CALLING ALL CITIZEN DESIGNERS, DESIGN FOR ACTION!

Change is tough. Change doesn’t just happen. Change has to be ignited. It has to be forced from the hands of the well-fed power brokers who lobby the cronies of a collapsed capitalist system for more profits, more laissez-faire, more bailouts and more wars.

And the media machine is fixed. It trickles down a trite, compromised story line that it thinks the people will swallow, accept as fact, then go back to the Wal-Mart flat screen and carry on consuming. That is, until the bottom-up breaks the machine in half.

The change that we, the bottom-up, are demanding has entered the media war. The corporate system has set out to squash it. We, the citizens for true progressive change, after 30 years of savage corporatism, are losing, and must now push back.

We are living in the first 100 days that will set the course for the next 1200+ and are in need of some serious creative thinking. We are pushing our vision in the positive, adding momentum to the movement we see in our communities every single day. Because it is glaringly obvious institutions are failing us — ruining the planet, fighting meaningless wars, ignoring degrading inequality, teaching our children ignorance, and failing to build a brighter tomorrow. In short, there’s a fire, and we need to move.

While the media work us over completely, our push back now has to be loud.

Engage local efforts at the grassroots for change. Find a nonprofit in need of louder communications. (See Idealist.org.)  Participate in graphic efforts at Repressed IV: May Day, Good 50×70 2009, Imagine Peace, or Green Patriot Posters. And send us your posters that move people to action. Inspire and ignite us for change.

From now until May 1, in these crucial 100 days, here at Power to the Poster, onward! -jk-