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List of Organizations

2013-06-14T17:37:01Z

DennisMGoldstein:

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning Back to Occupy Strategy Planning Page]]

THIS IS TRACK 2...aimed at figuring out which groups are following the path we'd like to see...
This page is to LIST THE ORGANIZATIONS that are out there fighting for change and to show how they contribute to our vision, or are detracting from getting us there. This is "our view", as it develops. This went through a few rounds on the Occupy-Strategy list, before the information was consolidated and put here.

TWO TASKS: 
- define the categories 
- put each of the ORGANIZATIONS into one or two categories... 

Scroll down to see both the categories that we're using (change them if you like) and which groups falling into which categories:

CATEGORIES (feel free to contribut to these definitions...we're building them together):

CATEGORY 1 profit focused/predatory capitalists and their agents. ALEC, US Chamber of Commerce (as opposed to the locals)

CATEGORY 2 socialists and professional lobbiers, advocacy groups, organization/empire builders w/vested interest in relationships with media and/or no-change government) These groups "talk 3" but "act 2". Reformers that want to keep #1 intact. Groups that take and pander to big money, donors and legisators.

CATEGORY 3 soft sustainable (triple bottom line) capitalism, and their agents advocacy groups without a vested interest in profit-over-people, building large salaries for themselves, or economic growth in and of itself)

The diagram here shows how the categories might be illustrated on a web page. You can change that, too, if you like.

http://wiki.occupyboston.org/images/f/f3/The_Movement_JPEG.JPG

*

<big>'''CONSOLIDATED LIST'''</big> (includes Brandi's list, but I took out Sundance and SXSW...and media events
PLEASE ADD INFO ABOUT WHAT THESE GROUPS ARE ACTUALLY DOING...it's hard to tell from their rhetoric.

*

350.org (advocacy, education, public awareness, legislative/lobbying, specific project: stop pipeline, others?) (Cateogry: 2?)

ACCE ? 
AFSCME 
AJC ACCESS 
ALEC (Category 1) 
All-Ages Movement Project 
Allhiphop.com 
Alliance for American Manufacturing 
Allied Media Projects 
Alternate ROOTS 
America Votes 
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) 
Applied Research Center / Colorlines Magazine 
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance 

Backbone Campaign 
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center 
Blue Green Alliance 
Burning Man Project: Educational group showing people how "to be". (Category: #3, but with a sliver on #2, because of their control mechanisms 
and exclusive governance) 
Bus Federation 
Business for Social Responsibility 

CAF 
Caring Across Generations 
Center for Working Families 
Chamber of Commerce, US/National (Category 1) 
Chamber of Commerce, Locals (Category 1/3, depending on the local) 
Clinton Global Initiative 
Code Pink 
Coffee Party USA 
Common Cause (Category 2) 
Congressional Black Caucus 
congressional progressive caucus 
Conservative Political Action Committee 
Council on Foundations 
 
DA 
DFA 
DNC 
DNC Youth Council 
Democratic Socialists of America (Category: 2?) 
EAC 
EDF (Category 2) 
EGA 
 

FCCP 
Free Press 
Free Speech for People (Grade 3, with a sliver into 2...this may change
if they adopt the anti-org right to assemble/speak language that MTA's
got going on) 
Future of MusicCoalition: Information freedom (Grade 3?) 
 

Gamaliel 
Global Exchange (Category 2/3, partically 2 because of their legislative ties?) 
Green Party education/awareness, takes positions on legislation, but nothing specific. Green New Deal has a lot of stuff, but too much to get anything specific done? (Grade 3, w/sliver in 2, because of its empire building focus) 
 

HCAN 
 

IAF-SE and Bank Accountability Campaign 
Immokalee Farm Workers (Category: 3, democratic governance, sustainability, they are walking the walk) 
Inspired Legacies 
Interfaith Power and Light 
Its Our Economy (Category: 3) 
 

J Street 
 

Keystone Progress 
 

LCV + LCVEF 
League of Young Voters 
League of Women Voters (Category 2) 
Liberty Tree 

Move to Amend - Move to Amend (advocacy, education/public adwareness, specific projects: amend constitution, local ordinaces/resolutions) (Category: mostly 3, but lots of ties to 2, because of co-option by Common Cause, LWV, other too-big-to-effect-change lobbyists) 
MoveOn (Grade 2...talk like 3 sometimes, but definitely solidly in #2) 
 

NAACP 
National Action Network 
National Council For La Raza 
National Domestic Worker Alliance 
National Education Association 
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (Category 3?, or ties to 2? been a while since I've worked closely with them) 
National Organizers Alliance 
National People's Action 
Neighborhood Funders Group 
Netroots Nation 
Netroots NY 
New Organizing Institute 
NRDC (Category 2) 
NWF (Category 2) 
 

One Arizona 
Organizing 2.0 
 

Personal Democracy Forum 
Pew Charitable Trusts Category 2 
PFAW 
PICO 
Planned Parenthood Category 2 
Policy Link 
Progressive Democrats of America (Grade: mostly 2, but partly in 3 because of specific push back actions) 
Public Banking (education/public wareness, specific project: take state money out of private banks) (Mostly 3, but relies too heavily on ties to 2) 
Public Citizen 
 

Rebuild the Dream 
Rock the Vote 
Rockwood Leadership Institute 
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation/RosaLuxNYC

Roosevelt Institute Campus Network 
Roosevelt Institute | Pipeline 

SEIU SEE UNION LIST BELOW 
Sierra Club (Grade: 2) 
Social Venture Network 
Strike Debt (education/public awareness, specific project: end healthcare debt) (Category: definitely 3) 
Sustainable Business Network (Catagory: 3, they are all about co-ops and social enterprise) 
 

The King Center 
The Management Center 
 

Unions (SEE SEPARATE LIST BELOW) 
 

Unitarian Universalist Social Action Committees Category 2 
United for a Fair Economy (Grade: mostly 3, but solidly in 2, because of firm socialism belief structure) 
United Farm Workers (Grade: mostly 3, with tiny ties to 2) 
United States Student Association (USSA) 
US Action 
US Food Sovereignty Alliance 
Us Uncut 
 

Veterans for Peace, mostly just education and awareness, but backs specific legislation, (Category: mostly 2 but partially in 3) 
Victory Fund 
 

We Are Ohio 
We Are Wisconsin 
Web of Change 
Women's Funding Network 
Working America 
World Social Forum 
 

Young Democrats of America 
Young Invincibles 
 

<big>'''UNIONS '''</big>
AFL-CIO (Category: solid 2, as most big orgs are) 
Teachers (Category: mostly 2, sliver of 3 talk) 
Iron Workers (ditto) 
Steel Workers (ditto) 
SEIU (Category: most 3 than the others, but still solidly 2) 
Electrical Workers Union 3 Very progressive union historically.

List of Organizations

2013-06-14T17:34:00Z

DennisMGoldstein:

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning Back to Occupy Strategy Planning Page]]

THIS IS TRACK 2...aimed at figuring out which groups are following the path we'd like to see...
This page is to LIST THE ORGANIZATIONS that are out there fighting for change and to show how they contribute to our vision, or are detracting from getting us there. This is "our view", as it develops. This went through a few rounds on the Occupy-Strategy list, before the information was consolidated and put here.

TWO TASKS: 
- define the categories 
- put each of the ORGANIZATIONS into one or two categories... 

Scroll down to see both the categories that we're using (change them if you like) and which groups falling into which categories:

CATEGORIES (feel free to contribut to these definitions...we're building them together):

CATEGORY 1 profit focused/predatory capitalists and their agents. ALEC, US Chamber of Commerce (as opposed to the locals)

CATEGORY 2 socialists and professional lobbiers, advocacy groups, organization/empire builders w/vested interest in relationships with media and/or no-change government) These groups "talk 3" but "act 2". Reformers that want to keep #1 intact. Groups that take and pander to big money, donors and legisators.

CATEGORY 3 soft sustainable (triple bottom line) capitalism, and their agents advocacy groups without a vested interest in profit-over-people, building large salaries for themselves, or economic growth in and of itself)

The diagram here shows how the categories might be illustrated on a web page. You can change that, too, if you like.

http://wiki.occupyboston.org/images/f/f3/The_Movement_JPEG.JPG

*

<big>'''CONSOLIDATED LIST'''</big> (includes Brandi's list, but I took out Sundance and SXSW...and media events
PLEASE ADD INFO ABOUT WHAT THESE GROUPS ARE ACTUALLY DOING...it's hard to tell from their rhetoric.

*

350.org (advocacy, education, public awareness, legislative/lobbying, specific project: stop pipeline, others?) (Cateogry: 2?)

ACCE ? 
AFSCME 
AJC ACCESS 
ALEC (Category 1) 
All-Ages Movement Project 
Allhiphop.com 
Alliance for American Manufacturing 
Allied Media Projects 
Alternate ROOTS 
America Votes 
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) 
Applied Research Center / Colorlines Magazine 
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance 

Backbone Campaign 
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center 
Blue Green Alliance 
Burning Man Project: Educational group showing people how "to be". (Category: #3, but with a sliver on #2, because of their control mechanisms 
and exclusive governance) 
Bus Federation 
Business for Social Responsibility 

CAF 
Caring Across Generations 
Center for Working Families 
Chamber of Commerce, US/National (Category 1) 
Chamber of Commerce, Locals (Category 1/3, depending on the local) 
Clinton Global Initiative 
Code Pink 
Coffee Party USA 
Common Cause (Category 2) 
Congressional Black Caucus 
congressional progressive caucus 
Conservative Political Action Committee 
Council on Foundations 
 
DA 
DFA 
DNC 
DNC Youth Council 
Democratic Socialists of America (Category: 2?) 
EAC 
EDF (Category 2) 
EGA 
 

FCCP 
Free Press 
Free Speech for People (Grade 3, with a sliver into 2...this may change
if they adopt the anti-org right to assemble/speak language that MTA's
got going on) 
Future of MusicCoalition: Information freedom (Grade 3?) 
 

