What bold, positive realities would you want for 4 years from now?

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I am always encouraging people to envision and organize bold goals for a significantly better future.  Recently I posted to my blog this article inviting us to do that:  http://parallaxperspectives.org/lets-boldly-create-the-future-we-really-want-2

Now I invite you to take the next step.

Please read (or re-read) that blog post and send me your e-mail suggestions for this topic:

What bold, good reality would you want for four years from now — October 2023?

Instead of feeling constrained by the current conditions that are bogging our nation down and curtailing our imaginations, I invite you to BOLDLY AND CREATIVELY IMAGINE the future you really want to be our new reality four years from now.

EXAMPLES:

  • The U.S. has stopped all of 2019’s wars and 80% of the voting public is demanding that the U.S. stop bullying and threatening and hurting the rest of the world — militarily, economically, and in all other ways.
  • The U.S. has rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, and the new President and the new Congress have pushed boldly ahead with a Green New Deal and have made huge, rapid progress toward meeting the goal of limiting our carbon pollution so the U.S. is likely to meet the 1.5 degree Celsius target.
  • The $15 federal minimum wage has been implemented already (without deferring an effective date for a future year), and it has been such a great success that Congress and the President have passed a $17 federal minimum wage.
  • Every public school teaches courses in nonviolent conflict resolution and trains students how to resolve conflicts nonviolently.

What bold, creative realities would YOU want to be in place four years from now, in October 2023?

Send your proposals to me at glenanderson@integra.net during October 2019, and I will list many of the best ones in a blog post in early November 2019.

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org