From Prautes at aol.com  Mon Jan 30 08:38:28 2012
From: Prautes at aol.com (Prautes at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:38:28 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Sojolist] remember when?
Message-ID: <21265.3646bd1b.3c582183@aol.com>

 
One of  my Republican sons is going to attend the Missouri caucus in March 
and  asked for my opinion of the candidates, specifically whether I would 
vote  for any of them over Obama.   I told him my highest priority is  
universal health care and I would not vote for any of the Republicans if I  thought 
they would eliminate or impede the Affordable Health Care  Act.    I was 
going to prepare a brief list of my current  platform type thoughts when I 
remembered the sojolist platform from long  ago.  Thought some my like 
remembering..... 
The following platform of ideas for political, economic and social  reform 
was developed by an on-line group of Christians and other faith motivated  
individuals involved in an e-mail discussion group.  This group is sponsored 
by the  Sojourners magazine and community; however, the platform has not 
been approved  by and does not necessarily represent the views of either the 
magazine or the  community, nor does it represent the unanimous and unreserved 
views of all the  participants. 
The participants have agreed, nonetheless, that the following agenda  and 
platform represents most of the leading items that the people of the  United  
States should consider in the quest to make our  experiment in 
self-government more democratic economically and socially, as well  as politically.  We 
offer them as  issues to be addressed in the upcoming elections. 
Our  broad agenda items are:  Implementing Political Reform, Ensuring 
Economic Justice, Overcoming U.S.  Poverty, Affirming Life, Improving Racial 
Relations and Ensuring Social Justice,  Supporting the Rebuilding of Family and 
Community, Providing Environmental  Protection, Increasing the Quality of 
Education, Accepting Global  Responsibility, and Resolving Conflicts 
Peacefully.  The platform follows. 
NEW  AND ANCIENT PARADIGMS.  As people of  faith we draw from our Biblical 
tradition lessons that are fundamentally at odds  with many of the 
assumptions which fuel our consumerist economies and undergird  our politics.  We 
seek to bring  these lessons to bear on our economic and political decisions, 
to turn away from  materialism and greed and to seek instead to know and do 
God's will in our work,  our creative endeavors, and our relationships with 
each other and with God's  creation. 
IMPLEMENTING POLITICAL REFORM 
...  Implement campaign finance reform (limits on contributions/spending). 
...  Implement "Instant Run-Off" voting (if first choice doesn?t win, 
second choice  gets the vote). 
... Ensure  "instant" reporting of political  contributions. 
?Guarantee paper ballots for all votes  cast   [added July  2006]
?Create an independent electoral commission  [added July  2006] 
ENSURING ECONOMIC JUSTICE 
...  Eliminate Social Security tax on the first $15,000 of income, and 
...  Implement Social Security tax on income above the current cap. 
...  Study impact of taxing all transfers of money (exclude food, medical 
care, basic  shelter) as a substitute for all federal taxes (including social 
 security). 
...  Make corporate charters subject to periodic review to assess charter 
holders'  contribution to the common welfare, and renew or abrogate the 
charter depending  on the corporation's behavior. 
...  Increase inheritance tax, but ensure fairness to family owned  
businesses. 
...  Dis-incentivize debt that harms the poor. 
...  Provide significant loan funds or loan guarantees for startup  
microenterprises. 
...  Reallocate a significant portion of the Defense budget to education, 
housing,  nonviolent conflict resolution. 
...  Set a goal to halt and reverse the growing disparity in wealth and 
income  between the wealthy and the poor. 
...  Work to dispel the myth that those who are poor are responsible for 
their  plight. 
...  Accept the societal responsibility for poverty. 
OVERCOMING U.S. POVERTY 
...  Require a living wage (accomplished in conjunction with government 
support for  childcare, transportation, health care, tax credit). 
...  Subsidize vastly improved public transportation. 
...  Support communities/states? exploration of creative transportation  
alternatives. 
...  Support day care centers, including licensed church and home operated 
day care  centers. 
...  Promote "charitable choice" (allowing church-related organizations to 
compete  for government grant and voucher funding). 
...  Provide/subsidize guaranteed health care - including long term home or 
 institutional care. 
...  Provide catastrophic health insurance. 
...  Subsidize capital ownership by the poor through government insured  
loans. 
...  Provide vouchers to the poor to allow them to use private housing in 
any  location. 
