Vote in the Streets!
DNC2RNC mass mobile convergence this election season

Join us, The Next Step Collective, in helping to lay the groundwork for an over 220-mile march from the Democratic National Convention in Boston to the Republican National Convention in New York City. Throughout the month of August we will travel from one mass mobilization to another, from one city under siege to another city under a similar police state. We will celebrate and connect the many diverse grassroots movements, redefining the political process as one centered on the people and ecosystems of our planet. Change isn't going to come from the top, so we will work from the roots, planting seeds for a better world as we march.

As the political gears of the two-headed corporate party kick into overdrive, we will not be fooled and pacified by the thin veil of democracy draped over the repressive machinery of the US Empire. Instead of getting sucked into the multi-billion dollar puppet show of US elections, we will be marching, networking, educating, sharing, singing, and dancing in the streets - for 220 miles. We will march 10 miles a day, working with local grassroots organizations for community empowerment as we connect our many struggles into a global solidarity of a million popular movements; one which recognizes no borders, fences, or walls. We are everywhere, and we must make this known by demonstrating our collective energy.

We will stand together with all those working to protest the conventions and kick the war-mongering Bush regime out of the White House. Yet, our focus will be on taking the next step: looking beyond the next elections, the next protests, the next generations. Our gaze will be set firmly upon a collective vision rising out of the grassroots: one of true
democracy, just and fair labor, health care, education, harmony with our environment, indigenous sovereignty, sustainable food sources, and an end to discrimination, militarization, and global corporate power. The rigged two-party system, designed to pacify the people and keep the rich and powerful in control, fails to represent this diverse and impressive array of causes. With all eyes on the unfolding US election drama, our movement will be in the streets connecting distances, ideas, communities, and visions, as we conduct teach-ins, plant community gardens, demonstrate, listen, and share. Our actions will be voting for what we truly believe in and what we know is possible.

We refuse to be intimidated into silence. We refuse to be invisible. We are sewing the seeds of a liberated future.

Let's make history.

-The Next Step Collective

To get involved, email: info@dnc2rnc.org or check out www.dnc2rnc.org for organizing updates, logistics, a ride board, registration and more.

Graphic by the Beehive Collective, a group based in Maine that
educates through art on issues such as global economic trade deals
and US foreign policy in Latin America.