Who will Push Obama in the Right Direction? You. With PPJPC.
Posted on November 5, 2008
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The Presidential race is over, much earlier than many of us expected, and Barack Obama has won by a landslide. Will his victory be a victory for the peace movement? For the environmental movement? For social and economic justice? That is for us to decide. Carlos Fierro, writing at Counterpunch, summarizes our challenge well.
We don’t need another Lincoln, or an Obama; what we need is more Fredrick Douglasses and Harriet Beecher Stowes. We need more Martin Luther Kings, Big Bill Haywoods, and Helen Kellers. We don’t need more FDRs, we need more Eugene Debs. We don’t need more JFKs, we need more Philip Berrigans. We don’t need to look to great men to lead us to the promised land, we need to recognize the power that we, the nameless and “the powerless,” possess when we assert our power rather than make assertions of faith directed at the great leader myths.
The big question is whether the remarkable and inspiring grassroots movement that propelled Obama to the Presidency will become a force capable of dragging the political class toward the just society we all want. For PPJPC the challenge is to help those good people do just that, and for those good people…. it’s time to get to work. Come by the new office on Saturday from 2-5, and we can begin the conversation anew.
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