A Social-Political Program for Human Development on a Collapsing Planet in Chaos
green means green | 17.11.2005 21:00 | Social Struggles
End the Expansion of Mass Transit. No private cars in urban areas; motorized transport in urban areas for business deliveries, handicapped/elderly.High fuel taxes on all private fuel sales. Abolition corporate business structures employing more than 100 people. Abolition GMOs / toxic chemicals.
Fight Imperialism with Non-Materialism
Green Means Green:
Green_meansgreen@lycos.com
A Social-Political Program for Human Development on a Collapsing Planet in Chaos
The three of us who are writing this statement have deeply studied all kinds of economic systems for our combined total of 49 years. We find that most academics (Chavez – not radical enough, Bookchin – boring utopian, Albert – impossible meetings, Chomsky – general vagueness, David Korten (No strategy for political power), Waldon Bello (no political strategy) and Alan Woods (Though we like Woods the best of these!) are either stuck in middle class and pro-economic growth paradigms or operate in a wholly utopian or abstract global analysis. There has never been and probably never will be anything resembling an informed debate on economics (political economy). How could there be a meaningful debate when even (or especially) the educated people would not understand much of the discussion.
Most economic analysis needs a reality check... Any significant economic change pre-supposes a radical political power, a civil struggle (if not war) and a people prepared and committed to poverty and US (elite) hostility.
We find that these conditions (preparations) are lacking in most of the world. The debate is non-existent. The time required to achieve these is indeterminate but long. The attitudes of these academics and most activists is elitist if not a form of denial that leads to or benefits fascism, global corporate governance and ecocide/genocide...
We are killing the future and the future choices that the people might have chosen with this refusal to discuss the current alternatives (What we should be fighting for) and how change happens.
To clarify and to simplify the options – the structure of a possible dialog – let us state that any group that refuses to explain how it disagrees with our – The Green Means Green – recipe is elitist and at least closet fascist. Please explain yourselves – even if you refuse to actually debate – the world is waiting – the clock is ticking...
Soon we will be forced to enter the Green fray again to shake things up – to force some kind of sense into the alternative. The lies of Nader and the Green Party Bureaucrats cannot stand unchallenged.
The Platform of Green Means Green:
1. End the Expansion of Mass Transit
2. No private cars in urban areas; motorized transport in urban areas primarily for business deliveries, the handicapped and elderly.
3. Very high fuel taxes (2-4 dollars per gallon) on all private fuel sales. High vehicle registration/disposal fees on all private vehicles.
4. Abolition/prohibition on corporate business structures employing more than 100 people.
5. Abolition/prohibition of all genetically modified organisms (GMOs) (and high restrictions on research); abolition/prohibition on toxic chemicals and the overuse of agricultural chemicals.
6. Beyond these restraints on transport, economic concentration and toxic materials we believe that a democratic and sustainable government will reduce imports, end dependency and invest in the localized production of basic needs goods (food, water, energy, building materials and all of the tools required to produce each of these necessities.).
What is novel and truthful about this program is that it would work for 8 billion people. No other plan can make this claim
WE WANT YOUR INPUT – WE HAVE MANY PROJECTS FOR PEOPLE TO PLUG INTO NOW.
Until we agree more on what we are fighting for…. We cannot really discuss how to fight – or how to win.
A CALL FOR EMERGENCY Bushwacker VOLUNTEERS:
THE PROJECT FOR A NON-aMERICAN CENTURY
WE HAVE A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT ESSAYS AND DOCUMENTS THAT WE BELIEVE MUST BE DISSEMINATED TO THE WIDEST AUDIENCES POSSIBLE in the shortest time...
Please cut and paste the following articles into any indymedia website or to resist.ca, infoshop.org, Democracy Now and any blog or other paste and cut (publish or send to) sites of interest or need.
Links:
1. MANY FRENCH UPRISING ARTICLES TO POST (or post as shorter ones too!)
a. Demands of French Youth: Paris Uprising 2005
ALIVE WITH FIRE: Death to Cars and the Politics of Defeat!
http://quebec.indymedia.org/en/node.php?id=22801
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/1721830.php
http://print.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/1986.php
b. The four part series by Marcel Dilessi:
RIOTS OF PASSION AND BLOOD
http://www.indymedia.be/en/node/274
http://www.indymedia.be/en/node/274
2. Green Means Green Platform: Call for Volunteers
http://indymedia.us/en/2005/11/11895.shtml
3. Away All Cars
http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3?id_article=45501
http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/2005/11/827262.shtml
4. How a Revolution
http://colorado.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11936/index.php
http://cvilleindymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=1978
5. CUBA: Balloons of Shame for Bush/Cheney Torture Regime
http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/826667.shtml
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/2592.php
Note :
You can use the pictures provided in the articles or use other appropriate or interesting ones that you find (discretion and taste please!)
