Committees of Correspondence

What kind of peaceful actions will get rid of a police state or restrain an overbearing government? There are many things, all peaceful, that a person can do.

What you do in your corner of the world depends on you: your interest, time, motivation, job, beliefs, health, family, situation, capacities, etc. No one can tell you what to do.

But for those few who have what it takes, you could form an organization. What kind? That depends on your knowledge, skills, ability to travel, energy, aims, and many other such characteristics.

What kind of organization? Samuel Adams formed committees of correspondence. Something like that adapted to the age of the internet might work.

Read the “Boston Pamphlet” of 1772 for an example of a document issued by the Boston Committee of Correspondence.

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11:00 am on May 2, 2012