The Statement

The National Intervention Statement

We understand that corporations are not people, but those who do their bidding are people.

We understand that these people are largely addicted to power.

We understand that the power to which they are addicted has been used, then abused, and has become an addiction too overwhelming for those addicted to likely stop or help themselves from their destructive actions while under the influence.

We understand that power in a capitalist society comes largely from wealth, and that all wealth is generated by our labor and our consumption.

We understand that those afflicted with this addiction to corporate power have an opportunity to “kick the habit,” but that most who suffer from this addiction often seem unable to simply stop, even when they feel out of control, even when they hate themselves for their slavery to their master addiction, and even when they themselves feel ashamed by the consequences of feeding or enabling it.

We understand that those addicted to power have shown remarkable evidence that they are too blinded by the pursuit of the next fix to quit “cold turkey,” and that the destruction caused by their addiction may have most hitting rock-bottom before they do.

We understand that in the life of any sufferer of addiction, all of those in the addict’s life are part of a system that supports the addiction until they choose to change that unhealthy dynamic in their relationship to the sufferer.

We understand that it is almost guaranteed that an collective Intervention will be required by those whose votes, labor, and consumption are the ingredients in the substances of wealth and power that fuels this addiction.

We understand that there is an addiction cycle at the root of the corruption, that we, in part, enable the violence against us, our communities, and our planet, as the disease worsens in the host, and as we, as a society and culture, continue to submit to the Gross Domestic Violence in the pursuit of only Gross Domestic Product.

We understand that, if we continue to participate in our relationship to anyone who suffers from greed addiction --using and abusing our wealth and power against us-- but who is unwilling or unable to choose recovery or rehabilitation, then we also continue to provide the ingredients of wealth and votes that the system of addiction protects at all costs.

We understand that our participation in the addiction system, then, only perpetuates and deepens a toxic cycle of co-dependence, and social, personal, interpersonal, spiritual, psychological, ecological, and structural violence.

We understand and accept that those in power may choose to end their addiction with a constitutional amendment that ends corporate personhood, establishes that money is not speech, and makes all political campaigns only publicly funded and/or otherwise funded without disadvantaging the influence of any individual citizen.

We also recognize that those who feel controlled by their addiction may fight on behalf of their addiction, and that this fight against the process that takes away their substance may be as ferocious as that of any other addiction that fights for control and access to its substance.

We affirm that our next meaningful step, after offering those addicted to power the chance to check themselves out of power and into recovery, is a National Intervention that draws strong boundaries on access to our wealth and our power, until corporate interests are once again aligned with the interests of the natural people and their natural habitat.