BUILDING MOMENTUM OUT OF UNITY
THE STRATEGY BEYOND
Chautauqua participants seemed to agree overall that the corporate coup is indeed a fact and there are only two ways to realistically confront it.
- Radically decrease corporations' political
power
and pathological behavior; and
- Rapidly increase our democratic rights
til we are in fact "sovereign citizens."
To realize these goals, three key strategies were accepted
to drive a Maine Countercoup next year:
- Revoking Corporate Personhood
(thus stripping corporations of political rights
and demoting them to properly subordinate entities)
- Rewriting the Corporate Code
(thus changing their DNA, extending their responsibilities,
and curbing their tumorous, growth-at-any-price behavior)
- Strengthening Direct Democracy
(thus amplifying the power of our voice
in all public policy decisions)
- (We also recognized the need for an ongoing fourth strategy to develop effective post-corporate models of agriculture, media, health care, education, etc, but unlike our current paralysis in the political sphere, many such promising initiatives are well underway, cf, MOFGA, IMC, Ithaca Hours, etc.)
FULL PROPOSAL DRAFTS
Countercoup 2002, Countercoup Maine - The Movie,
and VirtualMaine.net - The Website
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