Gamaliel 
Global Exchange (Category 2/3, partically 2 because of their legislative ties?) 
Green Party education/awareness, takes positions on legislation, but nothing specific. Green New Deal has a lot of stuff, but too much to get anything specific done? (Grade 3, w/sliver in 2, because of its empire building focus) 
 

HCAN 
 

IAF-SE and Bank Accountability Campaign 
Immokalee Farm Workers (Category: 3, democratic governance, sustainability, they are walking the walk) 
Inspired Legacies 
Interfaith Power and Light 
Its Our Economy (Category: 3) 
 

J Street 
 

Keystone Progress 
 

LCV + LCVEF 
League of Young Voters 
League of Women Voters (Category 2) 
Liberty Tree 

Move to Amend - Move to Amend (advocacy, education/public adwareness, specific projects: amend constitution, local ordinaces/resolutions) (Category: mostly 3, but lots of ties to 2, because of co-option by Common Cause, LWV, other too-big-to-effect-change lobbyists) 
MoveOn (Grade 2...talk like 3 sometimes, but definitely solidly in #2) 
 

NAACP 
National Action Network 
National Council For La Raza 
National Domestic Worker Alliance 
National Education Association 
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (Category 3?, or ties to 2? been a while since I've worked closely with them) 
National Organizers Alliance 
National People's Action 
Neighborhood Funders Group 
Netroots Nation 
Netroots NY 
New Organizing Institute 
NRDC (Category 2) 
NWF (Category 2) 
 

One Arizona 
Organizing 2.0 
 

Personal Democracy Forum 
Pew Charitable Trusts Category 2 
PFAW 
PICO 
Planned Parenthood Category 2 
Policy Link 
Progressive Democrats of America (Grade: mostly 2, but partly in 3 because of specific push back actions) 
Public Banking (education/public wareness, specific project: take state money out of private banks) (Mostly 3, but relies too heavily on ties to 2) 
Public Citizen 
 

Rebuild the Dream 
Rock the Vote 
Rockwood Leadership Institute 
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation/RosaLuxNYC
Roosevelt Institute Campus Network 
Roosevelt Institute | Pipeline 

SEIU SEE UNION LIST BELOW 
Sierra Club (Grade: 2) 
Social Venture Network 
Strike Debt (education/public awareness, specific project: end healthcare debt) (Category: definitely 3) 
Sustainable Business Network (Catagory: 3, they are all about co-ops and social enterprise) 
 

The King Center 
The Management Center 
 

Unions (SEE SEPARATE LIST BELOW) 
 

Unitarian Universalist Social Action Committees Category 2 
United for a Fair Economy (Grade: mostly 3, but solidly in 2, because of firm socialism belief structure) 
United Farm Workers (Grade: mostly 3, with tiny ties to 2) 
United States Student Association (USSA) 
US Action 
US Food Sovereignty Alliance 
Us Uncut 
 

Veterans for Peace, mostly just education and awareness, but backs specific legislation, (Category: mostly 2 but partially in 3) 
Victory Fund 
 

We Are Ohio 
We Are Wisconsin 
Web of Change 
Women's Funding Network 
Working America 
World Social Forum 
 

Young Democrats of America 
Young Invincibles 
 

<big>'''UNIONS '''</big>
AFL-CIO (Category: solid 2, as most big orgs are) 
Teachers (Category: mostly 2, sliver of 3 talk) 
Iron Workers (ditto) 
Steel Workers (ditto) 
SEIU (Category: most 3 than the others, but still solidly 2) 
Electrical Workers Union 3 Very progressive union historically.

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-06-14T02:30:13Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

== GOAL OF THE READINGS ==

The goal of these readings is to have a "solid basis" for the group's understanding of existing theory...a shared understanding.

== SUGGESTED LEARNING METHOD ==

You can start out by reading the first couple of paragraphs and the last couple of paragraphs in each of the recommended articles in Monthly Review. These essentially summarize the ideas and concepts professed in the articles.

== READINGS/LECTURES/VIDEOS ==

=== 1. Monthly Review ===

[[http://www.monthlyreview.org]

For full access to Monthly Review's resource list go to the link above, and choose the search bar on upper right hand side. Please pay particular attention to these suggested readings:

1. a. "[[The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation]]," by Samir Amin, February 2011. This is a seminal historical analysis of capitalism which is a key to grasping the comptemporary global anti imperialist struggle that has emerged since the late 1990s in Latin America and in recent years in the Arab Spring.

1. b. "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," by Istvan Meszaros, March 2012. Istvan Meszaros is the leading contemporary Marxian theoretician, according to John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review. This is a definitive analysis of the structural crisis of the capital system.

1. c. "Endless Crisis," by John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, May 2012. Foster, as indicated above, is the Editor of Monthly Review and McChesney is its former co-editor. Foster and McChesney analyze the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession with great accumen based on the economic stagnation theory pioneered by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezey, a founding editor of Monthly Review. Baran and Sweezy are the authors of the seminal essay, Monopoly Capital (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1966).

1. d. Ravi Bhandari, "Rise of the Global Corporatocracy: Interview With John Perkins," Monthly Review, March, 2013.

=== 2. Noam Chomsky Lecture ===

Noam Chomsky's 1970 Lecture entitled, "Governments in the Future" Full Audio (56 minutes) http://archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnGovernmentsInTheFuture. Chomsky the leading US dissident and most prominent scholar in this role since the 1960s is always worth reading/listening to for fundamental analysis.

=== 3. World Forum for Alternatives Weekly Bulletin for May 7, 2013 ===

World Forum for Alternatives "The Economic and Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism & Class Struggle," Weekly Bulletin for May 7, 2013. Search: World Forum for Alternatives. According to Karl Marx class struggle is "the motor force of history." This is an overview of the levels of class struggle the world around in the present historical era. Raising our collective level of class consciousness is essential to being able to fight as effectively as possible against the corporatocracy or global corporate capitalist ruling class.

=== 4. Legal History of "Corporate Rights" (10 min video) ===

Text form: [[http://celdf.org/-1-86 Legal Defense Fund]] Since the early 1800s, corporations have gained "rights" and protections under the United States Constitution. While we never find the word “corporation” in the Constitution, corporations are able to invoke constitutional “rights” and protections under the Commerce Clause and Contracts Clause, as well as under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments. These pages/videos share the history, as well as what people are doing to challenge these court-bestowed "rights".

[[http://celdf.org/democracy-school-video Short Form Video]] (10 minutes)

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HowKoNmODNY Full One Session Lecture]] (45 minutes)

[[http://celdf.org/democracy-school-on-line Series of Four Hour Democracy School Lectures]]

The above videos are focused on the enacting laws at the local level and how corporate law impacts municipal control. Below find a national/international treatise, which doesn't promote a specific solution, but rather aims to educate, so that we actually understand WHY corporations have the rights that they have, and why the rights should be deemed illegal.

=== 5. Legal History of "Corporate Rights", called "The Corporation" (60 min video) ===

A more comprehensive look at the history of corporations and corporate law than the CELDF video above. The above videos are focused on the enacting laws at the local level and how corporate law impacts municipal control. "The Corporation", is more of a national/international treatise, which doesn't promote a specific solution, but rather aims to educate, so that we actually understand WHY corporations have the rights that they have, and why the rights should be deemed illegal.

=== 6. FDR's Second Bill of Rights ===

Please read the commentary on this groups Mission Statement page, which refers to
http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement#Commentary_on_FDR.27s_The_Second_Bill_of_Rights FDR's Second Bill of Rights]]

=== 7. Corporate Personhood Information ===

[[Appeal to organizers and activists]] Additional information links are included on this page

[[Short Summary about Corporate Personhood]]

[[Revoking the Corporation by Richard Grossman]]

The Corporation Documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw

[[http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/conversations-wgreat-minds-david-cobb-corporate-personhood-p2 David Cobb Speaks To Thomas Hartman about Move To Amend, Corporate Rights]]

=== 8. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy-Related_Surveys_and_Studies SURVEYS and STUDIES about OCCUPY and related movements]] ===

== CONTACT ==

To add/edit/participate, please contact us first: info@occupyboston.org

'''<big>[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning Back to Strategic Planning, main page]]</big>'''

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-06-14T02:28:57Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

== GOAL OF THE READINGS ==

The goal of these readings is to have a "solid basis" for the group's understanding of existing theory...a shared understanding.

== SUGGESTED LEARNING METHOD ==

You can start out by reading the first couple of paragraphs and the last couple of paragraphs in each of the recommended articles in Monthly Review. These essentially summarize the ideas and concepts professed in the articles.

== READINGS/LECTURES/VIDEOS ==

=== 1. Monthly Review ===

[[http://www.monthlyreview.org]

For full access to Monthly Review Magazine's resource list go to the link above, and choose the search bar on upper right hand side. Please pay particular attention to these suggested readings:

1. a. "[[The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation]]," by Samir Amin, February 2011. This is a seminal historical analysis of capitalism which is a key to grasping the comptemporary global anti imperialist struggle that has emerged since the late 1990s in Latin America and in recent years in the Arab Spring.

1. b. "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," by Istvan Meszaros, March 2012. Istvan Meszaros is the leading contemporary Marxian theoretician, according to John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review. This is a definitive analysis of the structural crisis of the capital system.