If the article comes out to be rejected because of duplicate or previous post – you can add or subtract from it or just change the title slightly or more – and/or change the author – and try it again – otherwise continue down the (Your) list of publishing and send to sites.
Suggestions:
Pick one or two articles and send them out to as many places as you can and then pick one or two more and send them.
Please send the links that you create when you publish or any links to other articles from the list that you find to: email: green_meansgreen@lycos.com
AND also to: peacepixels @rock .com
Another Idea We don’t have time for:
Dear Volunteeer Bushwackers :::
IDEAS FOR HOLIDAY Celebrations:
Help Fund Peace and the Oracle of Peace! Peace Pix –
Buy your X-Mas presents here, or purchase pixels for a picture of your loved one or pet!
Spare Some Change for the Planet = Peace in Iraq
No. We don’t want your money – or if you are reading this actually you did pay some time anyway – but the secret to peace is to not spend money. 10% saved or not spent for peace. Use money to make peace happen. If the 20 to 30 percent of US people who really want to do something to create a peaceful world would just cut back by 10 percent it would send a strong enough message to the “Bosses” that they have to change or lose.
For some people (the poor) this may be difficult. So, just cut back 2 or 5 percent – whatever you can will help. And hopefully enough people will pledge to cut back on spending – and follow through – that they will make up the difference from those who cannot cut back as much. From each according to their ability to nothing…
Put off buying a new or a second car for a few months or a year. Take the Pledge to only give homemade items (cookies, hand-me-downs, or art) as Christmas presents. Move your dollars into Euros or Bolivars.
But this is just the first step – the easy one.
google millionaire homepage -- million peace votes – peacehomepage – or ?? -- PEACE SELLS – PEACE ADDS – or " Google For Peace " --
Below are sound ideas for how you can maximize the impact of your spending choices.
You might as well get the most out of your sacrifices and get the changes over quicker.
A louder message – a stronger effect – and there will be more hope and effort in response.
LOW INCOME PEOPLE :
Apply for Food Stamps and Welfare (AFDC or income (cash) support – and child support if your delinquent ex-parent will not join the revolution!). Also seek out anything else offered by churches, local/state government and your job. Go dumpster diving and alley scrounging. It's easy, fun and not that messy. Go to your local health food store or gourmet/yuppy food store (Traitor Joes or Wild Oats) around 9 or 10 PM. Look in their garbage bin
There is usually lots of food. Try grocery store (chains) dumpsters too, but often they are locked or use the immoral compactors. Other ideas (sure that you have more): buy your kids clothes / toys at the thrift stores. Share and mend and fix things rather than buy new. Do without or reduce, re-use, recycle. Help others avoid spending money too. Borrow from your wealthier friends and relatives so that you can keep them from spending and maybe quit your job or work part-time and live off of the savings (borrowings). If you feel really compelled you could even work for the revolution for a few weeks or years... You can save the money that you are savings from cutting back – but read on /....
It is only for a few months – not a life of frugality – although that IS OK too!
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/rate/11254/index.php#Article-11254
Misc… Notes on the impossibility of serious education or communication…
When people give me their rap or an example to dispute me, it is often like they are arguing that we should grow a crop that went extinct 10,000 years ago. Yes, it would be a good idea. Yes, it is a very good crop, just the kind that we need. Maybe we should commit many of our resources and efforts to finding or re-breeding this crop to match the old one (20 to 100 years of work?).
But somehow these people are answering my immediate question of: "What crop shall we plant this season? (How a Revolution)" with an answer that is wrong in terms of time and possibility – and shows that they were not listening well or have a fuzzy idea of what thinking is.
THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE _ MUST Enter all discussions - ! It helps you learn to think -
Balloons of Shame for Bush/Cheney Torture Regime
If the US Congress does not immediately establish a very broad Special Investigation of torture by the US administration, then this is a text book case where the International Criminal Court should initiate proceedings against the suspects (Dickey Chenney, Karpinsky, CIA Directors Tenet, John McLaughlin and Porter J. Goss, Major General Geoffrey Miller, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld – among dozens.).
Join the Organizing Committee for Guantanamo Protests
Green_meansgreen@lycos.com
A Desperate Letter to the Cuban People:
Dear Comrade Fidel Castro and the People of Cuba,
We are tired of listening to the reports of US torture and criminal activity in the Middle East and at the Cuban territory illegally occupied by the US at Guantanamo. We seek your permission to allow a few US citizens to approach the base and to float some large green balloons saying: “Shame GW Bush – Shame the ICC” and STOP THE TORTURE & ILLEGAL DETENTION!”
