CHRIS ON THE ISSUES
"Power Conceeds Nothing Without A DEMAND.
It Never Has... And It Never Will."
~ Eugene V. Debs
Of The People, By The People, And For The People Manifesto
Move To Amend
Abolish Corporate Personhood. Corporations Are Not People. Money IS Property and NOT Free Speech. Create A Separation Between Corporation And State. No More "To Big To Fail/Jail": Sunset Dates For Corporate Charters. A Corporate Charter Citizens Review Committee and Parole Board For Corporations To Hear Testimony and Bring Charges of Malfeasance, Environmental Harms and Abuse of Workers, With Powers To Freeze Assets.
Pass Real Campaign Finance Reform, Bring About Greater Government Transparency, Close Revolving Door On Corporate Lobbyists, Sever Ties With Wall Street. Strengthen And Make More Accessible The Initiative and Referendum Process (Legislation Of, By and For The People! Through The Ballot).
To Restore Democracy: First Abolish
2020 Vision Of A Worker-Centric Economy
Nothing Is More "American" Than Unionization.
The "American Experiment" Is Based on The "Unionization" Of Individual States Through A Collective Bargaining Agreement We Call The Constitution Of The United States. Indeed, The Civil War Based On Saving The "Union.” If Elected, I Will Be The Chief Petitioner On An Employee Free-Choice Act For Oregon (Unionization Based On "Card Check”) To Make Oregon The First Card Check State (Using States Rights) And Make May Day General Strike Day.
A Pathway To A Living Wage.
Create A Maximum Wage With A 10:1 Wage Ratio. A $15/hr Maximum Wage (No Less) and Double The Current minimum Wage To A $20.20/hr Minimum Wage by 2020 In Large Prevailing Wage Industries. Democratize The Workplace And Mondragon'ize Oregon With Worker-Owned Cooperatives. A Universal Basic Income (Often Called A “Negative Tax” For The Impoverished).
A Universal Single-Payer Healthcare System.
That Which IS Common To The People ("The Commons") Should Be Owned By The People. An Oregon State Bank To End Oregon's Wall Street Give-Aways! A Progressive Tax Structure: Corporations Need To Pay Their Fair Share and A Higher Percentage Of The Tax Burden. Initiative Petition For A Four Day Workweek and A Three Day Weekend (Every Weekend).
Public Utilities ARE A Consumer/Community Rights Issue
We Need To Build A Network Of Neighborhood Association Level People's Utility Districts And Re-Localize "The Grid”. Establish A Worker/Ratepayer Owned Utility System Called: "Oregon United Ratepayers” (OUR) People's Utility District (PUD). Expand The Definition Of Public Utility To Include Internet, Cell Phone, Satellite and Cable TV, Transportation, Freight, Grocery Stores, Factory Farms, Gasoline Stations, Apartment Buildings, Others.
PUD’s Can Issue Bonds At Low Interest Rates Through The Creation Of An Oregon State Bank. These Bonds Can Be Used To Aggressively “Green-Up” A Neighborhood Association PUD’s Energy Footprint By Installing Solar Panels To “Net Meter” Back To The Energy Grid. PUD Energy Savings Can Help Pay-Down The Neighborhood Association PUD Bonds Or Be Returned In The Form Of A Dividend Check Based On A Vote Of The PUD Owners Votes.
2020 Vision For A Peace-Centric Economy
Peace Is A Choice... And So Is War. We can choose.
Create An Oregon Department Of Peace and Build A Peaceagon On The 45th Paralell Right Off The I-5 In Salem In The Shape Of A Peace Sign To Rival The Pentagon.
Paying For War IS Climate Change Denial
Stop Funding The Biggest CO2 Emitter On The PLanet! Let Voters Of Conscience Decide: Create A Peace Tax Fund In Oregon Through The Ballot Initiative Process To Divert 50% Of Our Federal Tax Dollars That Fund Hegemonic/Capitalist Wars Back To An Oregon State Bank For Peaceful Uses.
Turn The Military-Industrial Complex, Humanitary!
Create An Oregon "Community-Based Defense” (A Nonviolent Oregon Peace Corps) and Advocate For The Closure of ALL US Military Bases Located On Foreign Soil. Bring ALL Oregon Troops Home. Call For Oregon To Become The First "Conscientious Objector State" By Reviving The Outlawry Of War Based On The Kellogg-Briand Pact, Which Was Ratified By The US Senate And Is STILL The Law Of The Land.
