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Reclaim
Disrupt Revitalize
We are a grassroots movement. We will RECLAIM our money and focus. We will DISRUPT the status quo. We will REVITALIZE our homes, communities, and government.
We will not stop until the United States of America works for its people, not just corporate profit.
Mild inconvenience will fund this revolution.
Wealth Disparity
As of 2024, the top 10% of U.S. households held 67% of the nation's wealth, averaging $6.9 million per household, while the bottom 50% held only 2.5%, averaging $51,000 per household. Stagnant wages, rising cost of living, tax policies that benefit the rich, educational and investment disparities keep widening the gap.
Plutocracy
A Plutocracy is a government ruled by the wealthy. Campaign contributions, lobbying, and super PAC's influence our policies, legislation, and regulations. The interests of hundreds of millions of working class Americans are consistently bypassed to benefit a few wealthy people.
3.5% Civil Resistance
Civil resistance is a form of nonviolent action on which individuals or groups challenge authority, policies, or social injustice through methods such as protests, strikes, boycotts, and other peaceful means. It relies on collective action and moral pressure, and all it takes is 3.5% of a population to create big changes.
Our approach is research based and proven.
Political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan studied hundreds of uprisings, movements, and revolutions, discovering that if only 3.5% of a population is actively engaged and consistent in peaceful resistance, it cannot fail. Even tyranny cannot withstand it.
Additionally, we've used AI to determine the most effective and peaceful steps to disrupt the current system. Those 5 steps are below. Each is independently powerful; done together and their influence becomes overlapped, compounded, and exponential.
The current system relies on our money and our attention. We can take it all back.
Mild inconvenience will fund the revolution.
01
Delete All Subscriptions
Most American homes have 4 subscriptions between shopping and entertainment. Cancel Amazon Prime. Cancel Streaming. There are plenty of free streaming platforms. Get one. We go to the library and the movies; we see plays and listen to podcasts; we attend events. We do not give our money to billionaires.
02
Corporate Spending Freeze
Besides groceries and necessities, no corporate spending. None. We only shop and dine at small businesses: locally owned establishments, independent retailers, mom and pop shops and restaurants. We thrift; we swap; we repair instead of replace. We do not give our money to billionaires.
03
Get Meta and X off
Your Phone. Log Out.
Meta and X platforms are problematic, rife with misinformation campaigns and rigged algorithms. They make billions from showing you advertising and selling your data. Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and X: you don't have to delete your accounts, but you have to delete the apps from your phone and log out of accounts on computers. Get off. We do not give our attention to billionaires.
04
No Mainstream News. Stop Watching.
Mainstream media is in a gross, co-dependent relationship with the current president, and whether skewed right or left, the news makes money off sensationalism and viewership. We are barraged with a never ending firehose of headlines meant to stun us, divide us, and keep us frozen, mad, and watching. PBS livestreams the news every night on YouTube. Watch that. We do not give our attention to billionaires.
05 Be Joyous.
Join something in your community. Make art. Help your neighbor. March. Get outside. Being happy is a well studied and necessary act of revolutionary resistance. How wonderful to realize the extra energy, attention, time, and money you'll have for joy after following the first four steps.
We are workers, families, artists, community leaders, friends.
There is no America without us. It's time to force a change.
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