1. c. "Endless Crisis," by John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, May 2012. Foster, as indicated above, is the Editor of Monthly Review and McChesney is its former co-editor. Foster and McChesney analyze the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession with great accumen based on the economic stagnation theory pioneered by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezey, a founding editor of Monthly Review. Baran and Sweezy are the authors of the seminal essay, Monopoly Capital (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1966).

1. d. Ravi Bhandari, "Rise of the Global Corporatocracy: Interview With John Perkins," Monthly Review, March, 2013.

=== 2. Noam Chomsky Lecture ===

Noam Chomsky's 1970 Lecture entitled, "Governments in the Future" Full Audio (56 minutes) http://archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnGovernmentsInTheFuture. Chomsky the leading US dissident and most prominent scholar in this role since the 1960s is always worth reading/listening to for fundamental analysis.

=== 3. World Forum for Alternatives Weekly Bulletin for May 7, 2013 ===

World Forum for Alternatives "The Economic and Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism & Class Struggle," Weekly Bulletin for May 7, 2013. Search: World Forum for Alternatives. According to Karl Marx class struggle is "the motor force of history." This is an overview of the levels of class struggle the world around in the present historical era. Raising our collective level of class consciousness is essential to being able to fight as effectively as possible against the corporatocracy or global corporate capitalist ruling class.

=== 4. Legal History of "Corporate Rights" (10 min video) ===

Text form: [[http://celdf.org/-1-86 Legal Defense Fund]] Since the early 1800s, corporations have gained "rights" and protections under the United States Constitution. While we never find the word “corporation” in the Constitution, corporations are able to invoke constitutional “rights” and protections under the Commerce Clause and Contracts Clause, as well as under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments. These pages/videos share the history, as well as what people are doing to challenge these court-bestowed "rights".

[[http://celdf.org/democracy-school-video Short Form Video]] (10 minutes)

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HowKoNmODNY Full One Session Lecture]] (45 minutes)

[[http://celdf.org/democracy-school-on-line Series of Four Hour Democracy School Lectures]]

The above videos are focused on the enacting laws at the local level and how corporate law impacts municipal control. Below find a national/international treatise, which doesn't promote a specific solution, but rather aims to educate, so that we actually understand WHY corporations have the rights that they have, and why the rights should be deemed illegal.

=== 5. Legal History of "Corporate Rights", called "The Corporation" (60 min video) ===

A more comprehensive look at the history of corporations and corporate law than the CELDF video above. The above videos are focused on the enacting laws at the local level and how corporate law impacts municipal control. "The Corporation", is more of a national/international treatise, which doesn't promote a specific solution, but rather aims to educate, so that we actually understand WHY corporations have the rights that they have, and why the rights should be deemed illegal.

=== 6. FDR's Second Bill of Rights ===

Please read the commentary on this groups Mission Statement page, which refers to
http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement#Commentary_on_FDR.27s_The_Second_Bill_of_Rights FDR's Second Bill of Rights]]

=== 7. Corporate Personhood Information ===

[[Appeal to organizers and activists]] Additional information links are included on this page

[[Short Summary about Corporate Personhood]]

[[Revoking the Corporation by Richard Grossman]]

The Corporation Documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw

[[http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/conversations-wgreat-minds-david-cobb-corporate-personhood-p2 David Cobb Speaks To Thomas Hartman about Move To Amend, Corporate Rights]]

=== 8. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy-Related_Surveys_and_Studies SURVEYS and STUDIES about OCCUPY and related movements]] ===

== CONTACT ==

To add/edit/participate, please contact us first: info@occupyboston.org

'''<big>[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning Back to Strategic Planning, main page]]</big>'''

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-06-14T02:26:57Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

== GOAL OF THE READINGS ==

The goal of these readings is to have a "solid basis" for the group's understanding of existing theory...a shared understanding.

== SUGGESTED LEARNING METHOD ==

You can start out by reading the first couple of paragraphs and the last couple of paragraphs in each of the recommended articles in Monthly Review. These essentially summarize the ideas and concepts professed in the articles.

== READINGS/LECTURES/VIDEOS ==

=== 1. Monthly Review ===

[[http://www.monthlyreview.org Monthly Review Magazine]]

For full access to Monthly Review Magazine's resource list go to the link above, and choose the search bar on upper right hand side. Please pay particular attention to these suggested readings:

1. a. "[[The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation]]," by Samir Amin, February 2011. This is a seminal historical analysis of capitalism which is a key to grasping the comptemporary global anti imperialist struggle that has emerged since the late 1990s in Latin America and in recent years in the Arab Spring.

1. b. "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," by Istvan Meszaros, March 2012. Istvan Meszaros is the leading contemporary Marxian theoretician, according to John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review. This is a definitive analysis of the structural crisis of the capital system.

1. c. "Endless Crisis," by John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, May 2012. Foster, as indicated above, is the Editor of Monthly Review and McChesney is its former co-editor. Foster and McChesney analyze the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession with great accumen based on the economic stagnation theory pioneered by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezey, a founding editor of Monthly Review. Baran and Sweezy are the authors of the seminal essay, Monopoly Capital (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1966).

1. d. Ravi Bhandari, "Rise of the Global Corporatocracy: Interview With John Perkins," Monthly Review, March, 2013.

=== 2. Noam Chomsky Lecture ===

Noam Chomsky's 1970 Lecture entitled, "Governments in the Future" Full Audio (56 minutes) http://archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnGovernmentsInTheFuture. Chomsky the leading US dissident and most prominent scholar in this role since the 1960s is always worth reading/listening to for fundamental analysis.

=== 3. World Forum for Alternatives Weekly Bulletin for May 7, 2013 ===

World Forum for Alternatives "The Economic and Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism & Class Struggle," Weekly Bulletin for May 7, 2013. Search: World Forum for Alternatives. According to Karl Marx class struggle is "the motor force of history." This is an overview of the levels of class struggle the world around in the present historical era. Raising our collective level of class consciousness is essential to being able to fight as effectively as possible against the corporatocracy or global corporate capitalist ruling class.

=== 4. Legal History of "Corporate Rights" (10 min video) ===

Text form: [[http://celdf.org/-1-86 Legal Defense Fund]] Since the early 1800s, corporations have gained "rights" and protections under the United States Constitution. While we never find the word “corporation” in the Constitution, corporations are able to invoke constitutional “rights” and protections under the Commerce Clause and Contracts Clause, as well as under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments. These pages/videos share the history, as well as what people are doing to challenge these court-bestowed "rights".

[[http://celdf.org/democracy-school-video Short Form Video]] (10 minutes)

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HowKoNmODNY Full One Session Lecture]] (45 minutes)

[[http://celdf.org/democracy-school-on-line Series of Four Hour Democracy School Lectures]]

The above videos are focused on the enacting laws at the local level and how corporate law impacts municipal control. Below find a national/international treatise, which doesn't promote a specific solution, but rather aims to educate, so that we actually understand WHY corporations have the rights that they have, and why the rights should be deemed illegal.

=== 5. Legal History of "Corporate Rights", called "The Corporation" (60 min video) ===

A more comprehensive look at the history of corporations and corporate law than the CELDF video above. The above videos are focused on the enacting laws at the local level and how corporate law impacts municipal control. "The Corporation", is more of a national/international treatise, which doesn't promote a specific solution, but rather aims to educate, so that we actually understand WHY corporations have the rights that they have, and why the rights should be deemed illegal.

=== 6. FDR's Second Bill of Rights ===

Please read the commentary on this groups Mission Statement page, which refers to
http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement#Commentary_on_FDR.27s_The_Second_Bill_of_Rights FDR's Second Bill of Rights]]

=== 7. Corporate Personhood Information ===

[[Appeal to organizers and activists]] Additional information links are included on this page

[[Short Summary about Corporate Personhood]]

[[Revoking the Corporation by Richard Grossman]]

The Corporation Documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw

[[http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/conversations-wgreat-minds-david-cobb-corporate-personhood-p2 David Cobb Speaks To Thomas Hartman about Move To Amend, Corporate Rights]]

=== 8. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy-Related_Surveys_and_Studies SURVEYS and STUDIES about OCCUPY and related movements]] ===

== CONTACT ==

To add/edit/participate, please contact us first: info@occupyboston.org

'''<big>[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning Back to Strategic Planning, main page]]</big>'''

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-06-08T23:14:00Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

== GOAL OF THE READINGS ==

The goal of these readings is to have a "solid basis" for the group's understanding of existing theory...a shared understanding.

== SUGGESTED LEARNING METHOD ==

You can start out by reading the first couple of paragraphs and the last couple of paragraphs in each of the recommended articles in Monthly Review. These essentially summarize the ideas and concepts professed in the articles.

== READINGS/LECTURES/VIDEOS ==

=== 1. Monthly Review Magazine ===

[[http://www.monthlyreview.org Monthly Review Magazine]]

For full access to Monthly Review Magazine's resource list go to the link above, and choose the search bar on upper right hand side. Please pay particular attention to these suggested readings:

1. a. "[[The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation]]," by Samir Amin, February 2011. This is a seminal historical analysis of capitalism which is a key to grasping the comptemporary global anti imperialist struggle that has emerged since the late 1990s in Latin America and in recent years in the Arab Spring.

1. b. "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," by Istvan Meszaros, March 2012. Istvan Meszaros is the leading contemporary Marxian theoretician, according to John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review. This is a definitive analysis of the structural crisis of the capital system.

