“To produce change, people
must be organized to work
together in units of power.”
Martin Luther King Jr.Many of my friends are working against the denial of rights of the people of Wisconsin, for State workers to have collective bargaining, for taxpayers to decide to how to spend tax dollars, the right of taxpayers to raise taxes for better city services, right to decent education and health system. On the cry of “Cut taxes” the Governor and his supports have given tax cuts to rich and taken the money from the poor and middle class.
How my friends work on this issue varies. Some works on recalls of politicians, sign petitions, register more people to vote. Others organize protest, acts of civil disobedience in Madison and in communities around the state and use the internet to spread information and organize.
In my opinion it is better to organize than to vote. Votes can be influenced and purchased by big money. Actions cannot. Petitions can be ignored and but sit in’s at the State Capitol cannot. Big money can control information on the media but not on the internet.
All significant social change comes through organizing, nonviolent action and civil disobedience. In a truly democratic society where there is taxation with representation voting makes sense. In what is called democratic government in USA and Wisconsin where big money and business control politics organizing is needed for change.
President Obama and other leaders who run on an agenda for change say “If we’re not willing to take up that fight, then real change—change that will make a lasting difference in the lives of ordinary Americans—will keep getting blocked by the defenders of the status quo. “ Taking up the fight to me means going on the offensive, organizing, taking mass action, voting with our feet.
A president, governor or any other politicians cannot make a change for good or bad, in our might, if we stay and work together, organize and take action. The struggle is on in Wisconsin. Do we organize or vote?
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