the following six changes to start fulfilling the promises of
his historic campaign to the American people.
- Implement universal, government-paid ( single-payer ) healthcare for
all - Good physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health is
essential for a peaceful democratic society, and for individuals to be
productive. This should be the FIRST priority as to how our wealth in
this country is used. Not-for-profit universal, government-paid (
single-payer ) healthcare is a necessity for accomplishing WORLD PEACE.
- Free federal prisoner Leonard Peltier by executive order today - His
imprisonment is a grave injustice against all Native Americans and
against Native rights and human rights. His conviction is a blatant
abuse of the power of the American justice system, for the purpose of
repressing Native American sovereignty. We need the wisdom of Native
American Elder, Leonard Peltier, in these times of change to accomplish
WORLD PEACE.
- Solar energy collectors available for every house - Abundant
sustainable, clean, solar and wind energy systems provided by the
government at no cost for low income people, and subsidized for all who
can afford to buy, on a non-profit basis. This is a real solution to the
crisis of climate change. This provides decentralized protection from
terrorist attacks on the power grid and helps bring an end to dependence
on foreign oil. Every human being needs energy to prosper, and plenty of
energy for all is a necessity for accomplishing WORLD PEACE.
- Passenger trains connecting every city - Affordable, clean
transportation, operated on a non-profit basis, is a benefit to the
peaceful, prosperous coexistence of all people. This takes thousands of
cars off our highways and will create thousands of jobs to build and
maintain a nationwide passenger train system powered by wind and solar
energy, that rivals Europe's system. Transportation sensitive to the
environment is necessary for WORLD PEACE.
- Organic gardening classes in every school - Organic food production
must be taught in every school from first grade through college, as a
basic educational requirement. Food is the most basic human need (along
with peaceful coexistence with our fellow human beings). Clean, natural,
sustainable non-genetically-modified food production, and nutrition
education, are the lowest-cost, most effective and efficient health
insurance. Organic farming is essential to solving world hunger, and our
climate change crisis, and is a necessity for accomplishing WORLD PEACE.
- Call for a global ceasefire - It is time to stop shooting at each
other, end war, and stop legal killing. The money saved from standing
down the military, and the example of sincerely honoring all human life,
would encourage the best efforts in all peoples and nations towards
WORLD PEACE.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY the Town: 1) Endorses the six
points of the petition. 2) Supports the goals of the Change We Knead Now
nonviolent legal action outside the White House in Washington D.C. 3)
and that we urge President Barak Obama to support and take positive
action on the points of this petition.
Endorsed
by: Bill McKibben - author and cofounder of 350.org, Healthcare NOW! -
Organizing for a National Single-Payer Healthcare System, Leslie Cagan, Cindy Sheehan,
Country Joe McDonald - Singer/Songwriter, Starhawk - author/activist,
Ecolocity DC - Downshift Central District of Columbia and Greater
Washington, Thomas Mapfumo - Zimbabwe Afropop Musician, Jamaat al-Muslimeen
- An Independent Forum for the Oppressed, John Nichols - Author of The
Milagro Beanfield War, Kiilu Nyasha - Black Panther Breakfast Program,
David Barsamian - Director Alternative Radio, Leonard Peltier Defense
Offense Committee, Pat LaMarche - Green Party vice-presidential candidate
in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, Justin Bailey - Taos County Field
Coordinator for Elect Obama Campaign 2008, Nikki Craft - radical political
activist, Ellen Thomas - Proposition ONE in 2010! Campaign, Franco Mares -
Singer/Songwriter, The Clearlight Quaker Worship Group - Taos NM, The Taos
Peace House and Infoshop, Keith McHenry - cofounder of Food Not Bombs.
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