Declaration of the Occupation of Politics

Declaration of the Occupation of Politics

in the United States of America

(open source document - inspired by a visit to Occupy Boston in Dewey Square on October 15, 2011 and revised following participation in National Gathering Working Group conference call on April 17, 2012)

The one-person one-vote model for election of candidates for service in public office is to be shadowed by local general assemblies within every city and town using value-based consensus democracy for decision-making and mediation for conflict resolution between these alternative bodies and the elected politicians of the United States of America.

The market-based inter-corporate free enterprise economic model for provision of goods and services to a consumer-oriented population is to be shadowed by a locally-driven decentralized network of small farming and cottage industrial co-operatives sharing green energy resources using the solidarity economic method for serving common need.

Local government models in existing incorporated cities and towns is to be shadowed by the creation of urban neighborhood and rural general assemblies committed to evolving into localized intentional communities using consensus decision-making and mediation to create an interdependent co-operative network parallel to inter-corporate monopolization.

Independent candidates for public office, committed to consensus decisions made by local general assemblies, shall run for election on all levels of government within the United States of America as a networked coalition operating as a third party using the one-person one-vote model of the existing political system as authorized by the Constitution.

Organized workshops promoting the formation of local general assemblies, co-operatives for localized production and distribution of goods and services according to the principles of solidarity economics, and the active creation of urban neighborhood and rural intentional communities within cities and towns throughout the United States of America.

Initiative petition drives on all levels of government to abolish corporate personhood and commercial fundraising or lobbying for elected public officials or political candidates as well as leveling the playing field for third party and independent candidates to appear on the ballot for general election within every State of the Union.

Open call for the election of delegates by each local general assembly for formation of a National General Assembly operating as a Third Continental Congress to convene in the City of Philadelphia on July 4, 2012 and petition the United States government for redress of grievances to be determined by consensus within said local general assemblies. This is not the 99% Declaration.

The National General Assembly shall synthesize these grievances, through the process of consensus, into a National Petition to be ratified by each local general assembly and then sent all members of the United States government based in Washington, D.C. for action by the legislative, judicial, and executive branches in a timely manner.

Open call for a National Gathering of the Occupy Movement representing local General Assemblies from all over the United States of America to be held at Independence Mall in the city of Philadelphia on July 4, 2012 as a demonstration of how consensus democracy in conjunction with solidarity economics is key to the successful occupation of politics and implementation of a nationwide boycott of the inter-corporate state.

All aspects of this Declaration shall be implemented by the people of the United States of America through said coalition of independent candidates for public office running for open seats in Congress, state legislatures, and every local city or town council starting with the Election of 2014 and continuing until corporatocracy has been completely abolished.

This is an open-source document offered by the author to be placed on stack in any and all existing or forming local general assemblies using the consensus decision-making model and discussed for synthesis and modified as necessary to create consensus on the Occupation of Politics everywhere in the United States of America.

Models for this document declaring the Occupation of Politics in the United States of America are the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City, and the Occupy National Gathering Proposal.

Authored and submitted as part of the public commons by Joseph H. Bryan-Royster, Ph.D.