Strategies, Proposals, Positions

2011-10-27T20:50:14Z

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This Working group is dedicated to discussing societal issues, determining their root causes, and responding with actionable proposals.

SCROLL DOWN to see links to on-going policy statement development. Note which docs have been APPROVED BY GA. If a doc has not been approved, then it is DRAFT (in process).

[[statement of purpose|(APPROVED) Statement of Purpose]]

CURRENTLY BEING DISCUSSED 10/27/11: [[statement of purpose|
(DRAFT) Statement of Occupation (aka "the Roadmap")]]

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* '''ONLINE discussions/collaboration:''' 
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'''GENERAL ISSUES (brainstorming and process discussion)'''
The following are documents that have been proposed by someone in a working group for consideration as language to include in a future Occupy Boston statement. The goal is to work on these documents til we have consensus in the working group. And then reach out to other working groups til it appears ready for a GA vote. Feel free to work on these documents. The culture generally starts with email group discussion and then leads to "active editing" of a specific document by the group. Currently this is the document that the group is working on.

* [[statement of purpose|(APPROVED) Statement of Purpose & (DRAFT) Statement of Occupation]] - Our first priority is to create an inclusive umbrella "Statement of Purpose" and "Statement of Occupation"; specific issues will follow next. The GA approved the "Statement of Purpose". Now we're working on a [[statement of purpose|(DRAFT) Statement of Occupation]]

OTHER PROPOSED LANGUAGE, not currently in "real-time-play" in the email discussion group:

* [[Warren Buffet Ideas|Warren Buffet Ideas]]
* [[Other General Ideas|Other General Ideas ]]
* [[Issues|Issues page]]

All documents created by this Working Group are DRAFT until it is approved by the GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

'''SPECIFIC ISSUES'''
These documents are in process work pages and other proposed language about a SPECIFIC REFORM IDEA or other REGULATORY/LEGAL/PROCESS changes that someone wants to discuss at a future date. Be aware that any of these docs could be changing and/or picked up by "the email group" for "real-time" discussion and change. So your work may "disapear" quickly, if a large number of people decide to work on it. The email group, in particular, may all of a sudden focus on a particular document and make lots of changes. The email group consists of a large number of active participants that descend on a document and make lots of change. This is part of the collaboration process, and the group appears to believe that it works. So enjoy changing, and enjoy collaborating...

If you contribute specific background info, please cite a source. And if you have specific expertise in a topic, please indicate so with a "bracket" and some kind of desription of the experience whence the opinion came. Or put your comments in the "discussion" tab, so we can understand what you're doing. We can track who made what changes via the "history", but it helps to understand the construct/background/intent.

* Constitutional Reform
** [[SPP End Corporate Personhood|End Corporate Personhood]]
* [[SPP Economic Regulation|Economic Regulation]]
**[[Resource-based Economy]] 
** [[SPP Finanacial Regulation|Ideas]] and general discussion about financial reform 
** [[CostOfLiving|Lower cost of living]] 
** Financial Industry Reform 
*** [[Banking Regulation and Structure Reform|Banking Regulation/Structure Reform]] 
*** [[Monetary Policy and Federal Reserve System|Federal Reserve System]] 
*** Trading/Derivatives 
*** Currency Control 
** Free Trade 
** [[SPP Tax Reform|Tax Reform]] 
*** Flat Tax 
*** [[Participatory Budgeting|Participatory Budgeting]]
* Election Reform
** Start a [[Third Party|Third Party]]
** [[Proportional Representation|Proportional Representation]] (is also linked under "Sovereignty & Law", below)
* Media
** [[Media Conglomeration]]
** [[Network Neutrality]]
* [[SPP Human Needs|Human Needs]]/Rights
** [[Healthy Food as a Right|Healthy Food as a Right]] 
** [[Clean Water as a Right|Clean Water as a Right]]

** [[Shelter as a Right|Shelter as a Right]] 
** [[Housing Crisis|Housing Crisis]] 
** [[Health Care|Health Care as a Right]] 
** [[SPP Education|Education]] 
*** Student Debt [[Education and Student Debt|Education and Student Debt]] 
** Opportunity 
*** Working Rights Labor Issues 
** Access 
*** Physical 
*** Knowledge 
*** [[Network Nuetrality|Virtual/Internet and Network Nuetrality]] 
* [[SPP International Relations|International Relations]]
** [[Amendment for Peace|The Smedley Butler Amendment For Peace]] 
** War/Peace
* [[SPP Sovereignty and Law|Sovereignty and Law]]
** [[Proportional Representation|Proportional Representation]] 
** War on Drugs 
** Third World Debt 
** Foreign Aid 
*** how it contributes to regional conflict 
*** food/medical service distro and contribution to deprivation / violent corruption

Reducing the Cost of Government
* Senior Executive Service (has it outlived its usefulness and/or is it contributing to unnecessary expenditure)
* Bring Congressional Benefits and ALL Gov't employees benefits in line with median worker
* Stop spending on "roads to no where"

=Links=
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* View the Google Group discussion: [http://groups.google.com/group/occupy-boston-spp/ Occupy-Boston-SPP] ''[>Note: The wiki has the capacity to organize more efficiently than the Google Group, but it is unclear which forum has precedence, so please be aware of both.]''
* Contact via [mailto:occupy.ideas@gmail.com occupy.ideas@gmail.com]
* The Reforms discussion often takes cues from community generated media. Explore the [[Press|Press]] and [[Education|Education]]pages.
* View preliminary results of the [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h2b1NawJhhmdXBOm9RySsZRcAIOcl4jhhMBV--CiIwU/edit?hl=en_US "Issues Survey,"] aiming to estimate the levels of support for proposals in general topics, by Joshua Sager.
* [[Education|Articles of Interest, and Issues from other Occupy sites]]

=Page Notes=
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Move to rename: ditch "SPP," - adopt "Reforms": reforms is not deep enough, restructuring is better. 
This avoids the extreme vagueness of 'ideas' and the over-complication of 'spp.' I will try to post a broad announcement on the google group to invite further discussion. [TF: yeah, but we're merging the facilitation/ideas group w/SPP, right?]

 
Sections to be addressed: 
Strategies, Issues, Objectives, Finished Proposals, Tactics, Meeting Notes (and schedule), Background Info.

Who knows what this note is for? I can't figure it out. Can someone explain it, or if you authored, it erase it? 
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