Vision for Liberty Plaza

The Liberty Square Blueprint

1. Hello World!

2. Purpose of Blueprint

3. Rules/Assumptions/Beleifs (connected to "principles of solidarity)

4. Presentation

5. Vision Blueprint

6. List of Goals and CorrelaryActions

7. Amendment Process

8. Archiving Process - Feedback Loop for future actions/ rating of efficacy

Hello World!

Hello world! - For the last month, we of Liberty Plaza not only survived police brutality and the cold. We prevailed over external and internal pressure to write demands. Through an ongoing facilitated discussion, to be posted online, we realized that we have more to offer than demands. We are a part of a movement, unifying across the globe. This document outlines our vision, goals, and strategy to best support the global movement, which will inevitably succeed. Demands cannot reflect inevitable success. Demands imply condition, and we will never stop. Demands cannot reflect the time scale we are working with.

We present the following living vision of our movement. It is one document among many that work together in focusing our occupation for the public and ourselves. The vision has ten focii with practical goals for New York City. Our goals are aimed to effectively dissolve the shadow government of corporations and banks, literally surrounding Liberty Plaza, that are destroying the American dream, and our planet Earth. We will not fight the shadow government. We will invent new ways of living - that will overcome our constructed dependence upon the shadow government. We will invent the new economy, culture, and technology fitting of the Information Age. We will make New York City a metropolis built for the future.

A few things must be said. Corporations do not make jobs - people make jobs. Money does not support livelihood - our Earth supports livelihood. The proprietary technology used to hijack and manipulate the human spirit into thinking otherwise no longer belongs to the shadow government - the technology belongs to us. Thus the following ten visions are more than feasible. Only one question remains: When will each goal be achieved? The answer to that depends depends on YOU.

Purpose of Blueprint

Through this document we will explain our vision and corresponding concrete action for ourselves and for humanity.  We hope other regional people's assemblies can create their own blueprints, centered around the future they envision, and structured around the most effective actions to achieve these visions.

==Rules/facts== which inform our vision and sense of possibility - fukcingn cool opensourse shiet

Vision Blueprint

1. Coordinate our occupation with the global movement - by
   1. Facilitating the growth of local movements for direct, organic, participatory consensus-based democracy through transparent, iterative design.
   2. Studying ourselves and other local occupations to find more ideal models of consensus building, decision making and coordinating
   3. Coordinating across local and regional people’s assemblies for deeper impact.
   4. Encouraging each occupation to focus on their local economic, cultural and political assets - as we
      1. Make NYC a functioning focal point for other people’s assemblies to dissolve and overcome the shadow government*** rooted in Manhattan
2. Implement FLO (free libre open-source) solutions for everything - by
   1. Every bullet point vision described herein shall be supported and implemented through non proprietary technology and methods
   2. Expand people’s knowledge of open-source beyond computers to all technology from tractors to currencies - as we
      1. Make NYC the Open Source Silicon Alley
3. Create an economy in harmony with nature - by
   1. Researching, developing and implementing economic models that pursue thriving, abundant and prosperous outcomes for humanity and life - growing beyond the dichotomy of unsustainable and sustainable development.  These economic models must be based on sound ethical assumptions and observed  individual and market behavior through behavioral economics and econometrics
   2. Implementing and improving community currencies, barter, sharing, and trade systems Building the support and precedence for local and large scale production of renewable energy and food resources
   3. Eliminating financial/resource speculation that supports the current economy at the expense of future generations
   4. Learning from and empowering indigenous people in the transition to an economy in harmony with nature - as we
      1. Make NYC a pioneer of urban farming, renewable energy, grass roots urban/rural exchange, quantitative economic policy and indigenous leadership
4. Create paradigm-shifting education (emancipating global citizens from exploitative, community-destroying consumer culture) - by
   1. Empowering community values, engagement, and critical autonomous thought
   2. Empowering our local people’s assemblies working groups with free educational materials for apprenticeship and skill-sharing - as we
      1. Make NYC a top supporter of public space for community action.
5. Re-appropriate our business structures and culture, putting people and our Earth before profit - by
   1. Supporting and organizing with entities that serve community
   2. Coordinating demands of local, national and global people's asseblies to eliminate outdated corporate systems that are out of line with people and nature - the most egregious exploiters of human and natural capitol - as we
      1. Make NYC the mecca for innovative community based organizational entities like L3C, not-for profit, NGO, charities etc.
6. Re-appropriate our media culture, putting truth over advertizing and sensation - by
   1. Ensure diversity of perspectives and entertainment through promoting diverse community media as an alternative to conglomerate-corporate media - as we
      1. Make NYC a thriving ecosystem of community news and entertainment supported by the people
7. Define and defend humanity’s inalienable rights from the bottom up
   1. Defending the commonly discussed rights to clean water, healthy food, safe shelter, health care
   2. Pioneering the emerging right to free network communication technology (the People’s Internets)
      1. Make NYC the most progressive city for the chronically homeless.
      2. Make NYC a leader of the People's Internets**
8. ​End all war - by
   1. Stopping the false War on Terror at home and abroad, used to support the military industrial complex and citizen surveillance/control
   2. Stopping the false War on Drugs, used to support the prison/pharmaceutical industrial complex
   3. Stopping the age of oil, which is really a disguised War on Life that toxifies our land, water and bodies - as we
      1. Make NYC a stronghold of peace
9. Eliminate all discrimination and prejudice - by
   1. Empowering marginalized people to express themselves, build community, and engage systemic/cultural discrimination
   2. Educate people with privilege about how they can overcome overt and unconscious discrimination/prejudice. Protect the human rights of anyone living or working in America, independent of their legal status - as we
      1. Make NYC a more celebrated place of diversity that lives up to its Melting Pot reputation
10. Harmonize humanity’s religious, spiritual and existential traditions - by
    1. Creating the space for all people to respectfully and collaboratively worship, discuss, and explore religious and nonreligious topics - as we
       1. Make NYC a hub for harmonious religious, spiritual and non-religious practice

