Open Power: The National Conversation on Electoral Reform, Honest Government, and Our Future

Joan Blades, the brilliant human that created MoveOn and Moms Rising, is now leading a new movement and meme,  Living Room Conversations. Below is the first draft of what has gone forward for possible elevation to a national conversation about THE issue of our day. NOTE: The critical genius of Joan’s concept is the conversation …

Mongoose: Change Presidential Debate Rules? Cosmetic Deception!

This is theatrical — not a real reform at all. New group calls for changes in presidential debate rules Philip Rucker Washington Post, 17 March 2015 A group of political elders, concerned that the American public is losing faith in the presidential election system, is pushing for changes to general-election debate rules to make it …

Open Power: Revolution Now! Non-Violently — for Electoral Reform Act of 2015 in Time for 2016

Revolution Now – Non-Violently – for Electoral Reform in 2015 Want an Honest Government Of, By, and For We the 99%? Here’s How. Robert David STEELE Vivas (Native-Born Bi-Lingual Pissed-Off Latino Activist) I cannot stress this enough: whatever your issue, however righteous and important it might be, it will never get a fair hearing as …

SchwartzReport: America’s Electoral Nightmare — Global Laughingstock for Lack of Integrity

If we cannot tell ourselves the truth, corrective choices are not possible. Here is the truth about the integrity of America’s electoral process. We come in 26th in the world, one step above Mexico. Nothing to be proud of. America’s election nightmare: How voter ID, gerrymandering & fundraising made us a laughingstock Here’s what happens …

SchwartzReport: Congressman Confesses 9 Crimes — #ElectoralReform

The Congress has become so fundamentally degraded we are beginning to see whistleblowers telling us the suppressed truth. This is the state of American democracy, and it is not a happy story. Not particularly his first point, that Congresspersons are not out of touch with the people that elect them. Ultimately in a democracy people …

Review (Guest): This Republic of Suffering – Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust Closure, or does the Suffering just still go on … ?, March 12, 2014 By Herbert L Calhoun “paulocal” Quietly, this is an amazing book about the back side of war — the side we pretend not to know is really there at all — the ugly side, the painful side. It …