DRAFT
We The People Action Plan #56
56. Plan for a Global Factual Information
and Education Program
(Updated May 3, 2015)
(This is a work in progress. Please provide comments/suggestions/additional actions to PeopleNow.org by email: refinetheplan@peoplenow.org or Fax 703-521-0849)
This plan outlines the actions required to
It is a key element of the Universal Movement and Global Strategic Plan for a Permanently Peaceful, Prosperous, Just, Sustainable World described at www.PeopleNow.org
TABLE OF CONTENTS
56.6 Actions (under development)
56.7 Background (under development)
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This document outlines a plan to provide an information and education program to:
56.2.1 To improve knowledge, awareness and coordination of efforts of the thousands of organizations and individuals working on progress, change and reform
56.2.2 Informs and educates progressives and as many individuals as possible from the public and private sectors:
56.2.3 Describe Common Universal, Strategic Plan for a Peaceful, Prosperous, Just, Sustainable World
56.2.4 How to get our public servants to act in the best interest of the people and accomplish comprehensive and lasting change and reform.
56.2.5 Do what George Lakoff, a cognitive scientist and a linguist, who “has been arguing over the past decade and a half that progressives need to build a communication system of their own to:
56.2.5.1 (1) express the values they really believe in,
56.2.5.2 (2) to communicate the truth,
56.2.5.3 (3) to use their own values-based language to show the moral significance of those truths, and
56.2.5.4 (4) avoid communicating conservative beliefs they do not hold, especially by avoiding the language of conservatism. The article by Lakoff reflects the failure of progressives to do so.”
In addition to accomplishing the items Lakoff has outlined above, this system will:
56.2.6 Provide ways for individuals to ferret out meaningful information from the massive amounts of available information and be able to distinguish “spin” from truthful information without “censoring”.
Initially, information, education and training materials will be distributed and taught by/learned from YouTube, social websites, email, linked web sites, Wikipedia, , Facebook, Twitter, DVDs and public access TV. As soon as possible, improved ways to inform educate and train including advanced distributed learning methodologies and technologies including online learning, e-learning, virtual classrooms, etc. will be refined and employed.
Concerns and challenges: the critical need for allying, change, education, reform and pragmatic solutions.
This document outlines a plan to provide an information and education program to:
56.3.1 To improve knowledge, awareness and coordination of efforts of the thousands of organizations and individuals working on progress, change and reform
56.3.2 Informs and educates progressives and as many individuals as possible from the public and private sectors:
56.3.3 Describe Common Universal, Strategic Plan for a Peaceful, Prosperous, Just, Sustainable World
56.3.4 How to get our public servants to act in the best interest of the people and accomplish comprehensive and lasting change and reform.
56.3.5 Do what George Lakoff, a cognitive scientist and a linguist, who “has been arguing over the past decade and a half that progressives need to build a communication system of their own to:
56.3.5.1 (1) express the values they really believe in,
56.3.5.2 (2) to communicate the truth,
56.3.5.3 (3) to use their own values-based language to show the moral significance of those truths, and
56.3.5.4 (4) avoid communicating conservative beliefs they do not hold, especially by avoiding the language of conservatism. The article by Lakoff reflects the failure of progressives to do so.”
In addition to accomplishing the items Lakoff has outlined above, this system will:
56.3.6 Provide ways for individuals to ferret out meaningful information from the massive amounts of available information and be able to distinguish “spin” from truthful information without “censoring”.
Initially, information, education and training materials will be distributed and taught by/learned from YouTube, social websites, email, linked web sites, Wikipedia, , Facebook, Twitter, DVDs and public access TV. As soon as possible, improved ways to inform educate and train including advanced distributed learning methodologies and technologies including online learning, e-learning, virtual classrooms, etc. will be refined and employed.
Concerns and challenges: the critical need for allying, change, education, reform and pragmatic solutions.
