Zapatismos

We propose an outline in honor of the Ten Commandments and the Ten Point Program of our forbearers.

1. We want to empower the malnourished communities of America with the tools to cultivate intellectualism.

We believe that the human experience is only inhibited by its environment, we must develop a mind set of assisting those outside our family or church.  A community the strives for education for all, is a community moving towards enlightenment.

2. We want to challenge the economic status quo, ensuring total economic opportunity for all.

We believe that the social contract which is our federal government, has a duty to ensure that all its citizenry receive a fair share in our nation's economy.  Because this institution is written to be for the people and by the people, we shall take this as a writ of coram nobis to amend the socio-economic inequality with dominate our streets and neighborhoods.  Our primary focus will be the promotion of co-ops and work owned collectives.

3. We want to promote diversity within our communities and take joy in the rainbow of our existence.

We believe oppression is prevalent within every middle and lower class community within the United States.  We shall create a movement of solidarity amongst all people regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, to unite for an equal socio-economic existence for all citizens.

4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.

We believe that the community should turn poorly run housing and land into cooperatives so that the community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people.

5. We want education which does not attempt to rewrite history and promotes the Arts as much as STEM programs.

We believe the traditional cultural domination of English and Protestant American cultures is contrary to the historical origins of the United States.  We believe the teachings of W.E.B. DuBois who recovered the historical truth of a free black men, women and children in the New World prior to English colonialism; of black indentured servants working towards freedom during the early days of American colonial life; of black passages of freedom through the Frontier state of Florida before post-reconstruction Jim Crow began its stranglehold on the South.  Moreover, we advocate a strong liberal arts education rooted in philosophy, civics and the arts to accompany courses in science and economics.

6. We want the government to end aggressive military recruitment practices in low income neighborhoods.

We understand that senators and representatives rarely risk losing a son or daughter fighting in a foreign land.  We demand a writ of supersedeas, that the United States military cease and desist all marketing of violent professions towards our nation's youth.  This includes the active promotion of military style shooting games with recruitment advertisements. 

7. We want to end predatory search procedures and brutality from the police.

We believe the system of violence that plagues our culture, is promoted by a near criminal nature of municipal police forces throughout the nation.  We demand the federal government take the necessary steps to ensure that all civil rights are respected by our state and local police forces, in every instance.

8. We want freedom for all citizens in prison under marijuana and cocaine related charges.

We believe a complete amnesty must be placed on all minor drug convictions.  The government must take an active approach in regulating American vices through taxation.  Marijuana, cocaine, prostitution should be decriminalized at a federal level and regulated by state departments of Health.  The income from these billion dollar industries would fund universal education and healthcare in less than a year from the date of the Amendment to the constitution.

9. We want all black (Spanish and native American included) peoples when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.

    We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the "average reasoning man" of the black community.

10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny.

    When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

    We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpation, pursuing invariable the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

sed ipse spiritus postulat pro nobis, gemitibus inenarrabilibus
But the same Spirit intercedes incessantly for us, with inexpressible groans
Romans 8:26