Unite the many defeat the few!
Is a call to action to  strengthen our democracy and take it back from the few who have attempted to steal the future of
our children as well as our nation.  We are the many: the middle income working class, the lower income working class,
the laborers, the skilled craftspeople, homemakers, professional people: lawyers, doctors, nurses, the small business
person; and, too, the poor and the disabled.  We are the many: we are brown, black, white, red, yellow, all the shades of
the human rainbow and we are mostly straight, but many of us are gay, lesbian, and decline to state.  We are the many
who work hard, hope to have a decent home be it an apartment, a house, a duplex, a mobile home in a park, a ranch, a
farm, a unit in Public Housing, Section 8, a whatever we need to keep us warm in winter, comfortable in summer and
safe from the elements, and sometimes we are unemployed and homeless; we are the many who protect our children
and struggle to make sure that they have the health care in our family that they need to grow up strong, we are the many
who work to provide schools for our children and keep our children in school so they get an education and can raise
their own families and see to the future of the nation. We are Christians (Protestant, Catholic, Mormon and Evangelical),
Jews, Muslims, Baha'i’s, Buddhists, and seculars and decline to states who feel that their beliefs are their own
business.  

We are the many, and we are our children’s future --- and if we don’t see to strengthening our democracy and protecting our constitution then
no one will --- we are the many and we have the strength to do what must be done if we just have the will to carry through.  And that is the question
--- will we carry through or will we be pawns in the game of divide and conquer that is practiced upon us by the ruling elites: the games of racism,
sexism, economic class-ism, jingoistic hatred of foreigners (with the exception of the indigenous tribal peoples aren’t we all foreigners or the off
spring of foreigners), and hateful tribalism against others around us?  When we fall into the morass of discrimination and hatefulness we forget
who it is that benefits by our lack of unity --- the elites who have control of most of the wealth of the country as well as the government they buy
and control through their fourth branch of government: the lobbyists.  While they keep us fighting for the scraps at the edge of the table they grab
the bounty and pull it into their domains.  

The question is how do we save our nation and make it truly by the people and for the people?  Unite the many defeat the few will offer
suggestions on how we may participate in our American nation in an effective movement to build a better country and a better world of love (or at
least not hate), prosperity, and with a social structure that achieves the ideals of the Preamble to the Constitution, the Constitution, and the Bill of
Rights.

UTMDTF recognizes that the suggestions are not easy --- saving a nation from fascism, the corporate control of a national government for the
benefit of the corporate elite, is not easy: just ask the Germans, Japanese and Italians who succumbed to Nazism and Fascism in the 1920/1930s
when the corporate elites of the time in those countries used right wing political parties and leaders, Hitler, Hirohito and Tojo and Mussolini, to
destroy democracies and other existing governments and raise totalitarian states.  States which went on a rampage of war and conquest that have
stained the names of Germany, Japan and Italy ever since.  And make no mistake, there were decent Germans, Japanese and Italians who fought to
keep their countries out of the grip of fascism and they paid a price joining the Jews, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Gypsies, homosexuals,
communists and others in the concentration camps of the Third Reich and other fascist prisons.  Now, at this time in our country we have not yet
fallen to near the level of barbaric actions of the Third Reich and its allies, but the attacks of the last several years on the Constitution of the
United States have successfully blunted many protections of the Bill of Rights and we have seen constituted programs of spying on the citizenry
that would have been unthinkable a generation ago and the formation of concentration camps and the use of torture.

This sounds serious and it is but Americans in the past have fought back against unfair treatment in a variety of ways: homeowner associations,
neighborhood organizations, renter’s organizations, freemen’s associations, the Grange and other farmer’s organizations, civil rights
organizations, student organizations, LABOR UNIONS and in other mass membership organizations such as Democratic party clubs, Republican
party clubs, non-partisan political organizations and so on.  The common denominator is that these are open, democratic, mass membership
organizations that bring people together to secure and protect democracy from those who would remake the country into an “ownership society”
in which the ownership is owned by the elite and the rest of us exist at their good graces rather than by Constitutional right and responsibility.