...  Allow the poor to purchase their housing (with a substantial part of 
their  government aid being "purchase"). 
AFFIRMING LIFE  
...  Promote respect for all human life in all circumstances. 
...  Work to significantly reduce the incidence of abortion -- Support 
women in  crisis pregnancies who choose life. 
...  Eliminate the death penalty. 
...  Provide education to teens and adults on sexuality, birth control,  
abstinence. 
...  Abolish nuclear weapons. 
...  Prohibit euthanasia assisted suicide (does not include refusal to pr
olong life  using artificial means). 
...  Require registration of all firearms and testing/licensing of firearm  
owners. 
...  Limit firearm ownership to sports uses -- marksmanship and hunting, 
with the  firearms required to be kept under lock and key when not in use. 
IMPROVING RACIAL RELATIONS AND ENSURING SOCIAL JUSTICE 
...  Continue the struggle to overcome the legacies of slavery, 
segregation, and  racism. 
...  Promote cultural and ethnic diversity. 
...  Require "affirmative action" for control and ownership of technology 
by private  parties. 
...  Expand definitions of family to include all family configurations and 
provide  all families the same legal rights and responsibilities as 
"traditional"  families. 
...  Prohibit discrimination because of sexual preference in all existing 
and new  equal rights legislation. 
SUPPORTING THE REBUILDING OF FAMILY AND COMMUNITY   
...  Implement a program of "community agents" to assist with neighborhood  
needs. 
...  Support strategies to reduce divorce. 
...  Strengthen enforcement of child support. 
...  Support neighborhood organizations addressing needs of very young and  
elderly. 
...  Support regional planning and coordinating organizations for 
metropolitan  areas. 
PROVIDING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
...  Promote economically and environmentally sustainable agricultural 
practices,  addressing issues such as soil preservation, diversified 
agriculture, chemical  use and genetic engineering. 
...  Check for effects of genetically engineered food on humans or require 
testing on  animals to ensure lack of harmful effects. 
...  Implement a national energy policy that moves the U.S. away from  
using non renewable to renewable fuel sources. 
...  Provide tax breaks to energy companies to do research and development 
on  renewable fuel sources. 
...  Address the growing domination of the agriculture industry and land 
ownership by  a few corporations. 
...  Oppose patents on life forms (this can apply to all life forms, but 
generally  refers to "discovered" life forms, not things such as seed 
hybrids). 
INCREASING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION 
...  Provide vouchers for poor and lower-middle class students (receiving 
schools  must meet state requirements and have open admission policy), with a 
sunset  provision (require re-assessment in 10 years). 
...  Provide schools permission and incentives to remove poor teachers 
(make clear  criteria being used and ensure consistent evaluation). 
...  Fund class size reductions in public schools. 
...  Fund infrastructure repair in public schools. 
...  Support comprehensive education, not just "workforce development." 
...  Support development and use of mentoring programs for students. 
ACCEPTING GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY 
...  Set a reasonable but substantive national contribution to the 
alleviation of  poverty worldwide.  (UNCTAD goal is  1% of GNP). 
...  Pay US dues to the UN without conditions. 
...  Reduce third world debt to the U.S.  (Support "Jubilee 2000"  
efforts.) 
...  Subsidize union efforts to organize and support workers in other  
countries. 
...  End economic sanctions against the civilian populations of hostile 
nations and  move toward a system that will more effectively identify, reach, 
and prosecute  individuals for war crimes. 
RESOLVING CONFLICTS PEACEFULLY 
...  Fund teaching of nonviolent conflict resolution, including for  
police. 
...  Require courtesy, humility, and honesty on substantive issues in the 
political  dialogue. 
...  Support UN peacekeeping forces as one means to help resolve 
international  conflicts. 
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From hhart at avalon.net  Mon Jan 30 18:04:29 2012
From: hhart at avalon.net (Holly Hart)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:04:29 -0600
Subject: [Sojolist] remember when?
In-Reply-To: <21265.3646bd1b.3c582183@aol.com>
References: <21265.3646bd1b.3c582183@aol.com>
Message-ID: <902D9AFC-3E26-4487-BCFC-3AF2DD8BD0C7@avalon.net>

Thank you for sharing this.  I do remember the project!  All or most of these points are still valid and timely - is that a good thing? I don't know, but maybe it's worth dusting off again.

