On Jun 15, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> How about: (1) universal and affordable health care, (2) guaranteed
> living
> wage jobs for everyone, (3) elimination of poverty and cultural
> dysfunctions
> it creates, (4) equal educational opportunity for everyone, (5)
> proportional
> political representation free of corruption and monied interests
> (public
> funding of election), (6) clean environment for everyone and
> rational use of
> natural resources, (7) humane treatment of animals, (8) safe an
> nurturing
> community for everyone, (9) freedom to enter the relationship of one's
> choice regardless of sexual orientation, and (10) foreign policy
> based on
> détente, peace, open borders, internationalism and respect for the
> universal
> human rights.
This is a good list, but it's hardly original, you know. The labor movement and much of the "respectable" left has been pushing for much/ most of this for a long time. Haven't you noticed?
By the way, some of the strongest forces pushing for attention to the poor, and towards very-low-wage workers - to the exclusion of people up the income scale who are still pretty insecure - are your good friends, the elite foundations. It's always a patronizing attention, with long roots in upper class charity - but they're not much interested in unions and self-organization.
Doug