FW: An open letter to the disenfranchised

Read, make your changes (if you feel you need to), and forward on!

The established power structures lack the incentives to respond quickly enough to deal with the challenges that face our world. They would rather exploit the coming changes and tighten their grip of control. The existing political parties are too entwined with the status quo to make the necessary progressive reforms. We are left with no real alternatives at the polling station. Our civil liberties are disappearing at an alarming rate. Unless we pull together now we may not have another opportunity. Fortunately, at the moment, we are not powerless. We are prisoners of disorganisation rather than circumstance. Internet campaigns are free and guerrilla marketing is extremely effective. The parasitic elite are laughing at our inability to use the pile of weapons in front of us while they quietly steal them away.

Below is a few suggestions for a radical progressive manifesto. Feel free to change it in any way before you forward it on. Every time you forward this email on please include this email address - theopenmanifesto@gmail.com. The password for this account is Takethepowerback. By doing this you will ensure that your suggestions for the manifesto will be recorded before they are changed by somebody else and everybody who gets this email will have access to it. Once we have everybody's suggestions we can collate them and produce a detailed poll to establish what will and won't be included. Then the real fun will begin..

We can not afford to be conservative and we do not have time to wait. If you agree with the sentiment of this email then please forward this on.

These are some suggestions for points to consider for the manifesto (feel free to change/add to them before emailing on)

Removing the right for banks to create money from thin air - the government will be given this right.

Enormous investment in renewable energy and sustainable farming - getting ahead of the curve

End to artificial scarcity - sharing legal - no such thing as intellectual property - rewarded through charity and future government investment.

A switch from an economics predicated on our inate greed and self-interest to one where charity and cooperation is assumed. It's a self fulfilling prophecy.

Predominantly non-interventionist foreign policy - conquer others through aid - be so helpful to others that people will emulate us rather than seek to destroy us - residual army for defensive purposes only

Referendum must be called before any aggressive move

A hierarchy of currencies from local towns to national

Work less community/family more
4 day week - with the 5th day being a designated community day (work would be done but for free and for the benefit of the community)

Massive disincentives for large families / incentives for fostering or not having children - encouragement of education for women around the world

Reestablishment of civil liberties

Decriminalisation of psychoactives

Mass-deprogramming
This would be achieved by teaching propaganda techniques, comparative mythology, depth psychology, alternative economics to children at school

Absolute transparency of government- and increased interaction with the populace through technology - perhaps even to the point where the whole government is open source and there are no full time politicians

Discouragement of corruption and encouragement of the selfless to enter politics -
Every politician should be paid at the average wage of their constituency.
They must give up all ownership of any income generating organisations or assets.
They will never be allowed to own more than the average wealth of their constituents.

PLEASE FORWARD ON TO ANYBODY ELSE YOU KNOW THAT FEELS DISENFRANCHISED