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List of Goals

2013-05-27T19:07:51Z

Polar: /* B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items See Commons Items List of Land Use Policies]] TF, PL
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a [[http://www.usbig.net/index.php basic income guarantee]] TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Easy access to fresh produce and nutritious food in poor communities
* End all subsidies in the Farm Bill to corporate farms and processed food companies; add subsidies, and increase those on the books, for organic farms. Incentivize wide variety of crops not including corn and soybeans

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Reading_Resources#7._Corporate_Personhood_Information Corporate Rights Reading Materials]] TF AC PL
* Amend the corporate charter to subordinate responsibility to shareholders to responsibility to prevent harm to people, wildlife and the environment.
* Establish a strong "commons", to include the following [[Commons Items]]
* Declaring Inalienable Rights for the environment AC
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters, and give right to enforce commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] TF PL
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF PL
* Extend Public Education to College AC PL
* Government incentives for manufacturers to compete with Germany rather than China. Competing with Germany's higher quality products -- as opposed to China's cheaper products -- offers higher paying jobs at home. It also encourages innovation to make high quality even higher and also cheaper; as opposed to encouraging crap to be made crappier and cheaper.

=== II. Economy ===
What: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards TF
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to local producers TF PL
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF PL
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF PL
* Reinstitution of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system Bretton woods system]]TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Create Alternative Currencies and Banking structures (crowdfunding, etc) TF
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.
* Corporations that register outside the US are not American companies PL

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot. PL
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP -- OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living. even left-leaning press like huff rips off its writers
* Copyright law amended to limit coverage to the lifetime of human author/s. Corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years PL
* Extend public education through college PL
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media NEEDS WORK - truth has to be defined in terms or ethics/law

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998.
(The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF AC PL
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "1.C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF AC PL
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF AC PL
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot
* re-districting by non-partisan groups PL
* Minimun 5-year revolving door from legislative to lobbying, including congressional staffers PL
* End filibuster, pocket veto and other obstructionist procedures PL
* Term limits for Supreme Court justices. Lifetime tenure was instituted when life-expectancy was shorter and cultural shifts were far less frequent. Generation based cultural biases of justices increasingly raise the risk of reactionary decisions. PL
* Corporate lobby access to legislators must not exceed that of local issue-oriented group. PL

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T19:04:58Z

Polar: /* A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items See Commons Items List of Land Use Policies]] TF, PL
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a [[http://www.usbig.net/index.php basic income guarantee]] TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Easy access to fresh produce and nutritious food in poor communities
* End all subsidies in the Farm Bill to corporate farms and processed food companies; add subsidies, and increase those on the books, for organic farms. Incentivize wide variety of crops not including corn and soybeans

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Reading_Resources#7._Corporate_Personhood_Information Corporate Rights Reading Materials]] TF AC PL
* Amend the corporate charter to subordinate responsibility to shareholders to responsibility to prevent harm to people, wildlife and the environment.
* Establish a strong "commons", to include the following [[Commons Items]]
* Declaring Inalienable Rights for the environment AC
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters, and give right to enforce commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] TF PL
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF PL
* Extend Public Education to College AC PL
* Government incentives for manufacturers to compete with Germany rather than China. Competing with Germany's higher quality products -- as opposed to China's cheaper products -- offers higher paying jobs at home. It also encourages innovation to make high quality even higher and also cheaper; as opposed to encouraging crap to be made crappier and cheaper.

=== II. Economy ===
What: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards TF
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to local producers TF PL
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Reinstitution of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system Bretton woods system]]TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Create Alternative Currencies and Banking structures (crowdfunding, etc) TF
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot. PL
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP -- OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living. even left-leaning press like huff rips off its writers
* Copyright law amended to limit coverage to the lifetime of human author/s. Corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years PL
* Extend public education through college PL
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media NEEDS WORK - truth has to be defined in terms or ethics/law

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998.
(The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF AC PL
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "1.C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF AC PL
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF AC PL
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot
* re-districting by non-partisan groups PL
* Minimun 5-year revolving door from legislative to lobbying, including congressional staffers PL
* End filibuster, pocket veto and other obstructionist procedures PL
* Term limits for Supreme Court justices. Lifetime tenure was instituted when life-expectancy was shorter and cultural shifts were far less frequent. Generation based cultural biases of justices increasingly raise the risk of reactionary decisions. PL
* Corporate lobby access to legislators must not exceed that of local issue-oriented group. PL

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T18:52:51Z

Polar: /* A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items See Commons Items List of Land Use Policies]] TF, PL
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a [[http://www.usbig.net/index.php basic income guarantee]] TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Easy access to fresh produce and nutritious food in poor communities
* End all subsidies in the Farm Bill to corporate farms and processed food companies; add subsidies, and increase those on the books, for organic farms. Incentivize wide variety of crops not including corn and soybeans

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Reading_Resources#7._Corporate_Personhood_Information Corporate Rights Reading Materials]] TF AC PL
* Amend the corporate charter to subordinate responsibility to shareholders to responsibility to prevent harm to people, wildlife and the environment.
* Establish a strong "commons", to include the following [[Commons Items]]
* Declaring Inalienable Rights for the environment AC
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters, and give right to enforce commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] TF PL
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF PL
* Extend Public Education to College AC PL
* Government incentives for manufacturers to compete with Germany rather than China. Competing with Germany's higher quality products -- as opposed to China's cheaper products -- offers higher paying jobs at home. It also encourages innovation to make high quality even higher and also cheaper; as opposed to encouraging crap to be made crappier and cheaper.

