Occupy Strategic Planning Goals

To find out how this track relates to the overall Strategic Planning effort go [Back to the Occupy Strategic Planning Summary Page]

On this track, we are taking the Original Occupy Vision Doc - and listing out actions (toward firm goals) we can take toward getting toward achieving the vision.

TRACK 1. VISION DOC GOALS/ACTIONS

Process:

1. To understand where theOriginal Occupy Vision Doc came from and find the background on how we built that document. We believe that because so many people worked on this Original Occupy Vision Doc, that it's worthwhile to use it as our "basis". We can improve the content as we go along. But for working purposes, we're assuming that it's a decent representation of what the people in the movement want. We may choose to add new items, of course. Please do this carefully, though, because if we want it to be something that the movement supports, we can't just add new visions willy nilly. Please work with the Occupy Vision group to get that consensus.

2. We're taking the listed items, and ADDING below each item, tactics and actions to achieve that item. As we mature as a movement, we will likely change this basic vision doc. But for now, please respect it as a starting point, and modify only the space/entries below each BOLD ITEM. There's also been the suggestion to categorize the items into those that are "concrete goals" that can be acted upon, and those that are more ethereal values/principles. Fred and Cal expressed some interest in this. One suggestion for organizing may be to take some of the items that we can't legislate. So it's like a "cultural change" section? Things to keep in mind as we evolve section?

3. We're planning to take the actions under each goal and put them into a timeline. THEN we're planning on linking the different orgs on "the list" (see Track 2) and who might "do" the work. Allying with groups already on that path, for example. We may also choose to categorise items that might work together, decide if they are things that are want to do as individuals, or as a group, and/or decide various other ways of organizing.

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ILLUSTRATIVE CATEGORY LIST

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

STRATEGIC PLANNING INSTRUCTIONS:

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

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

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

I. CLEAN AIR, WATER, FOOD: ENVIRONMENTAL

What: Local food production, community gardens, permaculture agriculture How: - worker self directed organic agriculture coops on the model of Mondragon in Spain - establish more community garden land - offer tax credits to farms that give away food - HIGH TAXES on food production that is NOT ORGANIC

What:access to real nourishing, non-chemical, non-GMO food How: - offer tax credits to ONLY to organic food producers/providers, not chemical-based farmers - HIGH TAXES on food production that is NOT ORGANIC

'What:food supply that is humane and natural'

How: - offer tax credits to ONLY to organic food producers/providers, not chemical-based farmers - HIGH TAXES on food production that is NOT ORGANIC - free school lunches - no junk food in schools - no for-profit packaged food in schools

What: environmental justice

How: - establish a strong "commons"/local rights-based ordinances, so communities can say no - amend constitution to declare right to clean water/air - shelter as a right -declare rooftops "commons" (gardens, wind turbines, solar). -development policies that favor high density cities

What: environmental awareness and respect

How: - ask schools to teach holistic thinking

What: healthier diets and lifestyles

How:

affordable healthy food

How: require foodstamp agencies to provide foodstamp payment mechanisms to farmers markets How: replace all government subsidies, including food stamps (and the grand bargain with agribusiness that supports that program) with a Basic Income Guarantee

What: clean water as a right

How: - amend the constitution to declare that clean air and water is a right -peg the value of currency to the number of fish in the sea

What:end hunger

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

What:connection to earth

- II. FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL: CULTURAL

How

-all airwaves publicly owned

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

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

- have a certain amount of tax (by REVENUE, not profit, which is too easy to cheat) go straight to education, so production drives education. so people aren't threatened into hoarding IP.

free and open communications

- certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime. - certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections

real education, free and equal, democratized

- have a certain amount of tax (by REVENUE, not profit, which is too easy to cheat) go straight to education, so production drives education

universal access to data

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

III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY/POLITICAL

What: peace, nonviolence, no war or death machinesno military

How:- choose a date where no arms will be built in factories. after that date, make it illegal for any guns to exist - end tax deducation for lobbying expenses for military contractors -repeal the Second Amendment

'What: no need for violent conflict or guns' How: replace current model with hand to hand combat

- build schools in every village

What: no global us vs them

How:- declare indigenous rights

nonviolence

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

mutual respect between cultures or trading nations

nonviolent interpersonal and international conflict resolution

world peace

IV. SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SOCIETY: CULTURAL/ENVIRONMENTAL

what: a world where basic needs are met

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what: 'all cultures respected equally

what: people feel empowered, free, and unafraid

what: 'a strong sense of community how

mandatory community service for white color criminals

How: establish participatory budgeting of tax dollars

'what: safety for everyone from domestic violence and fear

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

what: 'all human life valued equally

how: all decisions considered for seven generations in the future

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

what: more humanity, compassion, kindness, and selflessness

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

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

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

what: no money in politics

how: - amend the constitution to deny corporate personhood - amend the constitution to declare that money is not speech - limit campaign donations to $50 per person and only in-district donations -ban on private contributions to political campaigns -full public financing of all elections -absolute ban on gifts to elected officials and their families.

what: end two-party system

-proportional representation, instant run off voting - join your local Green Party -abolish the electoral college

What:local community control

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

what: consensus based democracy

- online voting? - popular vote -voting days are holidays

just and fair legal system

- no profit in prisons

truth in journalism/illegal to lie

- big fines

minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity)

no tax without representation

a fair electoral system

accountable government

- all financials downloadable in Excel format

democratic process that works for all

VI. FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE: CULTURAL/ECONOMIC

How: - amend the constitution so that healthcare is a right - deploy national healthcare system -fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried. -stop clinicians salaries when patient get sick, reward health

healthcare emphasizes preventative and alternative measures

free healthcare (accessible and state of the art)

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

free therapy and emotional/mental healthcare

VII. TAXES: - tax "resource use" NOT income - tax on revenues/expenses, not on profit. too easy to cheat - minimal income: everyone gets a check--Basic Income Guarantee: http://www.usbig.net/index.php 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.

VIII. ECONOMIC EQUALITY: VIBRANT AND SOUND ECONOMY/PROSPERITY

Declare a Jubilee Year every 49 years. Create state-owned banks for each of the state where public funds are invested, like the Bank of North Dakota. Give control of commons to local state owned banks. Bring back Glass-Stegall localized economies no corporate personhood fairness and equality for all beings (including ecosystems, resources) banks and corporations required to act responsibly, answering to many, not few radicalized labor unions international corporate accountability fair trade and fair working conditions

Wealth Redistribution: 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.

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

X. ITEMS THAT ADDRESS MANY OF THE ABOVE: - Amend the US constitution to deny corporate personhood

List of Organizations and how they relate to the roadmap to achieve the vision.