TANC: A Roadmap to Direct Democracy & Citizens Assembly presentation - full 12:45-min.

Participating at the "2010 Global Forum for Modern Direct Democracy & U.S. Conference on Initiative & Referendum" on August 1, 2010 in San Francisco, Michael Freeman, executive director of the Trans-American Alliance for a National Consensus (TANC), laid out the nonprofit organization's "TANC: A Roadmap to Direct Democracy & Citizens Assembly" presentation. The proposed blueprint, backed by TANC's drafting of the "National Alliance Renewal Act" (NARA), which is viewable and downloadable at http://www.transamericanalliance.org, explores in detail the grassroots nonprofit organization's proposed framework for a dual-platform "Electorate Branch" of federal government and optional "National Electorate Referendum" process for "Citizens Assembly"-authored legislative reform bills.

Mr. Freeman made TANC's case -- advocating the creation of a citizens oversight-based "Electorate Legislative Consortium" assemblies, along with an optional "National Ballot Referendums & Initiatives" mechanism, as a complementary but binding fourth "Electorate Branch" of the U.S. federal government -- following a keynote address by former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (a long-time, three-decade proponent for Direct Democracy mechanisms) at a panel session titled, "Is America Ready?" TOWARDS A NATIONAL I&R PROCESS," University of California's Hastings College of Law in the "civic center" district of downtown San Francisco.

Coming after Sen. Gravel's direct democracy advocacy efforts with the National Initiative for For Direct Democracy (http://www.Ni4D.us) for a national Initiatives & Referendum balloting system for American citizens and the responses of three other panelists, Mr. Freeman emphasized TANC's positions and platforms behind not only I&R processes but also how citizens from all segments of society and led by university/college student "Delegates" and scholar "Counsels" could be the full-time "CATALYSTS" behind a Citizens Assembly/Electorate Branch structure that "decentralizes and localizes" and "spreads out the authority" of a federal government branch to all 50 states of the union.

To find out more about TANC's proposals for national "Citizens Assembly" and "National Electorate Referendum," as laid out in it is draft "National Alliance Renewal Act" (NARA) bill, please visit http://www.transamericanalliance.org. We also welcome you to add any questions, feedback and suggestions for draft-language changes to the act, you can write to us at ThinkTANC@transamericanalliance.org. Most notably, though, we encourage to sign our online petition calling for state legislatures to back (along with Congress) the ratification of a 28th Amendment for a permanent complementary but binding "Electorate Branch" of the federal government -- to be the ultimate nonpartisan "checks-and-balances" arbiter in serving the "Public Interest"...NOT the "Corporate Interests!"

For more background and news from the 2010 GLOBAL FORUM ON MODERN DIRECT DEMOCRACY & U.S. CONFERENCE ON INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM, please visit http://2010globalforum.com.

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