=== II. Economy ===
What: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards TF
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to local producers TF PL
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Reinstitution of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system Bretton woods system]]TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Create Alternative Currencies and Banking structures (crowdfunding, etc) TF
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot. PL
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP -- OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living. even left-leaning press like huff rips off its writers
* Copyright law amended to limit coverage to the lifetime of human author/s. Corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years PL
* Extend public education through college PL
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media NEEDS WORK - truth has to be defined in terms or ethics/law

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998.
(The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF AC PL
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "1.C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF AC PL
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF AC PL
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot
* re-districting by non-partisan groups PL

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T18:49:58Z

Polar: /* B. Free Universal Healthcare */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items See Commons Items List of Land Use Policies]] TF, PL
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a [[http://www.usbig.net/index.php basic income guarantee]] TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Easy access to fresh produce and nutritious food in poor communities
* End all subsidies in the Farm Bill to corporate farms and processed food companies; add subsidies, and increase those on the books, for organic farms. Incentivize wide variety of crops not including corn and soybeans

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Reading_Resources#7._Corporate_Personhood_Information Corporate Rights Reading Materials]] TF AC PL
* Amend the corporate charter to subordinate responsibility to shareholders to responsibility to prevent harm to people, wildlife and the environment.
* Establish a strong "commons", to include the following [[Commons Items]]
* Declaring Inalienable Rights for the environment AC
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters, and give right to enforce commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] TF PL
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF PL
* Extend Public Education to College AC PL
* Government incentives for manufacturers to compete with Germany rather than China. Competing with Germany's higher quality products -- as opposed to China's cheaper products -- offers higher paying jobs at home. It also encourages innovation to make high quality even higher and also cheaper; as opposed to encouraging crap to be made crappier and cheaper.

=== II. Economy ===
What: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards TF
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to local producers TF PL
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Reinstitution of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system Bretton woods system]]TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Create Alternative Currencies and Banking structures (crowdfunding, etc) TF
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot. PL
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP -- OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living. even left-leaning press like huff rips off its writers
* Copyright law amended to limit coverage to the lifetime of human author/s. Corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years PL
* Extend public education through college PL
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media NEEDS WORK - truth has to be defined in terms or ethics/law

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998.
(The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF AC PL
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "1.C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T18:49:08Z

Polar: /* C. Journalism */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items See Commons Items List of Land Use Policies]] TF, PL
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a [[http://www.usbig.net/index.php basic income guarantee]] TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Easy access to fresh produce and nutritious food in poor communities
* End all subsidies in the Farm Bill to corporate farms and processed food companies; add subsidies, and increase those on the books, for organic farms. Incentivize wide variety of crops not including corn and soybeans

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Reading_Resources#7._Corporate_Personhood_Information Corporate Rights Reading Materials]] TF AC PL
* Amend the corporate charter to subordinate responsibility to shareholders to responsibility to prevent harm to people, wildlife and the environment.
* Establish a strong "commons", to include the following [[Commons Items]]
* Declaring Inalienable Rights for the environment AC
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters, and give right to enforce commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] TF PL
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF PL
* Extend Public Education to College AC PL
* Government incentives for manufacturers to compete with Germany rather than China. Competing with Germany's higher quality products -- as opposed to China's cheaper products -- offers higher paying jobs at home. It also encourages innovation to make high quality even higher and also cheaper; as opposed to encouraging crap to be made crappier and cheaper.

=== II. Economy ===
What: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards TF
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to local producers TF PL
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Reinstitution of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system Bretton woods system]]TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Create Alternative Currencies and Banking structures (crowdfunding, etc) TF
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot. PL
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP -- OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living. even left-leaning press like huff rips off its writers
* Copyright law amended to limit coverage to the lifetime of human author/s. Corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years PL
* Extend public education through college PL
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media NEEDS WORK - truth has to be defined in terms or ethics/law

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998.
(The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC, PL
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "1.C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T18:47:01Z

Polar: /* A. free and open communications */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items See Commons Items List of Land Use Policies]] TF, PL
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a [[http://www.usbig.net/index.php basic income guarantee]] TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Easy access to fresh produce and nutritious food in poor communities
* End all subsidies in the Farm Bill to corporate farms and processed food companies; add subsidies, and increase those on the books, for organic farms. Incentivize wide variety of crops not including corn and soybeans

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Reading_Resources#7._Corporate_Personhood_Information Corporate Rights Reading Materials]] TF AC PL
* Amend the corporate charter to subordinate responsibility to shareholders to responsibility to prevent harm to people, wildlife and the environment.
* Establish a strong "commons", to include the following [[Commons Items]]
* Declaring Inalienable Rights for the environment AC
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters, and give right to enforce commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] TF PL
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF PL
* Extend Public Education to College AC PL
* Government incentives for manufacturers to compete with Germany rather than China. Competing with Germany's higher quality products -- as opposed to China's cheaper products -- offers higher paying jobs at home. It also encourages innovation to make high quality even higher and also cheaper; as opposed to encouraging crap to be made crappier and cheaper.

