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V.O.T.E. Action Committee is a 501(c)(4) not-for-profit Montana corporation whose mission is to establish true representative democracy in the United States by creating a progressive electoral alternative. Our goal is a government that represents the majority, not corporate or special interests a government of, by and for the people.
A consensus is emerging that human survival depends upon a massive shift in consciousness, in how we think about our place in the world. Human consciousness changes slowly but dramatically. We've gone from an age in which a grand hierarchy stretched from lowly serfs to lofty priests to an age in which the world is ordered primarily for the purpose of production and consumption of material goods.
The human race now stands at a dramatic crossroads. Will economic globalism, in which multinational corporations are more powerful than countries, perpetuate an ever-widening gap between the haves and the have-nots? Will the workplace continue to be deunionized and dehumanized? Will our planetary environment continue to deteriorate? Or will we be able to organize progressive energies to create a peaceful, sustainable and just distribution of planetary resources?
V.O.T.E. Action Committee believes that significant change will occur when the many singular struggles of today are joined and people of good will and vision from across racial, ethnic, and religious lines unite. We must build coalitions inclusive of all those whom our system has abandoned. We must educate, awaken, and empower our fellow citizens to take action on their own behalf. The alternative is an ever more violent, destabilized, and reactionary politics and culture.
V.O.T.E. Action Committee seeks to catalyze and stimulate forces working for a shift in consciousness through political action. These forces include: political parties, environmental, social justice, religious, and labor organizations. We seek this change through democratic and non-violent means, believing that the Founders left us a strong framework for self-governance. Our strategy is proactive, long-range, and systemic. It is a two-pronged attack on the corporate duopoly that is destroying our environment and our democracy. We will:
A. Work toward the creation of an action-oriented voting coalition. This coalition will move the body politic electorally and through boycotts, strikes, demonstrations, and corporate shareholder resolutions. We will educate and disseminate information through a quarterly newsletter, a Webpage, editorials, free media coverage, and our public affairs radio program.
B. Assist with the development of a viable third party. We will encourage all environmental organizations to become more political and more active in the process of governance.
Since its founding in 1992, V.O.T.E. Action Committee has taken decisive action to alert the public to the dire situations we face, politically, socially, and environmentally.
Through a series of full-page advertisements in The New York Times, we have spoken to the betrayal of our national ideals by a government that marches to the tune of big business.
Through a saturation media campaign using 30-second TV spots as well as numerous radio and print ads, we defeated the Burns-Caucus bill which would have devastated six million acres of pristine wilderness in the State of Montana.
Through grassroots campaigns, we have stopped several pieces of environmentally detrimental legislation from becoming law. V.O.T.E. Action Committee was responsible for a national outpouring against the signing by the president of the timber salvage rider that allowed further decimation of our publicly-owned forest land.
We joined the fight to preserve Headwaters Forest, the largest unprotected ancient redwood groves on our planet. Through public advocacy, print ads and television spots, we are working to protect the entire Headwaters Forest rather than a small "tree museum." In the fall of 1996, V.O.T.E. Action Committee joined the Green Party to spread the anti-corporate, pro-democracy message of Ralph Nader. Speaking on college campuses and in public forums throughout northern California, V.O.T.E. Action Committee greatly expanded the reach of the Nader message to voters.
We urge you to join V.O.T.E. Action Committee at this critical historical moment. Don't give your power away! Collectively we can vote in a government whose agenda is people, not corporations; quality of life, not net worth.
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