Strategies, Proposals, Positions

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

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

CURRENTLY BEING DISCUSSED 10/27/11: (DRAFT) Statement of Occupation (aka "the Roadmap")

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• Next ONSITE Meeting Time:

Monday, 10/31/11, 7pm, meet by the library tent, 7:15 move someplace quiet, like South Station!?

• ONLINE discussions/collaboration:
  
  • Wiki (Document Development and Comment-posts)
    
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  • Email Group discussing specific policies/technical mechanics: [1]]
    
    • EMAIL DISCUSSION HISTORY (the email group is in transition from googlegroups to the occupyboston server. To join, please write to occupybostonvol@gmail.com). Other help: Terra 978 808 7173
• Take the [Survey] (You can only take this once)
  • Link to the [Results] (constantly updating)

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

• (APPROVED) Statement of Purpose & (DRAFT) Statement of Occupation - Our first priority is to create an inclusive umbrella statement of purpose; specific issues will follow next. The GA approved the "Statement of Purpose", click on the link to see the text (it's at the bottom, after you click the link)

OTHER PROPOSED LANGUAGE, not currenlty in play in the email discussion group:

• Warren Buffet Ideas [Note: this 'congressional reform act' is bunk. see here: <http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/congressional-reform-act-2011.htm> in other news, buffet has made a few cool statements: <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html> thanks]
• Other General Ideas
• Issues page

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

SPECIFIC ISSUES

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

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

Reducing the Cost of Government

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

Links

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• View the Google Group discussion: Occupy-Boston-SPP [>Note: The wiki has the capacity to organize more efficiently than the Google Group, but it is unclear which forum has precedence, so please be aware of both.]
• Contact via occupy.ideas@gmail.com
• The Reforms discussion often takes cues from community generated media. Explore the Press and Educationpages.
• View preliminary results of the "Issues Survey," aiming to estimate the levels of support for proposals in general topics, by Joshua Sager.
• Articles of Interest, and Issues from other Occupy sites

Page Notes

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

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

Who knows what this note is for? I can't figure it out. Can someone explain it, or if you authored, it erase it?
"Rights" or "Corrections" (C)*

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Based on: Strategies, Proposals, Positions at wikispaces