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Tue 10 Feb 2015 8:08AM

‽irate ‽arty - The Participation Party

HM Hubat McJuhes Public Seen by 190

In my opinion the Party should see PARTICIPATION as the core goal of all political efforts.

Participation as in encouraging and empowering all people to engage in shaping the rules and the environment we want to live in.

In my eyes this necessarily implies:
- improving access to shared resources for everyone,
- removing privileged access to shared resources where those exist,
- reducing humiliating and alienating social systems.
- providing easy (machine readable) access to all publicly available information so that people can make informed decisions,
- establishing and cultivating respectful communication processes where convincing arguments are valued higher than any other means of communication.

In this light political goals like the following are only the logical derivative of the above:
* replacing stigmatising welfare with a non-discriminatory Universal Basic Income (UBI)
* free education
* open data
* anti-corruption / anti-lobbyism
* civil rights / anti-mass-surveilance stance / crypto-wars 3.0

HM

Hubat McJuhes Fri 20 Mar 2015 10:15PM

@andrewreitemeyer They obviously agree with your assessment that their argument is ridiculous: They have taken the cited link down!

AR

Andrew Reitemeyer Mon 23 Mar 2015 9:46PM

@hubatmcjuhes
Typical :/

BV

Ben Vidulich Tue 24 Mar 2015 8:37AM

Here's an initiative relevant to our discussion about open government data: http://www.govhack.org.nz/

HM

Hubat McJuhes Tue 24 Mar 2015 9:39AM

very interesting, @zl4bv , see also: http://www.meetup.com/Wellington-GovHackNZ