In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
my submission to http://change.gov open for questions (their round 2 which seems in part an attempt to keep questions about ending marijuana and other drug prohibition out of the top 5).
"The middle class already pays taxes on wealth with local taxes on homes and vehicles. Will you look into having the vast paper wealth of the richest (most of it not earned) share this burden? This revenue could go straight to all people, not gov't."
Benjamin Melançon, Natick, Massachusetts
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I make a living doing web design and development with a great team
The Agaric Design Collective
I'm trying to make possible a worldwide nonviolent revolution for justice, liberty, and making more good things doable.
People Who Give a Damn
We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
— Frances Moore Lappé, quoted on EscapingTheMatrix.org