=== II. Economy ===
What: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards TF
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to local producers TF PL
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Reinstitution of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system Bretton woods system]]TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Create Alternative Currencies and Banking structures (crowdfunding, etc) TF
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot. PL
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP -- OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living. even left-leaning press like huff rips off its writers
* Copyright law amended to limit coverage to the lifetime of human author/s. Corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years PL
* Extend public education through college PL
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998.
(The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC, PL
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "1.C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T18:45:54Z

Polar: /* A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items See Commons Items List of Land Use Policies]] TF, PL
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a [[http://www.usbig.net/index.php basic income guarantee]] TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Easy access to fresh produce and nutritious food in poor communities
* End all subsidies in the Farm Bill to corporate farms and processed food companies; add subsidies, and increase those on the books, for organic farms. Incentivize wide variety of crops not including corn and soybeans

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Reading_Resources#7._Corporate_Personhood_Information Corporate Rights Reading Materials]] TF AC PL
* Amend the corporate charter to subordinate responsibility to shareholders to responsibility to prevent harm to people, wildlife and the environment.
* Establish a strong "commons", to include the following [[Commons Items]]
* Declaring Inalienable Rights for the environment AC
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters, and give right to enforce commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] TF PL
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF PL
* Extend Public Education to College AC PL
* Government incentives for manufacturers to compete with Germany rather than China. Competing with Germany's higher quality products -- as opposed to China's cheaper products -- offers higher paying jobs at home. It also encourages innovation to make high quality even higher and also cheaper; as opposed to encouraging crap to be made crappier and cheaper.

=== II. Economy ===
What: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards TF
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to local producers TF PL
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Reinstitution of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system Bretton woods system]]TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Create Alternative Currencies and Banking structures (crowdfunding, etc) TF
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot.
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP -- OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living. even left-leaning press like huff rips off its writers
* Copyright law amended to limit coverage to the lifetime of human author/s. Corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years
* Extend public education through college
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998.
(The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC, PL
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "1.C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T18:44:48Z

Polar: /* C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items See Commons Items List of Land Use Policies]] TF, PL
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a [[http://www.usbig.net/index.php basic income guarantee]] TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Easy access to fresh produce and nutritious food in poor communities
* End all subsidies in the Farm Bill to corporate farms and processed food companies; add subsidies, and increase those on the books, for organic farms. Incentivize wide variety of crops not including corn and soybeans

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Reading_Resources#7._Corporate_Personhood_Information Corporate Rights Reading Materials]] TF AC PL
* Amend the corporate charter to subordinate responsibility to shareholders to responsibility to prevent harm to people, wildlife and the environment.
* Establish a strong "commons", to include the following [[Commons Items]]
* Declaring Inalienable Rights for the environment AC
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters, and give right to enforce commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] TF PL
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF PL
* Extend Public Education to College AC PL
* Government incentives for manufacturers to compete with Germany rather than China. Competing with Germany's higher quality products -- as opposed to China's cheaper products -- offers higher paying jobs at home. It also encourages innovation to make high quality even higher and also cheaper; as opposed to encouraging crap to be made crappier and cheaper.

=== II. Economy ===
What: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards TF
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to locale producers TF
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Reinstitution of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system Bretton woods system]]TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Create Alternative Currencies and Banking structures (crowdfunding, etc) TF
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot.
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP -- OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living. even left-leaning press like huff rips off its writers
* Copyright law amended to limit coverage to the lifetime of human author/s. Corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years
* Extend public education through college
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998.
(The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC, PL
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "1.C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T18:31:53Z

Polar: /* B. Food */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items See Commons Items List of Land Use Policies]] TF, PL
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a [[http://www.usbig.net/index.php basic income guarantee]] TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Easy access to fresh produce and nutritious food in poor communities
* End all subsidies in the Farm Bill to corporate farms and processed food companies; add subsidies, and increase those on the books, for organic farms. Incentivize wide variety of crops not including corn and soybeans

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Reading_Resources#7._Corporate_Personhood_Information Corporate Rights Reading Materials]] TF AC
* Establish a strong "commons", to include the following [[Commons Items]]
* Declaring Inalienable Rights for the environment AC
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters, and give right to enforce commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] TF
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF
* Extend Public Education to College AC

=== II. Economy ===
What: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards TF
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to locale producers TF
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Reinstitution of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system Bretton woods system]]TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Create Alternative Currencies and Banking structures (crowdfunding, etc) TF
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot.
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP -- OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living. even left-leaning press like huff rips off its writers
* Copyright law amended to limit coverage to the lifetime of human author/s. Corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years
* Extend public education through college
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998.
(The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC, PL
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "1.C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T18:23:49Z

Polar: /* A. Land */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items See Commons Items List of Land Use Policies]] TF, PL
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a [[http://www.usbig.net/index.php basic income guarantee]] TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Reading_Resources#7._Corporate_Personhood_Information Corporate Rights Reading Materials]] TF AC
* Establish a strong "commons", to include the following [[Commons Items]]
* Declaring Inalienable Rights for the environment AC
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters, and give right to enforce commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] TF
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF
* Extend Public Education to College AC

