peoples@post4.tele.dk wrote:
> Here is the simple, logic and realistic recipee that meets the
> urgent needs of the present situation:
> http://www.unitedpeoples.net
>
> Practical details follow:
>
> CONSUMERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE !
>
> The peoples have no say.
> All economic and political power is concentrated in the trans-
> national corporations, their mass media monopoly and their
> politicians.
>
> And from their point of view people are only of interest
>
> 1. - as slave labour, only to be kept barely alive at minimum
> existence level,
> - this giving rise to the general class struggle -
>
> but at the same time also
>
> 2. - as consumers to keep the profit machinery running at
> maximum speed.
> The great potential of this other more pleasant role of ours so
> far has only been exploited to a very limited extent and only
> for defensive purposes.
>
> So let us expand the class struggle with exploiting this
> potential in an OFFENSIVE strategy:
>
> Let us utilize the contradictions existing within the robber
> barons castle to our advantage and disarm their imperialist
> struggle over markets and resources before it now once again
> will lead to world war.
>
> Let us utilize the fact that it is our money the robbers are
> fighting over, and play the predators out against eachother,
> before they succeed in completing the monopolization process.
>
> Why should we always remain on the defensive although the
> salesmen are completely dependent on our willingness to buy
> their products !
>
> GLOBALLY
>
> the consumers' power may be utilized for internationalization
> of the corporations.
> This is the only strategy for saving our planet. It necessitates
> the formation of the World Parliament of THE UNITED PEOPLES, cf.
> http://www.unitedpeoples.net (under construction).
>
> REGIONALLY and NATIONALLY
>
> the consumers' power may be utilized for the people's takeover
> of the ownership or part of the profits of national companies
> and local corporate production and distribution enterprises.
>
> In each country a United Peoples Party or, to start with, a
> Consumers' Power Committee, "CPC", comprising progressive
> mass organisations and NGOs, and approved by the world parliament,
> is formed.
>
> The CPC may comprise a group of neighbouring countries.
>
> The analysis of the market and identification of the products
> and enterprises to be targeted is carried out by progressive
> professional economists / NGOs / students under the guidance
> of the CPC.
>
> The tasks of the members will be, as consumers, to buy,
> respectively boycott continuously or for a specified period of
> time the products pointed out by the CPC, and to motivate rest
> of the population to do the same.
>
> EXAMPLE :
>
> Three enterprises, A, B and C, are selling almost identical
> products and share the market as follows:
>
> Shares of market:
> A B C
> xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Profits:
> A B C
> xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Depending on the market, the strength of the CPC, etc.,
> each one of the enterprises is asked either
>
> A) - if it is willing to turn over the ownership to the people
> in case it is chosen as the only one to survive, the stockholders'
> invested money to be paid back over a specified period of time,
>
> or
>
> B) - how great share of its extra profits it will allot to the
> people, if it is chosen as the only one or one of the few
> enterprises whose products will not be boycotted.
>
> If, for example, A and B bid highest, the CPC may choose to let
> A and B share C's market and share C's profit with the people,
> rather than let either A or B get complete monopoly:
>
> Shares of market:
> A B
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Profits:
> A B CPC
> xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Everything of course will be based on a written agreement
> beforehand.
>
> ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR MOBILIZING THE CONSUMERS
> AND DOCUMENTING THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
>
> 1. A data base administered by the world parliament of the
> united peoples, http://unitedpeoples.net
>
> Until the first parliament has been elected, the organizers will
> function as a provisional parliament.
>
> The data base stores the digitized biometric fingerprints of
> all of the participating consumers worldwide.
>
> The documentation of the vast number af active consumers
> enables the world parliament to lay pressure on the transnational
> corporations for ecologic, economic and political purposes.
>
> 2. The CPC publishes addresses in all cities and towns where
> registration of the interested consumers can take place, by
> placing the tip of the forefinger on a newly developed biometric
> sensor with a chip that within a second reads the sub-skin
> structure of the unique fingerprint, cf.
