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Brian Winters, former Michigan State Legislature and founder of the American Union. The Phoenix Congress is organizing a block of swing voters – an American Union – who will vote across party lines in order to advance the MLK-inspired legislative agenda. They are working to give career politicians an ultimatum: support the American people by enacting a Blueprint for a Better America or lose their elections. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said “Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit, and go out into a sometimes hostile world, declaring eternal opposition to poverty, racism, and militarism. With this powerful commitment, we shall boldly challenge the status quo…” With Tens of millions of Americans living below the poverty line, with what has been called the new Jim Crow laws, mass incarceration has grown the prison population to eight times what it was at the end of his life. Despite similar usage rates across races, people of color are more likely to be arrested and incarcerated in the war on drugs. An endless war that is within our country, our people, and justified by misguided, inaccurate, and mostly racial prejudices. This war on drugs that has clearly been a failure but has succeeded in the eyes of some when it comes to the mantra of prohibition. Laws that are enacted by us to control the conduct of them. For many years, US was the white, upper class politicians that were enacting the laws while them where the Asians, blacks, and Hispanics as was written within some like the Harrison narcotics act that was targeting Asians with opium and cocaine with the blacks. The marijuana tax act that was promoted by Harry Anslinger who was very openly racist. Nixon identified drug abuse as “public enemy number one in the United States” and launched a failed, costly and inhumane “all out offensive” on Americans that continues to today.

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