1. c. "Endless Crisis," by John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, May 2012. Foster, as indicated above, is the Editor of Monthly Review and McChesney is its former co-editor. Foster and McChesney analyze the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession with great accumen based on the economic stagnation theory pioneered by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezey, a founding editor of Monthly Review. Baran and Sweezy are the authors of the seminal essay, Monopoly Capital (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1966).

1. d. Ravi Bhandari, "Rise of the Global Corporatocracy: Interview With John Perkins," Monthly Review, March, 2013.

=== 2. Noam Chomsky Lecture ===

Noam Chomsky's 1970 Lecture entitled, "Governments in the Future" Full Audio (56 minutes) http://archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnGovernmentsInTheFuture. Chomsky the leading US dissident and most prominent scholar in this role since the 1960s is always worth reading/listening to for fundamental analysis.

=== 3. World Forum for Alternatives Weekly Bulletin for May 7, 2013 ===

World Forum for Alternatives "The Economic and Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism & Class Struggle," Weekly Bulletin for May 7, 2013. Search: World Forum for Alternatives. According to Karl Marx class struggle is "the motor force of history." This is an overview of the levels of class struggle the world around in the present historical era. Raising our collective level of class consciousness is essential to being able to fight as effectively as possible against the corporatocracy or global corporate capitalist ruling class.

=== 4. Legal History of "Corporate Rights" (10 min video) ===

Text form: [[http://celdf.org/-1-86 Legal Defense Fund]] Since the early 1800s, corporations have gained "rights" and protections under the United States Constitution. While we never find the word “corporation” in the Constitution, corporations are able to invoke constitutional “rights” and protections under the Commerce Clause and Contracts Clause, as well as under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments. These pages/videos share the history, as well as what people are doing to challenge these court-bestowed "rights".

[[http://celdf.org/democracy-school-video Short Form Video]] (10 minutes)

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HowKoNmODNY Full One Session Lecture]] (45 minutes)

[[http://celdf.org/democracy-school-on-line Series of Four Hour Democracy School Lectures]]

The above videos are focused on the enacting laws at the local level and how corporate law impacts municipal control. Below find a national/international treatise, which doesn't promote a specific solution, but rather aims to educate, so that we actually understand WHY corporations have the rights that they have, and why the rights should be deemed illegal.

=== 5. Legal History of "Corporate Rights", called "The Corporation" (60 min video) ===

A more comprehensive look at the history of corporations and corporate law than the CELDF video above. The above videos are focused on the enacting laws at the local level and how corporate law impacts municipal control. "The Corporation", is more of a national/international treatise, which doesn't promote a specific solution, but rather aims to educate, so that we actually understand WHY corporations have the rights that they have, and why the rights should be deemed illegal.

=== 6. FDR's Second Bill of Rights ===

Please read the commentary on this groups Mission Statement page, which refers to
http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement#Commentary_on_FDR.27s_The_Second_Bill_of_Rights FDR's Second Bill of Rights]]

=== 7. Corporate Personhood Information ===

[[Appeal to organizers and activists]] Additional information links are included on this page

[[Short Summary about Corporate Personhood]]

[[Revoking the Corporation by Richard Grossman]]

The Corporation Documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw

[[http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/conversations-wgreat-minds-david-cobb-corporate-personhood-p2 David Cobb Speaks To Thomas Hartman about Move To Amend, Corporate Rights]]

== CONTACT ==

To add/edit/participate, please contact us first: info@occupyboston.org

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Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-06-08T23:12:52Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

== GOAL OF THE READINGS ==

The goal of these readings is to have a "solid basis" for the group's understanding of existing theory...a shared understanding.

== SUGGESTED LEARNING METHOD ==

You can start out by reading the first couple of paragraphs and the last couple of paragraphs in each of the recommended articles in Monthly Review. These essentially summarize the ideas and concepts professed in the articles.

== READINGS/LECTURES/VIDEOS ==

=== 1. Monthly Review Magazine ===

[[http://www.monthlyreview.org Monthly Review Magazine]]

For full access to Monthly Review Magazine's resource list go to the link above, and choose the search bar on upper right hand side. Please pay particular attention to these suggested readings:

1. a. "[[The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation]]," by Samir Amin, February 2011. This is a seminal historical analysis of capitalism which is a key to grasping the comptemporary global anti imperialist struggle that has emerged since the late 1990s in Latin America and in recent years in the Arab Spring.

1. b. "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," by Istvan Meszaros, March 2012. Istvan Meszaros is the leading contemporary Marxian theoretician, according to John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review. This is a definitive analysis of the structural crisis of the capital system.

1. c. "Endless Crisis," by John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, May 2012. Foster, as indicated above, is the Editor of Monthly Review and McChesney is its former co-editor. Foster and McChesney analyze the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession with great accumen based on the economic stagnation theory pioneered by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezey, a founding editor of Monthly Review. Baran and Sweezy are the authors of the seminal essay, Monopoly Capital (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1966).

1. d. Ravi Bhandari, "Rise of the Global Corporatocracy: Interview With John Perkins," Monthly Review, March, 2023.

=== 2. Noam Chomsky Lecture ===

Noam Chomsky's 1970 Lecture entitled, "Governments in the Future" Full Audio (56 minutes) http://archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnGovernmentsInTheFuture. Chomsky the leading US dissident and most prominent scholar in this role since the 1960s is always worth reading/listening to for fundamental analysis.

=== 3. World Forum for Alternatives Weekly Bulletin for May 7, 2013 ===

World Forum for Alternatives "The Economic and Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism & Class Struggle," Weekly Bulletin for May 7, 2013. Search: World Forum for Alternatives. According to Karl Marx class struggle is "the motor force of history." This is an overview of the levels of class struggle the world around in the present historical era. Raising our collective level of class consciousness is essential to being able to fight as effectively as possible against the corporatocracy or global corporate capitalist ruling class.

=== 4. Legal History of "Corporate Rights" (10 min video) ===

Text form: [[http://celdf.org/-1-86 Legal Defense Fund]] Since the early 1800s, corporations have gained "rights" and protections under the United States Constitution. While we never find the word “corporation” in the Constitution, corporations are able to invoke constitutional “rights” and protections under the Commerce Clause and Contracts Clause, as well as under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments. These pages/videos share the history, as well as what people are doing to challenge these court-bestowed "rights".

[[http://celdf.org/democracy-school-video Short Form Video]] (10 minutes)

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HowKoNmODNY Full One Session Lecture]] (45 minutes)

[[http://celdf.org/democracy-school-on-line Series of Four Hour Democracy School Lectures]]

The above videos are focused on the enacting laws at the local level and how corporate law impacts municipal control. Below find a national/international treatise, which doesn't promote a specific solution, but rather aims to educate, so that we actually understand WHY corporations have the rights that they have, and why the rights should be deemed illegal.

=== 5. Legal History of "Corporate Rights", called "The Corporation" (60 min video) ===

A more comprehensive look at the history of corporations and corporate law than the CELDF video above. The above videos are focused on the enacting laws at the local level and how corporate law impacts municipal control. "The Corporation", is more of a national/international treatise, which doesn't promote a specific solution, but rather aims to educate, so that we actually understand WHY corporations have the rights that they have, and why the rights should be deemed illegal.

=== 6. FDR's Second Bill of Rights ===

Please read the commentary on this groups Mission Statement page, which refers to
http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement#Commentary_on_FDR.27s_The_Second_Bill_of_Rights FDR's Second Bill of Rights]]

=== 7. Corporate Personhood Information ===

[[Appeal to organizers and activists]] Additional information links are included on this page

[[Short Summary about Corporate Personhood]]

[[Revoking the Corporation by Richard Grossman]]

The Corporation Documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw

[[http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/conversations-wgreat-minds-david-cobb-corporate-personhood-p2 David Cobb Speaks To Thomas Hartman about Move To Amend, Corporate Rights]]

== CONTACT ==

To add/edit/participate, please contact us first: info@occupyboston.org

'''<big>[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning Back to Strategic Planning, main page]]</big>'''

Occupy Strategic Planning Working Group Mission Statement

2013-05-17T13:36:07Z

DennisMGoldstein:

DRAFT ONLY!!! A few people have been asked to draft this, please check w/info@occupyboston.org before changing it. If you want to help, cool...these folks just want a chance to work on it themselves for a few days...

OK folks...this is from the notes. Have at it.

***

1. The current mission of the InterOccupy Strategic Planning Working Group (IOSPWG) is to: 
(a.) differentiate between a concrete goal, i.e. legislation to end corporate personhood -- and an ideal -- we want a world without poverty.
(b.) collect concrete objectives that could be used to implement a *'''Vision for A Democratic Future''' such as that developed during the first Occupy National Gathering, 2012. http://interoccupy.net/blog/natgat-vision-results/ ; and 
2. Ideas/ideals (that are "not concrete" objectives) will be listed, but not become part of the next phase of the process. 
3. The next phase of the strategic planning process that this group will undertake will emerge from the results of this gathering concrete objectives phase.

Refer to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1944 State of the Union address where he advocated a second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. Search FDR 1944 State of the Union. This would be the essence of our economic justice goals. Also, refer to United Nations Universalist Declaration of Human Rights where Eleanor Roosvelt as Chair of United Nations Human Rights Commission led to its adoption in 1948 using the U.S. Economic Bill of Rights or Second Bill of Rights advocated by her late husband as the basis. Additionally refer to and search "FDR's Unfinished 'Second Bill of Rights' - And Why We Need It Now" for a full political analysis in historical perspective.
[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/List_of_Goals To List of Objectives/Goals]]

Occupy Strategic Planning Working Group Mission Statement

2013-05-16T18:22:20Z

DennisMGoldstein:

DRAFT ONLY!!! A few people have been asked to draft this, please check w/info@occupyboston.org before changing it. If you want to help, cool...these folks just want a chance to work on it themselves for a few days...

