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)