What I want for my country
by Saroj Baxter
- I want to live in supportive community with everyone.
- Less policing, more community support and mutual aid networks
- Less incarceration, more assistive and supportive communities
- Transition to net zero energy and water conservation and reuse
- Community based food cultivation and supply
- Mental health support and crisis intervention
- Safety net restored - disability, medical help, social security, mental health
- Restore and strengthen environmental protections
- Bolster financial protections including requiring ethical practices by corporations/businesses and making them answerable to the people they affect
- Calculate social and environmental costs of doing business and adjust or pay.
- Honor and value immigrants
- Affordable housing
- Basic and preventative universal healthcare
- Community organic farms
- Community home fireproofing
Public Education in:
- Conflict resolution
- Compassionate listening
- Nonviolent communication
- Understanding and appreciating the balance of nature and the need to respect and preserve it
- Trying different things to find strengths for profession choices
- Learning how to live one’s values and support oneself at the same time
- History from many perspectives
- How to grow food
- Critical thinking and non biased analysis
- Physical and mental health
- How to verify information and tell fact from fiction
- How to live in an environmental and ethical way
TRUE EQUALITY:
- Path to prosperity for everyone
- Equal pay for women and minorities
- Restore land and resources to native tribes/nations
- Basic universal healthcare
Every political, policy, and business decision must be weighed against how it will affect people, communities, and the environment.
- Building Specs:
- Fireproof, storm-quake-flood resistant, homes - build and retrofit
- Water production, catchment and reuse 100%
- Solar and wind power 100%
- No more nuclear or fossil fuel energy production
- Sustainably sourced materials
- Workforce: We are looking at mass unemployment due to AI capabilities.
- Retrain energy workers from fossil fuels/nuclear to sustainable technologies
- Mobilize workforce for a new New Deal:
- Build recycling facilities like Denmark and use output to build roads, playgrounds, etc..
- Retrofit homes and buildings to be safe and sustainable
- Build community farms and community sustainable water and energy and health services
- Train workforce in health, mental health and outreach, farming, sustainable technologies
- Create pipeline for sustainable, non animal testing medical research, alternatives to mining for supplying technology.
- Create AI free living zones for people who choose.
- Create training, subsidy for those who want to learn or work in arts like music, fine art, other forms of expression.