activism

“The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”

-- George Washington, 1787

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The National Initiative for Democracyis a proposed law developed by The Democracy Foundation, over the past decade,along with a plan to get it enacted by the people (not by the government) creating, for the first time, a government "by you, the people."

The National Initiative includesa constitutional amendment and a federal statute that equips the peoplewith the central power of government, lawmaking. As lawmakers, thepeople in every government jurisdiction of the United States become anew Check in our system of Checks and Balances designed to control theabuses of government. Representative government remains unalteredexcept for the partnership established between the people and theirelected legislators.

For more info, read these 3 pages:

1. Concept of National Initiative
2. America DOES NOT have a Government "By the People"
3. The National Initiative for Democracy

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The Inventory and Actions lists are two new collaborative Drupal systems online now for registered users to use.

Inventory allows you to list the things you have, the wishlist of things you want, requests for things you need help getting, and offers for things you can give.

Actions allows you to post tasks, feature requests, bug reports and support requests into a big to-do list. Have an idea for the site? Post it. Want to help develop the site? Choose an unassigned task and assign it to yourself to work on.

Both of these listings are searchable and both are somewhat clunky to use still but they will gain much more sophisticated interfaces soon. There is already an action underway to improve the way these work!

Actions is already being used with Nihi and Doobius tackling the first Drupal tasks ever to be delegated and loads of site ideas are going up for future consideration.

Inventory is already being used to request equipment from AgentSubversion.

In researching some things on my own wishlist, I discovered a new cause I believe strongly about: Plastic bags. We waste a TRILLION plastic bags every year, a million every second. In a world at war over oil, this is completely insane and costs American and Iraqi lives.

Anyone who uses free plastic bags is LETTING THE TERRORISTS WIN!

I'm going to become a reusable bags activist. I'm going to order a 4 pack of Workhorse black bags and buy a whole bunch of cheap $1 bags to give away to people to get them to buy in.

This issue is so fundamentally black and white that it is easy to see how it will become an excellent example of starter issues we can show people how to pursue that can appeal to everyone without alienating anyone. If you can supply everyone you know with reusable bags Facebook checklist style, you will have gained immense skill and confidence in your abilities as an activist and advocate for good things. Imagine what people will be able to do next once they accomplish this.

I've added my wishlisted bags to my inventory. If you want some bags, add them to your wishlist too!

A level below virginity, having less sex then a virgin, Divine righteousness, or a funny way to subvert?

I envision the SubVirgin Movement as a group of people linked together by the common goal of the common good.

I tried not to say sub-version in this, but I felt it might make things more clear.

Just a name for the group of people I've always had but haven't united yet.