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The 99 Percent Declaration is a political document being debated by Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy movement. It calls for a United States national assembly to support a list of grievances, public works programs, tax hikes on the wealthiest, debt forgiveness, and ways to get money out of politics.

On October 15, the Occupy Wall Street Demands Working Group published a declaration of demands, goals, and solutions. However, New York City General Assembly official statements are agreed upon by consensus, and not all participants agree with issuing demands. The Goals Working Group may produce an alternative document.

Constitutional amendment

Harvard law professor and Creative Commons board member Lawrence Lessig had called for a constitutional convention in a September 24-25, 2011 conference co-chaired by the Tea Party Patriots' national coordinator, in Lessig's October 5 book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It, and at the Occupy protest in Washington, DC. Reporter Dan Froomkin said the book offers a manifesto for the Occupy Wall Street protestors, focusing on the core problem of corruption in both political parties and their elections. Lessig's initial constitutional amendment would allow legislatures to limit political contributions from non-citizens, including corporations, anonymous organizations, and foreign nationals, and he also supports public campaign financing and electoral college reform to establish the one person, one vote principle. Lessig's web site convention.idea.informer.com allows anyone to propose and vote on constitutional amendments. Similar amendments have been proposed by Dylan Ratigan, Karl Auerbach, Cenk Uygur, and others. On October 15, the Occupy Wall Street Demands Working Group, published a declaration of demands, goals, and solutions. Some protesters have joined the call for a constitutional amendment.

Further reading

References

  1. ^ "The 99 Percent Declaration" the99declaration.org Cite error: The named reference "99percentdeclaration" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. Walsh, J. (October 20, 2011) "Do we know what OWS wants yet?" Salon
  3. ^ Duda, C. (October 19, 2011) "Occupy Wall Street Protesters Call for National General Assembly, Put Forward Possible Demands" Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
  4. ^ Lopez, L. (October 19, 2011) "Finally! The Protesters Have Drafted A Set Of Demands For The Jobs Crisis" Business Insider
  5. ^ Haack, D. (October 24, 2011) "How the Occupy movement won me over" The Guardian
  6. Kingkade, T. (October 18, 2011) "Occupy Wall Street Protesters Propose A National Convention, Release Potential Demands" Huffington Post. Retrieved 20 October 2011
  7. "The Movement to Organize the Call for a Convention" CallAConvention.org
  8. Conference on the Constitutional Convention, Harvard University, September 24-5, 2011
  9. Lessig, L. (2011) Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It (New York City: Hachette/Twelve) excerpt
  10. Tackett, C. (October 19, 2011) "Could #OccupyWallStreet Become a Constitutional Convention?" Discovery / TreeHugger.com
  11. Froomkin, D. (October 5, 2011) "Lawrence Lessig's New Book On Political Corruption Offers Protesters A Possible Manifesto" Huffington Post
  12. Hill, A. (October 4, 2011) "Campaign finance, lobbying major roadblocks to effective government" Marketplace Morning Report (American Public Media)
  13. Lessig, L. (2011) "Propose Amendments to the Constitution" convention.idea.informer.com
  14. Ratigan, D. (2011) "It's Time to GET MONEY OUT of politics" GetMoneyOut.com
  15. Auerbach, K. (2011) "Proposed Amendment to the United States Constitution To Redress the Increasing Distortion of Elections and Political Speech by Corporations and Other Aggregate Forms" cavebear.com/amendment
  16. Blumenthal, P. (October 20, 2011) "Cenk Uygur Launches New Effort To Separate Money And Politics" Huffington Post
  17. Public Citizen (January 21, 2011) [http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=326 "One Year Later, Movement Is Growing to Overturn Citizens United"
  18. Shane, P.M. (October 11, 2011) "Occupy the Constitution" Huffington Post
  19. Manning, B. (October 21, 2011) "Lynch Shares Views on 'Occupy' Movement" Needham, Mass. Patch
  20. Crugnale, J. (October 14, 2011) "Russell Simmons: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Want Constitutional Amendment" Mediaite
  21. Niose, D. (October 13, 2011) "What the Occupy Wall Street Protesters Want — Constitutional amendment on corporations is a starting point" Psychology Today
  22. McCabe, J. (October 21, 2011) "Dear Occupy Wall Street: 'Move to Amend' (the Constitution)" NewsTimes.com

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