How to Participate
This project is built to be simple.
You do not need to join an organization.
You do not need to wait for an election.
You do not need permission from power.
You can participate as one person, acting peacefully and publicly, in your own name.
1. Read the declarations.
Begin with one declaration or read all three.
Read them slowly.
Consider what they affirm, what they reject, and what they ask of the people.
2. Add your name.
If a declaration speaks to your conscience, add your name to the Public Record of Civic Affirmation.
Your signature is your own.
It does not claim to speak for anyone else.
But it joins your voice with others who have chosen not to remain silent.
3. Share the declarations.
Share them with friends, family, neighbors, civic groups, faith communities, students, educators, workers, local organizations, and public officials.
Invite others to read before they react.
Invite them to consider before they dismiss.
Invite them to sign only if they freely choose.
4. Send them to representatives and institutions.
The declarations may be sent to local, state, and federal officials; courts; public agencies; universities; newspapers; civic organizations; and community leaders.
They should be sent respectfully, peacefully, and clearly.
The message is simple:
These are the principles we affirm.
This is where we stand.
Public power must answer to the people.
5. Keep the project nonviolent.
The declarations must never be used to justify violence, threats, intimidation, harassment, or coercion.
Their force is civic, moral, public, and peaceful.
A declaration made in the name of the people must honor the dignity of the people.
6. Keep the project nonpartisan.
These declarations are not written to serve a party or candidate.
They are written to restore the principle that all public power must remain accountable to the people.
People from different backgrounds, beliefs, regions, and political histories may sign for different reasons.
That is a strength.
7. Keep the project truthful.
Do not distort the declarations.
Do not use them to spread falsehoods.
Do not attach them to claims they do not make.
Do not turn them into propaganda.
The purpose is public truth, not manipulation.
8. Keep the project open.
No one owns the conscience of the people.
No one should be pressured to sign.
No one should be excluded for asking honest questions.
The invitation is simple:
Read.
Reflect.
Sign if you choose.
Share if you believe others should see it.
9. Carry it outward.
A declaration becomes powerful when people carry it into ordinary life.
Print it.
Share it.
Read it aloud.
Discuss it.
Send it.
Post it.
Bring it to meetings.
Use it as a point of civic reference.
Let it become part of the public record.
Let it help people recognize one another again.