OK folks...this is from the notes. Have at it.

***

1. The current mission of the InterOccupy Strategic Planning Working Group (IOSPWG) is to: 
(a.) collect concrete objectives that could be used to implement a *'''Vision for A Democratic Future''' such as that developed during the first Occupy National Gathering, 2012. http://interoccupy.net/blog/natgat-vision-results/ ; and 
(b.) to develop criteria that define what a "concrete objective" is (as opposed to ideas or ideals that are "not concrete") and create a process for gathering, prioritizing and circulating those objectives that is as inclusive as possible. 
2. Ideas/ideals (that are "not concrete" objectives) will be listed, but not become part of the next phase of the process. 
3. The next phase of the strategic planning process that this group will undertake will emerge from the results of this gathering concrete objectives phase.

Refer to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1944 State of the Union address where he advocated a second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. Search FDR 1944 State of the Union. This would be the essence of our economic justice goals.

Occupy Strategic Planning Working Group Mission Statement

2013-05-16T18:20:21Z

DennisMGoldstein:

DRAFT ONLY!!! A few people have been asked to draft this, please check w/info@occupyboston.org before changing it. If you want to help, cool...these folks just want a chance to work on it themselves for a few days...

OK folks...this is from the notes. Have at it.

***

1. The current mission of the InterOccupy Strategic Planning Working Group (IOSPWG) is to: 
(a.) collect concrete objectives that could be used to implement a *'''Vision for A Democratic Future''' such as that developed during the first Occupy National Gathering, 2012. http://interoccupy.net/blog/natgat-vision-results/ ; and 
(b.) to develop criteria that define what a "concrete objective" is (as opposed to ideas or ideals that are "not concrete") and create a process for gathering, prioritizing and circulating those objectives that is as inclusive as possible. 
2. Ideas/ideals (that are "not concrete" objectives) will be listed, but not become part of the next phase of the process. 
3. The next phase of the strategic planning process that this group will undertake will emerge from the results of this gathering concrete objectives phase.

Refer to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1944 State of the Union Address where he adovcated a second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. Search FDR 1944 State of the Union. This would be the essence of our economic justice goals.

List of Goals

2013-05-16T16:33:22Z

DennisMGoldstein:

== LIST OF GOALS ==

If you don't like what I've done, please change it.

If it's got one "-", then it's a category unto itself, and if it has two "--", then it's "under that category". I envision that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal.

== CATEGORIES AND GOALS ==

=== SHIFT TAX BURDEN ===
'''- Zero-Sum Budget the Tax Code''' 
'''- Flat Tax''' (no deductions) 
'''- High Tax on "money-on-money" transactions/income 
'''- Tax companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards''' 

=== ELECTORAL & CAMPAIGN REFORM ===
* Publically funded elections
* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Proportional Representation & Instant Run Off Voting
* Abolish the electoral college (popular vote for President wins)

=== MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ===
-- Dodd-Frank (get it done! been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!)
-- End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people)

=== ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ===
by Restoring Inalienable Rights to Individuals/Environment

'''- Amend the constitution to declare the right to basic healthcare, basic income, basic shelter healthy food, clean air/water''' 
'''- Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals and the environment''' 
'''- Repeal NDAA 

Not sure where these go: 

'''- Nationalize the Healthcare System''' 
'''- Give racial minorities first use rights to wide ranging commons that encompass air, open land, housing and water''' 
 
 
We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?
Refer to President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 State of the Union Address wherein he advocated a second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. Search FDR 1944 State of the Union.

Occupy Strategic Planning Working Group Mission Statement

2013-05-13T02:22:27Z

DennisMGoldstein:

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-05-09T17:07:36Z

DennisMGoldstein:

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-05-09T16:49:38Z

DennisMGoldstein:

== Heading text ==
This is a page with suggested reading.

== GOAL OF THE READINGS ==

The goal of this reading is to have a "solid basis" for the group's understanding of existing theory.

== SUGGESTED LEARNING METHOD ==

You can start out by reading the first couple of paragraphs and the last couple of paragraphs in each of the recommended articles in Monthly Review. These essentially summarize the ideas and concepts professed in the articles.

== THE READINGS ==

=== 1. Monthly Review magazine ===

www.monthlyreview.org. Search bar on upper right hand side of MR home page.

[[http://www.monthlyreview.org Monthly Review]]

Samir Amin, "The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation," Monthly Review, February 2011. This is a seminal historical analysis of capitalism which is a key to grasping the comptemporary global anti imperialist struggle that has emerged since the late 1990s in Latin America and in recent years in the Arab Spring.

Istvan Meszaros, "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," March 2012. Istvan Meszaros is the leading contemporary Marxian theoretician, according to John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review. This is a definitive analysis of the structural crisis of the capital system.

John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, "Endless Crisis," May 2012. Foster, as indicated above, is the Editor of Monthly Review and McChesney is its former co-editor. Foster and McChesney analyze the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession with great accumen based on the economic stagnation theory pioneered by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezey, a founding editor of Monthly Review. Baran and Sweezy are the authors of the seminal essay, Monopoly Capital (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1966).

=== 2. Noam Chomsky Lecture ===

Noam Chomsky's 1970 Lecture entitled, "Governments in the Future" Full Audio (56 minutes) http://archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnGovernmentsInTheFuture. Chomsky the leading US dissident and most prominent scholar in this role since the 1960s is always worth reading/listening to for fundamental analysis.

World Forum for Alternatives "The Economic and Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism & Class Struggle," Weekly Bulletin for May 7, 2013. Search: World Forum for Alternatives. According to Karl Marx class struggle is "the motor force of history." This is an overview of the levels of class struggle the world around in the present historical era. Raising our collective level of class consciousness is essential to being able to fight as effectively as possible against the corporatocracy or global corporate capitalist ruling class.

=== 3. Legal History about "Corporate Rights" ===

Text form: [[http://celdf.org/-1-86 Legal Defense Fund]] Since the early 1800s, corporations have gained rights and protections under the United States Constitution. While we never find the word “corporation” in the Constitution, corporations are able to invoke constitutional “rights” and protections under the Commerce Clause and Contracts Clause, as well as under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments.

[[http://celdf.org/democracy-school-video Short Form Video]] (10 minutes)

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HowKoNmODNY Full One Session Lecture]] (45 minutes)

[[http://celdf.org/democracy-school-on-line Series of Four Hour Democracy School Lectures]]

== CONTACT ==

To add/edit/participate, please contact us first: info@occupyboston.org

'''<big>[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning Back to Strategic Planning, main page]]</big>'''

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-05-09T16:25:34Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

www.monthlyreview.org. Search bar on upper right hand side of MR home page.

[[http://www.monthlyreview.org Monthly Review]]

You can start out by reading the first couple of paragraphs and the last couple of paragraphs in each of the recommended articles in Monthly Review. These essentially summarize the ideas and concepts professed in the articles.

Samir Amin, "The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation," Monthly Review, February 2011. This is a seminal historical analysis of capitalism which is a key to grasping the comptemporary global anti imperialist struggle that has emerged since the late 1990s in Latin America and in recent years in the Arab Spring.

Istvan Meszaros, "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," March 2012. Istvan Meszaros is the leading contemporary Marxian theoretician, according to John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review. This is a definitive analysis of the structural crisis of the capital system.

John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, "Endless Crisis," May 2012. Foster, as indicated above, is the Editor of Monthly Review and McChesney is its former co-editor. Foster and McChesney analyze the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession with great accumen based on the economic stagnation theory pioneered by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezey, a founding editor of Monthly Review. Baran and Sweezy are the authors of the seminal essay, Monopoly Capital (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1966).

Noam Chomsky's 1970 Lecture entitled, "Governments in the Future" Full Audio (56 minutes) http://archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnGovernmentsInTheFuture. Chomsky the leading US dissident and most prominent scholar in this role since the 1960s is always worth reading/listening to for fundamental analysis.

World Forum for Alternatives "The Economic and Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism & Class Struggle," Weekly Bulletin for May 7, 2013. Search: World Forum for Alternatives. According to Karl Marx class struggle is "the motor force of history." This is an overview of the levels of class struggle the world around in the present historical era. Raising our collective level of class consciousness is essential to being able to fight as effectively as possible against the corporatocracy or global corporate capitalist ruling class.

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-05-09T02:04:04Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

www.monthlyreview.org. Search bar on upper right hand side of MR home page.

[[http://www.monthlyreview.org Monthly Review]]

Samir Amin, "The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation," Monthly Review, February 2011. This is a seminal historical analysis of capitalism which is a key to grasping the comptemporary global anti imperialist struggle that has emerged since the late 1990s in Latin America and in recent years in the Arab Spring.

Istvan Meszaros, "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," March 2012. Istvan Meszaros is the leading contemporary Marxian theoretician, according to John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review. This is a definitive analysis of the structural crisis of the capital system.

John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, "Endless Crisis," May 2012. Foster, as indicated above, is the Editor of Monthly Review and McChesney is its former co-editor. Foster and McChesney analyze the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession with great accumen based on the economic stagnation theory pioneered by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezey, a founding editor of Monthly Review. Baran and Sweezy are the authors of the seminal essay, Monopoly Capital (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1966).

Noam Chomsky's 1970 Lecture entitled, "Governments in the Future" Full Audio (56 minutes) http://archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnGovernmentsInTheFuture. Chomsky the leading US dissident and most prominent scholar in this role since the 1960s is always worth reading/listening to for fundamental analysis.

