Today, April 20th, 2014 is a day to remember the hard struggle that the Cannabis Movement has had in combating fear and power to give individuals their rights to have access to their medicine. Although the movement has come a long way in the last decade, we have not even achieved half of our goals. We can not forget the ultimate vision just because some of us in California, Colorado, and other states have the ability to meet our own individual needs. When one is imprisoned unfairly anywhere, we all suffer.
There are many states where medicinal marijuana is still very illegal, even when alcohol and other drugs are legal, including pharmaceuticals, which can be much worse for your body and can be much more addictive. We also cannot forget about ending national prohibition, as it is no different than the days of prohibition on alcohol. Furthermore it is also important to consider other individuals needs across the world to get access to medicine that can improve their lives at a fraction of the cost of monopolized pharmaceutical drugs that have worse side effects.
Yet on the global level there is one aspect of the Cannabis movement that California, Colorado, and the United States has completely fallen short on. That is the access to use the Cannabis plant to change the foundation of our economy. Cannabis fibers, also known as Hemp, offer the ability to create a multitude of products that are the foundation to our economic systems including paper, oils, energy, and food. Many forget that although it may now be legal to smoke marijuana in certain states, it is still illegal to turn the plant into something as simple as string or paper. All hemp in the United States, from cereal to wallets must be imported because it is illegal to manufacture hemp in our country. This must change as it can create jobs and increase tax revenue. And there are many ways we can all help out.
Bellow are ways you can help out.
Jay Blas Jacob Cabrera
First of all, help us Legalize Industrial Uses for Hemp by supporting future initiatives and changes to the existing law. There are a coalition of organizations working to get a Ballot Measure to Legalize Hemp in California.
Legalize Industrial Uses for Hemp
Vote Link: http://goo.gl/uBTjWv
In a more general context, you can also support our non-profit Hemp Education Project. The Hemp Education Project goes around the state events to educate people about the uses of Industrial Hemp, and coordinates the mobile Hemp Museum.
Hemp Education Project Support:
Vote Link: http://goo.gl/QkCwsh
Direct Tax Deductible Donation Link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=WZEGHHSPNA2DC
Lastly if you’d like to get or support the Cannabis Flag we can send you a flag for a donation. The bigger the donation the bigger the flag we can have made. Min $10 donation for a paper version. $20-$30 donation for a small printed flag. Medium and Large flags can be $80-$120+.
Vote Link: http://goo.gl/ltYFHF
With the Supreme Court Decision Today that gives even more power to the idea that Money is Free Speech and that our democracy must go to the highest bidder or it isn’t a “FREE” democracy, it is essential to share suggestion(s) as to what possible direction, we the people, should take to fight this “coup de greed” taking over our democracies that should be for and by the people.
What do you like the sound of?
“Government By the People for the People?”
or
“Government By money for money?”
Instead of Freedom and Speech, we say money represents “Greed” and “Corruption”.
Join us in saying that Money is Not Free Speech and support our campaign:
Vote here: http://goo.gl/Db4YjA
Yet, is it enough just to say NO? One strategy is to become a Proactive based movement, instead of a reactive based movement.
If we just fight against Citizen’s United, or push a campaign that states that “Money is Not Free Speech” we are being reactive because our actions are based on our freedoms being taken away from us.
With a proactive approach we can find tangible solutions to empower people and create social innovation that applies to a variety of solutions to put us on the offensive side, and “them” (those that support a democracy based on money), on the defensive.
Here is a proactive solution that would take work, but with minor amounts of donations and support, this idea could be in place in just a few months.
The Proactive Idea?: Creating a Peoples Parallel Congress
What is a People’s Parallel Congress?
It would be a congressional representative decision making body, that would represent people, and only people. We can do this NOW, and create a communications, and decision making body, that would parallel the current US Congress, but would actually represent people instead of money and corporate interests.
The Peoples Parallel Congress would have…
No Lobbyists
No Corporate or Business representation
No decision making based on Money
No Elite influence or involvement from the 0.0000….0001%
No influence from Wall Street, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Telecommunications …
Non-partisan, any party afiliation can be involved – Everyone Can Vote for representatives, including the Elite bagizzilionares, but they can only vote with their individual personhood, not their money
Elected or Appointed Representatives must step down from Elite influenced Jobs, and be automatically recused from any decision that is a conflict of interest with their personal job or income.
Why go to all the Trouble to create such a body that has no constitutional or governmental power?
There are two simple and very important reasons to do this.
