from RootsAction.org, this is a petition circulating that is rapidly gaining signatures. Follow the link if you would like to sign it too.
OccupyNowForFuture.org
One year was never going to be enough. A unified movement for peace and justice must never end. As Occupy enters year 2, without the corporate media's help, but with months of experience under our belts, we rededicate ourselves to building a society that is fair to everyone, including future generations, a society that doesn't just feed the insatiable greed of the 1%.
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OccupyNowForFuture.orgOne year was never going to be enough. A unified movement for peace and justice must never end. As Occupy enters year 2, without the corporate media's help, but with months of experience under our belts, we rededicate ourselves to building a society that is fair to everyone, including future generations, a society that doesn't just feed the insatiable greed of the 1%.
I commit to working locally and nationally, in the real world as well as online, to build and strengthen a multifaceted nonviolent Occupy movement regardless of the outcome of elections, a movement dedicated to empowering people and disempowering plutocracy, a movement advancing an agenda that includes:
--Taxing the rich and corporations
--Ending the wars and cutting spending on war preparation
--Strengthening Social Security and expanding Medicare to cover us all
--Ending corporate welfare for oil companies and other big business interests
--Transitioning to a clean energy economy, reversing environmental degradation
--Protecting worker rights including collective bargaining, creating jobs and raising wages
--Taking the money out of politics
--Making education a right, not a privilege
--Making housing a right, not a privilege
--Breaking up corporate media monopolies
--Restoring and expanding civil liberties
--Taxing the rich and corporations
--Ending the wars and cutting spending on war preparation
--Strengthening Social Security and expanding Medicare to cover us all
--Ending corporate welfare for oil companies and other big business interests
--Transitioning to a clean energy economy, reversing environmental degradation
--Protecting worker rights including collective bargaining, creating jobs and raising wages
--Taking the money out of politics
--Making education a right, not a privilege
--Making housing a right, not a privilege
--Breaking up corporate media monopolies
--Restoring and expanding civil liberties
Doesn't seem like a very ambitious list, much of this already has been done. War was outlawed by the Kellogg-Briand Pact and the US hasn't declared one for decades. Corporations and rich already are nominaly taxed (tinkering with deductions or marginal rates is exciting only to accountants). Collective bargaining is freely available but nobody wants it anymore. There is more education available free at the local library than any human could ever absorb. Seriously, these goals are SO 1900.
ReplyDeleteYou should push for more aggressive social changes. Homosexuality not just acceptable but mandatory. Taxpayer-funded partial birth abortions for minors without parental notification, of course, but with cash incentives, too. Eliminate passports, border crossings, different currencies and all the trappings of individual nations in favor of one global community ruled by one totally cool dude who looks great in a suit. You know, really Progressive stuff. That's where the real action is.
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