> http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Security/
> Identification_Systems/Fingerprinting/ and
> http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~tonycook/nzsdp/
>
> Name, address or other identification of the participants is
> unnecessary.
>
> Furthermore, the fingerprints will be collected in shopping
> centers and - streets, at all sorts of gatherings, etc.,
> by means of mobile computers or tiny specifically designed
> chips.
>
> The price of each of the recording devices - which have
> to be the same make and supplied with the same code everywhere -
> is of the order of $ 100.
>
> Via Internet the digitized images of the fingerprints are sent to
> the national data base of the CPC and to the global data base of
> the world parliament, together with the date of the recording.
>
> At the national data base each fingerprint automatically is
> allocated an account number.
>
> When all new computers before long will have fingerprint
> reading equipment in stead of password requiring software, the
> encrypted digitized image of the fingerprint may be sent
> directly from home.
>
> Confirmed by their fingerprints, the participants agree to
> continuously keeping informed of and to follow the CPC's
> instructions as to which products to buy and which products to
> boycott.
>
> 3. The CPC's negotiations with the targeted enterprises can
> start as soon as an adequate number of consumers have joined.
>
> When these negotiations / boycott actions result in takeover of
> ownership or part of the profits of targeted enterprises, the
> profits will be shared equally by the participating consumers.
>
> The payments most appropriately will take place as deductions
> of the prices the consumers pay in connection with shopping:
>
> In each store taken over by or associated with the CPC, the cash
> register is connected electronically with the central CPC data
> base keeping account of the balance of each individual.
>
> Upon verification of the fingerprint, the cash register
> automatically will reduce the price to be paid for the purchase,
> with all or part of the balance.
>
> Alternatively, the consumer may have the balance paid out in
> cash.
>
> A display on a screen in the store is remotely kept by the CPC
> and shows which products / companies / corporations are to be
> preferred, respectively boycotted, compares the prices of
> comparable organically grown products, etc.
>
> Furthermore, registration of new activists, fingerprint voting on
> current consumer issues, voting for candidates for the national,
> respectively the world parliament, etc., may take place here.
>
> In Northern countries, half of the profits will be transferred to
> the world parliament for global disposition.
>
> An independent institution will control and regularly publish
> all accounts.
>
> The campaigns for new active consumers should be adapted to the
> local economic conditions and the level of ecologic awareness.
>
> In the poorest countries the emphasis should be on the economic
> aspects: "Join us and make money !"
>
> In some Northern countries, e.g.in Europe, the ecologic aspects
> may be more appealing: " ecoNOW ! "
>
> For the more confused and thrill-seeking, a slogan like this
> may be appealing: " Touch and get polarized ! "
>
> The superior political perspective should never be forgotten.
> A universal text on the signboard behind the fingerprint reading
> sensor could be:
>
> Vote for a
> better world!
> Internationalize the corporations !
> Ecological sustainability NOW !
> Follow the instructions of the
> United Peoples' Party
> and get your
> share
> !
>
> Imagine the day when - as a first step - any beggar in Dhaka,
> Nairobi, Rio, Washington or Copenhagen, by placing a fingertip
> on an electronic chip, will get a share !
>
> WHEN this will happen, is up to YOU !
>
> The organizers,
> the formative world parliament of the united peoples
I think you should link with the Millennium Peoples Assembly Network.
Visit http://www.ourvoices.org
They recently approved a declaration for a Global Peoples Assembly.
Please see the attached for the document.
I hope we can work together to make a better planet through empowering the people.
--
Your Friend in Peace,
Glen Nuttall
UPF
http://www.upf.org
upf@upf.org
"Courageous Knowledgeable People,
United Compassionate World,
Committed Responsible Future"
"Out of Respect for Diversity
comes Recognition of Fundamental Freedoms,
Individual Rights,
and Legitimate Responsibilities"
"In the common interest of a Lasting World Peace
through a Unified Planetary Assembly"
Declaration for a Global Peoples Assembly.rtf