The Peace Monument in TimbuktuWhere are our institutions of change? Our institutions of justice, our institutions against war and those against poverty? Where are our institutions for freedom and human dignity? Where are our institutions of caring and love?
I have found no such institutions; only hard working organizations hustling day to day trying to make these principals a reality. However our society is replete with institutions of war, greed, profit, and torture. The Department of Defense (The irony!), Wall Street, and the School of the Americas provide testament.
It's time we put our efforts together to create institutions that mirror our hopes and our dreams. Erect them from the soils of iniquity to stand tall against the horrors of humanity. Let us not create false institutions which extol the aspirations of humanity only in name. We need not more Schools of Public Service which serve only themselves, "radical" student organizations that do nothing radical, political groups which expropriate and defile the name of democracy, multi-million dollar nonprofits driven only by profits, or justice systems which provide the most vivid examples of injustice. We can call it whatever we want. But let's erect an institution constructed with the fibers it seeks to create. An institution that speaks of democracy and is democratic, and institution that studies service and serves, and institution that writes about justice and seeks it, an institution that extols freedom and breaks chains. Transform America - this is our attempt to build such an institution. Join us.
I have found no such institutions; only hard working organizations hustling day to day trying to make these principals a reality. However our society is replete with institutions of war, greed, profit, and torture. The Department of Defense (The irony!), Wall Street, and the School of the Americas provide testament.
It's time we put our efforts together to create institutions that mirror our hopes and our dreams. Erect them from the soils of iniquity to stand tall against the horrors of humanity. Let us not create false institutions which extol the aspirations of humanity only in name. We need not more Schools of Public Service which serve only themselves, "radical" student organizations that do nothing radical, political groups which expropriate and defile the name of democracy, multi-million dollar nonprofits driven only by profits, or justice systems which provide the most vivid examples of injustice. We can call it whatever we want. But let's erect an institution constructed with the fibers it seeks to create. An institution that speaks of democracy and is democratic, and institution that studies service and serves, and institution that writes about justice and seeks it, an institution that extols freedom and breaks chains. Transform America - this is our attempt to build such an institution. Join us.
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