The Convenor of the FixTheCountry Movement, Oliver Barker Wormawor, has announced some strategic moves by the movement.
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According to the public interest lawyer, “#FixTheCountry shall advocate for a wholistic and integrated constitutional reform that creates the enabling environment for democratic consolidation and delivers on our generational consensus that the most secure democracy is the one that assures the basic necessities of life for its people as a fundamental duty”
In a Facebook post, he said “#FixTheCountry shall be organized as a decentralized movement of political and social activists, which endeavours to create community and solidarity by linking the activities of various rule of law, pro-democracy and social justice activists as well as all progressive-minded organisations that subscribe to the values of the Movement.”
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Let me share some excerpts from the Charter of FixTheCountry.
Clause 1. Description of the Movement
(1). #FixTheCountry is a non-partisan social justice movement that subscribes to and believes in the ideals of a people-centred democracy.
(2). The motto of #FixTheCountry shall be “Demanding Better, Doing Better”.
(3). #FixTheCountry shall be organized as a decentralized movement of political and social activists, which endeavours to create community and solidarity by linking the activities of various rule of law, pro-democracy and social justice activists as well as all progressive-minded organisations that subscribe to the values of the Movement.
Clause 2. Use of Name
(1). The movement mobilizes around #FixTheCountry as a call to action and shall be formally known as #FixTheCountry. All references to #FixTheCountry which omit the hashtag (#), or which refer to #FixTheCountry as FTC or #FTC shall be valid.
(2). Unless expressly authorised, no use of the term or any words or images associated with #FixTheCountry shall be used in a manner that causes confusion or to suggest that the action, statement or other activity in connection with which the term or images are used proceed from #FixTheCountry as a social justice movement.
Clause 3. Purpose of the #FixTheCountry
(1). #FixTheCountry aims to create and sustain a framework for a more engaged citizenship towards ensuring that Ghana and eventually Africa and its diaspora attain a socially-just democratic and economic development.
(2). #FixTheCountry shall endeavour to build a grassroots infrastructure for mobilizing and organizing people around its goals and by nurturing a new generation of leaders that embody the values of the Movement.
(3). #FixTheCountry shall seek to leverage the voices of ordinary people -particularly young people- who have been historically marginalized or excluded from the democratic process, in order to create a sense of urgency around the need for substantive democratic and social justice reforms.
(4). #FixTheCountry shall seek to ground organic mechanisms for democratic accountability in community-based approaches by connecting communities with direct resources for holding institutions to account; holding public education forums, town hall meetings and creating a network of community-level organizers, to become conduits and pivots of community-level democratic activism.
(5). #FixTheCountry shall directly mobilize citizens and communities to protest instances of democratic unaccountability, institutionalized systems and patterns of injustice and corruption as well as developmental inequality.
(6). #FixTheCountry shall make non-violent civil disobedience, positive actions, protests, strike actions, sit-ins, and all other peaceful and democratic forms of civic expressions of dissent a core part of its identity and advocacy.
Clause 4. Guiding Objectives of #FixTheCountry
(1). An Open Democracy
a. #FixTheCountry adheres to the principle that all powers of Government spring from the sovereign will of the people;
b. #FixTheCountry is ethically opposed to all forms of non-democratic governance, whether in substance or in form, including constitutional dictatorships.
c. #FixTheCountry believes that in the natural and inalienable right of a people to establish a framework of government which shall secure for ourselves and posterity the blessings of liberty, equality of opportunity and prosperity
d. #FixTheCountry believes in a popular democracy that entrenches as its central values: a just and fair society, direct democracy, civic activism, individual liberty, social, environmental and economic justice, gender justice, multiculturalism, transnational solidarity, Pan-Africanism, and zero tolerance for all forms of corruption.
e. #FixTheCountry shall work for an open democracy in which government is held to account by the people, decisions are taken unless absolutely impracticable by the communities they affect and where fundamental human rights are guaranteed.
f. #FixTheCountry believes that the existing 1992 Constitution of Ghana in its current form also accounts for the country’s entrenched democratic dysfunction, intentional disenfranchisement and structural and systemic roadblocks that undermine democratic accountability in Ghana.
g. #FixTheCountry shall advocate for a wholistic and integrated constitutional reform that creates the enabling environment for democratic consolidation and delivers on our generational consensus that the most secure democracy is the one that assures the basic necessities of life for its people as a fundamental duty.