=== II. Economy ===
What: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards TF
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to locale producers TF
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Reinstitution of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system Bretton woods system]]TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Create Alternative Currencies and Banking structures (crowdfunding, etc) TF
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot.
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP -- OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living. even left-leaning press like huff rips off its writers
* Copyright law amended to limit coverage to the lifetime of human author/s. Corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years
* Extend public education through college
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998.
(The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC, PL
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "1.C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T18:20:53Z

Polar: /* A. free and open communications */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items See Commons Items List of Land Use Policies]] TF
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a [[http://www.usbig.net/index.php basic income guarantee]] TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Reading_Resources#7._Corporate_Personhood_Information Corporate Rights Reading Materials]] TF AC
* Establish a strong "commons", to include the following [[Commons Items]]
* Declaring Inalienable Rights for the environment AC
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters, and give right to enforce commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] TF
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF
* Extend Public Education to College AC

=== II. Economy ===
What: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards TF
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to locale producers TF
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Reinstitution of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system Bretton woods system]]TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Create Alternative Currencies and Banking structures (crowdfunding, etc) TF
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot.
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP -- OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living. even left-leaning press like huff rips off its writers
* Copyright law amended to limit coverage to the lifetime of human author/s. Corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years
* Extend public education through college
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998.
(The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC, PL
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "1.C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T02:13:13Z

Polar: /* B. Free Universal Healthcare */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Establish a strong "commons" (VOTE for this item UNDER "C")
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters TF
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas.
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *
* Abolish corporate personhood VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a basic income guarantee http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Abolish corporate rights VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Establish a strong "commons" by Restoring Inalienable Rights to Individuals/Environment TF, AC
- CONCERN: we've been arguing that rights belong to PERSONS. by bestowing rights onto the
environment we're killing our argument against corporate personhood.
CHANGE FRAMING RE: ENVIRONMENT
* Amend the constitution to declare the right to basic healthcare, basic income, basic shelter healthy food, clean air/water''' (TF...this is "the commons") vote above item
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals and the environment'''
* Give control of commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF
* Extent Public Education to College AC

=== II. Economy ===
what: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to locale producers TF
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.
* Reinstitution of the Bretton woods system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system) TF

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot.
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP
OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living
* Copyright law amended to cover only the lifetime of human author/s. For corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years
* Extend public education through college
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998. (The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC, PL
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

Brainstorm Bank

2013-05-27T02:11:47Z

Polar:

This is a place for "raw ideas" that need to get flushed out before becoming "concrete objectives":

* Dismantle military in 7 years AC

* We support ending imperialism - NEEDS MUCH DEEPER EXAMINATION "imperialism" is revSpeak. needs to be defined and broken down into the components that can be legislatively addressed one by one -- like ending corporatocracy

* Require foodstamp agencies to provide foodstamp payment mechanisms to farmers markets - FOR EXAMINATION: farmers markets are mostly cash transactions. 1. do the people who sell there want to accept food stamps? 2. is this a budget buster? are those items comparably priced in community supermarkets/bodegas?

* utilize planning models that favor high density cities, land conservation and discourage sprawl. 
NEW PROPOSED LANGUAGE:
- require zoning law for multi-family housing to include 100% conservation, in the form of community gardens, parks, open space, either in 24x7 privately owned land with conservations restrictions deeded in, or sold for public use. 
- require high density building to be within 2 blocks of existing train lines or with public transit access from the site.

* give historically disenfranchised peoples first use right to commons 
PROPOSED LANGUAGE: 
- require temporary public land permits, leases, and other public use to either set aside a significant amount of prime land for historically disenfranchised peoples to use land first. require disenfranchised groups the "right of first refusal" for any sale of public lands.

* establish public magnet schools that are horticultural academies that also care for public land & grow food 

QUESTioN: what the heck is this? tech schools and public agri schools already do this. UMASS for example was an agricultural school and still is, and operates forestry and other agri operations.

* Local food production, community gardens, permaculture agriculture - worker self directed organic agriculture coops on the model of Mondragon in Spain 

QUESTIONS: 
what specifically? look at the other things we have...what is missing? already restructing tax credits to only support local/organic. what are you trying to say? "have more community gardens"? is that it? if so, how about make sure that cities put aside 10% of all land for community gardens. be specific.

* tie the salaries of public officials inversely to the price of a grocery basket of sustainable food, calculated relative to zip code 
QUESTIONS: 
not sure what this means

* peg the value of currency to the number of fish in the sea 
QUESTION: 
not sure what this means

* Tie the tax brackets to the rental cost of a square foot of land by county, the lower the rents, the lower the taxes. [[THIS IS ALREADY BEING DONE and it's not working! TF]]

* Declare a Jubilee Year every 49 years. 
QUESTION: 
how would the legislation look? all debt?

