PROPOSALS

WORLD VIEW

THE PROPOSAL :

IN FAVOUR OF FREEDOM WITHOUT THE NEW WORLD ORDER

I want to gather people's opinions and encourage discussion about the chances to improve real participation in public decision making, democracy and governance.
Imagine there would be a people's referendum for the citizen's right to take part in public affairs. This could be a new way to revive a real living democracy, and the debate about it.

"Taking part" means, for instance, being able to put a new law before parliament and the people, to cancel an existing law or to dismiss an M.P. who has represented her or his constituents badly.
Below is a suggestion for the text of a people's referendum (called "Proposal").
In brief, the suggestion is " Have a referendum for the right to referenda ! "

PEOPLE'S PROPOSAL TO RENEW DEMOCRACY :

I propose that a law be passed in parliament which enables and provides finance for the following forms of democracy at all levels of government from local to national, these forms of democracy to be initiated by a fair and reasonable percentage of the population, with decisions being made by an appropriate majority of voters:
1) Initiation of laws to be voted upon by the legislative body be it parliament, assembly or council (Citizens' Initiative).
2) Referendum: The people decide, for instance if the legislative has decided against the citizens' initiatives in 1) or 3).
3) Cancellation or modification of existing laws by citizens' initiative or referendum.
4) Recall of elected public delegates, representatives and officials at any time during the usual period of office:

THE PEOPLE DECIDE :

A "green paper" outlining the hereto relevant practices of a real living democracy to be distributed to other countries and describing different reform options and the reasons for these shall be rapidly published and made freely available (gratis) via wide-area computer networks such as Internet.


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SUSTAINABILITY

THE PROPOSAL : 


SUSTAINABLE LIVING

TO RENEW EDUCATION BY WAY OF MUTUAL RESPECT TO OTHERS AND TO THE PLANET

To create Centers or schools ... to incorporate sustainable technologies and life-styles through a combined residential, social, and academic setting.

TO ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING :

Sustainability

Increased dependence on renewable energy, in the form of wind, water and solar energy sources, focusing on closed systems.

Increased reliance on Farm-grown food.

Elimination of non-compostable wastes.
We all need to grow our businesses but not at the cost of the planet.

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WORLD FREEDOM CHARTER

WE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD ... 

... declare for all our country and the world to know :

that WE the people of the world belong to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the People;

that our people have been robbed of their birthright to land, liberty and peace by a form of government founded on injustice and inequality;

that our world will never be prosperous or free until all our people live in brotherhood, enjoying equal rights and opportunities;

that only a democratic state, based on the will of all the people, can secure to all their birthright without distinction of colour, race, sex or belief;

Therefore we, the People of the world, black and white together - equals, countrymen and brothers - adopt this Freedom Charter. And we pledge ourselves to strive together, sparing neither strength nor courage, until the democratic changes here set out have been won.

THE PEOPLE SHALL GOVERN

Every man and woman shall have the right to vote for and to stand as a candidate for all bodies which make laws;

All people shall be entitled to take part in the administration of the world
The rights of the people shall be the same, regardless of race, colour or sex;

All bodies of minority rule, advisory boards, councils and authorities, shall be replaced by democratic organs of self-government.

ALL NATIONAL GROUPS SHALL HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS

There shall be equal status in the bodies of the state, in the courts and in the schools for all national groups and races;

All people shall have equal right to use their own languages and to develop their own folk culture and customs;
All national groups shall be protected by law against insults to their race and national pride;
The preaching and practice of national, race or colour discrimination and contempt shall be a punishable crime;

All apartheid laws and practices shall be set aside.

THE PEOPLE SHALL SHARE IN THE WORLD'S WEALTH

The national wealth of our country, the heritage of the world, shall be restored to the people;

The mineral wealth beneath the soil, the banks and the monopoly industry shall be transferred to the ownership of the people as a whole;

All other industry and trade shall be controlled to assist the well-being of the people;
All people shall have equal rights to trade where they choose, to manufacture and to enter all trades, crafts and professions.