World Forum for Alternatives "The Economic and Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism & Class Struggle," Weekly Bulletin for May 7, 2013. Search: World Forum for Alternatives. According to Karl Marx class struggle is "the motor force of history." This is an overview of the levels of class struggle the world around in the present historical era. Raising our collective level of class consciousness is essential to being able to fight as effectively as possible against the corporatocracy or global corporate capitalist ruling class.

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-05-07T23:57:43Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

www.monthlyreview.org. Search bar on upper right hand side of MR home page.

[[http://www.monthlyreview.org Monthly Review]]

Samir Amin, "The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation," Monthly Review, February 2011. This is a seminal historical analysis of capitalism which is a key to grasping the comptemporary global anti imperialist struggle that has emerged since the late 1990s in Latin America and in recent years in the Arab Spring.

Istvan Meszaros, "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," March 2012. Istvan Meszaros is the leading contemporary Marxian theoretician, according to John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review. This is a definitive analysis of the structural crisis of the capital system.

John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, "Endless Crisis," May 2012. Foster, as indicated above, is the Editor of Monthly Review and McChesney is its former co-editor. Foster and McChesney analyze the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession with great accumen based on the economic stagnation theory pioneered by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezey, a founding editor of Monthly Review. Baran and Sweezy are the authors of the seminal essay, Monopoly Capital (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1966).

Noam Chomsky's 1970 Lecture entitled, "Governments in the Future" Full Audio (56 minutes) http://archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnGovernmentsInTheFuture. Chomsky the leading US dissident and most prominent scholar in this role since the 1960s is always worth reading/listening to for fundamental analysis.

World Forum for Alternatives, Weekly Bulletin, Global Research, May 7, 2013, "The Economic and Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism & Class Struggle." According to Karl Marx class struggle is "the motor force of history." This is an overview of the levels of class struggle the world around in the present historical era. Raising our collective level of class consciousness is essential to being able to fight as effectively as possible against the corporatocracy or global corporate capitalist ruling class.

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-05-07T23:32:41Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

www.monthlyreview.org. Search bar on upper right hand side of MR home page.

[[http://www.monthlyreview.org Monthly Review]]

Samir Amin, "The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation," Monthly Review, February 2011. This is a seminal historical analysis of capitalism which is a key to grasping the comptemporary global anti imperialist struggle that has emerged since the late 1990s in Latin America and in recent years in the Arab Spring.

Istvan Meszaros, "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," March 2012. Istvan Meszaros is the leading contemporary Marxian theoretician, according to John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review. This is a definitive analysis of the structural crisis of the capital system.

John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, "Endless Crisis," May 2012. Foster, as indicated above, is the Editor of Monthly Review and McChesney is its former co-editor. Foster and McChesney analyze the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession with great accumen based on the economic stagnation theory pioneered by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezey, a founding editor of Monthly Review. Baran and Sweezy are the authors of the seminal essay, Monopoly Capital (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1966).

Noam Chomsky's 1970 Lecture entitled, "Governments in the Future" Full Audio (56 minutes) http://archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnGovernmentsInTheFuture. Chomsky the leading US dissident and most prominent scholar in this role since the 1960s is always worth reading for fundamental analysis.

World Forum for Alternatives, Weekly Bulletin, Global Research, May 7, 2013, "The Economic and Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism & Class Struggle." According to Karl Marx class struggle is "the motor force of history." This is an overview of the levels of class struggle the world around in the present historical era. Raising our collective level of class consciousness is essential to being able to fight as effectively as possible against the corporatocracy or global corporate capitalist ruling class.

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-05-07T22:45:34Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

www.monthlyreview.org. Search bar on upper right hand side of MR home page.

[[http://www.monthlyreview.org Monthly Review]]

Samir Amin, "The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation," Monthly Review, February 2011. This is a seminal historical analysis of capitalism which is a key to grasping the comptemporary global anti imperialist struggle that has emerged since the late 1990s in Latin America and in recent years in the Arab Spring.

Istvan Meszaros, "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," March 2012. Istvan Meszaros is the leading contemporary Marxian theoretician, according to John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review. This is a definitive analysis of the structural crisis of the capital system.

John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, "Endless Crisis," May 2012. Foster, as indicated above, is the Editor of Monthly Review and McChesney is its former co-editor. Foster and McChesney analyze the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession with great accumen based on the economic stagnation theory pioneered by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezey, a founding editor of Monthly Review. Baran and Sweezy are the authors of the seminal essay, Monopoly Capital (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1966).

Noam Chomsky's 1970 Lecture entitled, "Governments in the Future" Full Audio (56 minutes) http://archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnGovernmentsInTheFuture. Chomsky the leading US dissident and most prominent scholar in this role since the 1960s is always worth reading for fundamental analysis.

Word Forum for Alternatives, Weekly Bulletin, Global Research, May 7, 2013, "The Economic and Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism & Class Struggle." According to Karl Marx class struggle is "the motor force of history." This is an overview of the levels of class struggle the world around in the present historical era. Raising our collective level of class consciousness is essential to being able to fight as effectively as possible against the corporatocracy or global corporate capitalist ruling class.

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-05-07T22:20:22Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

www.monthlyreview.org. Search bar on upper right hand side of MR home page.

[[http://www.monthlyreview.org Monthly Review]]

Samir Amin, "The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation," Monthly Review, February 2011. This is a seminal historical analysis of capitalism which is a key to grasping the comptemporary global anti imperialist struggle that has emerged since the late 1990s in Latin America and in recent years in the Arab Spring.

Istvan Meszaros, "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," March 2012. Istvan Meszaros is the leading contemporary Marxian theoretician, according to John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review. This is a definitive analysis of the structural crisis of the capital system.

John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, "Endless Crisis," May 2012. Foster, as indicated above, is the Editor of Monthly Review and McChesney is its former co-editor. Foster and McChesney analyze the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession with great accumen based on the economic stagnation theory pioneered by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezey, a founding editor of Monthly Review. Baran and Sweezy are the authors of the seminal essay, Monopoly Capital (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1966).

Noam Chomsky's 1970 Lecture entitled, "Governments in the Future" Full Audio (56 minutes) http://archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnGovernmentsInTheFuture. Chomsky the leading US dissident and most prominent scholar in this role since the 1960s is always worth reading for fundamental analysis.

Word Forum for Alternatives, Weekly Bulletin, Global Research, May 7, 2013, "The Economic and Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism & Class Struggle. According to Karl Marx class struggle is "the motor force of history." This is an overview of the levels of class struggle the world around in the present historical era. Raising our collective level of class consciousness is essential to being able to fight as effectively as possible against the corporatocracy or global corporate capitalist ruling class.

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-05-07T22:08:12Z

DennisMGoldstein:

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-05-07T22:04:01Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

www.monthlyreview.org. Search bar on upper right hand side of MR home page.

[[http://www.monthlyreview.org Monthly Review]]

Samir Amin, "The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation," Monthly Review, February 2011. This is a seminal historical analysis of capitalism which is a key to grasping the comptemporary global anti imperialist struggle that has emerged since the late 1990s in Latin America and in recnt years in the Arab Spring.

Istvan Meszaros, "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," March 2012. Istvan Meszaros is the leading contemporary Marxian theoretician, according to John Bellamy Foster, Editor, Monthly Review. This is a definitive analysis of the structural crisis of the capital system.

John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, "Endless Crisis," May 2012. Foster as indicated above, is the Editor of Monthly Review and McChesney is its former co-editor. Foster and McChesney analyze the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession with great accumen based on the stagnation theory pioneered by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezey, a founding editor of Monthly Review. Baran and Sweezy are the authors of the seminal essay, Monopoly Capital (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1966).

Noam Chomsky's 1970 Lecture entitled, "Governments in the Future" Full Audio (56 minutes) http://archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnGovernmentsInTheFuture. Chomsky the leading US dissident and most prominent scholar in this role since the 1960s is always worth reading for fundamental analysis.

List of Organizations

2013-05-07T18:53:55Z

DennisMGoldstein:

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning Back to Occupy Strategy Planning Page]]

THIS IS TRACK 2...aimed at figuring out which groups are following the path we'd like to see...
This page is to LIST THE ORGANIZATIONS that are out there fighting for change and to show how they contribute to our vision, or are detracting from getting us there. This is "our view", as it develops. This went through a few rounds on the Occupy-Strategy list, before the information was consolidated and put here.

TWO TASKS: 
- define the categories 
- put each of the ORGANIZATIONS into one or two categories... 

Scroll down to see both the categories that we're using (change them if you like) and which groups falling into which categories:

CATEGORIES (feel free to contribut to these definitions...we're building them together):

CATEGORY 1 profit focused/predatory capitalists and their agents. ALEC, US Chamber of Commerce (as opposed to the locals)

CATEGORY 2 socialists and professional lobbiers, advocacy groups, organization/empire builders w/vested interest in relationships with media and/or no-change government) These groups "talk 3" but "act 2". Reformers that want to keep #1 intact. Groups that take and pander to big money, donors and legisators.

CATEGORY 3 soft sustainable (triple bottom line) capitalism, and their agents advocacy groups without a vested interest in profit-over-people, building large salaries for themselves, or economic growth in and of itself)

The diagram here shows how the categories might be illustrated on a web page. You can change that, too, if you like.

http://wiki.occupyboston.org/images/f/f3/The_Movement_JPEG.JPG

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<big>'''CONSOLIDATED LIST'''</big> (includes Brandi's list, but I took out Sundance and SXSW...and media events
PLEASE ADD INFO ABOUT WHAT THESE GROUPS ARE ACTUALLY DOING...it's hard to tell from their rhetoric.

