[PAA-Discuss] The Seattle Declaration

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Dear Friend,      (http://bit.ly/pd7Nz5)    
_Click here to  view video._ (http://bit.ly/pd7Nz5) I gave a speech in  
Seattle this past weekend, at Hempfest, the text of which appears and  video of 
which is available, which spoke to a new civic activism sweeping  the 
world, the American tradition of activism. Please read the speech.  

Let's use this moment to circulate the speech far and wide about  the need 
for a new activism in the United States. 

Thank you  

Dennis Kucinich 
 
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Hello Seattle. 

On this day, in this place of great beauty we  celebrate the beauty of 
nature. The wondrous nature of each other. Our  presence here binds us as a 
community. It empowers us. It strengthens us.  We become most visible, en mass. 
We extend our reach. We sense new  possibilities. And the creative spark 
which births action can usher in a  new world. 

Open America! Show yourself! Mass action! This is why,  and how, recent 
movements for freedom in Tunisia and Egypt gained  momentum. This is how 
Gandhi's march to the sea cast off the British  Empire. This is how America's 
suffragettes gained for women the right to  vote. This is how Dr. Martin Luther 
King's March on Washington became a  pivotal moment in the history of the 
civil rights movement. 

People  became visible. They went to the streets. They linked arms. They 
marched.  They sang: "We Shall Overcome". They walked the uplit path of social 
and  economic justice. They marched to glory, not for themselves, but for  
generations to come. 

We gather in a common determination for  change. A sense of commonality of 
purpose awakens. An awareness grows. The  moment arrives to exercise a new 
commitment to cast off an old order of  things. This same awareness brought 
America's founders to put in writing a  Declaration of Independence to 
proclaim "A New Order Follows". Today it is  not a financial deficit that will 
bring America down, it is a deficit of  public action. When people discover 
what happens when one person  determines to make a difference and then merges 
with the many like-minded,  new possibilities unfold. 

Seattle, you understand this. Because in  1999, tens of thousands of 
citizen activists, including Teamsters and  "Turtles", coursed through nearby 
streets on behalf of social and economic  justice. They marched. They chanted. 
They sang: We Shall Overcome, and  Solidarity Forever!" They spoke of Union. 
Acting in unity their presence  was felt. 

The Seattle WTO protests shined light upon the World  Trade Organization's 
workings. Seattlites, union members and trade  activists helped spark a 
world-wide awareness that trade agreements must  have enforceable workers' 
rights, human rights and environmental quality  principles. You identified the 
child labor, slave labor and prison labor  that was driving international 
corporate profits. While the cause of  justice in our trade agreements has yet 
to be served, you, Seattle brought  it forward. You nurtured it. You kept it 
alive. 

Large, intentional  gatherings can be a catalyst for dramatic change. But 
only if we are  prepared, as George Bernard Shaw wrote, "to dream things that 
never were  and ask: 'Why not?' Let us dream about the America we want. And 
let us  give our dreams firmament. 

Let our dreams, our thoughts, become  words. Let our words become deeds. 
Let our deeds bring action. Let our  actions build a new America and a new 
world. 

Seattle, you shook  the world once, can you shake it again? Will you? 

Are you prepared  to declare and demand, here and now that it is time that 
the United States  brings an end to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya? 

Are you  prepared to demand our troops be brought home? 

Are you prepared to  demand America end our world-wide military presence? 

Are you  prepared to demand America must lead the world in the abolition of 
nuclear  weapons? 

Are you prepared to demand the Patriot Act must be  repealed? 

Are you prepared to demand that government spying,  eavesdropping, and 
wiretapping of law abiding citizens must end?  

That our sisters' Right to Privacy be protected and decisions  about 
women's reproductive health be between a woman and her doctor?  

Are you prepared to demand that our brothers and sisters who are  gay, 
lesbian, bisexual and transgendered have equal rights, including the  right to 
marry? 

Are you prepared to demand we decriminalize and  legalize marijuana, demand 
hospitalization not incarceration for those  with drug problems? 

Are you prepared to demand Not-for-profit  Health Care for All? 

Education for All? 

Retirement  Security for All? 

Jobs for All? 

Are you prepared to rescue  our federal government from corporate interests 
by calling for a  constitutional amendment which establishes only public 
financing of  federal elections? 

Are you prepared to rescue our planet, to  protect our air, water, and land 
from further exploitation by demanding an  end to drilling the earth, 
fracking the earth, cracking the earth, and end  to poisoning the seas and the 
skies with carbon based energies, and a  rapid transition to an 
environmentally friendly, socially responsible  green economy? 

This day, here and now, you have now voiced the  Seattle Declaration. Let 
the sound of your voice be heard far and wide.  Let your affirmations give 
birth to new actions, a new nation and a new  world. Let your voice cause 
America to march. Let your voice cause America  to sing. Let your voice cause 
America to seek new freedoms. Let your voice  cause America to seek a newer 
world. Ours is a restless quest for freedom.  We know wars make us less free. 
Fear makes us less free. Social and  economic insecurity makes us less free. 
If it is for freedom's sake we  gather, so then let it be for freedom's 
sake that we act! 

Our  individual desire for change carries extraordinary power to become 
more  than we are. Better than we are. Forged in the human heart, ignited by  
love and passion for transformation, our common unity, our common purpose  
and our common action carry the power to change everything. This is the  power 
of human unity. This is the power of our Oneness. Feel it. Own it.  Act 
upon it 

Thank you Seattle. 

 
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