Occupy Wisconsin's People's Agenda items for United Wisconsin's Recall Walker listening sessions

We got invited to one of the "People's Agenda" meetups set up by United Wisconsin here in our County. For people who worked on the Recall petitioning somewhat. Here in our county, we even started much earlier, doing the "pledge to sign" thing during the waning summer months. 

With that set-up, I thought I'd see what ideas that Occupy Wisc. people think should be put on this "people's agenda" for the governor candidates to chew on. I'll tell you what *I think* the governor candidates should be saying/doing, and maybe you chime in too.

--First off, the being-honest-about-the-jobs-situation that I already posted below. It's not the Governor job to make the capitalists "look good" about "creating X jobs." If the Gov. realizes that s/he's up against global capital trying to drive down wages and conditions, she/he should just say that.

Rather than us getting sucked into the "jobs created? jobs lost each month?" game, here's what should be getting measured, and I believe, publicized by the Governor's office and Workforce Development office under a new governor:

We need to be tracking the income level of a) new "jobs" and b) the moving average of state wages taken in aggregate. How many people per month are entering the Barbara Ehrenreich "Nickel-and-Dimed in America" labor force? c) What's the moving average number working, without having health insurance coverage?

I think we'd all be surprised, unnerved by the results, if they were compiled in that way. Now why would a governor want to publicize potentially bad news? Because it's ridiculous the way the Recall race has slid into a P.R. campaign about how many "jobs created" vs. "lost" or what the unemployment rate has become, month by month.

The real measure that means anything is, "what is the condition of the working class (99%) in our state, and the important question, what can be done to uplift this?" A raft of crappy new part-time, no-benefit jobs isn't going to cut it.

--2nd, big thing: Set up a new Ombudsman office with the first task being to prevent as many foreclosures as possible. Even have staff members liaison with Occupy our Homes efforts -- or even go and join the occupations to make a public point that we won't tolerate any more homelessness forced by banks.

3rd, health care: Find ways to end the huge long waiting list for BadgerCare, and if that means taxing more corporations, do it. We can't have two castes of people, one with okay health care and the other with no health care because they're not working or their job is to shitty to provide it.

--Any other ideas?  Here's what we gots, so far:

From Jim (Stevens Point):  "Environment environment environment! We can feed. clothe and house everyone, get then a great job but if the water is undrinkable and the northwoods is a big hole what kind of life would we have?"

From Erik (Urban forester, Stevens Point): "Separation of corporate & state and perhaps a Wisconsin State Bank or other way to keep resources, goods, and services in WI strong & less reliant on Federal Reserve system."

From Erik (Stevens Point) "Also, an investigation/tribunal of sorts for civil liberty offenses committed by the outgoing Gov., Fitz'es, and the Fitzwalkerstan Reich during public open meetings and Capitol proceedings. The outlawing of video and camera recordings in the Capitol Assembly chambers, closing of the Capitol, and many unwarranted arrests and detainments have provoked further inquiry to protect previously Constitutionally-protected rights

From Jim (Stevens Point):  "How about fining walker's sorry ass for those violations of the State Constitution. I'm thinking a fine the size of all the corporate contributions he's received. After he's on the street w/o power let's see how many super rich bail him out with contributions to his debt to society. And in my alternate reality he has to sit where the capitol pigeons most like to shit until the fine is paid.

From Casey (Stevens Point):  "Immediately remove all subsidies to industries that harm the earth. Turn all workplaces into self-managed worker democracies.

Redistribute large land holdings to communal organic agriculture production. Stop managing our publicly owned forests as tree farms for the timber industry.

Convert all hospitals into self-managed free clinics.

Ban administrative positions in our university system: Give students and professors full autonomy on how they will be educated.

Get rid of the police: all they do is patrol poor neighborhoods and fuck with minorities, while corporate tyrants destroy the planet and pillage communities overseas and in our own state.

Return more land to our indigenous friends.

Convert Wal-Mart parking lots into raised bed garden plots and turn the inside into distribution centers for all the free food that will be grown. Convert luxury hotels into free housing for the homeless. Convert golf courses into permaculture food forests.

No more military bases, boot camps, or recruitment centers in Wisconsin. Free the prisoners of the war on drugs.

Allow people to grow their own medicines.

Is this stuff reasonable considering the US and Wisconsin State government's dark, evil, genocidal and ecocidal past? YES. Will it ever happen through the election box? NO.

SMASH THE STATE. SMASH CAPITALISM. FOR THE PLANET.FOR INDIVIDUAL HUMAN FREEDOM.