Today we release our June Program, we plan to release more on occasion. Let it serve as a loose platform and mission statement of where we stand on the issues of the time. The full text is below as is a pdf file for download.
We are witnessing a bizarre chapter in our nation’s history. Our governments are subservient to corporations and capital at every level. The quiet has become loud, and the many injustices of our country are no longer able to be hidden behind a veneer of civility. The political fringes now march proudly in the public squares.
Large portions of our society are still denied the most basic human safety and dignity. We continue to have a neocolonial relationship with our indigenous population and territories. There are still American lands where people born in this country are denied citizenship. The economic inequality has become staggering, similarly to the dysfunction and legalized corruption which dominate our political processes. The nations of the world are sprinting towards a cliff of ecological disaster. Our leadership boasts of our nation’s endless wealth+virtue with one breath and denies assurances of the most basic human rights with the next. Even the most basic marker of humanity’s collective wellbeing, our life expectancy, has been declining for years.
Our crisis has become loud and unavoidable, but that doesn’t mean it is new. It has been present for decades and centuries, unacknowledged by much of our society.
That is no longer an option.
We view the solution to this crisis as laying in the establishment of a socialist system, which would bring democracy to the workplace, true equality to our social realm, and a system which does not approach its own citizenry as pawns and enemy combatants.
We will be continuing the work of establishing a just society in our county, region, and state to the best of our ability.
We see no distinction between the necessities of economic, legal, and social justice. One requires the others. We must establish all three to establish a truly good system here.
As tends to happen, pressing issues become trends. Picked up, obsessed over, and abandoned within a matter of weeks. That is not our approach. We will only consider an issue “over” when it has been well and truly resolved. The movement thus far has seen much progress, but has resolved nothing.
So we march on.
Today we trumpet a roar against the crisis before us, may it know that its days are numbered. Let that roar also serve as a compact with the people of this land, so that they know that they will always have brothers and sisters in the fight for their dignity and wellbeing. You are not alone. We are not alone.
We are the Movement.
Solidarity Forever.