Real change that serves everyday Black, Brown, Red, White, and Yellow peoples does not come about by osmosis nor by magic. Change, that serves the people (and not the Wall Street corporate vultures and military elite), is brought about through serious, protracted, collective political struggle. In other words, the actualization of a collective people�s vision.���

The time has come to turn the economic and political hopelessness and despair that so many legitimately feel--into an organized people�s movement on both the local and national level simultaneously. An increasing number of people are realizing that they have been politically pimped once again; but what is just as important is the realization that only we the people can and will stop being the dupes of these political, economic, and military hustlers and pimps of everyday people.

This means quickly, thoughtfully, and precisely formalizing a people�s vision of and for political and economic justice and systemic change. This vision must be kept simple and be inclusive. It must be purposely and consistently developed and implemented from the bottom up, not the top down.

Such a people�s vision must be codified into a clear, precise, and simple political platform which means we must practice the following:

1. Constantly exposing, with a view towards reversing, the daily barrage of corporate-government double-speak and disinformation. (Remember, we the people, are the constant targets of this double-speak and disinformation).

2. Being painfully honest with ourselves and one another, about our strengths and weaknesses, and stalwart in our determination to breach our own psychological and political comfort zones with a view towards fostering the collective betterment of everyday people. (This is not easy, but it is definitely necessary and possible).

3. Listening to (not simply hearing), the ideas, experiences, and suggestions of those women and men within our political people�s movement. (There can be no collective people�s vision without the shared vision of others of like minds).

4. Let us remember that we will not always agree, for if we do�then somebody�s lying.

(Our movement does not need yes-people; it needs creative and honest people.)

5. Concentrate on what we must yet do, not merely upon what others may have already done. (There is more than enough important political work for all people of good will).

The above are simply some suggestions, as we uncompromisingly actualize bringing about real systemic change in building a clear, precise, and simple political platform that serves the people�s interests and a people�s vision.

To be sure, the corporate government and its media cronies, etc., will engage in every conceivable effort to �neutralize and discredit� our efforts. This is a given. Nonetheless, this struggle is not about grooming political �messiahs;� it is about actualizing the power of everyday people! So expect neutralization, discreditation, and demoralization tactics and activities against our people�s movement�but do not, even for an instant�be thwarted by them. Subterfuge is a tool of the mighty, but undaunted consistency is the tool of the strong�everyday people. We are not powerless.

If we want self sufficient and sustainable food and housing, then we must bring this about. If we want energy that does not suck from and destroy our mother earth dry�then it is we�the everyday people who must creatively and stalwartly make this a reality! There are no single issues�for they are all interlinked, and we must act accordingly!

The growing joblessness, home foreclosures, burgeoning prison population, bloody wars abroad, environmental degradation, and a de facto national police state in this nation deeply affects everyday people everywhere, and it did not simply happen---, it was brought into being by the avaricious corporate / military elite who are the scourge upon this nation and planet. We must always remember that capitalism is by its very nature,�systemic terrorism against the poor and everyday people.

We / you, hold the key to real systemic change, and it is we who must bring it about!

Each one teach one! Onward then my sisters and brothers! Onward!....��

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS NewsHour, formerly known as The MacNeil/LehrerNewsHour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book). Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.