When I was at Camp Casey, a fellow Green gave me a copy of
Patriot Dreams: A User's Manual for Democracy, a non-voters digest o ffacts and feelings about where we are now and what to do next. I have started reading this booklet and so far it is very easy to read.
This 2004 manual is an 84 page document that was compiled by The Common Sense Collective.
( Read more... )The introduction is entitled "Who's Minding the Store?" and contains:
( Read more... ) While most Americans try to lead a moral, ethical life and wouldn’t knowingly harm another person, we can’t help but notice that lately our personal security seems to require large numbers of people to die on both sides of quite a few wars. People in other parts of the world who, like us, were only trying to pursue happiness are dead now in order to “make America a safer place” (this includes more than 11,000 Iraqi mothers, fathers, children, and grandparents in the past year alone).
( Read more... )The booklet explores these questions to help the reader develop a sense of self and future as a leader.
As we take responsibility for what our country does, we can strengthen our own society by reaffirming our true patriotism—our abiding affection for this government “of the people, for the people, and by the people.”
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