'''* recognize and remediate environmental racism--predominance of incinerators in black-brown neighborhoods''' *
* institute development policies that favor high density cities and REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

[[Commons Items]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/List_of_Goals Back to Main "List of Goals" page]]

Brainstorm Bank

2013-05-27T02:09:30Z

Polar:

This is a place for "raw ideas" that need to get flushed out before becoming "concrete objectives":

* Dismantle military in 7 years AC

* We support ending imperialism - "imperialism" is revSpeak. needs to be defined and broken down into the components that can be legislatively addressed one by one -- like ending corporatocracy

* Require foodstamp agencies to provide foodstamp payment mechanisms to farmers markets - FOR EXAMINATION: farmers markets are mostly cash transactions. 1. do the people who sell there want to accept food stamps? 2. is this a budget buster? are those items comparably priced in community supermarkets/bodegas?

* utilize planning models that favor high density cities, land conservation and discourage sprawl. 
NEW PROPOSED LANGUAGE:
- require zoning law for multi-family housing to include 100% conservation, in the form of community gardens, parks, open space, either in 24x7 privately owned land with conservations restrictions deeded in, or sold for public use. 
- require high density building to be within 2 blocks of existing train lines or with public transit access from the site.

* give historically disenfranchised peoples first use right to commons 
PROPOSED LANGUAGE: 
- require temporary public land permits, leases, and other public use to either set aside a significant amount of prime land for historically disenfranchised peoples to use land first. require disenfranchised groups the "right of first refusal" for any sale of public lands.

* establish public magnet schools that are horticultural academies that also care for public land & grow food 

QUESTioN: what the heck is this? tech schools and public agri schools already do this. UMASS for example was an agricultural school and still is, and operates forestry and other agri operations.

* Local food production, community gardens, permaculture agriculture - worker self directed organic agriculture coops on the model of Mondragon in Spain 

QUESTIONS: 
what specifically? look at the other things we have...what is missing? already restructing tax credits to only support local/organic. what are you trying to say? "have more community gardens"? is that it? if so, how about make sure that cities put aside 10% of all land for community gardens. be specific.

* tie the salaries of public officials inversely to the price of a grocery basket of sustainable food, calculated relative to zip code 
QUESTIONS: 
not sure what this means

* peg the value of currency to the number of fish in the sea 
QUESTION: 
not sure what this means

* Tie the tax brackets to the rental cost of a square foot of land by county, the lower the rents, the lower the taxes. [[THIS IS ALREADY BEING DONE and it's not working! TF]]

* Declare a Jubilee Year every 49 years. 
QUESTION: 
how would the legislation look? all debt?

'''* recognize and remediate environmental racism--predominance of incinerators in black-brown neighborhoods''' *
* institute development policies that favor high density cities and REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

[[Commons Items]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/List_of_Goals Back to Main "List of Goals" page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T02:04:20Z

Polar: /* A. What: Peace, nonviolence */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Establish a strong "commons" (VOTE for this item UNDER "C")
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters TF
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas.
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *
* Abolish corporate personhood VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a basic income guarantee http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Abolish corporate rights VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Establish a strong "commons" by Restoring Inalienable Rights to Individuals/Environment TF, AC
- CONCERN: we've been arguing that rights belong to PERSONS. by bestowing rights onto the
environment we're killing our argument against corporate personhood.
CHANGE FRAMING RE: ENVIRONMENT
* Amend the constitution to declare the right to basic healthcare, basic income, basic shelter healthy food, clean air/water''' (TF...this is "the commons") vote above item
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals and the environment'''
* Give control of commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF
* Extent Public Education to College AC

=== II. Economy ===
what: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to locale producers TF
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.
* Reinstitution of the Bretton woods system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system) TF

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot.
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP
OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living
* Copyright law amended to cover only the lifetime of human author/s. For corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years
* Extend public education through college
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998. (The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC
* Amend the constitution to declare basic (not nose jobs, for example) healthcare a right
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T02:03:05Z

Polar: /* A. free and open communications */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Establish a strong "commons" (VOTE for this item UNDER "C")
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters TF
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas.
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *
* Abolish corporate personhood VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a basic income guarantee http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Abolish corporate rights VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Establish a strong "commons" by Restoring Inalienable Rights to Individuals/Environment TF, AC
- CONCERN: we've been arguing that rights belong to PERSONS. by bestowing rights onto the
environment we're killing our argument against corporate personhood.
CHANGE FRAMING RE: ENVIRONMENT
* Amend the constitution to declare the right to basic healthcare, basic income, basic shelter healthy food, clean air/water''' (TF...this is "the commons") vote above item
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals and the environment'''
* Give control of commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF
* Extent Public Education to College AC

=== II. Economy ===
what: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to locale producers TF
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.
* Reinstitution of the Bretton woods system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system) TF

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot.
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP
OBJECTION: this ignores the needs of content providers (authors, composers, etc) to make a living
* Copyright law amended to cover only the lifetime of human author/s. For corporate copyrights, return to the original term of 27 years
* Extend public education through college
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support ending imperialism
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998. (The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Dismantle military in 7 years AC
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC
* Amend the constitution to declare basic (not nose jobs, for example) healthcare a right
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

Brainstorm Bank

2013-05-27T01:54:21Z

Polar:

This is a place for "raw ideas" that need to get flushed out before becoming "concrete objectives":

* Require foodstamp agencies to provide foodstamp payment mechanisms to farmers markets - FOR EXAMINATION: farmers markets are mostly cash transactions. 1. do the people who sell there want to accept food stamps? 2. is this a budget buster? are those items comparably priced in community supermarkets/bodegas?

