LOCAL
DEMOCRACY if we agree?
Deciding Common Needs, Goals, Limits,
Rules, Codes-Zones, Policies & taxes
Now our current Òproperty classÓ & ÔWar
partyÕ $ based politics sucks our mind, trust, peace & resources into
industrial jobs & mass markets, not filling our local natural needs for
healthy, democratic living in peace at home in fair honest &
communities. We desperately need new goals of: efficiency with
Sustainable & renewable resources & durability, cooperating in democracy,
business, schools & peace in community, not fearing strangers, technology
& our government. We need Ôradical honesty! & new spirit of
honesty & cooperating together fro real democracy. We
need reversing trends of giant progress into local is wonderful, handicrafts,
growing food, making & recycling our tools, toys, clothes & excess
foods, homeducation, sharing our abundance.
ECOTOPIA novel blueprint in 2 inspiring
books*, for greening up our communities & home based movement in NW US from
Santa Cruz, CA into BC Canada, began in 1970s. (*Ecotopia Ô75 & ÒEcotopia
EmergingÓ Ô81by Ernest Callenbach, still in print). Local Democracy
is our basic common need we have, feel, express, share, decide & do things
openly in self, family, groups & communities. Or we loose it under
war, tyranny & fears, speed, luxury & debts?)
The ÔEcotopianÕ suggestions below can
stimulate our thinking, sharing, dreams, debates & decisions toward
rebirthing our Revolutionary aims of fair, honest & natural civil-rights
& designs we have needing to express here now. Or they will be taken
by power-hungry-owners & politicians like happening now.
Want ÒGREENÓ POLITICAL PARTY Now?
Have you noticed the current Pacific Green
Party
promotes few if any
Natural citizen run - Sustainable
democratic programs & services, NAME
Community Decided Cooperative solutions
to the current cultural trends of waste & pollution, war economy,
poisoning of food, water & environment,
> Epidemic - toxic productions,
pollution, foods, sickness & ÔsickoÕ medicine,
> Vanishing Constitutional civil-rights,
> Private run business education
& banking,
¯ Corruption of law, mass-media
& industrial monopolies raping
natural
health & love
>Secret Privacy for corporations &
government, not citizens, innosent
until proven guilty
Our rising Oil/gas, energy & food prices
rising are sickening workers in debt~ so lets grow real local conserving,
healthy food & bicycling, into Ecotopia ways filling our needs
Potential Debatable constitution
of Ecotopia (In E.E. Ð E.C. Ô81)
1. No extinction of other species
2. No nuclear weapons or nuclear (power) plants
3. No manufacturing of carcinogenic
(cancer-causing) or mutagenic
(mutation causing) substances.
4. No adulterants (synthetic toxins) in foods
(or drinks? ms)
5. No discrimination by reasons of sex, race
age, religion or ethnic origin
6. No private cars, (free mass transit &
bicycles ?)
7. No advertizer Ðcontrolled or broadcast TV
(microwaves? ms)
8. No limited liability corporations (or top
secret pollution policies? ms)
9. No absentee ownership Ð one employee, one
vote. (democratic business?)
10. No growth in population
Maybe Ð No government secrecy Ð (about what?, MS)
michealspun@yahoo.com
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Local Democracy = home rule/states
rights = these can be decided in bioregions with citizen initiative,
policy & programs.
IMAGINE ECOTOPIA Ð a open community brainstorm
of how weÕd need, like & love to designs, create & live together,
cooperating, sharing & being happy.
Great Eco Revolutionary books
Critical Path Soft Energy Paths ~
Permaculture ~
Acclimatizing ~ Natural Capitalism ~
Shelter & Home ~ Walden & CD
5th Sacred Thing & Earth
Path & Spiral
Dance
Ecotopia Emerging ~
World Made by Hand ~ Prairie
Fire ~ Earth Education ~
Sisters In Spirit ~
Tree
~ Forest ~
Watershed ~ Nature
~ Garden Freedom ~
Ecotopia ~ Free
Local ~ Equality Econesia
~ Fertility
~ Peace Ecology
~ Survivors ~
Sustainable Grassroots
or Groundswell PARTY? !