1.  The first organizational structure that UTMDTF suggests is to organize on the job and get a union going where you work and live [many
of us spend almost as much or more time at work than we do at home].   By getting together at work in a union you and your co-workers can
achieve a lot: a. By being organized you can bargain with your employer for better wages, hours and working conditions on the job that will make
working more pleasant, and b. You and your co-workers can use your union to make mass, organized input on political issues such that the union
concentration multiplies your VOTING power in elections and consequently your power to move your elected representatives and help determine
the agenda they will fight for.  When you attempt to be effective on your own you end up begging, yes be honest, begging for a bit more money or
this or that because all the power is in the hands of the owner/s (or the managers hired by the owners or corporations to screw you to secure as
much profit for the owners as possible).  They are not SOBs, [Well, some are nasty SOBs because they are warped people who value “things” more
than people --- a form of self hatred.] they just act that way because that is what they must do to secure the profits that their bosses want.  When
we organize we are doing what we have to do to be treated fairly: concentrating our power so that we can wield it as a tool in our hands to achieve a
better life for our families and a better society.  Simple --- ORGANIZE.  Just a note: during the 1930s and 1940s during the greatest union organizing
drive in the history of the United States the democratic rights of the working people were at the highest they have ever been --- and that is why
the Reagan revolution and the following neo-liberalist period has produced such a furious attack on unionism.  The corporate/rich elite don’t like
unions --- go figure.

2.  Organize a neighborhood/community organization where you live.  Bring people together to discuss the things the area needs to make
it a better neighborhood/community whether it is schools, more street lights, parks and recreation programs, etc.  The point is: by working
together to achieve some positive improvements in the area you and your neighbors will find out about each others strengths and become co-
workers on projects and maybe even friends.  Then, using these new bonds in the community  the community can lift its horizons to look to actions
to make a better city, state and nation and use the concentrated power of the organization to achieve the desired goals.  Again, this is not easy,
well it is easy to write, but it is about the only way.  Human activity is effective when it brings together the collective power of the people through
democratic action to define needs, carry out collective action to attain the solutions to the needs, and build enduring structures to protect the new
institutions that have been developed.

3.  Organize a social action committee at your church, temple or synagogue or energize the one that already exists to make it more
powerful, more involved, and into a fighting organization to preserve and strengthen the separation of Church and State that makes our
democracy a viable society of tolerance, love and understanding.  A social action committee can also fight on issues such as housing, hunger,
poverty, and single payer medical for our nation. A social action committee may see its way clear to strengthen the public education system that is
a backbone of our nation that has been allowed to wither under the conservative banner of greed and a refutation of the biblical concept of each
of us is our brother/sister: that we care about each human being because of their inborn value.

4.   Organize a solidarity committee in your community, in your union, or at your work place even if there is no union to support strikes by
workers in the United States or around the world.  Solidarity can mean demonstrating, gathering cash donations to support the fight,  
distributing information or maybe collecting material goods that can be sent to help the strikers or people involved in other actions to improve
human rights.  An example might be a group to collect money to help earthquake victims, cyclone victims, or victims of government repression.

5.  Join the local organization of the Democratic or Republican Parties, form a progressive caucus and take the fight to the polls by encouraging
progressive democratic policies and supporting candidates who will fight for the people of the nation.  If we leave these parties in the hands of
right wing hacks, middle-of-roaders, compromisers and opportunists then we have to share the blame for the damage that they do.

                                     Doing nothing is doing damage.  
Forms of Action - get organized!
Unite the Many Defeat the Few --- UTMDTF --- offers ideas
for getting organized to fight for a better world.  We can do it! Yes we can and this website
and UTMDTF is non-partisan: You can be a democrat, a republican, a whatever and we
urge you to action. No fascists, Nazis or GWBushites of the Gone Off Party need get
active.
Lancer Pride
News Flash: 6-21-9  Governor Arnold continues to obstruct the working of government and still threatens to veto the state budget while destroying
services for the young, the poor, the old and the medically needy. Arnie still wants to borrow, which makes the rich richer at our expense, instead of
making the rich pay their fair share with higher taxes on their income and wealth.
At this website you will find a whole "lesson" on bonds funding and how it screws the common people while enriching the upper crust who have
escaped taxation through the machinations of the Republican Party.  Suffice it to say that the rich buy the tax exempt state bonds so that they profit
off the bonds that are issued to cover the deficit.  Tah dah.  
Here is a quote from the LA Times, 6/1/2008, from an article on the front page of the California section, "Gov.'s plan faces rocky path".  The quote is
from paragraphs toward the end of the article on page B13.  "To get Wall Street to lend the state the $15 billion against a modernized lottery,
California would have to pay $23 billion to $30 billion in interest and other borrowing costs over the next 30 years."  That is not UTMDTF making the
estimate of interest expenses, but the LAT.  And you know as well as UTMDFT does, that the bond payers will get their money before our school that
were receiving funding from the lottery.     
Our heroic friends in the women's movement to stop violence directed against women
used the campaign phrase, "Take back the night!" as they fought to take back the streets
from those terrorists who perpetrated violence against women.  Now, learning from them
We have to have our phrase, "Take back the nation" as we struggle to keep our homeland
out of the hands of political terrorists, national chauvinists, and the likes of the past
administration. Let us learn from the women of our country and win back the night and the
nation.