Just under one month ago on June 8 2009 Jack Warner launched his Manifesto for Change at his office in Chaguanas.Related: Warner's Manifesto for Change honours Basdeo Panday
On Wednesday the Chaguanas West MP launches the second phase of his campaign with a "Caravan for Change" that will cover the country in an attempt "to cover every constituency, every junction, every street corner."
Warner told reporters Saturday based on feedback from more than 40,000 people on the Platform for Change he and his colleagues "want to meet with you. We will be on the ground with you."
The point is to meet, mingle and listen.
And the mobile caravan begins on the doorstep of United National Congress (UNC) leader Basdeo Panday.
Warner said, "We will be kicking of this Caravan on Wednesday and our first destination Couva North, our first stop Rienzi Complex, that bastion of the old order.
"The old order has to give way to the new…yes we are taking the message of change to the heartland and we want to see you there."
The Platform for Change roadshow will be fully equipped with modern communication paraphernalia as it travels across the country. The inaugural move will go through the UNC heartland constituencies of Couva North and Couva South, currently held by Panday and Kelvin Ramnath, respectively.
The next day Warner and his team plan to visit Chaguanas East, Caroni Central and Caroni East, all held by the UNC-A MP's and then on day three it moves into "PNM country" along the East West Corridor, starting in Morvant Junction and ending in Arma.
"We will continue like this until we cover every corner of the country up to and including Day eight and you are all invited," Warner said, in reference to his planned mass meeting at the Aranguez Savannah, the location where the UNC was born in 1989.
Warner reiterated that his movement for change is aimed at giving citizens "a chance to be saved from the PNM government, a chance for our children and our grandchildren to be given a better life, a chance for a better future."
He added, "We firmly believe that the people in our country want this change in fact they have told us so...all they ask for is for a better life."
Warner said, "Principles of fairness, equality, freedom, transparency, these are the principles which are cast in stone, they transcend all boundaries, all we ask for is that these universal principles be applied to the UNC." he said.
Commenting on the state of the nation Warner noted that "our institutions are crumbling, independent bodies are being ostracized for expressing their opinion, the PM walks into a media house, two employees are suspended because they made comments during a newscast, a 10-year-old girl is brutally murdered and the PM's response is to what, trivialize the brutal murder of a child". He also spoke of the deteriorating image of the country because of crime.
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He said he and his colleagues have agreed that they will not stand by and watch the nation and its institutions crumble.
"When our children are being attacked and we live in cages, our movements are restrained, what kind of life is that? We choose not be observers, and we...choose to take a proactive role in this battle."
He said based on feedback from 40,000 people from at home and abroad "my Colleagues and I have now decided to make our movement for change mobile."
You can watch Jack Warner's media statement on YOUTUBE
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