http://occupytogether.com/forum/categories/constitution--bill-of-rights/feed.rss Tue, 21 May 13 22:14:31 -0600 Constitution & Bill of Rights en-CA http://occupytogether.com/forum/discussion/2372/the-operational-us-constitution Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:15:41 -0600 gott5 2372@/forum/discussions http://occupytogether.com/forum/discussion/2017/the-workers-economic-bill-of-rights- Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:06:05 -0700 abin22 2017@/forum/discussions Written by; Robert Francis Griffin
Co-Written by; Aaron Benjamin Griffin All Rights reserved (2011)
We recognize that workers have inalienable rights, by reason of their labor, among these are:
{#1} The right to own and democratically control the capital.
{#2} The right for 10% of the capital to belong to the health, education, and welfare, of the worker and their immediate family.
{#3} The right for 20% of the capital to be reinvested in the research and development of new worker own democratically controlled co-operatives.
{#4} The right for 70% of the profits to be equally divided by each worker from the time they are hired until retirement.
{#5} The right to equitable salaries. Equal sevices equal pay.
{#6} The right to limit management terms in office.
{#7} The right to environmentally safe business practices.
{#8} Employees have the right to collectively bargain with their employers.

If you, the worker owner, lived in a co-operative economic community. You would bring your weekly salary check to your co-operative credit union. Owned and controlled by the workers and the members. The store you buy goods in, the workers would be getting equitable salaries. They would also own the capital as dividends in their co-operative company.
I believe that Co-operative democratically controlled economics is the next step in human evolution. We have not graduated more than two steps, in the evolution of economics, in history. Step one being trade, step two feudalistic economics. The capital is owned and controlled only by the profiteer, or the richest landlord. Then the richest capitalist runs the government, or money makes the rules. Economics is a social system. We cannot have a democratic society without democratically controlled economics, thru the worker/owner, their labor is the true capital. I must say, that I believe, barter is a more humane economic system than feudalistic capitalism. Worker/ownership is social capitalism! Would workers be lobbying congress for bills that are environmentally or economically unsafe for their communities?
Please post if you support this bill. If you do not please post your debate.]]> http://occupytogether.com/forum/discussion/1982/a-very-strange-laws Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:10:20 -0700 economicsystem 1982@/forum/discussions
If, for example, the laws of a right to education are applied discriminatorily, based on race (say past race categorization and racism have led to my neighbourhood being poor or less funded/supported, and as a result I have a lower quality of education than other neighbourhoods that have not been subjected to the same), I cannot claim that a violation of the Charter/Constitution has occurred because no explicit discrimination/derogatory action based on race/racism has occurred.

I may be mistaken, but to my mind I cannot think of instances where something like this did occur, except in claims that segregation (and that was explicit, "Whites Only" type of segregation) was in place.

Moreover, the very categorization of people into races is itself racism, but according to the Charter/Constitution, nothing can be done unless this categorization also means laws being applied in a discriminatory manner.

I don't think it's a coincidence that this is so. Imagine if people claimed that the structure of society is racism and racism is the structure of society. This would have enormous consequences for laws and the very institutions of society.

Is then the Charter/ Constitution itself racist implicitly and despite having anti-discrimination principles? I think so. I wonder if any Supreme Court Justices would agree....What do you think?

15 of the Charter:

1. Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age, or mental or physical disability.

2. Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability

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Please pass it around:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CimmSCS4Xbg&mid=5648654

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