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'''I. CLEAN AIR, WATER, FOOD: ENVIRONMENTAL'''  
'''I. CLEAN AIR, WATER, FOOD: ENVIRONMENTAL'''  


What: '''Local food production, community gardens, permaculture agriculture'''
How:
How:
-Local food production, community gardens, permaculture agriculture'''
- worker self directed organic agriculture coops on the model of Mondragon in Spain
- worker self directed organic agriculture coops on the model of Mondragon in Spain
- establish more community garden land
- establish more community garden land
- offer tax credits to farms that give away food
- offer tax credits to farms that give away food
- HIGH TAXES on food production that is NOT ORGANIC
- HIGH TAXES on food production that is NOT ORGANIC
-lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) at a rate pegged to the cost of food to local organic growers
-utilize planning models that favor high density cities, land conservation and discourage sprawl


What:'''access to real nourishing, non-chemical, non-GMO food'''  
What:'''access to real nourishing, non-chemical, non-GMO food'''  
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- no junk food in schools
- no junk food in schools
- no for-profit packaged food in schools
- no for-profit packaged food in schools
-require farms to be at least 50% self sustaining with regards to seed, animal, feed and fertilizer production


What: '''environmental justice'''
What: '''environmental justice'''
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- shelter as a right
- shelter as a right
-declare rooftops "commons" (gardens, wind turbines, solar).
-declare rooftops "commons" (gardens, wind turbines, solar).
-development policies that favor high density cities
-institute development policies that favor high density cities


What: '''environmental awareness and respect'''
What: '''environmental awareness and respect'''
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- ask schools to teach holistic thinking
- ask schools to teach holistic thinking


What:
What:'''healthier diets and lifestyles'''
'''healthier diets and lifestyles'''


How:
How:


affordable healthy food'''
-affordable healthy food
require foodstamp agencies to provide foodstamp payment mechanisms to farmers markets
-require foodstamp agencies to provide foodstamp payment mechanisms to farmers markets
replace all government subsidies, including food stamps (and the grand bargain with agribusiness that supports that program) with a Basic Income Guarantee
-tie the salaries of public officials inversely to the price of a grocery basket of sustainable food
tie the salaries of public officials inversely to the price of a grocery basket of sustainable food
-require that food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be proven safe before being allowed on the market


What: '''clean water as a right'''
What: '''clean water as a right'''
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How:
How:
- tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
- tax credits to food providers that offer food for free (pay-what-you-can cafes, etc)
-public magnet schools that are horticultural academies that also care for public land & grow food
-replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a basic income guarantee


What:'''connection to earth'''
What:'''connection to earth'''


-
-public magnet schools that are horticultural academies that also care for public land & grow food
'''
'''
II. FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL: CULTURAL'''  
'''II. FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL: CULTURAL'''  


How
How
-all airwaves publicly owned
-all airwaves publicly owned
- in the meantime, require all licensed broadcasters to allow free primetime spots to candidates that make it to the ballot.
- 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'''
'''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.
- 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.
-extend public education through college
-extend public education through college


what: '''free and open communications'''


'''free and open communications'''
how:
 
- certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime.
- certain amount of the airwaves is public every day, primetime.
- certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections
- certain amount of airwaves is devoted to publicly funded elections


'''real education, free and equal, democratized'''
'what: ''real education, free and equal, democratized'''


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


what: '''universal access to data'''


'''universal access to data'''
how:
 
- keep requirement for universal access on telephone companies, to make sure low income and remote people can get access.
- 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  
'''III. NO WAR: PEACE AND SECURITY/POLITICAL'''


What: '''peace, nonviolence, no war or death machines'''no military  
What: '''peace, nonviolence, no war or death machines'''no military  
''world peace'''


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


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


- build schools in every village
How:
 
replace current military model with hand to hand combat, only
What: '''no global us vs them'''
build schools in every village
 
-repeal the Second Amendment
How:- declare indigenous rights
-register all guns
 
'''nonviolence'''


What:
'''no global us vs them'''
''nonviolence'''
'''friendship, rather than strangership, as the default relationship among people'''
'''friendship, rather than strangership, as the default relationship among people'''
'''mutual respect between cultures or trading nations'''
'''mutual respect between cultures or trading nations'''


'''nonviolent interpersonal and international conflict resolution'''
how:
 
-nonviolent interpersonal and international conflict resolution''' education
'''world peace'''
-declare indigenous rights
 
