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Forum Post: Occupy USA make use of the internet, facebook, twitter, and direct government contact sites.

Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 27, 2011, 4:05 p.m. EST by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN
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Below are direct contacts to our government. Please send in your messages. Take back government. Everyone needs to be involved. Even if you might not agree with me - Please forward this post to everyone that you know and let them decide if this is something that they would like to do.

Contact the White house: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

Contact the senate: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Contact Congress: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

Contact the house of representatives: http://www.house.gov/htbin/findrep?ZIP=55433

Contact the Supreme Court: http://www.supremecourt.gov/

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[-] 1 points by tzj (7) 12 years ago

Okay this action is notable! BUT we need specific action to AMEND the Supreme Court's ruling called "CITIZENS UNITED." This bit of work is the actual heart of the new, organized, 1% assault on the political system in the country. This one bit of legislation took our democracy and political system and handed them over lock-stock-and barrel to the ruling wealthy elite. Want a democracy?? AMEND "CITIZENS UNITED." Make it an ELECTION ISSUE. Write your congress man today so they will. FOCUS AND ACT!

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[-] 1 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

OK. So if you could attach a copy of the act/ruling ( citizens united ) and then use the 6 degree of separation concept to forward it to everyone you know with instructions that they do the same. Perhaps include directions/instructions on how they could use the direct government contact sites ( include the links I attached below ), then perhaps you could generate a cohesive movement for change on this issue.

Educate/Advocate - Spread the word.

Below are direct contacts to our government.

Contact the White house: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

Contact the senate: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Contact Congress: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

Contact the house of representatives: http://www.house.gov/htbin/findrep?ZIP=55433

Contact the Supreme Court: http://www.supremecourt.gov/

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[-] 1 points by gawdoftruth (3698) from Santa Barbara, CA 12 years ago

http://occupythiswiki.org/wiki/Government_Contact_Information

I have been active here since the very beginning, and since the very beginning I have been trying to make some core points. These points clearly have not been digested or fully understood by the mob, and so I'm going to try to make a further attempt here again.

  1. Merely protesting in the streets will not bring change. In fact merely protesting in the streets is in fact a means to the end of avoiding the real work of a revolution, which consists of the evolutionary solutions, answers, problem solving process, and new political alignment we create.
  2. This forum is absolutely disorganized. It won't be read by most people and it won't and can't function as a core organizational system.
  3. Back at the very start of this, I petitioned the admin to add multiple sub forums and a wiki. Multiple sub forums were promised but have never arrived. I think that this tells us that the intention actually of this forum is message control and containment. The entire purpose really of this forum has always been to keep us spinning in disorganization. We are hanging out on a forum that expressly exists to actually keep us confused and disorganized.
  4. The real work of a revolution isn't going to happen on forums, it needs to happen in a much more organized fashion using collaborative software.
  5. The assorted other details about how to collaborate, how to work open source direct democracy, how to focus in on science instead of isms, how to become hyper rational about this, are details which are essential and crucial, without which we can predict the movement to fail.
  6. Technically speaking we are not 99 percent, we are one tenth of one percent attempting to represent the 99 percent. Our core mission must be to communicate to and with the 99 percent, and get them to join us. This forum will not accomplish that and neither will any of the other main websites.
  7. You can follow other people out to other wikis and other websites, where they will try to get you to get involved with what they want and their program, but frankly speaking, there is no other website and no other operation out there which understands the complexities involved with meaningful organization. In short, everyones being led to get involved here there and everywhere else, scattering the movement in directions which ultimately do not gain us critical mass, criticial momentum, or critical systemic lucidity.
  8. I have managed to get a wiki put up and have already put on that wiki evolutionary details which make it more organized than anything else. I can't do this alone. There are 10 or so wikis now out there, most of which were created in response to my pleas for a wiki, and several of which are in domains owned and operated by some corporation, (wikia, etc) And which we can thus assume will simply be closed, shut down, or deleted if they become useful to the movement.
  9. Probably at least half of the invites you have to go participate at some other site are people who are scamming everyone to waste time and energy, distort the movement, co opt it, and etc. When you walk off into a closet ask yourself how you know that the closet isn't created by some fed, or by some republican, or by some democrat, in order to sway things in their direction.
  10. The only meaningful strategic option we have for real change in this country is to create a new third party, and take every political office in this country.
  11. Once that is done, we can have an article 5 convention. If we have an article 5 convention before getting rid of the oligachs, that just opens the genie from the bottle for them to abuse that process with their corruption and evil.
  12. As of last night and this morning, you can't even answer responses on this site without geting a 403 error, logging in requries you to back click after a 403 error, and the chat simply doesn't load.

