We Declare:
That the political, legal, and economic systems of the United States allow, in each generation, an elite few to impose policy and governing decisions that threaten the very survival of human and natural communities;
That the goal of those decisions is to concentrate wealth and greater governing power through the exploitation of human and natural communities, while promoting the belief that such exploitation is necessary for the common good;
That the survival of our communities depends on replacing this system of governance by the
privileged with new community-based democratic decision-making systems; sustainable systems;