To those that control the world we live in, corporate executives and government officials alike,

YOU HAVE BEEN STRIPPED OF ALL POWER, effective immediately.

YOU NO LONGER HAVE THE POWER to steal the fruits of our labor, forcing us to struggle to support ourselves and our loved ones while you take more and more. From now on, we will work together and create meaningful jobs that support us all.

YOU NO LONGER HAVE THE POWER to hoard our medicines, ideas, and technologies for your own economic benefit. We created these things to help our fellow humans, not so you could buy another helicopter.

YOU NO LONGER HAVE THE POWER to socially engineer us into believing that an economic system that pits us against all others and allows the few to extract all of the benefits is the only good one. We will no longer fruitlessly compete with others, but will cooperate in order to maximize benefits FOR ALL.

YOU NO LONGER HAVE THE POWER to use our fellow humans as scapegoats just because they have a different skin color, have different political views, speak a different language, worship a different god, or live in a different country. We refuse to believe that THEY are the problem when YOU are the ones that have extracted our wealth from us, forced us into lifelong debt, and pitted us against our fellow humans.

YOU NO LONGER HAVE THE POWER to build weapons and to send our people off to kill others as a means of helping other nations. These places will never be stable so long as we continue to murder their people instead of assisting them with food, shelter, clothing, education, health, and love.

YOU NO LONGER HAVE THE POWER to bombard us with media and advertisements that grip us in fear, or make us feel inadequate, weak, or left out. From now on, our messages will be spread only on the merit of the message, not on the size of our wallets.

YOU NO LONGER HAVE THE POWER to blame the others on top, pitting government versus corporations. We understand that you are a two-headed beast that has worked together for decades to strip us of what is ours.

YOU NO LONGER HAVE THE POWER to control all of our natural resources, depleting our minerals, monopolizing our food, and bottling up our water just so you can sell it back to us at exorbitant profits.

YOU NO LONGER HAVE THE POWER to ignore or actively deny the issues of climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels, or present them as political problems just to support your short-term self-interest. We understand that these problems are both ENORMOUS and FIXABLE, and we will all work together to solve them, instead of merely paying them lip-service as you continue to exhaust resources and burn fossil fuels across the entire planet.

The reasons for this are quite simple. Despite the lies you have fed us about the need for such a system that benefits you, and despite your false assertions that you are acting in our best interests, we know this to be untrue. If we do not rise now, we will continue to exist in a world filled with poverty and war while you continue to extract every last resource until they are gone. And when that occurs, the house of cards that you have forced upon us will crumble, leaving despair in its wake across the entire planet as our massive systems of food, travel, and technology come to a halt. We will fight our neighbors to the death for scraps of food while you hole up in your ivory towers, hiding from the apocalyptic world you have created.

If, however, we rise up and take control of our planet, addressing the MASSIVE problems that this system has created, we will prevail as a global society. We will ensure that EVERYBODY has access to food, shelter, education, health, meaningful employment, and prosperity. We will not do so out of charity, but out of necessity: our systems have created problems that have affected us all, and we all need to work together to solve them. And once we have 7 billion people working together to ensure the fundamental rights of ALL, we will live in an incredible place filled with love, goodness, and the desire to improve the lives of everybody, instead of one filled with anxiety, violence, and greed.

Undoubtedly, you will pretend that you still have these powers over us. Your power is entirely made-up, existing only in your bank accounts and the false beliefs you have pushed upon us. All it takes to stop you is for us to realize that we can control our own destinies by working together, since WE are the ones that have labored so long to create our world. WE are the ones that will refuse to serve your interests as you try to pit us against each other. WE are the ones that will not let you squelch our voices under false pretenses of stopping terrorism or child pornography, because WE know that you are only trying to suppress our good ideas for your selfish ones.

If you are reading this, then it is clear that we have the power. From here on out, we will always be louder than you.

We refuse to be oppressed by the world we live in.

Warm Regards,

Everybody