Illinois.CAN is the gathering of all of our 102 County.Illinois.CAN Groups sprinkled with the flavorful addition of some well-respected State Advocacy groups and individuals. We meet here under this tent so we may share information and grow together a positive force for change. All are welcome, every political party and every group. Special invitation is extended to each MyBO/OFA Group in Illinois since we sprang forth from the organizational efforts of the Obama Campaign.
We welcome all to join us as well as all other groups based on the concept of supporting our President and interested in furthering the Blueprint For Change. The goal of the Membership of each of the nationwide County.State.CAN Group is to meet monthly to work on local issues and each County Admin to attend the quarterly State conference call. Illinois.CAN will meet in Assembly once a year in October in Springfield, our State Capitol, and elect delegates to the National USA.CAN Citizens Congress, which we call to assembly in Washington DC once each year.
CAN is a cooperative umbrella set of 3,071 Counties.State.CAN groups consisting of nonpartisan grassroots volunteers who wish to continue Obama’s call for grassroots participation. We do not compete with each other. Rather, we strive to work with all local Groups to coordinate our "Organizing for America" to implement the Blueprint for Change, at our Local City and County Levels of Government, as well as within our Great State of Illinois. As we meet each month, in each county, each parish, each town, we work on local issues and share the solutions here.
We pass on info on local actions items and search for solutions for neighboring counties when they put out a call for help.
Together, we are one.
Bruce Schuman (http://interspirit.net/democracy ) writes
"The Transpartisan Movement is an emerging awareness throughout American society that some widely held assumptions about politics are increasingly destructive. Many people are beginning to believe that politics is broken, and see signs of its failure all around us; we are not working together well.
The Transpartisan Movement is encouraging inspiring new ways to understand the process of democracy. It is developing a set of tools for helping people to collaborate on developing solutions to our common problems, particularly emphasizing dialogue and positive ways to understand our collective situation.
The movement promotes the conviction that we are all in this together and must learn to work together in effective ways. In simple terms, we might say We are Americans we are all on the same team. "
CAN’s philosophy works along The Transpartisan Movement by fostering a Coalition…
(Bruce Schuman) that brings together organizations and activists and citizens around their common purposes and goals. We include organizations from anywhere on the political spectrum, including right and left groups, simply requesting that all participants treat one another with respect. We interconnect this coalition through an internet system that builds instant coalitions among groups and individuals that share common purposes.
We at CAN believe that continuing the efforts of MyBO by reaching out to people via the internet and personally. We at CAN, in the Transpartisan way also want to
(Bruce Schuman) Develop a national network of local discussions and organizations….Find expertise everywhere throughout society and bringing it into the democratic process…and support and coordinate the network through the internet groups organized by locale meet in person, groups organized by topic meet over the internet.
Our main interactions within our groups should encourage the Seven Precepts that Paul Currier presented to USACAN:
- Honesty
- No Drama
- Have Fun
- Respect
- Empower
- Include
- Empathy
This includes avoiding and circumventing the toxic thinking that is so damaging our society
(Bruce Schuman) Spin and truth-distortion motivated by political marketing; we want political leaders to tell us the truth. Our society is consistently bombarded by the…demonization and disrespect or contempt for people who see things differently. We encounter failure or inability to think holistically about complex multi-faceted situations; inaccurate or distorting or polarizing “either/or” thinking; the blame game gottcha politics; and an unjustified psychological attitude of moral superiority.
We should all embrace the differences between us to be a more powerful voice and circumvent the fragmentation of our society by releasing the genius of the American spirit