Our Global Warming Footprint Is Intrinsically Linked To Our Global Warring Footprint. War Drives Global Climate Destabilization... The Bloated Multi-Billion Dollar Perpetual War Economy Is The Frankenstein Creation Of The Two Party System. We Need To Make A Radical Shift From A Carbon-Based War Economy and Stop Paying For The Military Industrial Complex through a Statewide War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Fund.
Military Bases Should Be Converted To Climate Change Refugee Camps To Acomodate The Exodus Of Pleople Fleeing The Harsh Extemes And Inhospitable Conditions Wrought By Global Warming, Global Warring, and Economic Collapse.
“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”― Albert Einstein
2020 Vision For A 100% Renewables and Zero Fossil Fuels Economy
Global Warming Is The Symptom. Capitalism Is The Disease.
Time Is Of The Essence.
Runaway Climate Change Is Gross Negligence and Policy-Maker Malpractice. That Said, Support For Jorden Cove Is The Moral Equivalent To Climate Change Denial... Is Oregon’s Standing Rock and Violates Indigenous Rights... And Is Addressing The Fossil Fuel Fat Cat’s Bottom Line, While Turning A Blind Eye To The Environment. In the Same Vain, "Cap and Trade" Is Market-Speak, Meaning: "Pollution-For-Profit.” A State Of Emergency Means That, Together, [We] Will Need To Look At “Supply and Demand” Through The Lens Of A [Non-Market-Driven] Approaches.
[My Promise To Oregon Voters] On Day One In Office: I Will Declare A State Of Emergency Around Climate Destabilization (Colloquially and Interchangeably: "Global Warming” and [The] “Climate Crisis”). Time Is Of The Essence.
An Oregon Green New Deal
Have No Illusions, Jorden Cove Is NOT About Creating Long Termed, Sustainable Job Growth In Oregon. Call For A Moratorium On Clearcutting And The Creation Of An Oregon Version Of The Civil Conservation Corps, Called The ORegon Arbor Corps (ORAC) To Replant Oregon’s Forest’s (Oregon’s Carbon Sink). You CANNOT Cap an Trade A Carbon Sink... It’s Either There And Present To Sequester Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Or It Is NOT. Make A Conscious Choice.
Switch All Fossil Fuel and Big Timber Subsidies To Industrial Hemp Production And Product Manufacturing. Use Emminent Domain To Re-Open Paper Mills As Worker-Owned Co-ops (Mondragon-Style) To Process The Industrial Hemp Into Carbon-Sequestering Sustainable Fiber Products and Plant-Base Biodegradable Plastic Products. We Need a "Tap And Grade” System That Focuses On Tapping Sustainable Innovative Approaches and Grading According To Aggressive Conservation Of Resources.
No Dirty Diesel. No GMO. No Pesticide Spraying. Save The Bees!
You [Must] Be The Cascadia You Want To See In The World. Think Sustainably. Act Bioregionally!
Cascadia Isn’t Just A Place. Cascadia Is An Idea.
Time Is Of The Essence.
Runaway Climate Change Is Gross Negligence and Policy-Maker Malpractice. That Said, Support For Jorden Cove Is The Moral Equivalent To Climate Change Denial... Is Oregon’s Standing Rock and Violates Indigenous Rights... And Is Addressing The Fossil Fuel Fat Cat’s Bottom Line, While Turning A Blind Eye To The Environment. In the Same Vain, "Cap and Trade" Is Market-Speak, Meaning: "Pollution-For-Profit.” A State Of Emergency Means That, Together, [We] Will Need To Look At “Supply and Demand” Through The Lens Of A [Non-Market-Driven] Approaches.
[My Promise To Oregon Voters] On Day One In Office: I Will Declare A State Of Emergency Around Climate Destabilization (Colloquially and Interchangeably: "Global Warming” and [The] “Climate Crisis”). Time Is Of The Essence.
An Oregon Green New Deal
Have No Illusions, Jorden Cove Is NOT About Creating Long Termed, Sustainable Job Growth In Oregon. Call For A Moratorium On Clearcutting And The Creation Of An Oregon Version Of The Civil Conservation Corps, Called The ORegon Arbor Corps (ORAC) To Replant Oregon’s Forest’s (Oregon’s Carbon Sink). You CANNOT Cap an Trade A Carbon Sink... It’s Either There And Present To Sequester Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Or It Is NOT. Make A Conscious Choice.
Switch All Fossil Fuel and Big Timber Subsidies To Industrial Hemp Production And Product Manufacturing. Use Emminent Domain To Re-Open Paper Mills As Worker-Owned Co-ops (Mondragon-Style) To Process The Industrial Hemp Into Carbon-Sequestering Sustainable Fiber Products and Plant-Base Biodegradable Plastic Products. We Need a "Tap And Grade” System That Focuses On Tapping Sustainable Innovative Approaches and Grading According To Aggressive Conservation Of Resources.
