Signed in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, February 20, 2010.
We declare:
That the political, legal, and economic systems of the United States allow, in each generation, an elite few to impose policy and governing decisions that threaten the very survival of human and natural communities;
That the goal of those decisions is to concentrate wealth and greater governing power through the exploitation of human and natural communities, while promoting the belief that such exploitation is necessary for the common good;
That the survival of our communities depends on replacing this system of governance by the privileged with new community-based democratic decision-making systems;
That environmental and economic sustainability can be achieved only when the people affected by governing decisions are the ones who make them;
That, for the past two centuries, people have been unable to secure economic and environmental sustainability primarily through the existing minority-rule system, laboring under the myth that we live in a democracy; …..
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