Campaigns | Founding Mothers

Future Campaigns

Women are the heart and soul of the Resistance!

The Founding Mothers Proclamation was published on October 2, 2024 – International Day of Nonviolence and Gandhi’s birthday.

To attain Partnership and Peace, we need universal rights for all Women and an end to War.

Once these two goals are achieved, all elements of the polycrisis are remediable.

On January 1, 2025 – to counter Project 2025 – the Founding Mothers will spring into action with our first campaign: Weekly Worldwide Wakeup.

In the above slideshow, we outline our proposed nonviolent campaigns. These direct-action events which will grow in intensity and may eventually escalate to noncooperation and civil disobedience.

Novel Nonviolence

Let’s march from the Peace Pentagon to the War Pentagon!

Gandhi March

If the Proclamation is ignored a year after its publication, we up the ante. On October 2, 2025, we will march from the Peace Pentagon in Independence, VA to the War Pentagon in Arlington, VA.

It took Gandhi 24 days to complete the Salt March. To walk from the Peace Pentagon to the War Pentagon will take approximately 30 days.

Let’s march to Trump Winery outside Charlottesville, VA. WHAT FUN! Let’s pay respect to the Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, James Madison at Montpelier, and George Washington at Mount Vernon.

Then on to the War Pentagon! Our March will end at the Capital Mall for a culminating rally. By this point, the Nation's Capital will be at a standstill.

Idealism does not lead to Change

Protests do not produce Policy

Virginia Seal and Motto

"THUS ALWAYS TO TYRANTS"

To shift the paradigm, we must select the most benevolent trajectory for Mother Earth and all her inhabitants. The timeline we’ve been co-creating needs to fade. Like the Virginia motto, we must reject tyranny.

There has NEVER been a global movement of the magnitude the Founding Mothers are crafting. The coalition we are amassing is unprecedented. As a result, there is no existing playbook for us to follow. We must execute our Strategic Plan based on 21st Century progressive values.

The Women’s Congress – working alongside national and regional Peace Rooms – is the answer. This movement will require seasoned activists, strategists, academics, and willing partners to transition humanity from patriarchy to Partnership, and from militarism to a global Culture of Peace.

The problem with "Leaderless" movements

And why we need to strategize using Systems Science

“Leaderless” movements are chaotic because they leave everyone – especially the media – wondering WHO has authority to speak and negotiate. They also permit the opponent to divide, conquer, and then fill the power vacuum. Successful movements embed horizontal AND vertical structure, as well as regional/national HUBs. The Peace Pentagon in Virginia will serve as a Founding Mothers HUB – a situs for on-going strategic planning.

"Several clear lessons emerge from comparing [failed] contemporary movements to their historical antecedents:

First, movements that engage in careful planning, organization, training, and coalition-building prior to mass mobilization are more likely to draw a large and diverse following than movements that take to the streets before hashing out a political program and strategy.
Second, movements that grow in size and diversity are more likely to succeed – particularly if they are able to maintain momentum.
Third, movements that do not rely solely on digital organizing techniques are more likely to build a sustainable following.
And Finally, movements that come up with strategies for maintaining unity and discipline under pressure may fare better than movements that leave these matters to chance.”

~ Erica Chenoweth, The Future of Nonviolent Resistance (2020)