Month: October 2011

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Robert Steele: Electoral Reform Road Trip Fund-Raiser

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Robert David STEELE Vivas

HATS OFF TO INDIEGOGO where this campaign to raise $10,000 has just gone live.

ElectoralReform & BigBatUSA for OWS

Johnny Appleseed for Electoral Reform Across all Occupy Sites and More

It merits comment that KickStarter rejected the campaign for reasons that are not at all clear.  If you would like to restore the integrity of the US electoral process and consequently the integrity of the US Government, this is a good place to start.

I am a member of the Politics & Electoral Reform Working Group of OccupyWallStreet, and am briefing them on this electronically now and personally next Sunday in NYC.  In my mind, electoral reform is not only the singular demand that must be made prior to 15 November, it is also the foundation for a nation-wide fund-raising campaign, BigBatUSA, to raise no less than 500 million and more likely 1-2 billion as an annual subscription for Democracy USA–$10 times 50 million is where we want to start.  The same site  that handles the fund-raising–and I anticipate it will be IndiegGOGO–will also provide for citizen intelligence, citizen policy-making, and citizen budget oversight across as many local, state, and national levels as are called for.

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DefDog: Occupy Wall Street – Washington Still Doesn’t Get I

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, Blog Wisdom, Corruption, Government, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth
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The more they say they have changed, the more they remain the same…..

Occupy Wall Street: Washington Still Doesn't Get It

Matt Taibbi

Rolling Stone, 21 October 2011

I'll have more coming out about this in a few days, but there have been two disgusting developments in the realm of plutocratic intervention on behalf of Wall Street that everyone protesting should take note of.

The fact that both of the following things took place in the middle of the full fever of OWS, when everyone is supposedly trying to placate anti-banker sentiment and Obama and the DCCC are supposedly pledging support of the protesters, shows how completely bankrupt this system is and how necessary street-level protests have become. Popular uprising is probably the only move left to stop developments like the following:

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Phi Beta Iota:  This is why US Day of Rage and Phi Beta Iota both feel so strongly that Electoral Reform is the only immediately reasonable and achievable demand.  Congress and the  White House are under the delusion that they are going to be in power after 2012, and that #OWS is a light rain that will disappear over the winter.  We do not agree.  Politics has  finally become very personal to the 99%.  That is what's new.  The lack of intelligence and integrity in the US Government is not new, but God willing, will be old news by 2012.

See Also:

#OWS Directory (List/Library) Sorted in Categories

#OWS Proposed Electoral Reform Act of 2012 Demand

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Review: What Comes After Money?

5 Star, America (Founders, Current Situation), Banks, Fed, Money, & Concentrated Wealth, Capitalism (Good & Bad), Civil Society, Complexity & Catastrophe, Congress (Failure, Reform), Consciousness & Social IQ, Corruption, Crime (Corporate), Crime (Government), Culture, Research, Economics, Executive (Partisan Failure, Reform), Intelligence (Wealth of Networks), Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Peace, Poverty, & Middle Class, Politics, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), Threats (Emerging & Perennial), True Cost & Toxicity, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution, Voices Lost (Indigenous, Gender, Poor, Marginalized)
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Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan (eds.)

5.0 out of 5 stars Forward-Thinking, Relevant to #OWS, Brilliant Sparks, October 22, 2011

This book is one of at least four that I would suggest are essential reading for any citizen in the aftermath of #OccupyWallStreet (now shortened to #OWS). The other three are:

Extreme Democracy
The Innovator's Manifesto: Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

This book is a spin-off from Reality Sandwich, an online creative blog founded by one of the contributing editors of this book. Billed as evolving consciousness one bite by bite, it offers a melange of forward thinking. Since I am a book person by nature (a digital immigrant), I particularly appreciate “best of the best” rendered in a value-added book form.

Twenty-two contributors focus on transforming currency and community with consciousness being the implicit third leg of the stool.

Everything here was written well in advance of #OWS, but as with the other three books I recommended above, could easily be adopted by #OWS as its own.

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