* utilize planning models that favor high density cities, land conservation and discourage sprawl. 
NEW PROPOSED LANGUAGE:
- require zoning law for multi-family housing to include 100% conservation, in the form of community gardens, parks, open space, either in 24x7 privately owned land with conservations restrictions deeded in, or sold for public use. 
- require high density building to be within 2 blocks of existing train lines or with public transit access from the site.

* give historically disenfranchised peoples first use right to commons 
PROPOSED LANGUAGE: 
- require temporary public land permits, leases, and other public use to either set aside a significant amount of prime land for historically disenfranchised peoples to use land first. require disenfranchised groups the "right of first refusal" for any sale of public lands.

* establish public magnet schools that are horticultural academies that also care for public land & grow food 

QUESTioN: what the heck is this? tech schools and public agri schools already do this. UMASS for example was an agricultural school and still is, and operates forestry and other agri operations.

* Local food production, community gardens, permaculture agriculture - worker self directed organic agriculture coops on the model of Mondragon in Spain 

QUESTIONS: 
what specifically? look at the other things we have...what is missing? already restructing tax credits to only support local/organic. what are you trying to say? "have more community gardens"? is that it? if so, how about make sure that cities put aside 10% of all land for community gardens. be specific.

* tie the salaries of public officials inversely to the price of a grocery basket of sustainable food, calculated relative to zip code 
QUESTIONS: 
not sure what this means

* peg the value of currency to the number of fish in the sea 
QUESTION: 
not sure what this means

* Tie the tax brackets to the rental cost of a square foot of land by county, the lower the rents, the lower the taxes. [[THIS IS ALREADY BEING DONE and it's not working! TF]]

* Declare a Jubilee Year every 49 years. 
QUESTION: 
how would the legislation look? all debt?

'''* recognize and remediate environmental racism--predominance of incinerators in black-brown neighborhoods''' *
* institute development policies that favor high density cities and REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

[[Commons Items]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/List_of_Goals Back to Main "List of Goals" page]]

Brainstorm Bank

2013-05-27T01:53:30Z

Polar:

This is a place for "raw ideas" that need to get flushed out before becoming "concrete objectives":

* Require foodstamp agencies to provide foodstamp payment mechanisms to farmers markets
- FOR EXAMINATION: farmers markets are mostly cash transactions. 1. do the people who sell there want to accept food stamps?
2. is this a budget buster? are those items comparably priced in community supermarkets/bodegas?

* utilize planning models that favor high density cities, land conservation and discourage sprawl. 
NEW PROPOSED LANGUAGE:
- require zoning law for multi-family housing to include 100% conservation, in the form of community gardens, parks, open space, either in 24x7 privately owned land with conservations restrictions deeded in, or sold for public use. 
- require high density building to be within 2 blocks of existing train lines or with public transit access from the site.

* give historically disenfranchised peoples first use right to commons 
PROPOSED LANGUAGE: 
- require temporary public land permits, leases, and other public use to either set aside a significant amount of prime land for historically disenfranchised peoples to use land first. require disenfranchised groups the "right of first refusal" for any sale of public lands.

* establish public magnet schools that are horticultural academies that also care for public land & grow food 

QUESTioN: what the heck is this? tech schools and public agri schools already do this. UMASS for example was an agricultural school and still is, and operates forestry and other agri operations.

* Local food production, community gardens, permaculture agriculture - worker self directed organic agriculture coops on the model of Mondragon in Spain 

QUESTIONS: 
what specifically? look at the other things we have...what is missing? already restructing tax credits to only support local/organic. what are you trying to say? "have more community gardens"? is that it? if so, how about make sure that cities put aside 10% of all land for community gardens. be specific.

* tie the salaries of public officials inversely to the price of a grocery basket of sustainable food, calculated relative to zip code 
QUESTIONS: 
not sure what this means

* peg the value of currency to the number of fish in the sea 
QUESTION: 
not sure what this means

* Tie the tax brackets to the rental cost of a square foot of land by county, the lower the rents, the lower the taxes. [[THIS IS ALREADY BEING DONE and it's not working! TF]]

* Declare a Jubilee Year every 49 years. 
QUESTION: 
how would the legislation look? all debt?

'''* recognize and remediate environmental racism--predominance of incinerators in black-brown neighborhoods''' *
* institute development policies that favor high density cities and REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *

[[Commons Items]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/List_of_Goals Back to Main "List of Goals" page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T01:47:11Z

Polar: /* B. Food */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Establish a strong "commons" (VOTE for this item UNDER "C")
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters TF
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas.
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *
* Abolish corporate personhood VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a basic income guarantee http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Abolish corporate rights VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Establish a strong "commons" by Restoring Inalienable Rights to Individuals/Environment TF, AC
- CONCERN: we've been arguing that rights belong to PERSONS. by bestowing rights onto the
environment we're killing our argument against corporate personhood.
CHANGE FRAMING RE: ENVIRONMENT
* Amend the constitution to declare the right to basic healthcare, basic income, basic shelter healthy food, clean air/water''' (TF...this is "the commons") vote above item
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals and the environment'''
* Give control of commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF
* Extent Public Education to College AC

