Better methods of conjoining bicycles with public transit. Racks on the backs and fronts of city buses, commuter trains with bikeage cars, bike boxes in bus/air terminals.
Reduction in the production of babies. They’re cute and cuddly and they’re putting a hellova strain on an already over-taxed and stressed system, who’s trying very hard to find her balance and regenerate from past transgressions. The Earth, our mother.
A concerted effort towards producer responsibility of beverage manufacturers to install a deposit/return system for plastic bottles and aluminum cans, thereby recycling material that is now a major litter liability.
End all wars and ‘peacekeeping actions’ for a while.
Know the “War on drugs” for what it is, a vicious grab at monopoly. The CIA funds its covert ops by importing drugs en masse, realizing there will always be demand as long as it’s created using sophisticated marketing techniques developed through years of scientific research. Know also that the “War on drugs” is a class war. The North America Corridor is designed to be its pipe line.
Retract the income tax on personal labour, and shift the responsibility for the party in power’s need for new upholstery, buildings and DingleBerrys® to corporate taxation and balance all the years of subsidies, handouts and incentive plans. Meant for their toddling start-up, corporations are now stomping on the people who funded their rise.
Cease corporate agri-business and allow farmers to regain their stature as stewards of the land. Leave behind ideas of genetic engineering as a cul de sac in science’s mad rush for information. Get a clue about turfgrass lawns in every sub-burb. Eat foods that are produced locally from small, diversified, well-run, and if possible organic, farms.
Do get an economic plan in place whereby homeless persons and government ‘workers’ job-share six months on/six months off, giving the homeless plenty of money to get through the rest of the year and a chance to visit exotic locales for ‘conferences’, while giving gov’t persons a view of reality and a chance to take off the blinders or live in cardboard homes, whichever suits. No less progress will be made, maybe some positive change.
Shun reliance on the automobile wherever practical. War for oil, drinking and driving, salting every highway & byway in winter, drive-thru fast food, the need for speed, mortgaging one’s future to pay for a conveyance, the Exxon Valdezes, motocross over any/everything, the paving of paradise, when will this trend be reversed?
Reduce/reverse police funding. These are corrupt weaponized goon squads protecting a government that acts like a mafia, garnering finances thru spreading fear of crime, while skimming monies from activities like the numbers game(lotteries), sale of drugs(tobacco, alcohol,etc), protection racket(mandatory insurances), prostitution(oppression of workers and their rights), etcetera.
End hemp-o-phobia. This plant has valuable fibre/properties that far outshines the petrochemical synthetics that came to replace it.
Consider not consuming based solely on peer pressures or media hype.
Reconsider marketing boards, agri-business subsidies, mono-culture cropping, mega-abattoirs, feedlot culture, feed-to-weightgain ratios, employment agencies, rewards for baby-making thru child tax credits, the state of education, NAFTA et al, reprehensible/representative democracy, television culture, cow’s milk, trips to the moon, ‘normalizing’ aboriginal culture, rail travel, the bottom line, …
Improve the state of education to the point of it being all about higher learning and not a parroted repetition of misguided dogma and rhetoric from jaded self-serving elitist professors with covert ties to industry. The process of aquiring knowledge should be paramount, not the products and doctrines of history.
Surgically remove the current medical mafia.
With the power to write their own ticket and money enough to hire receptionist/accountants, wait times will only increase. Being sent to one specialist buddy after another, for bloodwork and x-rays and cat scans and spinal taps ensures that everyone with doctor in front of their name makes their imported car payments on time, with plenty of cash left over. Sending patients on a merry-go-round of tests ensures they never have to make a diagnosis that may come back to haunt AND they perpetuate the share-the-wealth buddy system.
Finding our inner voice, bring it outside, use it to SHOUT if you must. It’s not the time to be timid or apathetic, but time to form an opinion, share it with others, refine it from feedback, then speak with confidence. Make yourself heard, use the internet as your temporary democracy. Enable town hall discussions, even in your living room, build community, even on your block. Don’t be bull-headed, someone may express your sentiments more eloquently than you, let them, encourage them.
Peace
Bicycle
A true choice available to all, in elections of representative democracy by requiring/mandating that every ballot have a box at the bottom that reads “none of the above”. No more the choice of the lesser of two/three/four evils, but a majority for none of the above would indicate the populace requires more substance, less bull. A consensus that the presented platforms are inadequate and in need of revision/improvement before the representative/or not gains approval.
Or perhaps, one vote per person per issue using this new electronic communication network. Saves on building all these edifices to duplication and glorification of legislation on all three levels.
Reconsider the state of unions. Powerful unions have achieved HUGE gains for their members, while leaving behind other workers to be regulated by minimum wages and no benefits, widening not narrowing the distance between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’. So excessive have been their demands and expectations that owners/corporations have instituted a global search for other workers to oppress/exploit and have subverted ‘third world governments’ to resist/crush union organizing or even basic human/worker’s rights. The idea of one union for all workers globally has a certain appeal as does guaranteed annual incomes and having the admins run the machines.
