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Propositions for 2010 U.S. Social Forum
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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TPS Berlin Mailing List
We have setup a mailing list for “There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing.” Click here to signup.
This is a discussion list for The Public School project, “There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing.”
** What this list is for **
1. We will post any last minute details for or changes to meeting places here.
2. It will be the place for any follow-up discussion and some kind of daily summary.
3. A place where anyone else anywhere (including people at various Public Schools who are reading along or running parallel sessions) to participate as much as you want to – send responses, questions, provocations, photos, demands, etc.
Although it is entirely possible that this list will be a wasteland, with one message every day explaining exactly where to go and at what time, it is equally likely that the list will be hyper-active, bombarding your email inbox for the next several weeks. That will be part of the fun. When the project is over this list will be closed.
To send a message to everyone on the list, you can reply directly to this message or just send an email to fleeing@thepublicschool.org. If someone wants to be added to this discussion list, then just send us their address.
** What’s next **
-We are meeting this Sunday, 4 July at INSEL DER JUGEND IN TREPTOWER PARK. We will meet at 17:00 at the bridge and cross it together over to the island. Here is a link on the google map for the events: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111162172991000092690.0004882558b261f0fd61d&ll=52.503266,13.40435&spn=0.134796,0.301437&z=12&iwloc=000489d578c05f9d5c020
-The readers are in Germany, but have not yet arrived, and may not before Sunday. Our first text is INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL WAR (sections 3 and four) by TIQQUN. It can be found here: http://aaaaarg.org/node/14607/download
or here: http://www.mediafire.com/?gnzwvgmu2ig
We will let you know when the readers arrive and where they can be picked up.
-Finally, in case you haven’t gone to the project web page recently, we’ve updated the locations and the google map: http://thepublicschool.org/thereisnothinglesspassive/thantheactoffleeing.html
Look forward to seeing and/or hearing from you!
Sean, Caleb, Fiona
Tags Class, education, exodus, Insurrection, neo-liberalism, occupation, reading, resistance, Revolution, seminar, The Public School, war
There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing…
Deadlock: perpetual war, failing economies, the crumbling of education, capitalist realism, our environment in ruin, hostility everywhere.
Resistance? Confrontation? Insurrection?
Exodus: silence, autonomy, occupation, withdrawl, invisibility, friendship.
The Public School is organizing a 13-day seminar, meeting each day at a different location in Berlin. This seminar takes the form of an open reading group, where the texts discussed each day resonate with the site selected. On 18 July The Public School and The Office will host an event to be held at Salon Populaire. The day will unfold as a series of participatory conversations and workshops.
Please join us in Berlin or at The Public School to sketch, scheme and build new imaginaries. (Los Angeles,Philadelphia, New York, Brussels, Paris, San Juan, Helsinki)
Organized by Sean Dockray, Caleb Waldorf and Fiona Whitton
Tags "Radical", Class, Insurrection, Revolution, The Public School
The Coming Insurrection
Tomorrow The Public School will be offering a one day course on The Coming Insurrection, taught by Jason Smith, one of the translators and editors of the english edition. Please come if you can!
About the book:
The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as “the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality.” The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to “spread anarchy and live communism.”?Written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in the fall of 2005 and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France and Greece, The Coming Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist agenda, aligning itself instead with the younger, wilder forms of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against immigration control and the “war on terror.”?Hot-wired to the movement of ‘77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized forms-of-life. It is a philosophical statement that addresses the growing number of those—in France, in the United States, and elsewhere—who refuse the idea that theory, politics, and life are separate realms.