=== II. Economy ===
what: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to locale producers TF
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.
* Reinstitution of the Bretton woods system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system) TF

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot.
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP
* Extend public education through college
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support ending imperialism
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998. (The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Dismantle military in 7 years AC
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC
* Amend the constitution to declare basic (not nose jobs, for example) healthcare a right
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T01:46:23Z

Polar: /* C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Establish a strong "commons" (VOTE for this item UNDER "C")
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters TF
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas.
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *
* Abolish corporate personhood VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a basic income guarantee http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF
* Require foodstamp agencies to provide foodstamp payment mechanisms to farmers markets
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Abolish corporate rights VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Establish a strong "commons" by Restoring Inalienable Rights to Individuals/Environment TF, AC
- CONCERN: we've been arguing that rights belong to PERSONS. by bestowing rights onto the
environment we're killing our argument against corporate personhood.
CHANGE FRAMING RE: ENVIRONMENT
* Amend the constitution to declare the right to basic healthcare, basic income, basic shelter healthy food, clean air/water''' (TF...this is "the commons") vote above item
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals and the environment'''
* Give control of commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF
* Extent Public Education to College AC

=== II. Economy ===
what: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to locale producers TF
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.
* Reinstitution of the Bretton woods system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system) TF

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot.
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP
* Extend public education through college
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support ending imperialism
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998. (The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Dismantle military in 7 years AC
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC
* Amend the constitution to declare basic (not nose jobs, for example) healthcare a right
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T01:45:36Z

Polar: /* C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Establish a strong "commons" (VOTE for this item UNDER "C")
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters TF
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas.
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *
* Abolish corporate personhood VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a basic income guarantee http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF
* Require foodstamp agencies to provide foodstamp payment mechanisms to farmers markets
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Abolish corporate rights VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Establish a strong "commons" by Restoring Inalienable Rights to Individuals/Environment TF, AC
- CONCERN: we've been arguing that rights belong to PERSONS. by bestowing rights onto the environment we're
killing our argument against corporate personhood. CHANGE FRAMING RE: ENVIRONMENT
* Amend the constitution to declare the right to basic healthcare, basic income, basic shelter healthy food, clean air/water''' (TF...this is "the commons") vote above item
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals and the environment'''
* Give control of commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF
* Extent Public Education to College AC

=== II. Economy ===
what: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to locale producers TF
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.
* Reinstitution of the Bretton woods system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system) TF

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot.
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP
* Extend public education through college
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support ending imperialism
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998. (The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Dismantle military in 7 years AC
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC
* Amend the constitution to declare basic (not nose jobs, for example) healthcare a right
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

List of Goals

2013-05-27T01:44:52Z

Polar: /* C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" */

<big><big>'''This is a list of CONCRETE GOALS to include in the survey for NatGat 2013.'''</big></big>

Please add/edit.

It's intended that the categories will roll up and become "the goals", and the details will be targetted milestones under a specific goal. It's envisioned that each will be prioritized as short, medium, and long term objectives.

We've moved some items to:

− [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Commons_Items Common Items]] For items to be consolidated into "The Commons".

− [[Brainstorm Bank]] for raw ideas that need flushing out

=== I. Enviro ===

==== A. Land ====
* Establish a strong "commons" (VOTE for this item UNDER "C")
* Establish local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no to polluters TF
* Use rooftops for renewable energy (gardens, wind turbines, solar)
* Mandate a certain percentage of public commons (land) to be farm, park, or nature conservation areas.
* Offer tax credits to farms that give away food
* Lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) to local organic growers
* Institute development policies that favor REAL affordable housing tied to lowest wage earners (not "average" income) *
* Abolish corporate personhood VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== B. Food ====

What: Our food supply is made up of natural organic food. It is a food supply which follows humane practices. All people have regular access to nourishing food from all the food groups. This food is free from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), from pesticides, from herbicides and any other non-organic chemicals.

How:

* Tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
* Replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a basic income guarantee http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF
* Require foodstamp agencies to provide foodstamp payment mechanisms to farmers markets
* Before being allowed on the market it is required that all products including food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be tested to show they are safe by multiple independent non-governmental agencies and governmental agencies and academic institutions whose data will be examined and re-tested till there can be an agreed upon scientific consensus of whether or not to allow these products to the market.
* Free school lunches - no unhealthy food in schools
* Abolish corporate rights VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"

==== C. ESTABLISH A "STRONG COMMONS" ====
* Establish a strong "commons" by Restoring Inalienable Rights to Individuals/Environment TF, AC
- CONCERN: we've been arguing that rights belong to PERSONS. by bestowing rights onto the environment we're killing our argument against corporate personhood. CHANGE FRAMING RE: ENVIRONMENT
* Amend the constitution to declare the right to basic healthcare, basic income, basic shelter healthy food, clean air/water''' (TF...this is "the commons") vote above item
* Amend the constitution to end the corporatocracy and restore inalienable natural rights to individuals and the environment'''
* Give control of commons to small municipalities [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]
* President Franklin Delano Roosvelt's 1944 second U.S. Bill of Rights, a U.S. Economic Bill of Rights. TF
* Extent Public Education to College AC

=== II. Economy ===
what: An economic system where corporation are not granted personhood rights and where corporations are held legally accountable for their actions. This economic system promotes fair trade and fair working conditions. This economic system is one where the many benefit and not just a small few. Banks and corporations are required by law to act responsibly. We support the workers right to organize and form labor unions [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]]

==== A. SHIFT TAX BURDEN ====
What: A tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards frugality and environmentalism. This tax system will tax activities that are harmful to life systems at a higher rate.

