Mission Statement for OV--for real this time!

[Deborah Lashever]

 Okay, pick A or B. No edits please. We will come to consensus on Thursday at the GA.

 

 (You don't have to reply to the email, just show up Thursday with your choice--or email me your input and I will bring it to the group on Thursday if you will not be able to be there.)

A: 

Occupy Venice is a people-powered, non-violent movement dedicated to addressing our country's most systemic problem: the control over the many by the few through political corruption caused by personal and corporate greed. Occupy Venice protests the destruction done to our democracy, society, economy and environment by exploitative interests and educates others about these injustices while empowering them to take action against it. Occupy Venice is working to create a sustainable, cooperative community in Venice which is a working model of the society we envision: a world based on fairness and equality, freedom and justice, peace, compassion, and the protection of nature.

 

 

B: 

Occupy Venice is a people-powered, non-violent movement dedicated to addressing our country's most systemic problem: the control over the many by the few through political corruption due to personal and corporate greed. We are resisting the machine that perpetuates the destruction of our democracy, society, economy and environment and creating a community based on fairness and equality, freedom and justice, peace, compassion, and the protection of nature. To this end we are educating ourselves and others about these injustices and empowering us all to take action against them and to actively create sustainable, cooperative solutions in Venice as a working model of the society we envision.

 

Thanks!

 

Cheers,

Deborah

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Deborah LaShever
BOHEMIAN EXCHANGE
1358 Abbot Kinney Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291
310.396.3044
bohemian...@gmail.com

"Be the change you wish to see in the world.'  ---  Mahatma Gandhi
 
"Wherever you stand be the soul of that place."  ---  Rumi

"When injustice becomes the law, resistance becomes duty" --- Thomas Jefferson.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. 

To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.”  

– R. Buckminster Fuller