First of all, our current Congress has about a 5-15% approval rating depending on who you talk to, it is gridlocked, and most importantly is 100% influenced and corrupted by BIG money. After todays Supreme Court Decision, it will be even more so for a very long time. Even Obama bends over backwards for Wall street. This may be a challenge to ask you, but what do you think the MOST important purpose of Congress is? What if it is Communication between the people’s representatives on behalf of the people, to help normal everyday people communicate on important issues across the country (and / or the world). The primary purpose is Not decision making, not bills, and not laws. It’s Communication! Without communication between people, it is impossible to make decisions, bills or laws. Yet Congress is currently more effective in creating communication between Lobbyists and Corporations into hearings and secret meetings, than it is in creating basic communication between actual everyday people. In other words, currently in this country, and in much of the world, we no longer have a basic communication system between people because our government systems have been so co-opted, and corrupted, that they now primarily only serve communications for the purpose of BIG money, Lobbyists, and Corporations in the decision making and law making processes of our government institutions. By creating a People’s Parallel Congress we can minimally restore basic communications between people, without influence and corruption from BIG money and corporate lobbyists. Its really just that simple, if we can’t even communicate freely as people, how can we even begin to move a people’s agenda forward? Additionally this process can give us very valuable data on our communications. For example, if the People’s Parallel Congress voted on all matters that the US Government voted on, we could see the difference in voting patterns between elected officials influenced by big money, and representatives that only represent people. This is just basic communications data and without that we really have no idea what people’s needs and interests really are when our government institutions are so overwhelmed by corporate interests and lobbyists. You can Vote to support the Creation of the People’s Parallel Congress here: Vote Link: http://goo.gl/FaA0gj
To set up the basic peoples communication system of representative elections and appointments, it could cost as little as $2,000-$5,000. To jump start fully active communications for the first 2-6 months it would probably cost about $10,000. A baseline annual budget could be as low as $100,000 a year, and at least $25,000 going to online elections ever few years depending on how we decided to elect representatives. The point is that building a basic people to people representative communications system is not that hard. A few million dollars could be all it takes to make it fully representative of the US population.
The second and more important reason for creating a People’s Parallel Congress would be to create an Electoral Slate and get politically proactive about reducing the influence of BIG money and corporate lobbyists in government. Once we had representatives in the People’s Parallel Congress, we could run the entire People’s Parallel congress against the normal congress with the goal of firing the entire US Congressional Delegation that takes Corporate Donations and prioritizes communication with Corporate Lobbyists. By running a Leveraged Campaign with already elected representatives within the People’s Parallel congress, we can more easily influence congressional elections than running fragmented and independent campaigns sporadically across the country. A UNIFIED slate of over 400 candidates of dedicated People’s Representatives, who have Congressional Experience as part of the People’s Parallel Congress could be the leverage we need to proactively take back our government and give it back to the people. To support the creation of the People’s Parallel Congress and a People’s Electoral Slate vote here: Vote Link: http://goo.gl/FaA0gj
This entire system can be re-created at the Glocal level as well, with State, and local parallel decision making bodies, and to create a system of people’s communication across the World. Currently the United Nations does not support communication between people across the world, it only supports communication between Nation States, and the special interests of Nation states, not the people within those nations. To Support the idea of creating a Glocal People’s Communication and Decision Making System Vote Here: http://goo.gl/ntX6sS
Do you think we should get strategically proactive and create a long term viable action plan to combat corporate and BIG money influence in government by creating parallel decision making bodies that establish clear separation of powers between the People’s representatives, Corporate/Business Representatives, and the Elite Representatives and their special interests? Let us know your ideas, this is just a beginning. . .
Believe in myself, Believe in yourself, Believe in each other.
Together we can create anything.
Together we can stand up for each other and make a difference.
It may not be enough, to simply get our own rights. Someone must stand up and say “I will not accept my rights unless everyone else also gets their rights too”.
Oppression of one, is oppression of all.
We can do it.
#Vote to prioritize community ideas for transformation and action! http://wc.tc/Vote #Community #ideas #UnityNet #u #p2
Hey Everyone,
The time will come soon, to take social movements and action to the next level. There is no right way to do it, but one thing is for sure, we are the ones who are here, and we must take action, each of us in our own unique way as one puzzle piece of a VERY large puzzle.
One of the many the puzzle pieces that Unity Network wants to help with is creative ways of prioritizing the mass of ideas and project out there. Our goal is to create a comprehensive plan, with a step by step set of goals and ideas that we want to accomplish, starting with our TOP priority, whatever that may end up becoming. Like the agenda of a meeting, just cause your not the first idea, doesn’t mean we don’t want to accomplish it.
Here’s how to help: (This is all still in Alpha mode, but we are actively testing out)
We are currently connecting all of our contacts into our outreach and social network systems, so as soon as we get closer to the 10,000 mark, we will be sending out more regular updates. Coming Soon the Unity Network will be fully launching the Unity Flag (http://UnityFlag.net), along with a kickstarter / croudfunding campaign to get Unity Flags distributed all across the world. And once we get some basic funding, just a few thousand dollars, we will be launching our annul Unity Day event to bring people together to unite the common roots between all movements and people.
We are all Interdependent, lets connect together and activate the masses.
