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Chris Henry
Toward a Worker First Economy

Issues and Positions

Support Creating a Post-Carbon Economy
  • De-construct the fossil fuel infrastructure of asphalt streets in neighborhoods to re-connect communities… turn streets into farms, community gardens, parks, food forests, arboretums, etc.
  • Farms Not Streets, Food Not Lawns
  • look into technologies to use carbon-based waste for fuel (retrieve plastics from Pacific Garbage Patch and landfills. Grow algae for fuel.
  • Shift all logging, mining and fossil fuel subsidies over to industrial hemp production on a massive scale as a carbon sink and fiber alternative
  • Call for a moratorium on clear cutting (Tax the Timber Industrial Complex)
  • Form an Arbor Corps patterned off of the Civil Conservation Corps
  • Form PUDs at the Neighborhoods Association level to form 100s of local microgovernments and return utilities back to the commonwealth. (change PUD definitiion to include; internet, petroleum, cell phones, cable tv, freight, grocery stores, factory farms, satellite) State banks would fund them.
  • Emissions Caps (no pollution trading)
  • Pollution Tax
  • Increase Gas Tax

Support creating a Worker First Economy
  • Freeze assets of company CEO's in bankruptcies and allow workers to reorganize and reopen company as a Worker Co-op.
  • Oppose Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), other "free trade" agreements and Fast Track Authority for President
  • Make Oregon a “Card Check” state [basically, A State Level Employee Free Choice Act]
  • Four Day Work Week/ three day weekend to reduce carbon and to encourage involvement in civics, community, family, quality of life
  • 10:1 Wage Ratio like Swiss 12:1 (to hearken in a true living wage above the minimum wage)
  • Maximum Wage (excess profits should go into worker pensions, before being taxed)
  • Minimum Wage to at least $15/hour

Support Building a True Democracy
  • Create Corporate Charter Citizen Review Committee (hear citizen testimony against re-chartering corps… fashion it like a parole board hearing for corporations)
  • Impose Sunset Dates, Term Limits and death penalty for Corporations
  • Create a separation between corporations and the state at the state level
  • Support Move to Amend, an organization advocating for a  28th Amendment: Corporations are not people/Money is not free speech
  • Abolish Corporate “Personhood” at the state level

Support Creating  A Peace Economy
  • Divest from the Military Industrial Complex (Ban military recruitment in Oregon)
  • Advocate for a state level Department of Peace
  • Turn the Military, Humanitary (with a “Prime Directive”)
  • Civilian-Based Defense (Gene Sharp, Einstein Institute)
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact (Outlawry of War)
  • Peace Tax Dividend (divert federal war taxes to human needs)
  • Expand Peace Corps
  • Build A Peaceagon (perhaps, on the 45th Parallel in Salem) w/ gardens in between inside sections (to rival the Pentagon)

Other
  • Advocate for a state-level Single-Payer Healthcare System(Fund it w/State Bank)
  • Open state bank to marijuana businesses and industrial hemp full banking needs
  • Advocate for a Bullet Ban Bill (doesn't conflict w/2nd Amendment – treat bullets as UXOs… ban sale, manufacture and possession… highly regulated and heavily taxed -- the way 1937 marijuana prohibition was; keep all ammo at state bank/ armory)