Green_meansgreen@lycos.com A Social-Political Program for Human Development on a Collapsing Planet in Chaos
The three of us who are writing this statement have deeply studied all kinds of economic systems for our combined total of 49 years. We find that most academics (Chavez – not radical enough, Bookchin – boring utopian, Albert – impossible meetings, Chomsky – general vagueness, David Korten (No strategy for political power), Waldon Bello (no political strategy) and Alan Woods (Though we like Woods the best of these!) are either stuck in middle class and pro-economic growth paradigms or operate in a wholly utopian or abstract global analysis. There has never been and probably never will be anything resembling an informed debate on economics (political economy). How could there be a meaningful debate when even (or especially) the educated people would not understand much of the discussion.
Most economic analysis needs a reality check... Any significant economic change pre-supposes a radical political power, a civil struggle (if not war) and a people prepared and committed to poverty and US (elite) hostility.
We find that these conditions (preparations) are lacking in most of the world. The debate is non-existent. The time required to achieve these is indeterminate but long. The attitudes of these academics and most activists is elitist if not a form of denial that leads to or benefits fascism, global corporate governance and ecocide/genocide...
We are killing the future and the future choices that the people might have chosen with this refusal to discuss the current alternatives (What we should be fighting for) and how change happens.
To clarify and to simplify the options – the structure of a possible dialog – let us state that any group that refuses to explain how it disagrees with our – The Green Means Green – recipe is elitist and at least closet fascist. Please explain yourselves – even if you refuse to actually debate – the world is waiting – the clock is ticking...
Soon we will be forced to enter the Green fray again to shake things up – to force some kind of sense into the alternative. The lies of Nader and the Green Party Bureaucrats cannot stand unchallenged.
The Platform of Green Means Green:
1. End the Expansion of Mass Transit
2. No private cars in urban areas; motorized transport in urban areas primarily for business deliveries, the handicapped and elderly.
3. Very high fuel taxes (2-4 dollars per gallon) on all private fuel sales. High vehicle registration/disposal fees on all private vehicles.
4. Abolition/prohibition on corporate business structures employing more than 100 people.
5. Abolition/prohibition of all genetically modified organisms (GMOs) (and high restrictions on research); abolition/prohibition on toxic chemicals and the overuse of agricultural chemicals.
6. Beyond these restraints on transport, economic concentration and toxic materials we believe that a democratic and sustainable government will reduce imports, end dependency and invest in the localized production of basic needs goods (food, water, energy, building materials and all of the tools required to produce each of these necessities.).
What is novel and truthful about this program is that it would work for 8 billion people. No other plan can make this claim
WE WANT YOUR INPUT – WE HAVE MANY PROJECTS FOR PEOPLE TO PLUG INTO NOW.
Until we agree more on what we are fighting for…. We cannot really discuss how to fight – or how to win.
A CALL FOR EMERGENCY Bushwacker VOLUNTEERS:
THE PROJECT FOR A NON-aMERICAN CENTURY
WE HAVE A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT ESSAYS AND DOCUMENTS THAT WE BELIEVE MUST BE DISSEMINATED TO THE WIDEST AUDIENCES POSSIBLE in the shortest time...
Please cut and paste the following articles into any indymedia website or to resist.ca, infoshop.org, Democracy Now and any blog or other paste and cut (publish or send to) sites of interest or need.
Links:
1. MANY FRENCH UPRISING ARTICLES TO POST (or post as shorter ones too!)
a. Demands of French Youth: Paris Uprising 2005
ALIVE WITH FIRE: Death to Cars and the Politics of Defeat!
http://quebec.indymedia.org/en/node.php?id=22801 http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/1721830.php http://print.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/1986.php b. The four part series by Marcel Dilessi:
RIOTS OF PASSION AND BLOOD
http://www.indymedia.be/en/node/274 http://www.indymedia.be/en/node/274 2. Green Means Green Platform: Call for Volunteers
http://indymedia.us/en/2005/11/11895.shtml 3. Away All Cars
http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3?id_article=45501 http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/2005/11/827262.shtml 4. How a Revolution
http://colorado.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11936/index.php http://cvilleindymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=1978 5. CUBA: Balloons of Shame for Bush/Cheney Torture Regime
http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/826667.shtml http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/2592.php Note :
You can use the pictures provided in the articles or use other appropriate or interesting ones that you find (discretion and taste please!)