#Vote to prioritize community ideas for transformation and action! http://wc.tc/Vote #Community #ideas #UnityNet #u #p2
Hey Everyone,
The time will come soon, to take social movements and action to the next level. There is no right way to do it, but one thing is for sure, we are the ones who are here, and we must take action, each of us in our own unique way as one puzzle piece of a VERY large puzzle.
One of the many the puzzle pieces that Unity Network wants to help with are creative ways of prioritizing the mass of ideas. Our goal is to create a comprehensive plan, with a step by step set of goals and ideas that we want to accomplish as a community, starting with our TOP priority. Just like the agenda of a meeting, just cause one idea is not the first idea, doesn’t mean we don’t want to accomplish it.
Here’s how to help: (This is all still in Alpha mode, but we are actively testing out)
We are currently connecting all of our contacts into our outreach and social network systems, so as soon as we get closer to the 10,000 mark, we will be sending out more regular updates. Coming Soon the Unity Network will be fully launching the Unity Flag (http://UnityFlag.net), along with a kickstarter / croudfunding campaign to get Unity Flags distributed all across the world. And once we get some basic funding, just a few thousand dollars, we will be launching our annul Unity Day event to bring people together to unite the common roots between all movements and people.
We are all Interdependent, lets connect together and activate the masses.
Help to collaborate and transform our amazing world to include a society that is balanced and allows everyone to thrive economically, academically, and socially!
#World #Collaborative for #Transformative #Community #WCTC WC.TC www.wc.tc http://wc.tc
Help to collaborate and transform our amazing world to include a society that is balanced and allows everyone to thrive economically, academically, and socially!
Introduction to the Comprehensive Transformation and Unification Strategy #p2 #p2b #ideas #unity #wctc
To expand a little bit on what the Unity Network is doing so you can better decide weather you would like to be involved, there are three phrases which best describe our strategy.
The Comprehensive Plan
Transformation through Unification
All or nothing Approach
It may look like there is so much going on with this work, but the focus is very specific, we are creating a single, prioritized comprehensive plan that includes all aspects of society. Our goal is not step by step linear change in the old fashioned variety. There are 1,000’s of groups and activities working on that, we do not need an other linear changed based organization in the world. We are one of the only organizations working on a model of a transformative comprehensive plan. It may not work, and it may not be the best methodology or strategy, as it is still possible the liniare step by step change based startegy could still work, but it is essential that it is an option in the world and no one else is doing it, as we are getting deeper and deeper in to challenging times.
To explain the idea of transformation versus linear change, we can use the caterpillar to the butterfly metamorphosis. The transformation is comprehensive and takes place at every level of the catipilar simultaneously to create the butterfly. So our strategy is to encourage transformation of society through a comprehensive plan that targets all aspects of society simultaneously.
The comprehensive plan itself will contain a variety of ideas, programs, projects, and organizations, and involve a democratic prioritization system between all the different goals and movements of society. For example, instead of 100 petitions for 100 different issues, we will be creating a single petitions demanding from our elected and non-elected decision makers of the planet to implement the entire comprehensive plan, and all 100 issues simultaneously. Its really that simple. Although instead of 100, we will probably narrow it down to about 10 or so to start out with.
An other way of looking at it would be the concept of pitting women’s rights, against gay rights, against ending the slave trade/sex trade, against animal rights, against you name it . . . there are so many crisis and issues going on in the world. Why should one movements rights be more important than an other’s rights. We want UNITY between all of the Movements, and have all of the Movements demand all of our rights. What we are saying is simply that we want ALL of it, and we want ALL of it NOW! At some point someone in the world needs to stand up and say, it is not enough for just me to get my rights at the expense of other people staying oppressed. The all or nothing stance is a dangerous one though, and it is really just a negotiating block, but nonetheless an important option that needs to be considered in the context of doing unto others what you would want them to do for you.
The key to understand transformation, and this is the same for the caterpillar; everything looks the messiest and craziest right at the point of transformation. And then, and only then, does everything re-settle back into order and stability. In many ways this is exactly what is going on in our society where our whole society is getting more and more chaotic, and this is exactly what happens when you come up to a transformation moment. Our Network has the goal of Uniting a society that is in a chaotic state, so that chaotic state is reflected somewhat in our network, but simultaneously we are building in structure so that it makes sense, with the primary focus, at this point in time, being the Community Elections where we take this huge “soup” of chaos and confusion of issues, ideas, movements, actions, and projects, and prioritize them into a nice neat list of goals that we can reach one step at a time, as part of the larger comprehensive plan. Yet even though we focus on one step at a time, the broad goal of the comprehensive plan is that we want ALL of it to be implemented simultaneously. The best way to do this is to focus on the issue of all issues, the movement of all movements, the key issue that can be the catalyst for everything else to fall into place. And that issue, for us, is simply the winner of the Community Elections. From there everything will follow. Again it could take months or even years to get to that point of having a clear focus. For now we have a ‘soup’ of possibilities, more or less the same as it was during the occupy movement which also saw this soup of options with no clear focus. We are just taking that one step further to attempt to bring order from chaos.