List of Goals and Correlary Actions

• Make NYC a functioning focal point for other people’s assemblies to dissolve and overcome the shadow government that is embedded here
  • Develop an open source DIY Occupation kit for other occupations to reference and build upon.
  • Build the independent communications technology to coordinate occupations throughout the US and globe
• Make NYC the Open Source Silicon Alley
  • Host an open source developers hackathon in a secret location to find the most intelligent and driven technologists most capable of disolving the shadow govt and buildinng the new community development structures.
• Make NYC a pioneer of urban farming, renewable energy, grass roots urban/rural exchange, quantitative economic policy and indigenous leadership
  • Develop strong resource flows between upstate farms and the occupation
  • Make Liberty Square carbon neutral
• Make NYC a thriving ecosystem of community news and entertainment supported by the people
  • Broadcast the first Occupy Wall Street TV channel with news, live stream, shows, Q&A and entertainment
• Make NYC a top supporter of public space for community action
  • Support the independent occupations of every burrough in NYC.
  • Expand the occupation beyond outdoor spaces to indoor ones.
• Make NYC the mecca for innovative community based organizational entities like L3C, not-for profit, NGO, charities etc
  • Make NYC a leader of the People’s Internets
• Make NYC the most progressive city for the chronically homeles
• Make NYC a stronghold of pacifism
• Make NYC a more celebrated place of diversity that lives up to its Melting Pot reputation
• Make NYC a hub for harmonious religious, spiritual and non-religious practice

Amendment Process

We will create a reddit-based forum online to elicit ideas for amendments and to vote on those ideas for adoption.  In order to propose an amendment, a forum user must first vote on at least one popular and two random ideas from the forum. Users may post and vote with a public identity, masked identity, or anonymously.  A small fraction of the most popular posts, based on votes, will be presented to the General Assembly, where they will be officially considered as amendments or edits to the current version.

Archiving Process

The Blueprint will live in two online version.  The first is the Official Non-Editable Wiki, which will have previous versions archived for the public.  The second is an Unofficial Sandbox Wiki for the public to freely engage, edit, and experiment with.  We predict that the Unofficial Sandbox version will yield very interesting and possibly sourced for amendments.