No Dirty Diesel. No GMO. No Pesticide Spraying. Save The Bees!
You [Must] Be The Cascadia You Want To See In The World. Think Sustainably. Act Bioregionally!
Cascadia Isn’t Just A Place. Cascadia Is An Idea.
2020 Vision For An Education Economy
"The Most Violent Element In Society Is Ignorance.”
~ Emma Goldman
Ignorance Is A Weapon Of Mass Destruction.
Under The Democratic Party's and Republican Party’s Watch, Oregon Is Ranked 48th In The Nation (Almost Dead Last) On High School Graduation Rates. Salem Needs To Stop Holding Our Children’s Future Hostage. My Plan Is To Fund Schools and Teacher’s Salaries First In The Budget Process.
We Need To Foster Respect For [ALL] People and Our Schools and Workforce Should Adopt AND Model The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advocacy Program At Portland State University.
Education is super important to Chris... Stay tuned... More to follow!
Tonight (Sunday, November, 4th, 2018), I got a phone call, asking: "How do we fix PERS?” and "How do we fix schools?"
PERS:
If the question was, “What do we do to not fix PERS?", the answer is simple: Keep doing what we are doing. Otherwise, I think as a very basic solution, We should stop investing PERS (and ALL state funding) in Wall Street. We need to create a state bank and invest our public funds in Oregon’s infrastructure and schools. Oregon cities and counties also float bonds on the stock market, paying huge fees and interest on those bonds, which should, instead, also utilize a state bank to take out low interest loans, where the money is re-invested in Oregon. My mother was a state employee on CalPERS (working for 20 years at the unemployment office) and her pension was there for her in her retirement years. We need to take care of Oregon’s state employees and fund that mandate to take care of our employees, not Wall Street investors, hedge fund managers and vulture capitalist. A state bank would be a public utility.
Schools:
WE need to fund schools first in the budget process to increase the school year and pay our teachers better. Our children’s education is too important not. I don’t have a silver bullet answer (I think we need a larger discussion), but what we’ve been doing has not and is not working, if we are near dead last. My thought, is that we should be looking at what is successful elsewhere and considering how Oregon might benefit from other approaches to education?
The Guardian: The US spends more on education than other countries. Why is it falling behind?
“Knowledge, Like Air, Is Vital To Life.
Like Air, No One Should Be Denied It!”
~ V For Vendetta
~ Emma Goldman
Ignorance Is A Weapon Of Mass Destruction.
Under The Democratic Party's and Republican Party’s Watch, Oregon Is Ranked 48th In The Nation (Almost Dead Last) On High School Graduation Rates. Salem Needs To Stop Holding Our Children’s Future Hostage. My Plan Is To Fund Schools and Teacher’s Salaries First In The Budget Process.
We Need To Foster Respect For [ALL] People and Our Schools and Workforce Should Adopt AND Model The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advocacy Program At Portland State University.
Education is super important to Chris... Stay tuned... More to follow!
Tonight (Sunday, November, 4th, 2018), I got a phone call, asking: "How do we fix PERS?” and "How do we fix schools?"
PERS:
If the question was, “What do we do to not fix PERS?", the answer is simple: Keep doing what we are doing. Otherwise, I think as a very basic solution, We should stop investing PERS (and ALL state funding) in Wall Street. We need to create a state bank and invest our public funds in Oregon’s infrastructure and schools. Oregon cities and counties also float bonds on the stock market, paying huge fees and interest on those bonds, which should, instead, also utilize a state bank to take out low interest loans, where the money is re-invested in Oregon. My mother was a state employee on CalPERS (working for 20 years at the unemployment office) and her pension was there for her in her retirement years. We need to take care of Oregon’s state employees and fund that mandate to take care of our employees, not Wall Street investors, hedge fund managers and vulture capitalist. A state bank would be a public utility.
Schools:
WE need to fund schools first in the budget process to increase the school year and pay our teachers better. Our children’s education is too important not. I don’t have a silver bullet answer (I think we need a larger discussion), but what we’ve been doing has not and is not working, if we are near dead last. My thought, is that we should be looking at what is successful elsewhere and considering how Oregon might benefit from other approaches to education?
The Guardian: The US spends more on education than other countries. Why is it falling behind?
“Knowledge, Like Air, Is Vital To Life.
Like Air, No One Should Be Denied It!”
~ V For Vendetta