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We seek to recruit, train, and propel 100,000 people from the arts, nonprofit, social services, education, and science sectors (and their supporters) to run for local office or help those with our values run as champions of service, science, justice, equity, peace, creativity, and the public sector. All permitted functions inside the 501 c 3 framework. We are in the early stages of organizing. Here is our Steering Committee.
Watch this video on the history of the Culture Wars from the 1990’s and how it set up the civics in America today!
The 100K Project is in formation! Please check back for our case statement, the list of our Steering Committee and much more! The Lead Organizer is Tom Tresser, based in Chicago :). Reach him at [email protected]. Here is the column he wrote in 1991 for a Chicago-based performing arts newspaper calling on cultural workers to lead in public life to Fight the Right!
If we do not fight to protect and champion the First Amendment, it will be whittled away one word at a time and you will not be able to freely practice your art in the new century. If we do not demand that our government create policies and budgets which reflect our values, then we will continue the trend of the eighties in which wealth and opportunity is transferred from the lower and middle economic strata of our society to the richest, highest strata. In this bleak scenario, the new century will be a place where artists are seen as criminals and the rich and privileged live apart from the economic and environmental blights wreaked by decades of governmental incompetence and venality.
Here is Tom’s manifesto from 2008 directed to all cultural workers, creative professionals, and anyone who defines themselves via their creativity. America Needs You (then and now)!
