Grandmother Revolution

What fun to tune into Patch Adams again and find out that he is urging us to make the same change that Gramma Sez is needed! We all know what the problems are and they are painful. What I love is Patch's emphasis on the 'how' of making the change. As a woman I know there is nothing more joyful than helping people to solve their problems and find happiness. Our world won't survive unless we become more loving and willing to share and care about each other. Let's join Patch in living this dream together.

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF 'PRECEDENT'?

Be a Model   Take the Lead   Be First
YOU CAN DO IT - BE A PRECEDENT

 A Precedent makes changes in one’s own life and is a model citizen. Precedents are leaders in their communities with new ideas about how to participate in self-governing.

There is a demand by people all over the world to change  to more  democratic governments. Their revolutions are being televised and we are witnessing violence an civil wars as part of the changes.

America had its revolution and a Civil War. Now in our country the President can't make the many changes he says he wants to make. The Congress is stalemated. The Supreme Court has a business bias. The corporations, billionaires and millionaires are really in charge. We’ve been asleep, apathetic, depressed and/or just plain cloned by advertising in the media to be good consumers and workers rather than vocal, active citizens.  Gramma Sez it's time for an evolution - a make-over instead of a take-over.  We can begin by insisting that sharing and caring about our welfare be the major role of  local, state and federal governments. This evolution will be "internalized." We can communicate and come to agreements because of the technology we have now and then act together to make the changes we want. We can form a companion government based on a new idea for Us being involved.

Who is going to make this happen??? Why you and me – Us –  by first acting collectively  to change our own attitudes toward one another. We can learn to participate in governing  besides just voting and expecting others to make it happen.    

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Gramma Announces She is Running Us For Precedent!

Last week our President, Barack Obama, announced that he is beginning his campaign for re-election.  His campaign chest is purported to become $1,000,000,000 - one billion dollars!  The Republicans also have several possible candidates, some of whom are very wealthy. We don’t need money to be the determinant of who runs for office, who runs our government or who runs our lives. We also don’t need vitriolic attacks based on making an opponent look bad when power is the real goal and not the welfare of the people. That’s why I’ve decided that now is the time to announce the launching of a new kind of campaign called - Us for Precedent. 

This campaign is a model for a different quality of political conversations and actions that acknowledge the connectedness and equality of all human beings without regard to age, sex, ethnicity, religion, education, class or sexual persuasion.We must immediately act as our own representatives to prove to ourselves and the world that as Americans we can agree to realize the ideal of a government that truly cares about the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of ALL its citizens.  Every major religion in the world says the same thing in different words - that we must do unto others, as we would have others do unto us.  Imagine 2012 State and Federal budgets based on this universal principle!

If you and I can agree to model this principle in our daily lives, then we can set a precedent for a new kind of self-governing society that is truly democratic.  It is Gramma's hope that politicians of all parties will re-examine their motives for wanting to govern and commit to the Platform of the Us for Precedent campaign.

To join the Us for Precedent campaign add your email to my mailing list in the column to the right of this posting or follow me on Twitter and Facebook.

Let Us be the change to realize the American dream.

Am I the Best Person I Can Be?

The process of personal change begins the moment you recognize that you want  to change and are willing to take an action or actions to find out if the "doing"  you've decided to try works. The first of the Us for Precedent goals asks "Do I feel good about Myself?" and "Do I feel good about You?".   On this blog I'm going to make some suggestions  that you can practice to see if your answer to both questions can remain yes.  The actions described are simple and practical.  Watch and learn from the instructional videos and become your own model or precedent for change.

US FOR PRECEDENT AGREEMENTS

Us for Precedent

A Process of Creating a United State

As a Precedent I agree to make the following changes and commitments:

My Personal Changes – I Agree to:

1.     LOVE of self and others as the motivation for my actions.

2.    TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for daily maintenance of a healthy, happy lifestyle.

3.    RECOGNIZE and HEAL my part in family problems, grudges and divorces.

4.    PARTICIPATE in the lives of elders (relatives and neighbors) and honor their right to grow old with dignity and in safe happy environments.

5.    BUY and SELL locally to support sustainable community economies including using local banks and credit unions.

6.    CARE for the earth as my personal home.

My Community Commitments – I Will Act to See That My Local Government:

1.     GIVES top priority to the physical and emotional needs, the learning opportunities and safe recreational facilities for our children.

2.     SHARES community resources so that each person has food, shelter, and opportunities to learn and work.

3.     ACKNOWLEDGES the connectedness and equality of all human beings without regard to age, sex, race, ethnicity, religion, education, class, or sexual persuasion. 

4.     HONORS all veterans and their families with the personal understanding and services they need to lead peaceful lives.

5.     IDENTIFIES those persons endangered by violence, domestic abuse or neglect.

State/ National Actions – I Will Raise My Voice to My Legislative Representatives to:

1.    INSIST that each person in every country has the right to water, food, sanitation, shelter and the pursuit of happiness.

2.    DEMAND that the resources located in a country be used for the general welfare of the people of that country and not be exploited by large corporations.

3.    SELECT JUDGES from candidates not identified by political party or religion and require that all funds for their campaigns be public information.

4.    PROHIBIT seeds from being owned by a corporation and protect seeds that are the result of a farmer’s harvest.

Activate a circle of friends to join you in working toward realizing the goals of Us for Precedent.

DOES KING MONEY RULE YOU?

Gramma Sez:

It is time for KING MONEY to be
DETHRONED and
EARTH OUR MOTHER
Be RESTORED As
QUEEN of LIFE on the Planet!

GETTING STARTED

The first Us for Precedent Party happened on Sunday, Jan. 30th. We considered the Party Platform, decided on some changes, and will present the final draft by the end of this week.  We shot an hour of video defining the mission of Us for Precedent, explaining the Platform and presenting some start-up  Gramma raps. The editing process will help clarify our format. We will meet again next Sunday at 3:00 at my house. Just wanted you to know we welcome your energy and creativity in this planning and strategy phase! Gramma Sez the time for us to commit to evolving our consciousness consciously is NOW.

''I SHALL NOT HATE''

This morning Amy Goodman interviewed Izzeldin Abuelaish about his new book,  "I Shall Not Hate: A  Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity."  Please go to Democracy Now and listen to her conversation with this extraordinary man. I don't have words to describe the dimensions of pain he has experienced in his life or the spiritual strength with which he views it.  I can only say that his nobility touched my soul and I wept to begin the day with the inspiration of  his courage and humanity. We must stand for truth with him.

The Unrealized Dreams of Martin Luther King

Yesterday I attended the 20th ceremony celebrating the life and dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. held by citizens of Bellingham, Washington.  It was sweet and inspirational. There was not an outside guest speaker this year.  Instead key servants of this community - members of the Lummi nation, the Mayor, and ex-Mayor, a middle school teacher, a  city council member, President of the Peace and Justice Center, and an author - spoke with humility and gratitude for the leadership of  this amazing American! I must also mention a 40+ volunteer chorus who sang with all their hearts lovely. spirited music.  There was a call for other citizens and young leadership to step forward and help keep this tradition alive. Distributed at the event was a copy of highlights from King's less familiar Riverside Church speech against the Vietnam War and about "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government...If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam." Let me add Iraq and Afghanistan,  This is a major aspect of unfinished business we must attend to.  We are teaching violence to our children with TV programs, inter-net games, vitriolic rhetoric, availability of guns and in our families with ugly divorces. We have unfinished business to attend to -let's get busy! I'll have more to say tomorrow about where I feel we can start to make "the change".