For these reasons, I beg of you to please immediately join me on the wiki. We need to have all of these details and all of these ideas put together in an organized fashion, rather than posted in a long scrawl which will never be read.

http://occupythiswiki.org/wiki/THE_99%25_POLITICAL_PARTY

http://occupythiswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.followthemoney.org/?gclid=CMbY87bB-qsCFUPt7Qod9HE8mQ

http://maplight.org/us-congress/guide/data/money?9gtype=search&9gkw=list%20of%20campaign%20donations&9gad=6213192521.1&9gag=1786513361&gclid=CP61oYbB-qsCFQFZ7AodcTF0jw

http://www.opensecrets.org/

http://occupywallst.org/forum/our-new-wiki/

http://occupywallst.org/forum/non-violence-evolution-by-paradigm-shift/

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[-] 1 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

OK. I'll check it out. But what did you think of my post?

I'm sure you have heard of the concept - 6 degrees of separation. So even if you have problems with my concept of contacting the government directly and getting everyone else to do so. You should be able to see that by sharing with everyone you know and having them do the same promotes education and thereby action. That by everyone contacting the government could very well start educating the government that the game of lip service is over.

So share this post by e-mail, facebook, twitter, or wiki. Lets all move forward together by using every tool that is available.

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[-] 1 points by gawdoftruth (3698) from Santa Barbara, CA 12 years ago

i like your post so much i included it on the wiki...?

i agree, absolutely.. spot on... lets get it detailed on the wiki...

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[-] 1 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

I am absolutely new ( novice ) as far as wiki space goes. I was considering starting a page myself. I visited your site and am impressed. One thing about these space's? Is there like an available index that could be opened to find content listed in an a-z type format? Like I said I am a wiki newborn maybe I just need to spend more time on these sites to learn my way around. As to getting it detailed. How may I help/contribute?

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[-] 1 points by gawdoftruth (3698) from Santa Barbara, CA 12 years ago

yes, you can get "special pages" and then "list all pages"

so there are assorted organizational features and indexing and plus the system uses a categorization feature to help with that.

you can help or contribute by just signing in and making new pages to contain all of your ideas and thoughts, you can do research and link us to sites on the net, you can copy out important threads and make them accessible via the wiki... its a whole giant world of options.

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[-] 1 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

Thanks for that gawdoftruth. I guess that I just need to start exploring/visiting.

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[-] 1 points by gawdoftruth (3698) from Santa Barbara, CA 12 years ago

your welcome! come on by :)

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[-] 1 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

Will Do :)

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[-] 1 points by gawdoftruth (3698) from Santa Barbara, CA 12 years ago

obviously i like it so much and agree so much i added it to the wiki?

again, the problem is, the forum is a giant mess of disorganization.

so the true core thing that needs to happen is we need to leave the trollhatten and get on the wiki.

otherwise your good idea is mostly lost in the scrawl.

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[-] 1 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

Well it got your notice so I guess it wasn't a totally wasted effort, and if you use the concept yourself you will get someone else s attention. The bottom line is use every opportunity to communicate educate and advocate.

Keep spreading the word.

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