Holly Hart


On Jan 30, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Prautes at aol.com wrote:

> One of my Republican sons is going to attend the Missouri caucus in March and asked for my opinion of the candidates, specifically whether I would vote for any of them over Obama.   I told him my highest priority is universal health care and I would not vote for any of the Republicans if I thought they would eliminate or impede the Affordable Health Care  Act.    I was going to prepare a brief list of my current platform type thoughts when I remembered the sojolist platform from long ago.  Thought some my like remembering.....
>  
> The following platform of ideas for political, economic and social reform was developed by an on-line group of Christians and other faith motivated individuals involved in an e-mail discussion group.  This group is sponsored by the  Sojourners magazine and community; however, the platform has not been approved by and does not necessarily represent the views of either the magazine or the community, nor does it represent the unanimous and unreserved views of all the participants.
>  
> The participants have agreed, nonetheless, that the following agenda and platform represents most of the leading items that the people of the United States should consider in the quest to make our experiment in self-government more democratic economically and socially, as well as politically.  We offer them as issues to be addressed in the upcoming elections.
>  
> Our broad agenda items are:  Implementing Political Reform, Ensuring Economic Justice, Overcoming U.S. Poverty, Affirming Life, Improving Racial Relations and Ensuring Social Justice, Supporting the Rebuilding of Family and Community, Providing Environmental Protection, Increasing the Quality of Education, Accepting Global Responsibility, and Resolving Conflicts Peacefully.  The platform follows.
>  
> NEW AND ANCIENT PARADIGMS.  As people of faith we draw from our Biblical tradition lessons that are fundamentally at odds with many of the assumptions which fuel our consumerist economies and undergird our politics.  We seek to bring these lessons to bear on our economic and political decisions, to turn away from materialism and greed and to seek instead to know and do God's will in our work, our creative endeavors, and our relationships with each other and with God's creation.
>  
> IMPLEMENTING POLITICAL REFORM
> ... Implement campaign finance reform (limits on contributions/spending).
> ... Implement "Instant Run-Off" voting (if first choice doesn?t win, second choice gets the vote).
> ... Ensure "instant" reporting of political contributions.
> ?Guarantee paper ballots for all votes cast   [added July 2006]
> ?Create an independent electoral commission  [added July 2006]
>  
> ENSURING ECONOMIC JUSTICE
> ... Eliminate Social Security tax on the first $15,000 of income, and
> ... Implement Social Security tax on income above the current cap.
> ... Study impact of taxing all transfers of money (exclude food, medical care, basic shelter) as a substitute for all federal taxes (including social security).
> ... Make corporate charters subject to periodic review to assess charter holders' contribution to the common welfare, and renew or abrogate the charter depending on the corporation's behavior.
> ... Increase inheritance tax, but ensure fairness to family owned businesses.
> ... Dis-incentivize debt that harms the poor.
> ... Provide significant loan funds or loan guarantees for startup microenterprises.
> ... Reallocate a significant portion of the Defense budget to education, housing, nonviolent conflict resolution.
> ... Set a goal to halt and reverse the growing disparity in wealth and income between the wealthy and the poor.
> ... Work to dispel the myth that those who are poor are responsible for their plight.
> ... Accept the societal responsibility for poverty.
>  
> OVERCOMING U.S. POVERTY
> ... Require a living wage (accomplished in conjunction with government support for childcare, transportation, health care, tax credit).
> ... Subsidize vastly improved public transportation.
> ... Support communities/states? exploration of creative transportation alternatives.
> ... Support day care centers, including licensed church and home operated day care centers.
> ... Promote "charitable choice" (allowing church-related organizations to compete for government grant and voucher funding).
> ... Provide/subsidize guaranteed health care - including long term home or institutional care.
> ... Provide catastrophic health insurance.
> ... Subsidize capital ownership by the poor through government insured loans.
> ... Provide vouchers to the poor to allow them to use private housing in any location.
> ... Allow the poor to purchase their housing (with a substantial part of their government aid being "purchase").
>  
> AFFIRMING LIFE
> ... Promote respect for all human life in all circumstances.
> ... Work to significantly reduce the incidence of abortion -- Support women in crisis pregnancies who choose life.
> ... Eliminate the death penalty.
> ... Provide education to teens and adults on sexuality, birth control, abstinence.
> ... Abolish nuclear weapons.
