"For All"
Civic Empowerment Campaign
“But I am very worried, about the state of the civilization which produced that photograph of the white cop, standing on that Negro woman’s neck in Birmingham.” Lorraine Hansberry, to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, 1963
For All's work stands on three truths:
1. Ultimately, only a society that works For All of us will work for any of us.
2. An America where some of us rules the rest of us is destined to fail.
3. Each of us has unfathomable power to shape the fate of all of us.
We secure for ourselves a future by becoming a society where "one nation, indivisible" and "liberty and justice For All" ring true. This, doing our part to form a "more perfect union", is the work we're all called to do.
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Power to the People - In ancient Greek, demokratia, the word from which we get "democracy" is a combination of dêmos ("people") and krátos ("power") -- "the people hold power". Or, as the Black Panther Party famously put it, "power to the people". The mission of Power to the People is to make participation in all facets of societal governance, from juries to judges (there are no legally-established qualifications for justices serving on federal courts from district and circuit courts to the US Supreme Court), from voting to taking a turn in public office commonplace, the new definition of "serving our country", and to make every authority, from local police to federal agencies, accountable to the people.
Back Where We Came From - Effort to shift the narrative from talking about building a border wall to making automatic dual citizenship an option for all Mexicans. This was their land first. When we say to them, "Go back where you came from," we forget that, with respect to the western part of North America, they already are.
Faith in Democracy - Resources to help people of all faiths and non-faiths to engage in the formation of true democracy rather than seeking to make anyone's beliefs the law of the land.
Just Justice - Effort to promote true equality in all aspects of the courts, law-making and law enforcement.
Indivisible - Holding sacred the ties that bind us together as one nation.
Listen to Someday (We'll All Be One)
Featuring the San Francisco Interfaith Gospel Choir (SFIFGC) |