Declaration of the Dewey Park People’s Assembly          

Saturday October 1^st 2011

  **  Unofficial and non-active until voted upon by the Assembly  **

 Before any movement can be taken seriously, it must  establish what it wants and why it must exist.  The  citizens of Boston and the surrounding areas have  taken Dewey Park for a variety of reasons.  Each of us  is outraged about something in this country, and that  knowledge drives us to the streets to find solutions for  the problems that confront our communities.  But, in  essence, we are here for one reason.  We are tired.  We  tire of a military economy based on untruths,  unrestrained spending and the planned obsolescence  of the middle class.  We tire of a government that  gives tax cuts to corporations for sending our jobs to  slave laborers in other countries.  We tire of  foreclosures on mortgages securitized by the MERS  system.  We tire of media networks controlled by five  conglomerates and the propaganda wing of the  Pentagon.  We tire of an economy that values wealth  acquisition over the rights of every human to live and  prosper.  We grow tired of social, racial, and gender  hierarchies that resist definition and yet allow  Americans to believe they live in a country that prizes  equality and justice.  We tire of courts that consider  race before considering the social effects of drug  addiction and broken families.  We cannot bear the  medical, pharmaceutical and insurance industries  that are funded by taxpayers but provide no value to  the society that supports them.  We are sick of  fighting alone, and we can no longer afford to lose just  because we lack money and organization.

            Most importantly, however, we tire of the systems into which we were born.  We can no longer live in a world where corporations misuse the resources that should be carefully managed in order to provide a sufficient amount for all.  We are no longer content to thrive as empty consumers within institutions that ignore the suffering of the third-world workers that produce our goods.  We will no longer tolerate the million-dollar bonuses, or the political contributions that allow corporations to manage our government for their own benefit.  We demand the regulation and taxation of hedge funds, investment vehicles, complex instruments like Credit Default Swaps, CDOs and derivatives, and the investigation of any bank that has ever received funding as ‘Too-Big-To-Fail’.  Rebuild the FEC and SEC.  Create new laws to end corporate personhood.  Pass a fair, progressive income tax.  Re-institute Glass-Steagall and impose a Tobin Tax on financial transactions.  We demand an end to the two-party plutocracy and the corporations that own both parties.  The quickest solution is to dismantle the Federal Reserve Corporation and the banks that compose it.  To achieve these goals we will use any means except violence.  We are the vocal majority.