> ... Prohibit euthanasia assisted suicide (does not include refusal to prolong life using artificial means).
> ... Require registration of all firearms and testing/licensing of firearm owners.
> ... Limit firearm ownership to sports uses -- marksmanship and hunting, with the firearms required to be kept under lock and key when not in use.
>  
> IMPROVING RACIAL RELATIONS AND ENSURING SOCIAL JUSTICE
> ... Continue the struggle to overcome the legacies of slavery, segregation, and racism.
> ... Promote cultural and ethnic diversity.
> ... Require "affirmative action" for control and ownership of technology by private parties.
> ... Expand definitions of family to include all family configurations and provide all families the same legal rights and responsibilities as "traditional" families.
> ... Prohibit discrimination because of sexual preference in all existing and new equal rights legislation.
>  
>  
> SUPPORTING THE REBUILDING OF FAMILY AND COMMUNITY 
> ... Implement a program of "community agents" to assist with neighborhood needs.
> ... Support strategies to reduce divorce.
> ... Strengthen enforcement of child support.
> ... Support neighborhood organizations addressing needs of very young and elderly.
> ... Support regional planning and coordinating organizations for metropolitan areas.
>  
> PROVIDING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
> ... Promote economically and environmentally sustainable agricultural practices, addressing issues such as soil preservation, diversified agriculture, chemical use and genetic engineering.
> ... Check for effects of genetically engineered food on humans or require testing on animals to ensure lack of harmful effects.
> ... Implement a national energy policy that moves the U.S. away from using non renewable to renewable fuel sources.
> ... Provide tax breaks to energy companies to do research and development on renewable fuel sources.
> ... Address the growing domination of the agriculture industry and land ownership by a few corporations.
> ... Oppose patents on life forms (this can apply to all life forms, but generally refers to "discovered" life forms, not things such as seed hybrids).
>  
> INCREASING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION
> ... Provide vouchers for poor and lower-middle class students (receiving schools must meet state requirements and have open admission policy), with a sunset provision (require re-assessment in 10 years).
> ... Provide schools permission and incentives to remove poor teachers (make clear criteria being used and ensure consistent evaluation).
> ... Fund class size reductions in public schools.
> ... Fund infrastructure repair in public schools.
> ... Support comprehensive education, not just "workforce development."
> ... Support development and use of mentoring programs for students.
>  
> ACCEPTING GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY
> ... Set a reasonable but substantive national contribution to the alleviation of poverty worldwide.  (UNCTAD goal is 1% of GNP).
> ... Pay US dues to the UN without conditions.
> ... Reduce third world debt to the U.S.  (Support "Jubilee 2000" efforts.)
> ... Subsidize union efforts to organize and support workers in other countries.
> ... End economic sanctions against the civilian populations of hostile nations and move toward a system that will more effectively identify, reach, and prosecute individuals for war crimes.
>  
> RESOLVING CONFLICTS PEACEFULLY
> ... Fund teaching of nonviolent conflict resolution, including for police.
> ... Require courtesy, humility, and honesty on substantive issues in the political dialogue.
> ... Support UN peacekeeping forces as one means to help resolve international conflicts.
>  
> _______________________________________________
> Sojolist mailing list
> Sojolist at justpeace.org
> http://shire.symonds.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sojolist
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From godnix at gmail.com  Mon Jan 30 20:02:28 2012
From: godnix at gmail.com (Bob Buehler)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:02:28 -0500
Subject: [Sojolist] remember when?
In-Reply-To: <902D9AFC-3E26-4487-BCFC-3AF2DD8BD0C7@avalon.net>
References: <21265.3646bd1b.3c582183@aol.com>
	<902D9AFC-3E26-4487-BCFC-3AF2DD8BD0C7@avalon.net>
Message-ID: <CAD_12LE0VR=9Y8OEXF45LUz0kW9pHvP4Frx7ff82=ad0d+nppA@mail.gmail.com>

I remember this project also!  It is good to periodically review "wish
lists" from an earlier time, and see what still holds, what needs updating,
and if there is anything that has changed one's mind.... I do that
personally.  Frankly, I think this list is a pretty good one, today as it
was when we worked it out.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Holly Hart <hhart at avalon.net> wrote:

> Thank you for sharing this.  I do remember the project!  All or most of
> these points are still valid and timely - is that a good thing? I don't
> know, but maybe it's worth dusting off again.
