In order to support the development of Citizen Governance, that is the ability of the Citizens of the Republic, from the national to the local levels, to determine the content of the political conversation, it is necessary for lines of communication and networking to arise independent of conventional media, as well as the advertising of politicians and media savvy advocacy groups.  The People need to learn to use their natural inter-connectedness.

    Each of us is a member of any number of small communities, whether it is a family (f), Church (Ch), club (cl), civic group (cg) and other kind of political (po) or social organization (so).  Some of us will share the same groups, and some will not.  In either case, a naturally intelligent network already exists, linked by us as individuals, whose properties we can take hold of and make more explicit and useful.

    What we learn to do is to create original media (we write our own newsheets), which we pass among ourselves, via our naturally given social linkages.  We can use any type of media, paper, electronic, video or dvd.  All we have to do is share it among ourselves.  We duplicate it and pass it along.  Once created, the media will travel among the various links and nodes (the nodes being the different small communities).   These will only be passed on if valued, because each of us is not only creator, but editor as well.  We can also receive something and add to it before passing it on.

    In this way, similar to the open source groups on the internet, we will create our own community intelligence, to which all contribute, and in which all share.  Ideas will lead to meetings and gatherings as well, and a public conversation will arise independent of the influences of concentrated money and power, through which we will begin to assert our views of what the most important political questions need to be, and what social changes need to arise.  The People will speak to each other, and the politicians will find that if they want our votes they will have to listen.

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