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Toward Human Rights (Humanitarianism)

A Revolution of ValuesThose who make a peaceful revolution impossible will make a violent revolution inevitable. . . Martin Luther

King Jr.

Our culture has been high jacked by manipulators bent on creating a nation of sleeping drones willing to give

over their will power to anyone seen as culturally cool. Our minds have been indoctrinated with self-

suppressing ideas that render life meaningless and shallow, awakening psychosis so dramatizing that self-

rejection becomes our prime motive and dependency on external authority becomes our saving grace. Ourhomes have been declared worthless by a banking system which sees them as chips on a large poker table in

which they own the dealer and control the cards. Our communities have been devastated, rendered hollow by

large corporations who have brought off our representatives, elevated a flawed electoral system and promoted

fraud, greed and dehumanization within their ranks. These moral-less actions have resulted in the shattered

family life we are all witnessing today. This modern version of The Brady Bunch sees both dad and mom

working more hours for less money; it propels the myth that work is the chief accomplishment of their

existence; it projects dominance, stress and apathy onto the children from whom much is expected except their

objection, critique or suggestions as to how the family should operate and finally because of those moral-less

actions the next generation looks to the future with a dreariness not expressed by the media they take in.

These are the realities being faced by the overwhelming majority of this nations residents. It is to them that Idedicate this entire essay to. Consider this is a call to A.R.M.S (All Revolutionary Minded Sojours).

We, the 99%, must see that our country is in the shape that it is because we have been unwilling to stand up and

claim responsibility for its derection; we have been unwilling to roll up our sleeves and say ENOUGH! We

have been unwilling to step back and ask the tough questions, questions such as is there a wealth problem in

this nation or just an organizational problem? or how can my community development alternatives to our jobneeds? When you began to ask questions such as these your mind will wander outside of the prescribed

parameters it has been trapped in since you left school. Questions like these provoke innocents, they provoke

hope and dignity, innovation and companionship, kinship and heritage but most of all they create an atmosphere

where spirituality and consciousness can thrive, where Community, Family and Humanity takes precedent over

growth, economics and materialism. Through this way Government becomes a verb not a noun.

Our time demands recognition that the concept of grass roots is a fable; in the forest that is our global

environment we are the soil, the water and sunlight that promotes growth. We enable large institutions to grow,

mature and survive; we promote cyclic processes the generate false wealth and monetary collectivism; we

define the barriers of growth and expansion of the collective whole known as our economic structure; but

ultimately when all those metaphors are stripped away, as a population in general, we encourage representatives

to rule over us, we give them the power to facilitate cooperation between the institutions that now exist. We

must now discourage behavior from those representatives that shows contempt for us and if in the process of

demonstrating our disapproval they deceive us with propaganda or reject us through scathing criticism, then we

must revoke the power of those individuals to speak for us, elevating someone from within our ranks to do the

job that we demand from them.

At this present time we stand at a cross roads that questions our commitment to changing our world for the

better. For over 200 years we have tried piece meal changes, the result of which has been a delayed resetting of

the machine known as our Socio-Economic system of Predatory Capitalism. We must now confront the reality

that this system continues to create. High exploitation, a subverted class, a small materially wealthy elite, large

corporations and diminished economic possibilities for all are just some of the symptoms of this system. In

1967 Martin Luther King called for a Revolution of Values; he realized that a system that creates poverty must

be retooled to eliminate that process. I agree.

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Many people are uneasy with the term Revolution because they believe a Revolution breeds violence; not

necessarily. King pointed out that King Georges refusal to share power with his subjects lead to the AmericanRevolutionary War. This current uprising does not have to lead to violence; the demands being made by all of

these protest rallies are simple and easy to implement. In reality very few of these people want to do away with

Capitalism, they just want to do away with the Predatory Philosophy that seems to accompany it. If our

representatives truthfully work for us then theyll have no problem implementing the demands. If they want toavoid confrontation then they will allow police officers to march with us not work against us; they will meet

with us and do as we want them to not as the soul-less corporations demand them to. If they want to avoid

violence then they should mirror our actions, assemble with us, tell the military to lay their arms down andspeak with us, recall your propaganda agents from their privileged television spots, give us the microphones,

cameras and technical support to spread our message over our airwaves. This is a revolution for all people, if

they cannot accept a peaceful reorientation of power then we shall take it upon ourselves to degrade their

influence on us; human ingenuity will command us to address their inability to peaceably reconnect to the

human family and move beyond materialism, byway of developing new structures, new philosophies and new

social aims and directives vastly different then those they impose on us. And at the end of that development

phase we will invite them to join usif they refuse, then they will watch as the world changes without them.

This is a Revolution, make no mistake about that, but a peaceful one. Join us as we elevate our communities

beyond Economics, beyond Politics and beyond Injustice!

Occupy Wayne County Chief Organizer

Vphiamer Adis

About the Author

For much of the past two years I have been a Socialist; but over the past few months Ive been rethinking that

label. In truth I am a Humanitarian, I am a Conscious Sojour(ner) who wants to see his community thrive again.

I am now rejecting the philosophies of Socialism, Capitalism and Totalitarianism! What we need are

philosophies devoid of group segregation; rather that segregation is noticeable as in the case of Class and

Ethnicity or none noticeable as in the case of access to life giving services and avenues for self-expression.