>
> Holly Hart
>
>
> On Jan 30, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Prautes at aol.com wrote:
>
>  One of my Republican sons is going to attend the Missouri caucus in
> March and asked for my opinion of the candidates, specifically whether I
> would vote for any of them over Obama.   I told him my highest priority is
> universal health care and I would not vote for any of the Republicans if I
> thought they would eliminate or impede the Affordable Health Care Act.    I
> was going to prepare a brief list of my current platform type thoughts when
> I remembered the sojolist platform from long ago.  Thought some my like
> remembering.....
>
>
>
> *The following platform of ideas for political, economic and social
> reform was developed by an on-line group of Christians and other faith
> motivated individuals involved in an e-mail discussion group.  This group
> is sponsored by the Sojourners magazine and community; however, the
> platform has not been approved by and does not necessarily represent the
> views of either the magazine or the community, nor does it represent the
> unanimous and unreserved views of all the participants.*
>
> *** ***
>
> *The participants have agreed, nonetheless, that the following agenda and
> platform represents most of the leading items that the people of the United
> States should consider in the quest to make our experiment in
> self-government more democratic economically and socially, as well as
> politically.  We offer them as issues to be addressed in the upcoming
> elections.*
>
> ** **
>
> Our broad agenda items are:  Implementing Political Reform, Ensuring
> Economic Justice, Overcoming U.S. Poverty, Affirming Life, Improving Racial
> Relations and Ensuring Social Justice, Supporting the Rebuilding of Family
> and Community, Providing Environmental Protection, Increasing the Quality
> of Education, Accepting Global Responsibility, and Resolving Conflicts
> Peacefully.  The platform follows.
>
> ** **
>
> NEW AND ANCIENT PARADIGMS.  As people of faith we draw from our Biblical
> tradition lessons that are fundamentally at odds with many of the
> assumptions which fuel our consumerist economies and undergird our politics.
> We seek to bring these lessons to bear on our economic and political
> decisions, to turn away from materialism and greed and to seek instead to
> know and do God's will in our work, our creative endeavors, and our
> relationships with each other and with God's creation.
>
> ** **
>
> IMPLEMENTING POLITICAL REFORM
>
> ... Implement campaign finance reform (limits on contributions/spending).
>
> ... Implement "Instant Run-Off" voting (if first choice doesn?t win,
> second choice gets the vote).
>
> ... Ensure "instant" reporting of political contributions.****
>
> ?Guarantee paper ballots for all votes cast   [added July 2006]
> ?Create an independent electoral commission  [added July 2006]****
>
> ** **
>
> ENSURING ECONOMIC JUSTICE
>
> ... Eliminate Social Security tax on the first $15,000 of income, and
>
> ... Implement Social Security tax on income above the current cap.
>
> ... Study impact of taxing all transfers of money (exclude food, medical
> care, basic shelter) as a substitute for all federal taxes (including
> social security).
>
> ... Make corporate charters subject to periodic review to assess charter
> holders' contribution to the common welfare, and renew or abrogate the
> charter depending on the corporation's behavior.
>
> ... Increase inheritance tax, but ensure fairness to family owned
> businesses.
>
> ... Dis-incentivize debt that harms the poor.
>
> ... Provide significant loan funds or loan guarantees for startup
> microenterprises.
>
> ... Reallocate a significant portion of the Defense budget to education,
> housing, nonviolent conflict resolution.
>
> ... Set a goal to halt and reverse the growing disparity in wealth and
> income between the wealthy and the poor.
>
> ... Work to dispel the myth that those who are poor are responsible for
> their plight.
>
> ... Accept the societal responsibility for poverty.
>
> ** **
>
> OVERCOMING ****U.S.**** POVERTY
>
> ... Require a living wage (accomplished in conjunction with government
> support for childcare, transportation, health care, tax credit).
>
> ... Subsidize vastly improved public transportation.
>
> ... Support communities/states? exploration of creative transportation
> alternatives.
>
> ... Support day care centers, including licensed church and home operated
> day care centers.
>
> ... Promote "charitable choice" (allowing church-related organizations to
> compete for government grant and voucher funding).
>
> ... Provide/subsidize guaranteed health care - including long term home or
> institutional care.
>
> ... Provide catastrophic health insurance.
>
> ... Subsidize capital ownership by the poor through government insured
> loans.
