Working Together to Change the World

[Update: If you did attend a Moveon house party and have written something about it, let Matt Stoller over at Bopnews know about it so he can add it to the definitive blog for the president, 2004 record.]

I hope everyone was able to attend a house party in their area for nationwide shared viewing of Uncovered: the Whole Truth About the Iraq War sponsored by Moveon.org. Moveon had a great interactive map that showed all the locations for the house parties that you can find here. I registered late, and I think I was glad I did so because it meant that most of the parties were full and I found myself at a house in the Almaden Valley area of San Jose with at least 70 other people. Our host had a very large house and sponsored a viewing and potluck. As a Deaniac, he had lots of Dean buttons, t-shirts and bumper stickers, but was very welcoming to the Clark and Kucinich supporters as well. And I was glad to see that it didn't matter who you supported now, we all were committed to working for the eventual nominee with all the passion and focus needed to send Bush back to Crawford.

The film is a powerful documentary and deserves to be viewed by every single American before the next election. You can buy a copy by going to the Moveon.org site. I've done so, so I can show it to my family and friends who didn't get a chance to see it tonight. And I met some new allies at this party, so I've got some people I can work with to do my part in clearing some shrub.

Also, I plan to keep a close eye on what's going on at David Pollard's place. David has a piece up that examines the word integrity and what it means to us when our institutions lose their integrity. He has decided that it time to do something about the lack and will be posting his ideas and his action plans going forward.

When we say our government lacks integrity we mean they say one thing and do another. They lie. They use the ends to justify any means. They corrupt terms like 'freedom' and 'patriotism', and the entire moral framework under which they presume to operate crumbles.

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And we need to identify and put forward leaders who have that same personal integrity, and who will use the power that comes with leadership to act on their responsibility and to rebuild the integrity of public institutions, while we at the same time, in our roles as citizens and employees and consumers, do what we can to help in the rebuilding, and hold those institutions to account until the job is done.

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Starting next month you'll see more progress reports -- what's working and what isn't -- and more exhortations to you to help out with specific collaborative projects, in this blog. The time for just talking, as they say, is over.

Amen. I know I'm very interested in seeing how I might also help David with this effort.

Posted by Mary at December 8, 2003 12:00 AM | TrackBack