We the People demand an end to corporate interference with government and demand specific legislative and judicial reform be enacted to regualte corporations, resrtict lobbying, and to restore Congress as the representative of the People. We shall enact legislation supporting in full the Bhopal Principles on Corporate Accountability, etc.
We the People demand that Elections be publically financed, that Election Day be a National Holiday, that all blackbox voting be ended, that every vote be made accountable for with a paper trail, and that a Federally Guaranteed Right to Vote shall be passed by Congress, etc.
We
the People demand a reversal of the recent deregulation of the
media, that the FCC conserve 20% of our airwaves and broadband resources
for Public Services, including full campaign coverage of all Local, State,
and National elections, support for educational programming such as Public
Television, and a return to the truth standard in journalism, etc.
We
the People demand that all Government policy-making be open and
accessible to the People. No more secret "task forces" unduly
influenced by private business, etc.
Proposed
Schedule of Events
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DAY ONE
Invocation and Assembly of the People's Congress 2011.
Agenda:
Morning invocation by Reverend Jessie Jackson.
Speeches. Roll call to Ambassadors.
Seat People's Congress on the Washington Mall for a People's
State of the Union Message.
DAY TWO
Corporate Accountability.
Agenda:
Redefine corporate charters bringing
them under democratic control to ensure they function for the public
Restructure the Banking System, Credit card compaines, reinstate Usery
Laws.
Tighter restrictions on acquisitions and mergers, broaden constituentcy
statutes, limit charters.
The removal
of corporate personhood. Corporate
taxation. Advertising.
Return to the Bretton-Woods
basis for the WTO IMF and World Bank.
Pass
the Bhopal Principles on Corporate Accountability.
Ambassador's Parade delivers legislation to Capital Hill for Passage into Law.
DAY THREE.
Election Reform.
Agenda:
Federally
guaranteed right to the vote. Instant
Runoff Elections.
Pass legislation making Election
Day a National Holiday. No blackbox voting.
The FCC shall provide adequate resources of our media for all local, state
and national elections.
End corporate donations to candidates or parties and gaurantee publicly
financed elections.
Ambassador's Parade delivers legislation to Capital Hill for Passage into Law.
DAY FOUR
Media Regulation and Policymaking.
Agenda:
Pass legislation reinstalling the Fairness
Doctrine and strengthening the News
Distortion Rule.
Reversal of recent media deregulation.
Protection of public spaces and
resources. Limit
Lobbyist's access to Government.
Address issues at the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
No
secret task forces.
Ambassador's Parade delivers legislation to Capital Hill for Passage into Law.
DAY FIVE
Agenda:
Ambassador's report on People's Congress 2011. Closing speeches.
Declaration of Unity and Committment by the Peoples Congress.
Closing prayer by Reverend
Cecil Williams.
The assembly forms a figure of a human being (see map) centering
congress in the position of the heart.
Omms are chanted, candles are lit for an aerial photoshoot.
Members
remains peacefully assembled until the U.S.Congress
ratifies mirror legislation passed by the People's Congress.