If the article comes out to be rejected because of duplicate or previous post – you can add or subtract from it or just change the title slightly or more – and/or change the author – and try it again – otherwise continue down the (Your) list of publishing and send to sites.
Suggestions:
Pick one or two articles and send them out to as many places as you can and then pick one or two more and send them.
Please send the links that you create when you publish or any links to other articles from the list that you find to: email:
green_meansgreen@lycos.com AND also to: peacepixels @rock .com
Another Idea We don’t have time for:
Dear Volunteeer Bushwackers :::
IDEAS FOR HOLIDAY Celebrations:
Help Fund Peace and the Oracle of Peace! Peace Pix –
Buy your X-Mas presents here, or purchase pixels for a picture of your loved one or pet!
Spare Some Change for the Planet = Peace in Iraq
No. We don’t want your money – or if you are reading this actually you did pay some time anyway – but the secret to peace is to not spend money. 10% saved or not spent for peace. Use money to make peace happen. If the 20 to 30 percent of US people who really want to do something to create a peaceful world would just cut back by 10 percent it would send a strong enough message to the “Bosses” that they have to change or lose.
For some people (the poor) this may be difficult. So, just cut back 2 or 5 percent – whatever you can will help. And hopefully enough people will pledge to cut back on spending – and follow through – that they will make up the difference from those who cannot cut back as much. From each according to their ability to nothing…
Put off buying a new or a second car for a few months or a year. Take the Pledge to only give homemade items (cookies, hand-me-downs, or art) as Christmas presents. Move your dollars into Euros or Bolivars.
But this is just the first step – the easy one.
google millionaire homepage -- million peace votes – peacehomepage – or ?? -- PEACE SELLS – PEACE ADDS – or " Google For Peace " --
Below are sound ideas for how you can maximize the impact of your spending choices.
You might as well get the most out of your sacrifices and get the changes over quicker.
A louder message – a stronger effect – and there will be more hope and effort in response.
LOW INCOME PEOPLE :
Apply for Food Stamps and Welfare (AFDC or income (cash) support – and child support if your delinquent ex-parent will not join the revolution!). Also seek out anything else offered by churches, local/state government and your job. Go dumpster diving and alley scrounging. It's easy, fun and not that messy. Go to your local health food store or gourmet/yuppy food store (Traitor Joes or Wild Oats) around 9 or 10 PM. Look in their garbage bin
There is usually lots of food. Try grocery store (chains) dumpsters too, but often they are locked or use the immoral compactors. Other ideas (sure that you have more): buy your kids clothes / toys at the thrift stores. Share and mend and fix things rather than buy new. Do without or reduce, re-use, recycle. Help others avoid spending money too. Borrow from your wealthier friends and relatives so that you can keep them from spending and maybe quit your job or work part-time and live off of the savings (borrowings). If you feel really compelled you could even work for the revolution for a few weeks or years... You can save the money that you are savings from cutting back – but read on /....
It is only for a few months – not a life of frugality – although that IS OK too!
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/rate/11254/index.php#Article-11254 Misc… Notes on the impossibility of serious education or communication…
When people give me their rap or an example to dispute me, it is often like they are arguing that we should grow a crop that went extinct 10,000 years ago. Yes, it would be a good idea. Yes, it is a very good crop, just the kind that we need. Maybe we should commit many of our resources and efforts to finding or re-breeding this crop to match the old one (20 to 100 years of work?).
But somehow these people are answering my immediate question of: "What crop shall we plant this season? (How a Revolution)" with an answer that is wrong in terms of time and possibility – and shows that they were not listening well or have a fuzzy idea of what thinking is.
THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE _ MUST Enter all discussions - ! It helps you learn to think -
Balloons of Shame for Bush/Cheney Torture Regime
If the US Congress does not immediately establish a very broad Special Investigation of torture by the US administration, then this is a text book case where the International Criminal Court should initiate proceedings against the suspects (Dickey Chenney, Karpinsky, CIA Directors Tenet, John McLaughlin and Porter J. Goss, Major General Geoffrey Miller, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld – among dozens.).
Join the Organizing Committee for Guantanamo Protests
Green_meansgreen@lycos.com A Desperate Letter to the Cuban People:
Dear Comrade Fidel Castro and the People of Cuba,
We are tired of listening to the reports of US torture and criminal activity in the Middle East and at the Cuban territory illegally occupied by the US at Guantanamo. We seek your permission to allow a few US citizens to approach the base and to float some large green balloons saying: “Shame GW Bush – Shame the ICC” and STOP THE TORTURE & ILLEGAL DETENTION!”
green means green