*

350.org (advocacy, education, public awareness, legislative/lobbying, specific project: stop pipeline, others?) (Cateogry: 2?)

ACCE ? 
AFSCME 
AJC ACCESS 
ALEC (Category 1) 
All-Ages Movement Project 
Allhiphop.com 
Alliance for American Manufacturing 
Allied Media Projects 
Alternate ROOTS 
America Votes 
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) 
Applied Research Center / Colorlines Magazine 
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance 

Backbone Campaign 
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center 
Blue Green Alliance 
Burning Man Project: Educational group showing people how "to be". (Category: #3, but with a sliver on #2, because of their control mechanisms 
and exclusive governance) 
Bus Federation 
Business for Social Responsibility 

CAF 
Caring Across Generations 
Center for Working Families 
Chamber of Commerce, US/National (Category 1) 
Chamber of Commerce, Locals (Category 1/3, depending on the local) 
Clinton Global Initiative 
Code Pink 
Coffee Party USA 
Common Cause (Category 2) 
Congressional Black Caucus 
congressional progressive caucus 
Conservative Political Action Committee 
Council on Foundations 
 
DA 
DFA 
DNC 
DNC Youth Council 
Democratic Socialists of America (Category: 2?) 
EAC 
EDF (Category 2) 
EGA 
 

FCCP 
Free Press 
Free Speech for People (Grade 3, with a sliver into 2...this may change
if they adopt the anti-org right to assemble/speak language that MTA's
got going on) 
Future of MusicCoalition: Information freedom (Grade 3?) 
 

Gamaliel 
Global Exchange (Category 2/3, partically 2 because of their legislative ties?) 
Green Party education/awareness, takes positions on legislation, but nothing specific. Green New Deal has a lot of stuff, but too much to get anything specific done? (Grade 3, w/sliver in 2, because of its empire building focus) 
 

HCAN 
 

IAF-SE and Bank Accountability Campaign 
Immokalee Farm Workers (Category: 3, democratic governance, sustainability, they are walking the walk) 
Inspired Legacies 
Interfaith Power and Light 
Its Our Economy (Category: 3) 
 

J Street 
 

Keystone Progress 
 

LCV + LCVEF 
League of Young Voters 
League of Women Voters (Category 2) 
Liberty Tree 

Move to Amend - Move to Amend (advocacy, education/public adwareness, specific projects: amend constitution, local ordinaces/resolutions) (Category: mostly 3, but lots of ties to 2, because of co-option by Common Cause, LWV, other too-big-to-effect-change lobbyists) 
MoveOn (Grade 2...talk like 3 sometimes, but definitely solidly in #2) 
 

NAACP 
National Action Network 
National Council For La Raza 
National Domestic Worker Alliance 
National Education Association 
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (Category 3?, or ties to 2? been a while since I've worked closely with them) 
National Organizers Alliance 
National People's Action 
Neighborhood Funders Group 
Netroots Nation 
Netroots NY 
New Organizing Institute 
NRDC (Category 2) 
NWF (Category 2) 
 

One Arizona 
Organizing 2.0 
 

Personal Democracy Forum 
Pew Charitable Trusts Category 2 
PFAW 
PICO 
Planned Parenthood Category 2 
Policy Link 
Progressive Democrats of America (Grade: mostly 2, but partly in 3 because of specific push back actions) 
Public Banking (education/public wareness, specific project: take state money out of private banks) (Mostly 3, but relies too heavily on ties to 2) 
Public Citizen 
 

Rebuild the Dream 
Rock the Vote 
Rockwood Leadership Institute 
Roosevelt Institute Campus Network 
Roosevelt Institute | Pipeline 
 

SEIU SEE UNION LIST BELOW 
Sierra Club (Grade: 2) 
Social Venture Network 
Strike Debt (education/public awareness, specific project: end healthcare debt) (Category: definitely 3) 
Sustainable Business Network (Catagory: 3, they are all about co-ops and social enterprise) 
 

The King Center 
The Management Center 
 

Unions (SEE SEPARATE LIST BELOW) 
 

Unitarian Universalist Social Action Committees Category 2 
United for a Fair Economy (Grade: mostly 3, but solidly in 2, because of firm socialism belief structure) 
United Farm Workers (Grade: mostly 3, with tiny ties to 2) 
United States Student Association (USSA) 
US Action 
US Food Sovereignty Alliance 
Us Uncut 
 

Veterans for Peace, mostly just education and awareness, but backs specific legislation, (Category: mostly 2 but partially in 3) 
Victory Fund 
 

We Are Ohio 
We Are Wisconsin 
Web of Change 
Women's Funding Network 
Working America 
World Social Forum 
 

Young Democrats of America 
Young Invincibles 
 

<big>'''UNIONS '''</big>
AFL-CIO (Category: solid 2, as most big orgs are) 
Teachers (Category: mostly 2, sliver of 3 talk) 
Iron Workers (ditto) 
Steel Workers (ditto) 
SEIU (Category: most 3 than the others, but still solidly 2) 
Electrical Workers Union 3 Very progressive union historically.

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-05-06T02:26:35Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

www.monthlyreview.org. Search bar on upper right hand side of MR home page.

Samir Amin, "The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation," Monthly Review, February 2011.

Istvan Meszaros, "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," March 2012.

John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, "Endless Crisis," May 2012.

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-05-06T02:22:53Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

www.monthlyreview.org. Search bar on upper right hand side of MR home page.

Samir Amin, "The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation," Monthly Review, February 2011.

Istvan Meszaros, "Structural Crisis Needs Structural Change," March 2012.

John W. McChesney & Robert W. McChesney, "Endless Crisis," May 2012.

Occupy Strategic Planning Reading Resources

2013-05-06T02:08:52Z

DennisMGoldstein:

This is a page with suggested reading.

www.monthlyreview.org.

Occupy Strategic Planning

2013-04-25T16:46:25Z

DennisMGoldstein:

Pages for collaborating on a strategic plan to reach the Occupy Vision.

<big>'''GOAL OF OUR WORK:'''</big>

We're developing tools to help us communicate ideas. These tools may include things like roadmaps/timelines, diagrams showing who is doing what, etc etc. Join in the fun. Whatever you think will help us develop and communicate "a plan" to get us to our vision.

Unifying vision. What broad vision can we unite movements on, e.g. Ending the rule of concentrated wealth, Tranform with the Great Turning, End corporate rule, Human needs nt corporate greed etc. See the [[Original Occupy Vision Doc]].

Strategic framework. A strategy that can be applied to all the issues raised in the Occupy Vision document. Once we have a shared framework people can develop tactics that work within that framework. Strategy defined as a method or plan to bring about a desired future as the achievement of a goal; also defined as the art and science of planning and marshalling resources for the most effective use.

Revolutionary theory and practice. Encouraging broad ranging dialogue (reflection and action) in relation to the theoretical and practical basis for transforming the present system of production, i.e., capitalism into its opposite--some form of socialism. From a system of production based on profits or capital accumulation to a system of production based on socially useful production.

One of our key tasks is to bring people, organizations and issue movements together because with unity we will increase our power and impact; as well as create a mass movement that cannot be ignored.

<big>'''THREE MAIN TRACKS RIGHT NOW'''</big><big></big>

'''TRACK 1.''' [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/index.php?title=Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Goals OCCUPY '''STRATEGIC PLANNING GOALS''']] On this track, we are taking the 2012 OCCUPY VISION DOC - and listing out actions we can take toward getting to the vision described in the 2012 Vision Doc, or however it evolves. These tools are fluid in that if the group decides to improve them then the group decides to improve them, but for now, we're working from the 2012 Vision Doc.

'''TRACK 2.''' [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/List_of_Organizations "'''THE LIST'''"]] - A list of players influencing how society is changing, and how these orgs can be viewed, and/or categorized. This can help us later to help us influence them and/or do things in response. There are TWO TASKS in Track 2 that we're focusing on: definiting the categories of groups, and then assigning each group a category.

'''TRACK 3. PATHS''' - a visual explanation of different paths that people and orgs can take toward "the end". We'll have more on this soon. Talk to Polar...he's storyboarding it. Something about following a small business and the choices that can be made as it grows. Over time, the choices, the criteria for how the choices are made will be something like a video game, maybe even with user determined paths.

For background, here are the old [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Strategic_Planning Occupy Boston Strategic Planning page]], which has some educational resources. We didn't get very far, but this is offered, because we at least made an attempt at a SWOT (strenghts/weaknesses/opportunities/threats analysis) and pulled together some resource links about what Streategic Planning is. Please ignore that part about using it to seek profit. We're using the techniques to seek our goals... The techniques can be used to seak anything that an org wants to do. The goals are being set above in Track 1. IF ANYONE KNOWS OF ANY OTHER OCCUPY GROUPS doing STRATEGIC PLANNING or anything like this, please put the links here...

contact: info@occupyboston.org to reach the person maintaining these wiki pages. Or go to the InterOcc hub and look for the Occupy-Strategy email list, which is quite active, to join in the conversation. Or just start editing these pages.

Occupy Strategic Planning

2013-04-25T16:44:21Z

DennisMGoldstein:

Pages for collaborating on a strategic plan to reach the Occupy Vision.

<big>'''GOAL OF OUR WORK:'''</big>

We're developing tools to help us communicate ideas. These tools may include things like roadmaps/timelines, diagrams showing who is doing what, etc etc. Join in the fun. Whatever you think will help us develop and communicate "a plan" to get us to our vision.

