Truth Campaign proposed

Is it essential or naive for the Movement to consider a Truth Campaign?

All of us know that, in response to the needs of our colleagues in the South we must change US behavior in this Hemisphere: Foreign policy, economic policy, maybe much of domestic policy.
All of us know that this task will take a major educational campaign for the public and the Congress, and that will take far greater numbers of activists in the US-Latin America solidarity movement.
We would probably agree that all this will take careful planning. Such a large and growing movement, we have learned, should include networking with “equal and independent allies” in a non-hierarchical grouping.
May I suggest that step one should be a Truth Campaign, such as that proposed in my 2006 book, “Cancer in the Body Politic: Diagnosis and Prescription for an America in Decline” (see the home page of this website, or e-mail admin@epica.org and get a copy for $10). From pg. 77:

“Preparing the People for Change: Truth
To prepare the people to share an overall vision of a future, stronger USA, it is necessary to simplify and clarify the information available to the public. Many institutions and groups—schools, churches, agencies, clubs—can share in effecting this. We need both leaders and populace to begin at last to peel off the layers and reach what each citizen can freely decide is his or her truth. We must demand truth from our media, truth in government statements, truth in the cirriculum, especially of true US history, warts and all.
We must have truth. Why would it be considered naive to call for a full Truth Campaign—nationally, by state and region, and locally?

— Peter Mott

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Comment

  1. The Optimism of Uncertainty(Independent Politics), Winter, 2008 excerpted:
    “Wherever I go, I find …hundreds, thousands, more who are open to unorthodox ideas. But they tend not to know of one another’s existence….the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.” (Ed.note: another form of lack of the truth reaching the public is this kind of ignoring of important trends by the media.)

    — Howard Zinn (quoted) · Feb 12, 08:06 PM · #

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