How.

  This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the national Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself; and I should, under existing circumstances, favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it.

I will venture to add that to me the Convention mode seems preferable.

- President Abraham Lincoln, March 4 1861

Structures which do not allow equal access to opportunity must change. The Americans with Disabilities Act and Brown v.  Kansas Board of Education are examples.

Over 50 years have passed since The March on Washington. Statistics

Over 70 years have passed since the 1941 speech by President Roosevelt crystallizing hard earned lessons from the Depression into a document detailing 4 Essential Freedoms, and the 1944 address turning Americans toward a new vision of the state as a protector of the progress by, for and of all the people Lady Liberty called. Statistics

Over 150 years have passed since a new president's first act was a call for conversation in a climate of war. President Abraham Lincoln saw American families raising Constitutional conventioneers - not soldiers. Statistics

An American President recommended the convening of a Constitutional Convention. In 1861. He thought it was a better way.

So do I. 

Friends: I count at least 3 American dreams there.

What are yours?

041915

I have read -

but sadly not heard -

of a debate on the validity, viability or realisticness of the 17

Sustainable Development Goals released by the United Nations. [WARNING: Kid Friendly]

If you were to think of what Americans, and humans, and wom*n, and children - would all agree on and hope for -

 And if you are a member of, or identify with another national group -

Please think of us.

And, yes

please include us.

a genuine meditation on their consensus would produce a list virtually indistinguishable.

04192015

Puertorican Shower

Let me set some political matters to rest. I have been vocal all over this country and world all my life speaking out about the need for equity and togetherness to be practice and practiced here and abroad. Our current state of affairs is heartbreaking and incredible. National numbers were not available - but there were 26 reported rapes in my hometown of New York City from March 30 to April 5 of 2015 - the week of my 35th birthday. I spent my birthday - April 2 - living as a homeless American with some college education (including time on the Dean's List) in San Francisco, CA.

On this blog, you'll find a letter I wrote to President Barack H. Obama in 2007, shortly after his candidacy was announced. I have yet to hear back formally. I would like to meet with President Obama to speak honestly about my life experience as an American, and to clear myself - with him - about actions I have taken which I engaged in knowing that....

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With a 1st-time black President, as a homeless diagnosed-mentally-ill person, framed for a domestic violence felony toward a married woman in a world where the San Antonio Spurs won national championships thru their members displaying humility and respect for authority, when undermining a group's leader could negatively impact the effectiveness of his leadership and the efficiency and health of the group, beyond my ability to grow or thrive in the capitalistic framework-   )

I really felt a genuine need to speak with him when I wrote. And when I called his campaign number in 2007 after writing it. Or when I wrote him after the Iraq war reauthorization vote shortly after his election as US Senator, when I chided him for his "Yea" vote.

I believe we can put an end to larceny by ending poverty.

I believe we can end rape. I believe it is an inconceivable and even an unthinkable act. I believe it becomes unthinkable - and thus STOPPED as a practice - by proper education.

I believe we should be preparing ourselves - and our children - educationally and foundationally to call a new Constitutional convention.

I believe this because by creating a country with foundational laws that saw inequality based on skin color as true, they dated the document.

I printed out a form  to meditate on filling it out to be a candidate for U.S. President.

I do not think batterers are leaders, nor should they lead.

I am not a batterer.

I believe whatever coalition Code Pink is building will win the 2016 election, because I believe it (with the limited knowledge I do have of their work) is a banner under which people are growing together, including others and leading with their hearts to cut ties with our poison past, and build bridges that last.

I believe there are MANY capable Americans for the job. Honestly.

Professionally, I have never been signed to a major record label or entertainment company - though I certainly consider myself the best at what I do. I would rather pursue that avenue for myself and my advocacy and my family and my sanity and MY health.

I do not think you can move forward by trouncing on your past- or predecessor, in politics. The actions I took which I wish to discuss with the President likely disqualify me. I have also called federal sex slave hotlines and written the NSA asking for information about my life and warning them of technological devices I believed were in my body (and a possible threat to national security),


and have never heard back. I am also currently on SSI - Disability, labeled (diagnosed) with schizophrenia despite evidence I have been operated on - and never informed. These operations have been performed on me since I was - at the oldest -

12 years old.

That, too, in this world, may disqualify me from serving in that role.

I am writing this on the darpa.mil-created Internet, nearly 15 years after the enactment of the PATRIOT Act. I am writing from San Francisco, California. Zip code 94110.

I would run. I could do it. I would do it. I rap. I smoke cannabis. It's a growth industry.

There doesn't have to be rape. There doesn't.

There doesn't.

There doesn't.

We can.

We have to stop the head games and get to work. There are SO many jobs we have to invent - it can really be a whole bunch of fun being American in America in THIS world. The same one Iran n North Korea n the Devil itself is in.