-balance the global labor transition with a global basic income guarantee


IV. SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SOCIETY: CULTURAL/ENVIRONMENTAL  
'''IV. SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SOCIETY: CULTURAL/ENVIRONMENTAL'''


what: a world where basic needs are met'''
what: a world where basic needs are met'''
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what: 'a strong sense of community'''
what: 'a strong sense of community'''


how
How:
mandatory community service for white color criminals
-mandatory community service for white color criminals
 
-establish participatory budgeting of tax dollars
How: establish participatory budgeting of tax dollars


'what: safety for everyone from domestic violence and fear'''
'what: safety for everyone from domestic violence and fear'''
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what: more humanity, compassion, kindness, and selflessness'''
what: more humanity, compassion, kindness, and selflessness'''


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


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


V. A CULTURE OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY: DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE/POLITICAL
'''V. A CULTURE OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY: DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE/POLITICAL
'''
what: '''no money in politics'''
what: '''no money in politics'''


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


what: '''end two-party system'''
what: '''end two-party system'''
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What:'''local community control'''
What:'''local community control'''


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


what: '''consensus based democracy'''
what: '''consensus based democracy'''
How:  
How:  
crowd source/vote on all public policy decisions/give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision via the internet.
 
-crowd source/vote on all public policy decisions/give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision via the internet.
- online voting?
- online voting?
- popular vote
- popular vote
-voting days are holidays
-voting days are holidays


'''just and fair legal system'''
what: '''just and fair legal system'''


- no profit in prisons
- no profit in prisons


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


how:
- big fines
- big fines
-prison terms for journalist who lie & loss of right to publish


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


what: '''no tax without representation'''


'''no tax without representation'''
what: ''a fair electoral system'''


'''a fair electoral system'''
what: '''accountable government'''
 
'''accountable government'''


- all financials downloadable in Excel format
- all financials downloadable in Excel format


'''democratic process that works for all'''
what: '''democratic process that works for all'''
 
'''
 
"VI. '''FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE: CULTURAL/ECONOMIC''''''
'''free healthcare (accessible and state of the art)'''
VI. '''FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE: CULTURAL/ECONOMIC'''
''free therapy and emotional/mental healthcare'''


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


'''healthcare emphasizes preventative and alternative measures'''
what: '''healthcare emphasizes preventative and alternative measures'''
'''full control of our own bodies, including shared ownership of the means of preventative healthcare'''


'''free healthcare (accessible and state of the art)'''
how:
--alternative medical licensing/professional societies, use at your own risk
-health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs
-programs to teach people how to take care of themselves and others, "caring cooperatives"
--make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system


'''full control of our own bodies, including shared ownership of the means of preventative healthcare'''
'''VII. TAXES:'''


'''free therapy and emotional/mental healthcare'''
what: a tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud,  rewards thrift and environmentalism and taxes at a relatively higher rate activities that are harmful and not life-affirming.


VII. TAXES:
How:
- tax "resource use" NOT income
- tax "resource use" NOT income
- tax on revenues/expenses, not on profit. too easy to cheat
- 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
- 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.
-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.
Tie the tax brackets to the rental cost of a square foot of land by county, the lower the rents, the lower the taxes.
-Tie the tax brackets to the rental cost of a square foot of land by county, the lower the rents, the lower the taxes.
Carbon Tax.
-Carbon Tax.


'''VIII. ECONOMIC EQUALITY: VIBRANT AND SOUND ECONOMY/PROSPERITY
'''
what: a economic system that like and ecosystem is homeostatic, self-regulating and wastes nothing.


 
how:  
 
VIII. ECONOMIC EQUALITY: VIBRANT AND SOUND ECONOMY/PROSPERITY
 
Declare a Jubilee Year every 49 years.
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.
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.
Give control of commons to small municipalities
Bring back Glass-Stegall
Bring back Glass-Stegall
localized economies
give economic/tax incentives to locale producers
no corporate personhood
Abolish corporate personhood
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.
Thirty hour work week for all government employees.
Commerce Calming: prohibition on commerce Friday thru Sunday.
Measure the Gross National Happiness instead of the Gross National Product.
 
General:
fairness and equality for all beings (including ecosystems, resources)
fairness and equality for all beings (including ecosystems, resources)
banks and corporations required to act responsibly, answering to many, not few
banks and corporations required to act responsibly, answering to many, not few
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international corporate accountability
international corporate accountability
fair trade and fair working conditions  
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.
   
