On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Dr. TR. Rojas-D <
tern...@gmail.com> wrote:
> By Owen danders in:
http://www.facebook.com/events/279513442103221/
>
> You are cordially invited to the second global online
> Occupy/Anonymous/Indignados town hall. I've come up with a set of questions
> that I will post in hundreds of facebook groups around the world. You, along
> with the rest of the members of the Occupy, Anonymous, and Indignados
> movements who are on facebook around the world, give your opinion on the
> questions, discuss them, say whatever you like really. I will catalog all
> the responses and compile them into one document, which I will then edit for
> length and post in all the facebook groups. That way, everyone in the world
> can see whatever everyone else around the world thinks about the questions.
>
> My hope is that this will get us thinking and eventually acting as one
> global movement. My hope is that by the property of emergence, a collective
> consciousness will emerge from this and future town halls that will reshape
> this world.
>
> The results of the first town hall can be found
> here:
http://occupyvision.com/archives/372>
> WHEN: The second global online Occupy town hall will take place on January
> 21st, at 8pm Greenwich Mean Time, which is:
>
> 12pm, Noon, Pacific Time
> 3pm Eastern Time
>
> UNTIL: Whenever people stop posting...
>
> To figure out when 8pm Greenwich Mean Time is where you are, go
> here:
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/>
> WHERE: In hundreds of Facebook groups around the world. The town hall
> questions will be posted in every group to which this invitation was sent.
>
> If you need to find a Facebook group to join the discussion, here are some
> groups:
>
>
http://www.facebook.com/groups/thisisoccupycentral/
>
http://www.facebook.com/groups/272542879456091/>
http://www.facebook.com/groups/EarthHome/
>
>
>
> Here's the first draft of the questions that will be asked in the town
> hall:
>
> The 2nd Online Global Occupy/Indignados/Anonymous Town Hall:
>
> 1. About 130 people have taken this poll on
http://occupyvision.com/:
>
> “Which issue should the American people try to solve first? Note that this
> does not mean which do you think is most important, but simply which should
> we tackle first?”
>
> 74% of respondents said “Getting money out of politics and ending corporate
> personhood”. No other option got above 7%. In the previous global online
> town hall, the majority of respondents who answered whether they agreed with
> this poll said that they did. In addition, national polling shows that 80%
> of Americans agree that getting money out of politics should be a top
> priority. I’m going to ask the question again, since we have a much larger
> and more diverse group of town hall participants this time. Should our
> united social movements collectively pursue getting money out of politics
> and ending corporate personhood as our first priority?
>
>
> 2. For those living in developing nations, is the equivalent to the
> intertwined issues of getting money out of politics and ending corporate
> personhood that of ending government corruption and bribery? If you live in
> the developing world, is this issue important enough to you to be worth
> making it a priority? What are some potential ways we could address this
> issue?
>
>
> 3. The founding fathers of the United States of America, recognizing the
> need for a revolution every twenty years or so, built into the United States
> Constitution an avenue for completely legal and nonviolent revolution. It’s
> called a constitutional convention. The way it works is that if we get 2/3
> of the state legislatures in the US to pass a bill asking Congress to call a
> constitutional convention, they’ll have no choice but to do it.
>
> Then, someone in Congress would propose a bill about how the convention
> would be run. The last time this almost happened, Senator Orin Hatch made a
> pretty good proposal, the most important provision of which was the one
> requiring that no senator or representative be “elected as delegate”.
> However, we could force on them whatever form of convention we wish. At the
> convention, we the people would propose amendments to the constitution, the
> highest law of the land. Note that in order to pass, any proposed amendment
> must be ratified by ¾ of the states, which means that only issues on which
> the left and the right are united could a consensus be reached. Should the
> American people call for a constitutional convention to amend the
> Constitution of the United States of America?
>
> 4. If the American people hold a constitutional convention, what amendments
> should be proposed?
>
> 5. Should all our movements across the globe unite somehow in order to
> resolve our first common grievance?