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Three Concrete Demands to Hold Wall Street Accountable
I thought this might be a good article to look at as we think about what our demands/goals/points of unity.
Snippet:
The demands of the several hundred protesters camped out on Wall Street have been criticized as ad hoc and poorly articulated. The protesters emphasize that their demands are "a process" intended to allow people to "talk to each other in various physical gatherings and virtual people's assemblies ... [and] zero in on what our one demand will be, a demand that awakens the imagination."
Since they're looking for suggestions, here are three policy changes that should be on their list of demands. There is often a conflict between demands that are specific requests versus visions of where we want to end up. These three try to do both. They are specific demands that speak to the long-term end goal of a better, more just economy.
thinking big
Submitted by bishop on
I would offer this:
global ceasefire, beginning with all american actions, and including especially palestine and israel.
global general strike - need BIG LABOR UNIONS' support for that, obviously.
once the above two are established, a sociocratic selection of a global committee of perhaps 500 people to start talkin
http://www.sociocracy.info/
once they're talkin, everyone can go home and await their findings, which will be essentially binding; that is - the powers that be either abide them, or the strike recommences.
this is the short version of course, but basically..
there's your revolution.
goals/demands
Submitted by bishop on
expandning slightly on the above:
the ceasefire is a demonstration of unity
the strike a demonstration of power
the assembly, based in sociocracy, is a shift from political to personal decision making, on a mass scale
the strike shuts everything down, so demands must be heard
the ceasefire demonstrates peaceful intention and alters consciousness broadly and profoundly
then the assembly is charged with offering solution; including all 7 billion people is obviously impossible, but through sociocracy everyone can have a direct, empowering, personal connection to those at the assembly, instead of a tenuous, corrupt one as elections produce
hope this is helpful
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