Thirty hour work week for all government employees.
I'''X. FREEDOM: POLITICAL/CULTURAL'''
Commerce Calming: prohibition on commerce Friday thru Sunday.
Measure the Gross National Happiness instead of the Gross National Product.
 
 
IX. FREEDOM: POLITICAL/CULTURAL  
freedom to live anywhere: no borders, no nations
freedom to live anywhere: no borders, no nations
freedom of knowledge and press
freedom of knowledge and press

Revision as of 17:34, 9 May 2013

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

How: -Local food production, community gardens, permaculture agriculture - worker self directed organic agriculture coops on the model of Mondragon in Spain - establish more community garden land - offer tax credits to farms that give away food - HIGH TAXES on food production that is NOT ORGANIC -lease commons (locally owned/controlled land) at a rate pegged to the cost of food to local organic growers -utilize planning models that favor high density cities, land conservation and discourage sprawl

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 -require farms to be at least 50% self sustaining with regards to seed, animal, feed and fertilizer production

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). -institute 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 -require foodstamp agencies to provide foodstamp payment mechanisms to farmers markets -tie the salaries of public officials inversely to the price of a grocery basket of sustainable food -require that food additives, packaging, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies be proven safe before being allowed on the market

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) -public magnet schools that are horticultural academies that also care for public land & grow food -replace the food stamp/agribusiness grand bargain with a basic income guarantee

What:connection to earth

-public magnet schools that are horticultural academies that also care for public land & grow food 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. -extend public education through college

what: free and open communications

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

'what: real education, free and equal, democratized'

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

what: universal access to data

how: - 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 world peace'

How: - choose a date where no arms will be built in factories. after that date, make it illegal for any guns to exist -pay owners of arms factories to stop producing - end tax deducation for lobbying expenses for military contractors

'What: no need for violent conflict or guns'

How: replace current military model with hand to hand combat, only build schools in every village -repeal the Second Amendment -register all guns

What:

no global us vs them

nonviolence' friendship, rather than strangership, as the default relationship among people mutual respect between cultures or trading nations

how: -nonviolent interpersonal and international conflict resolution education -declare indigenous rights -balance the global labor transition with a global basic income guarantee

IV. SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SOCIETY: CULTURAL/ENVIRONMENTAL

what: a world where basic needs are met

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 -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 abolish 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

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

what: consensus based democracy

How:

-crowd source/vote on all public policy decisions/give the public a percentage of the votes on any decision via the internet. - online voting? - popular vote -voting days are holidays

what: just and fair legal system

- no profit in prisons

what: truth in journalism/illegal to lie

how: - big fines -prison terms for journalist who lie & loss of right to publish

what: minorities have power and voice (rule by diversity)

what: no tax without representation

what: a fair electoral system'

what: accountable government

- all financials downloadable in Excel format

what: democratic process that works for all "VI. FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE: CULTURAL/ECONOMIC' free healthcare (accessible and state of the art) free therapy and emotional/mental healthcare'

How: -nationalize the healthcare system - amend the constitution so that healthcare is a right - deploy national healthcare system -end fee for service & require that clinicians be salaried. -stop clinicians salaries when patient get sick, start paying them again when their patient recovers

what: healthcare emphasizes preventative and alternative measures full control of our own bodies, including shared ownership of the means of preventative healthcare

how: --alternative medical licensing/professional societies, use at your own risk -health as a major topic in public education system and in state sponsored adult education programs -programs to teach people how to take care of themselves and others, "caring cooperatives" --make gyms/health clubs part of the healthcare system

VII. TAXES:

what: a tax system that creates the basis for an homeostatic economy; one that discourages waste and fraud, rewards thrift and environmentalism and taxes at a relatively higher rate activities that are harmful and not life-affirming.

How: - 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. -Tie the tax brackets to the rental cost of a square foot of land by county, the lower the rents, the lower the taxes. -Carbon Tax.

VIII. ECONOMIC EQUALITY: VIBRANT AND SOUND ECONOMY/PROSPERITY what: a economic system that like and ecosystem is homeostatic, self-regulating and wastes nothing.

how: 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 small municipalities Bring back Glass-Stegall give economic/tax incentives to locale producers Abolish corporate personhood 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. Thirty hour work week for all government employees. Commerce Calming: prohibition on commerce Friday thru Sunday. Measure the Gross National Happiness instead of the Gross National Product.

General: 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

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.