>
> ... Provide vouchers to the poor to allow them to use private housing in
> any location.
>
> ... Allow the poor to purchase their housing (with a substantial part of
> their government aid being "purchase").
>
> ** **
>
> AFFIRMING LIFE
>
> ... Promote respect for all human life in all circumstances.
>
> ... Work to significantly reduce the incidence of abortion -- Support
> women in crisis pregnancies who choose life.
>
> ... Eliminate the death penalty.
>
> ... Provide education to teens and adults on sexuality, birth control,
> abstinence.
>
> ... Abolish nuclear weapons.
>
> ... Prohibit euthanasia assisted suicide (does not include refusal to
> prolong life using artificial means).
>
> ... Require registration of all firearms and testing/licensing of firearm
> owners.
>
> ... Limit firearm ownership to sports uses -- marksmanship and hunting,
> with the firearms required to be kept under lock and key when not in use.
>
> ** **
>
> IMPROVING RACIAL RELATIONS AND ENSURING SOCIAL JUSTICE
>
> ... Continue the struggle to overcome the legacies of slavery,
> segregation, and racism.
>
> ... Promote cultural and ethnic diversity.
>
> ... Require "affirmative action" for control and ownership of technology
> by private parties.
>
> ... Expand definitions of family to include all family configurations and
> provide all families the same legal rights and responsibilities as
> "traditional" families.
>
> ... Prohibit discrimination because of sexual preference in all existing
> and new equal rights legislation.
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> SUPPORTING THE REBUILDING OF FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
>
> ... Implement a program of "community agents" to assist with neighborhood
> needs.
>
> ... Support strategies to reduce divorce.
>
> ... Strengthen enforcement of child support.
>
> ... Support neighborhood organizations addressing needs of very young and
> elderly.
>
> ... Support regional planning and coordinating organizations for
> metropolitan areas.
>
>  ****
>
> PROVIDING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
>
> ... Promote economically and environmentally sustainable agricultural
> practices, addressing issues such as soil preservation, diversified
> agriculture, chemical use and genetic engineering.
>
> ... Check for effects of genetically engineered food on humans or require
> testing on animals to ensure lack of harmful effects.
>
> ... Implement a national energy policy that moves the ****U.S.**** away
> from using non renewable to renewable fuel sources.
>
> ... Provide tax breaks to energy companies to do research and development
> on renewable fuel sources.
>
> ... Address the growing domination of the agriculture industry and land
> ownership by a few corporations.
>
> ... Oppose patents on life forms (this can apply to all life forms, but
> generally refers to "discovered" life forms, not things such as seed
> hybrids).
>
> ** **
>
> INCREASING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION
>
> ... Provide vouchers for poor and lower-middle class students (receiving
> schools must meet state requirements and have open admission policy), with
> a sunset provision (require re-assessment in 10 years).
>
> ... Provide schools permission and incentives to remove poor teachers
> (make clear criteria being used and ensure consistent evaluation).
>
> ... Fund class size reductions in public schools.
>
> ... Fund infrastructure repair in public schools.
>
> ... Support comprehensive education, not just "workforce development."
>
> ... Support development and use of mentoring programs for students.
>
>  ****
>
> ACCEPTING GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY
>
> ... Set a reasonable but substantive national contribution to the
> alleviation of poverty worldwide.  (UNCTAD goal is 1% of GNP).
>
> ... Pay US dues to the UN without conditions.
>
> ... Reduce third world debt to the ****U.S.****  (Support "Jubilee 2000"
> efforts.)
>
> ... Subsidize union efforts to organize and support workers in other
> countries.
>
> ... End economic sanctions against the civilian populations of hostile
> nations and move toward a system that will more effectively identify,
> reach, and prosecute individuals for war crimes.
>
> ** **
>
> RESOLVING CONFLICTS PEACEFULLY
>
> ... Fund teaching of nonviolent conflict resolution, including for police.
>
> ... Require courtesy, humility, and honesty on substantive issues in the
> political dialogue.
>
> ... Support UN peacekeeping forces as one means to help resolve
> international conflicts.
>
> ** **
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sojolist mailing list
> Sojolist at justpeace.org
> http://shire.symonds.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sojolist
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sojolist mailing list
> Sojolist at justpeace.org
> http://shire.symonds.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sojolist
>
>


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