ALL SHALL BE EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW

No one shall be imprisoned, deported or restricted without a fair trial;
No one shall be condemned by the order of any government official;
The courts shall be representative of all the people;

Imprisonment shall be only for serious crimes against the people, and shall aim at re-education, not vengeance;

The police force and army shall be open to all on an equal basis and shall be the helpers and protectors of the people;
All laws which discriminate on grounds of race, colour or belief shall be repealed.

ALL SHALL ENJOY EQUAL HUMAN RIGHTS

The law shall guarantee to all their right to speak, to organise, to meet together, to publish, to preach, to worship, and to educate their children;
The privacy of the house from police raids shall be protected by law;

All shall be free to travel without restriction from countryside to towns, from province to province, and across the world

Pass laws, permits and all other laws restricting these freedoms shall be abolished.

THE LAND SHALL BE SHARED AMONG THOSE WHO WORK IT

Restriction of land ownership on a racial basis shall be ended, and all the land re-divided amongst those who work it, to banish famine and land hunger;
The state shall help the peasants with implements, seed, tractors and dams to save the soil and assist the tillers;

Freedom of movement shall be guaranteed to all who work on the land;
All shall have the right to occupy land wherever they choose;

People shall not be robbed of their cattle, and forced labour and farm prisons shall be abolished.

THERE SHALL BE WORK AND SECURITY

All who work shall be free to form trade unions, to elect their officers and to make wage agreements with their employers;

The state shall recognise the right and duty of all to work, and to draw full unemployment benefits;
Men and women of all races shall receive equal pay for equal work;

There shall be a forty-hour working-week, a national minimum wage, paid annual leave, and sick leave for all workers, and maternity leave on full pay for all working mothers;
Miners, domestic workers, farm workers and civil servants shall have the same rights as all others who work;
Child labour, compound labour, the tot system and contract labour shall be abolished.

THE DOORS OF LEARNING AND OF CULTURE SHALL BE OPENED

The government shall discover, develop and encourage national talent for the enhancement of our cultural life;
All the cultural treasures of mankind shall be open to all, by free exchange of books, ideas and contact with other lands;

The aim of education shall be to teach the youth to love their people and their culture, to honour human brotherhood, liberty and peace;
Education shall be free, compulsory, universal and equal for all children;
Higher education and technical training shall be opened to all by means of state allowances and scholarships awarded on the basis of merit;

Adult illiteracy shall be ended by a mass state educational plan;
Teachers shall have all the rights of other citizens;
The colour bar in cultural life, in sport and in education shall be abolished.

THERE SHALL BE HOUSES, SECURITY AND COMFORT

All people shall have the right to live where they choose, to be decently housed and to bring up their families in comfort and security;
Unused housing space shall be made available to the people;
Rent and prices shall be lowered, food plentiful and no one shall go hungry;

A preventive health scheme shall be run by the state;
Free medical care and hospitalisation shall be provided for all, with special care for mothers and young children;

Slums shall be demolished, and new suburbs built where all have transport, roads, lighting, playing fields, creches and social centres;
The aged, the orphans, the disabled and the sick shall be cared for by the state;
Rest, leisure and recreation shall be the right of all;
Fenced locations and ghettoes shall be abolished and laws which break up families shall be repealed.

THERE SHALL BE PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP

The world shall be a fully independent planet, which respects the rights and sovereignty of all nations;
Countries shall strive to maintain world peace and the settlement of all international disputes by negotiation - not war;

Peace and friendship amongst all our people shall be secured by upholding equal rights, opportunities and status for all;
The people shall be free to decide for themselves their own future;

The right of all the peoples of the world to independence and self-government shall be recognised and shall be the basis of close co-operation.

Let all who love their people and their country now say, as we say here as A WORLD CITIZEN :

'THESE FREEDOMS WE WILL FIGHT FOR, SIDE BY SIDE, THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES, UNTIL WE HAVE WON OUR LIBERTY.'


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