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We (Cara Baldwin, Ken Ehrlich, Michael Wilson) recently relaunched Occupy Everything and held a session at TPS to inaugurate the event as part of the Practicalities of Revolt class (with Ken, Michael and myself). The initial goal for the redesign was simply to make the site more legible and easy to navigate. The other ideas were to develop an open-editorial system (think the TPS methodology, but replace classes with texts) and to develop a resource section of the website. The open-editorial system is forthcoming, but we did develop and initial framework for comrades to upload resources and save them to their own lists. This is still very raw at the moment, but sometime soon will become a bit more robust to work with.

Stay tuned.

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Below is a list of the propositions submitted to the OccupyEverything site for the 2010 U.S. Social Forum.

  • Prop 1 – People’s seizure of Walmart, Inc. / Communize all Walmarts in State of California
  • Prop 2 – Occupy Disney / Common-ize Disney
  • Prop 3 – Truck Stop Autonomization Network Plan
  • Prop 4 – Guaranteed Minimum Income Act
  • Prop 5 – Green New Deal
  • Prop 6 – Lift All Travel Restrictions Across the Border with Mexico
  • Prop 7 – Legalize All Humans
  • Prop 8 – Common Fund for Public Education
  • Prop 9 – Outlaw Commercial Advertising
  • Prop 10 – Decriminalize Drugs
  • Prop 11 – Replace Money with Labor Vouchers
  • Prop 12 – Consumer Goods Priced According to Time Spent Making Said Goods
  • Prop 13 – Publicly-Owned Industry
  • Prop 14 – Democratic Decision-Making at Local, National and Union Levels
  • Prop 15 – Print Labor Value on Dollar Bills
  • Prop 16 – Abolish Usury / Criminalize Interest as a Form of Income
  • Prop 17 – Re-purpose 90% of U.S. Military for Domestic Public Works Projects Under Union Authority
  • Prop 18 – Land Tax on Rentable Value (High Threshold Exempting Farmers)
  • Prop 19 – Jubilee 2010 – Forgive all Non-Corporate Debt
  • Prop 20 – One year paid parental leave with guaranteed employment upon return
  • Prop 21 – Free day care and babysitting
  • Prop 22 – California Musician Corps (CMP) providing free music in parks, on street corners and beaches, kids’ birthday parties
  • Prop 23 – Maximum Income Cap (The Hollywood Gives Back Act)
  • Prop 24 – Government-subsidized health food coops in low income neighborhoods (The No Whole Foods Whole Paycheck Act)
  • Prop 25 – Disarmament for Social Satisfaction
  • Prop 26 – Technological Development for Social Satisfaction
  • Prop 27 – Economic Bill of Rights
  • Prop 28 – Democratisation of All World Financial and Economic System to Allow for Full Participation by All Countries (DAWFESAFPAC Now!)
  • Prop 29 – Re-distribute all existing bank assets to credit unions under worker/community control
  • Prop 30 – Public Ownership of All Large Databases
  • Prop 31 – The Immediate Abolition of All Private Health Insurance Companies through the Creation of a Single-Payer Health System (with full standard and alternative medical, dental, vision, and mental health coverage for all)
  • Prop 32 – Public Ownership and Worker/Community Control of the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Prop 33 – Rent control for all rental units
  • Prop 34 – End to home foreclosures
  • Prop 35 – Public ownership and worker control of the airline industry
  • Prop 36 – Federally funded auto insurance
  • Prop 37 – Immediate transition to renewable fuels
  • Prop 38 – End to the expansion of the interstate highway system
  • Prop 39 – Fully-funded high-speed national rail system with low-cost access
  • Prop 40 – Fully-funded development of renewable fuels
  • Prop 42 – Fully-funded formation of non-profit land trusts and of socially owned, tenant controlled housing cooperatives
  • Prop 43 – Massive increase in Section 8 housing subsidies
  • Prop 44 – Fully-funded public housing construction project (low cost, scattered site, community-based, high quality housing)
  • Prop 45 – Student representation on all governing bodies at educational institutions
  • Prop 46 – Student, parent, and teacher control of curriculum formation, and in the hiring and dismissal procedures of school personnel, through the formation of local school/community committees
  • Prop 47 – An egalitarian, progressive educational system based on leading-edge research in non-authoritarian education modalities.
  • Prop 48 – Guaranteed incomes and grants for artists and performers
  • Prop 49 – Fully-funded libraries, museums, cultural centers, and historic sites
  • Prop 50 – Worker/community-owned public utilities
  • Prop 51 – Free Wi-fi for everyone
  • Prop 52 – Redefine economic theories of value so as to better account for immaterial labor
  • Prop 53 – Abolish the drinking age
  • Prop 54 – Violent social revolution
  • Prop 55 – The negation of the state and authority
  • Prop 56 – Free Revolutionary Discipline
  • Prop 57 – Abolish taxation by the state
  • Prop 58 – Workers and Community Self-Management. Period.
  • Prop 59 – Eco-Communes Now.
  • Prop 60 – Abolish Property.
  • Prop 61 – Time banks
  • Prop 62 – Let a million autonomous zones bloom
  • Prop 63 – Archaic revival
  • Prop 64 – Clear-eyed resistance without nostalgia
  • Prop 65 – Permanent revolution
  • Prop 66 – Evacuation of all corporate institutions
  • Prop 67 – Evacuation of all government institutions
  • Prop 68 – Evacuate everything
  • Prop 69 – Immediately establish a decentralized, federated society of smaller, autonomous communities
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We invite the attendees to the 2010 U.S. Social Forum to join us in developing a set of initiatives or ‘propositions’ for debate and consideration for adoption via the ballot initiative process in the State of California.
These initiative should originate from one (or more) of three ‘committees’ – identified as three central areas of shared concern:

• Re-Education
• Strategy/Tactics (Occupation, Evacuation, etc)
• Resources

Prop 1 – People’s seizure of Walmart, Inc. / Communize all Walmarts in State of California
Prop 2 – Occupy Disney / Common-ize Disney
Prop 3 – Truck Stop Autonomization Network Plan
Prop 4 – Guaranteed Minimum Income Act
Prop 5 – Green New Deal

To contribute, add your proposition using the ‘Submit a Comment’ field here.

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