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"Let nobody give you the impression that the problem of racial [or any] injustice will work itself out. Let nobody give you the impression that only time will solve the problem. That is a myth, and it is a myth because time is neutral. It can be used either constructively or destructively. And I'm absolutely convinced that the people of ill will in our nation - the extreme rightists - the forces committed to negative ends - have used time much more effectively than the people of good will." Martin Luther King - Oberlin College, June 1965  'Remaining Awake Through the Revolution'
Fix the Politics: Guarantee Voting Integrity, Eliminate Dark Money and Gerrymandering. 
1. End Corporate Personhood
2. Guarantee Voting Rights
3. Outlaw Lobbying
4. Restore Banks & Regulate Wall Street
5. Prosecute Financial Crimes as Crimes
6. Get the Greed Out of Politics
How the Kochs & their Friends Engineered the Federal Shutdown 
"Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal bannered on 12 April 2010, "New Fangs for the Conservative Beast: The Heritage Foundation's new advocacy organization will pressure congressmen to do what's right," and Edwin Feulner, the president of Heritage Foundation, co-authored with Michael Needham (the head that he had appointed at its new political-pressure subsidiary Heritage Action), a description of their unprecedented new virtual PAC to drive the Republican Party farther to the right."
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Fix the Economy: Restore Glass- Steagall, Lock Government Regulators' Revolving Door 
4. Restore Banks & Regulate Wall Street
5. Prosecute Financial Crimes as Crimes
6. Get the Greed Out of Politics 
7. Simplify the Tax Code with incentives for First Homes and Education
8. Guarantee Workplace Rights
9. Establish Smart Grid based on green Neighborhood Energy Production
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The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted? by Jed S. Rakoff
"But if... the Great Recession was,,, the product of intentional fraud, the failure to prosecute those responsible must be judged one of the more egregious failures of the criminal justice system in many years. 

"...the Department of Justice ...decision was made in 2009 to spread the investigation of financial fraud cases among numerous US Attorney’s Offices, many of which had little or no previous experience in investigating and prosecuting sophisticated financial frauds." 

"the Department of Justice’s position, until at least recently, is that going after the suspect institutions poses too great a risk to the nation’s economic recovery. So you don’t go after the companies...criminally, because they are too big to jail; and you don’t go after the individuals, because...you no longer have the experience or the resources to pursue.
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Restore Justice: Define People as People. Outlaw Prisons for Profit. Reclassify marijuana Class 3 narcotic. 
6. Get the Greed Out of Politics 
7. Simplify the Tax Code with incentives for First Homes and Education
8. Guarantee Workplace Rights
9. Establish Smart Grid based on green Neighborhood Energy Production
10. Guarantee Human and Health Rights
11. End the War on Drugs
12. End Prisons for Profits
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We Must Reclaim Our Democracy
 Our Bill of Rights was the result of tremendous efforts to institutionalize and protect the rights of human beings. It strengthened the premise of our Constitution: that the people are the root of all power and authority for government. This vision has made our Constitution and government a model emulated in many nations.

But corporate lawyers (acting as both attorneys and judges) subverted our Bill of Rights in the late 1800′s by establishing the doctrine of “corporate personhood” — the claim that corporations were intended to fully enjoy the legal status and protections created for human beings. Granting corporations the status of legal “persons” effectively rewrites the Constitution to serve corporate interests as though they were human interests.
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Greed is not good, money is not speech, rights are for all and justice is a moral imperative.