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IVN Steele on Electoral Reform Part 13: Overview of the Action Plan

Independent Voter Network, 16 April 2012

Occupy is in my view a huge good thing, and it changes everything. Stabs at electoral reform have been taken in the past, with legislation submitted nine times (four of those times by Ron Paul). In each instance the two-party tyranny has laughed at the concept of real democracy–they like their monopoly and their immunity from accountability.

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2015/03/22

IVN Steele on Electoral Reform Part 13: Overview of the Ethics

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Steele on Electoral Reform — Part 13: Overview of the Ethics

Independent Voter Network, 13 April 2012

One of the most heartening aspects of my connecting electoral reform to Occupy and then via YouTube to the Reddit community, has been opportunity to meet pioneers who have been dedicated to this matter much longer than I have, and who have made contributions of such depth and persistence as to merit our huge appreciation.

Eva Waskell is one of those pioneers. She has, with others, been focused on the integrity of elections for over a decade.

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Joan Blades: Living Room Conversations Primer

Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Design, Education, Innovation, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Transparency

DOC (6 Pages): LRC General Information Packet

MoveOn, MomsRising, and now LivingRoomConversations

Generic meaningful social experiments in nurturing citizens in community. Note that the issue to be addressed communally is presented in Round 3, Rounds 1 and 2 are about building trust & understanding. There are a total of 5 rounds in two hours.

Full Text Online Below the Fold

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Sepp Hasslberger: The End of Banking

Economics/True Cost

The end of banking – a great book, and here's an interview with one of the authors.

“…if we don't disintermediate our financial system we will have financial crises over and over again and we will have further problems with rising inequality. The current status quo is totally unstable.”

INTERVIEW . BLOG . BOOK

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Open Power: Electoral Reform Short Brief (4 Slides)

Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Design, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Transparency

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This is the new short brief (4 slides) that is being circulated to those interested in having a conversation about electoral reform in 2015 and what it might mean in relation to electing an honest effective government in 2016.

PPT (4): Electoral Reform New Briefing 1.2

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2015/03/212015/03/21

Open Power: The National Conversation on Electoral Reform, Honest Government, and Our Future

Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Design, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Transparency

Joan Blades, the brilliant human that created MoveOn and Moms Rising, is now leading a new movement and meme, Living Room Conversations. Below is the first draft of what has gone forward for possible elevation to a national conversation about THE issue of our day.

NOTE: The critical genius of Joan's concept is the conversation first focuses on building understanding and trust face to face without regard to any issues. Appreciation for one another comes first. We consider this vastly more important than any transpartisan or activist movement because it crosses all boundaries and goes directly to “root” — our shared humanity.

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Open Power: Strategy for Public Victory

Access, Culture, Design, Governance, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Transparency

The question has been asked: Can we really do this? Below is one answer. A national conversation should yield both many more answers, and public confidence that it can indeed restore integrity to the US electoral process, to all three branches of the federal government, and eventually to all state and local governments — while demonstrating a model that could work around the world, over time eliminating the 42 dictators that are now “best pals” of a very corrupt US merged network of crime and politics.

Below are bullets on Strategy, Principles, Money, Timing, Principals, and Outcomes.

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