CALL TO ACTION

 
"A call to action (CTA) is an instruction to the audience 

designed to provoke an immediate response, usually 

using an imperative verb such as "call now", "find out 

more" or "visit a store today"."

This call to action is regularly used in advertising. However, we can also use it  when conducting mass actions. We now recall that during the People Power Movement in the Philippines, the call was to have our democratic rights restored in a peaceful manner. In that way, many people who had been burned by radical methods of bloody confrontations with the government could still be encouraged to join the mass movement. And of course, we were successful in that. 

The religious, the civil societies and sectors of the government joined us in booting out the dictatorship in a relatively bloodless way. 

In tomorrow's nationwide strike of the jeepneys who are protesting against the "modernization plans" of the government, the call of the drivers is to paralyze the transportation system in order to stop them. 

The strike is meant to dramatize the transport sector’s demands to put an end to the imposition of value-added tax on toll fees and oil products, “overpricing” by the big oil companies’ “cartel” and the Oil Deregulation Law.

The call to action, to stop driving is a very strong message to the government to finally face the main culprit in impoverishing the country: the Oil Deregulation Law which has been circumvented a lot by oil cartels. Instead of having oil prices  that are volatile and bound by market demands, the oil companies have banded together to impose higher prices for very measly excuses or none at all. Public hearings are even scuttled in the name of expediency. 

Yet the government is diverting the issue and instead is saying that it is the modernizing of the jeepneys that the drivers are against. And so with the call to action of the drivers we shall see tomorrow who will have the upper hand at convincing the public. 

Now the January 21st massive rally of women in Washington DC and other parts of the US, the call to action focused a lot on the anti-women messages of the current figurehead in the White House. The demonstration was well-attended but needs a follow up this time in order to focus on the main point: the sitting figure was not the winner in the last elections. He was just voted upon by a handful of electors. 

Now those who formulated the electoral college did not have the historical nor the sociological mindset in order to foresee the problems that could be spawned by that process. But still it is being upheld despite its loopholes. 


"The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens...(www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college)

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 considered several methods of electing the President, including selection by Congress, by the governors of the states, by the state legislatures, by a special group of Members of Congress chosen by lot, and by direct popular election. Late in the convention, the matter was referred to the Committee of Eleven on Postponed Matters, which devised the electoral college system in its original form. This plan, which met with widespread approval by the delegates, was incorporated into the final document with only minor changes. It sought to reconcile differing state and federal interests, provide a degree of popular participation in the election, give the less populous states some additional leverage in the process by providing “senatorial” electors, preserve the presidency as independent of Congress, and generally insulate the election process from political manipulation." (http://www.history.com/topics/electoral-college)

This system disregarded the millions of voters who opted for Hillary instead of Trump. In effect the system only considered the number of voters and not the essence of the voting process. The essence of the voting process is to insure that the choice of the majority of the people be put into office. 

Hence the call to action needed really is: NULLIFY THE 2016 ELECTIONS, UPHOLD THE VOTES OF THE 3 MILLION VOTERS.  

Why do we insist on this? That's because the political problems in the US are piling up, one after the other which can only be rooted to the flawed election results.

How should that be solved? With so many computer experts and the most advanced technologies, examining the votes could be easily done to address the problem of a fake presidency.