How:
* Tax "resource use" NOT just on income (including Carbon Tax, including high taxes on companies that are not "zero-waste" and those who do not adhere to "Extended Producer Responsibility" standards
* Zero-Sum Budget the Title 26 as recommended by the US Tax Payer Advocate (Tina E. Olson); start with no exemptions or credits and democratically decide (on line or w/town meetings) which credits to include or exclude. Use "just the brackets" during a five year planning process and then implement during an additional two year implementation period. [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/User_talk:AriaLittlhous See Discussion]] AC
* Popular vote on each provision of the Title 26. TF
* Give economic/tax incentives to locale producers TF
* Flat Tax on Revenue (no deductions) too easy to cheat TF
* Minimal income: everyone gets a check, Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php TF, AC

==== B. MONETARY/BANKING REFORM ====
* Serious Derivatives Regulation (Reinstitution of Dodd-Frank (get it done!) been in committee controlled by derivatives industry forever!) TF
* End the Fed (put the soverienty control back in the hands of the people) TF
* Create state-owned banks for each of the states where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota.
* Reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act TF
* Abolish corporate rights [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Replace the current federal low income housing program with one that sells small net zero rental properties to inner city low income owners who agree to occupy them. No middlers, direct sales from government to citizens, with the fed having right of first refusal.
* Thirty hour work week for all employees w/10 hours/week on community service.
* Reinstitution of the Bretton woods system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system) TF

=== III. Freedom of Information ===
==== A. free and open communications ====

* All airwaves publicly owned, leased not sold to private enterprise, but with strict requirements to provide prime time airtime to candidates on the ballot.
* End to intellectual property, such that there is free and open sharing of information so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP
* Extend public education through college
* Certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime
* Certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
* Extend Open Meeting Law to include private personal conversations between government personnel AND other government personnel and the public, so that they are documented, and there is a trail of influence that is accountable to the public. TF

==== B. Universal access to data ====

* Keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.

==== C. Journalism ====

What: Truth in journalism/ We support independent media

How: Public funds are awarded to independent news agencies for accuracy and fairness in broadcasting

=== III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY ===
==== A. What: Peace, nonviolence====

* We support our troops
* We support bringing our troops home
* We support ending imperialism
* We support, as the first step toward a greater reduction in defense spending, an expeditious return to the defense spending from 1998. (The 1998 level of defense spending is a 45% reduction in defense)
* Dismantle military in 7 years AC
* Require people who are found guilty of domestic violence to volunteer in community service
* We support ending private prisons

==== B. Free Universal Healthcare ====

How:
* Nationalize the US healthcare system TF, AC
* Amend the constitution to declare basic (not nose jobs, for example) healthcare a right
* Deploy national healthcare system
* End fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried.
* Health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
* Make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system
* Drug treatment

=== V. Summer of Change/Electoral Sea Change ===
==== A. Goal: Get Money Our of Politics ====

How:
* Amend the constitution to abolish corporate personhood & declare that money is not speech [[End Corporatocracy: Time Frames & Actions]] VOTE FOR THIS ITEM UNDER "C"
* Full public financing of all elections, incl $50 in-district/per person limit plus free primetime airtime for ballot candidates TF, AC
* Complete ban on all private contributions to campaigns AC
* Absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families
* End two-party system by opening debates up to all candidates on the ballot
* Proportional representation, instant run off voting (popular vote decides President, abolish the electoral college TF, AC

==== B. Goal:local community control ====
How:
* Declare local rights-based ordinances (you can organize this today, in your town)

==== C. Goal: consensus based democracy ====
What: A democratic process that works for all, minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity).

How:

* Free/equal prime time airtime w/major broadcast stations, as a permit condition , for all candidates on the ballot
* Crowd source public policy decisions
* Give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision, via the internet.
* Voting days are holidays
* All public financials downloadable in Excel format
* We support the practice of using paper ballots throughout all elections with receipts

==== E. Legal System, just and fair ====

* Make rehabilitation, not punishment, the goal of the penal system

== IDEALS and IDEAS and PRINCPLES ==
That may not be concrete goals for the "roadmap", but may be treated as principles, or very long term ideals that we can strive for.

* Global Peace

We can do ACTIONS NEXT. Let's keep this list to GOALS?

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning_Working_Group_Mission_Statement To Draft Mission Statement]]

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Strategic_Planning To Strategic Planning Main Page]]

Occupy Strategic Planning Working Group Mission Statement

2013-05-17T06:30:42Z

Polar:

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.

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/List_of_Goals To List of Objectives/Goals]]

Occupy Strategic Planning Working Group Mission Statement

2013-05-17T06:03:43Z

Polar:

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: 
differentiate between a concrete goal -- legislation to end corporate personhood -- and an ideal -- we want a world without poverty.
(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.

[[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/List_of_Goals To List of Objectives/Goals]]