{"id":1554,"date":"2011-11-17T20:41:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2011-11-17T20:41:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:41:57","slug":"proposed-list-of-ows-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/proposed-list-of-ows-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed List of OWS Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/occupy-wall-street.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/occupy-wall-street-300x63.png?resize=300%2C63\" alt=\"\" title=\"occupy wall street\" width=\"300\" height=\"63\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1555\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are their demands posted in a <a href=\"http:\/\/occupywallst.org\/forum\/proposed-list-of-ows-demands\/\">forum<\/a> on their website<\/p>\n<p>Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Unionize ALL workers immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18\/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90\/hr to eliminate inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Institute a 6 hour workday, and 6 weeks of paid vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Institute a moratorium on all foreclosures and layoffs immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Repeal racist and xenophobic English-only laws.<\/p>\n<p>Open the borders to all immigrants, legal or illegal. Offer immediate, unconditional amnesty, to all undocumented residents of the US.<\/p>\n<p>Create a single-payer, universal health care system.<\/p>\n<p>Pass stricter campaign finance reform laws. Ban all private donations. All campaigns will receive equal funding, provided by the taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%.<\/p>\n<p>Pass far stricter environmental protection and animal rights laws.<\/p>\n<p>Allow workers to elect their supervisors.<\/p>\n<p>Lower the retirement age to 55. Increase Social Security benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Create a 5% annual wealth tax for the very rich.<\/p>\n<p>Ban the private ownership of land.<\/p>\n<p>Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Reduce the age of majority to 16.<\/p>\n<p>Abolish the death penalty and life in prison. We call for the immediate release of all death row inmates from death row and transferred to regular prisons.<\/p>\n<p>Release all political prisoners immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Abolish the debt limit.<\/p>\n<p>Ban private gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Strengthen the separation of church and state.<\/p>\n<p>Immediate debt forgiveness for all.<\/p>\n<p>End the &#8216;War on Drugs&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are their demands posted in a forum on their website Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Unionize ALL workers immediately. Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18\/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90\/hr to eliminate inequality&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1131,580],"tags":[2429,2430,651,317,872,801,2427,2428],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}