56.4.1 Basic Principles
56.4.1.1 Honest information
56.4.1.2 If a mistake or misstatement is made, it should be corrected immediately
56.4.1.3 Listen to the opinions of others
56.4.1.4 Reiterative, constant feedback
56.5.1 All aspects of the Common Universal, Strategic Plan for a Peaceful, Prosperous, Just, Sustainable World outlined on www.WeThePeopleNow.org, www.HumaneJustice.org and www.ProsecuteOfficials.org beginning with:
56.5.1.1 The Urgent Need for Change and Reform and Working Together.
56.5.2 Framing, semantics, linguistics, communications, etc.
56.5.2.1 The purpose/objectives of this training is to show how others have misled the public by the way they “frame” information and how this can be countered honestly with proper framing. The information for this training will come mainly from books such as:
56.5.2.1.1 “Tyranny of Words”, by Stuart Chase
56.5.2.1.2 “Science and Sanity”, by Alfred Korzybski
56.5.2.1.3 “Don’t Think of an Elephant”, by Professor George Lakoff, is the definitive handbook for understanding what happened in the 2004 election and communicating effectively about key issues facing America today. Author George Lakoff has become a key advisor to the Democratic party, helping them develop their message and frame the political debate.
In this book Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter their arguments. He outlines in detail the traditional American values that progressives hold, but are often unable to articulate. Lakoff also breaks down the ways in which conservatives have framed the issues, and provides examples of how progressives can frame the debate.
Lakoff's years of research and work with environmental and political leaders have been distilled into this essential guide, which can be used to show progressive and moderate activists how to think in terms of values instead of programs, and why people vote their values and identities, often against their best interests.
Don't Think of an Elephant! is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and the right wing's stranglehold on political dialogue in the United States.
For a comparison of “framing” as practiced by progressives and conservatives with regard to immigration please read the article “Framing Versus Spin” at http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff/luntz
56.5.3 Human nature, character, ethics, values, principles, integrity, reasoning, accountability, cooperation, teamwork, courage, etc
56.5.3.1 Adapt educational and other materials developed by other organizations, in particular the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the Naval Academy the other service academies and the Center for Ethical Leadership at the Naval Academy for use in this part of this education program.
56.5.3.2 In general, for someone to improve his ethics or character, he needs to better understand human nature and want to change. Human nature, as defined here as what we are conceived with, cannot be changed, but we can and need to understand it better.
According to Alfred Adler:
The understanding of human nature is an enormous problem, whose solution has been the goal of our culture since time immemorial. It is not a science that should be pursued by a few specialists only. Its proper objective must be the understanding of human nature by every human being.
This program is intended to acquaint the general public with the fundamentals of Individual Psychology, demonstrate the practical application of certain principles to the conduct of our everyday relationships with the world and our fellow human beings, point out how the misguided behavior of the individual affects the harmony of our social and communal life; to teach individuals to recognize their own mistakes; and, to show them how to adjust harmoniously to their social environment. Mistakes in business and science are costly and deplorable, but mistakes in the way we live our lives may endanger life itself.
56.5.3.3 Lessons
56.5.3.3.1 Ways to Self Reliance Introduction to the Book Beyond Success and Failure: Ways to Self Reliance and Maturity by Willard and Harriet Beecher
56.5.4 The Constitution, International Treaties, Civil Rights, Laws, Sovereignty of the People, Democratic Process, Legal System, etc.
Since the public has a very limited knowledge of the US Constitution, international treaties and others laws, our objective is to educate people on for example the following:
56.5.4.1 what "the law" means,
56.5.4.2 what "due process" is,
56.5.4.3 what "null and void" means,
56.5.4.4 how inviolate our rights are,
56.5.4.5 that it is illegal to arrest and hold anyone even terrorists without warrants,
56.5.4.6 that the US cannot "opt out" of the Geneva Convention, interrogate POWs, abuse prisoners, etc.
This training will help improve this situation. The Memorandum of Law, which is provided separately provides insights into and educational material on the Constitution and other Laws, International Treaties and Conventions, etc.
56.6 Actions (under development)
56.7 Background (under development)