Unifying vision. What broad vision can we unite movements on, e.g. Ending the rule of concentrated wealth, Tranform with the Great Turning, End corporate rule, Human needs nt corporate greed etc. See the [[Original Occupy Vision Doc]].

Strategic framework. A strategy that can be applied to all the issues raised in the Occupy Vision document. Once we have a shared framework people can develop tactics that work within that framework. Strategy defined as a method or plan to bring about a desired future ss the achievement of a goal; also defined as the art and science of planning and marshalling resources for the most effective use.

Revolutionary theory and practice. Encouraging broad ranging dialogue (reflection and action) in relation to the theoretical and practical basis for transforming the present system of production, i.e., capitalism into its opposite--some form of socialism.

One of our key tasks is to bring people, organizations and issue movements together because with unity we will increase our power and impact; as well as create a mass movement that cannot be ignored.

<big>'''THREE MAIN TRACKS RIGHT NOW'''</big><big></big>

'''TRACK 1.''' [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/index.php?title=Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Goals OCCUPY '''STRATEGIC PLANNING GOALS''']] On this track, we are taking the 2012 OCCUPY VISION DOC - and listing out actions we can take toward getting to the vision described in the 2012 Vision Doc, or however it evolves. These tools are fluid in that if the group decides to improve them then the group decides to improve them, but for now, we're working from the 2012 Vision Doc.

'''TRACK 2.''' [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/List_of_Organizations "'''THE LIST'''"]] - A list of players influencing how society is changing, and how these orgs can be viewed, and/or categorized. This can help us later to help us influence them and/or do things in response. There are TWO TASKS in Track 2 that we're focusing on: definiting the categories of groups, and then assigning each group a category.

'''TRACK 3. PATHS''' - a visual explanation of different paths that people and orgs can take toward "the end". We'll have more on this soon. Talk to Polar...he's storyboarding it. Something about following a small business and the choices that can be made as it grows. Over time, the choices, the criteria for how the choices are made will be something like a video game, maybe even with user determined paths.

For background, here are the old [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Strategic_Planning Occupy Boston Strategic Planning page]], which has some educational resources. We didn't get very far, but this is offered, because we at least made an attempt at a SWOT (strenghts/weaknesses/opportunities/threats analysis) and pulled together some resource links about what Streategic Planning is. Please ignore that part about using it to seek profit. We're using the techniques to seek our goals... The techniques can be used to seak anything that an org wants to do. The goals are being set above in Track 1. IF ANYONE KNOWS OF ANY OTHER OCCUPY GROUPS doing STRATEGIC PLANNING or anything like this, please put the links here...

contact: info@occupyboston.org to reach the person maintaining these wiki pages. Or go to the InterOcc hub and look for the Occupy-Strategy email list, which is quite active, to join in the conversation. Or just start editing these pages.

Occupy Strategic Planning

2013-04-04T02:46:24Z

DennisMGoldstein: Worker self directed organic agricultural enterprises.

Page for collaborating on a strategic plan to reach the Occupy Vision.
contact: info@occupyboston.org
Dennis...if you want to change the contact or put the hub there, go for it.

Process:

1. We're starting with the [[Original Occupy Vision Doc]]. Read the background to understand how we built that document. For working purposes, assuming that it's a decent representation of what the people in the movement want. We're taking the listed items, and ADDING below each item, tactics and actions to achieve that item. As we mature as a movement, we will likely change this basic vision doc. But for now, please respect it as a starting point, and modify only the space/entries below each BOLD ITEM.

For each item in the list, add your ideas on what actions/tactics need to be accomplished for us to reach that goal in society.

2. After we get ideas, we will probably start thinking about timelines and who might "do" the work. Allying wiht groups already on that path, for example. We may also choose to categorise items that might work together, decide if they are things that are want to do as individuals, or as a group, and/or decide various other ways of organizing.

3. We may also choose to add new items. Please do this carefully, though, because if we want it to be something that the movement supports, we can't just add new visions willy nilly.

4.One suggestion for organizing may be to take some of the items that we can't legislate. So it's like a "cultural change" section? Things to keep in mind as we evolve section?

5. For those who want some background on [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Strategic_Planning the strategic planning process]], in general.

FRAMEWORK:

1. Unifying vision. What broad vision can we unite movements on, e.g.
Ending the rule of concentrated wealth, Tranform with the Great Turning,
End corporate rule, Human needs nt corporate greed etc. See the [[Original Occupy Vision Doc]].

2. Strategic framework. A strategy that can be applied to all the issues
raised in the Occupy Vision document. Once we have a shared framework
people can develop tactics that work within that framework.

One of our key tasks is to bring people, organizations and issue movements
together because with unity we will increase our power and impact; as well
as create a mass movement that cannot be ignored.

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ILLUSTRATIVE CATEGORY LIST

Illustrative Vision Categories that were derived from the National Gathering Visioning List. For the complete list, see the National Gathering Vision Hub Wiki at http://interoccupy.net/vision.

STRATEGIC PLANNING INSTRUCTIONS:

Please look at each BOLD item below, and add actions that we can take to achieve each.

PLEASE BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE. For example, don't just say "stop greed", but say things like "establish the right to a living wage", or something like that. Somethig "tangible", metrics that we can measure to see if we are actually acheiving something. If it's long term as opposed to short term, make note.

Please feel free to add links to clarify what terms mean. Such as I've added a link to a page explaining "the commons".

CLEAN AIR, WATER, FOOD: ENVIRONMENTAL

'''Local food production, community gardens, permaculture agriculture'''
- worker self directed organic agriculture coops on the model of Mondragon in Spain
- establish more community garden land
- offer tax credits to farms that give away food

'''access to real nourishing, non-chemical, non-GMO food'''

- offer tax credits to ONLY to organic food producers/providers, not chemical-based farmers

'''food supply that is humane and natural'''

- offer tax credits to ONLY to organic food producers/providers, not chemical-based farmers

'''environmental justice'''

- establish a strong "commons"
- amend constitution to declare right to clean water/air

'''environmental awareness and respect'''

- ask schools to teach holistic thinking

'''healthier diets and lifestyles'''

'''affordable healthy food'''

- require foodstamp agencies to provide foodstamp payment mechanisms to farmers markets

'''clean water as a right'''

- amend the constitution to declare that clean air and water is a righ

'''end hunger'''

- tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)

'''connection to earth'''

-

FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL: CULTURAL

'''all airwaves public'''

- in the meantime, require all licensed broadcasters to allow free primetime spots to candidates that make it to the ballot.

'''end to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information'''

-

'''free and open communications'''

-

'''real education, free and equal, democratized'''
-

'''universal access to data'''

- keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies

NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY/POLITICAL

'''peace, nonviolence, no war or death machines'''no military

- choose a date where no arms will be built in factories. after that date, make it illegal for any guns to exist

'''no need for violent conflict or guns'''

- build schools in every village

'''no global us vs them'''

- declare indigenous rights

'''nonviolence'''

'''friendship, rather than strangership, as the default relationship among people'''

'''mutual respect between cultures or trading nations'''

'''nonviolent interpersonal and international conflict resolution'''

'''world peace'''

SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SOCIETY: CULTURAL/ENVIRONMENTAL

'''a world where basic needs are met'''

-

'''all cultures respected equally'''

-

'''people feel empowered, free, and unafraid'''

'''a strong sense of community'''

- establish participatory budgeting of tax dollars

'''safety for everyone from domestic violence and fear'''

- require people shown to engage in domestic violence, to volunteer in a homeless shelter

'''all human life valued equally'''

-

'''all decisions considered for seven generations in the future'''

- amend the constitution to require such
- balance sheet policy, require all policies to be accounted for in the liability part of a balance sheet..."social obligation accounting"

'''more humanity, compassion, kindness, and selflessness'''

'''mutually beneficial relationship between humans, the earth, and its inhabitants'''

'''acting with consideration for the community, world, and everything else'''

A CULTURE OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY: DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE/POLITICAL

'''no money in politics'''

- amend the constitution to deny corporate personhood
- amend the constitution to declare that money is not speech
- limit campaign donations to $50 per person and only in-district donations

'''end two-party system'''

- join your local Green Party

'''local community control'''

- declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

'''consensus based democracy'''

- online voting?
- popular vote

'''just and fair legal system'''

- no profit in prisons

'''truth in journalism/illegal to lie'''

- big fines

'''minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity)'''

'''no tax without representation'''

'''a fair electoral system'''

'''accountable government'''

- all financials downloadable in Excel format

'''democratic process that works for all'''

'''FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE: CULTURAL/ECONOMIC'''

- amend the constitution so that healthcare is a right
- deploy national healthcare system

'''healthcare emphasizes preventative and alternative measures'''

'''free healthcare (accessible and state of the art)'''

'''full control of our own bodies, including shared ownership of the means of preventative healthcare'''

'''free therapy and emotional/mental healthcare'''

ECONOMIC EQUALITY: VIBRANT AND SOUND ECONOMY/PROSPERITY
localized economies
no corporate personhood
fairness and equality for all beings (including ecosystems, resources)
banks and corporations required to act responsibly, answering to many, not few
radicalized labor unions
international corporate accountability
fair trade and fair working conditions

FREEDOM: POLITICAL/CULTURAL
freedom to live anywhere: no borders, no nations
freedom of knowledge and press
freedom of religion
freedom of expression protected
free equal access to opportunity
derived from the Visioning Activities at the OCCUPY NATIONAL GATHERING Philadelphia, PA – July 2012

ITEMS THAT ADDRESS MANY OF THE ABOVE:

- Amend the US constitution to deny corporate personhood