Prioritizing “Humanitas” - the qualities of ethics, empathy, and progress.

• Infusing our lives with a clear sense of purpose by elevating our shared humanity over short-term material gains.

• Divesting from what MLK called the “triple evils” of militarism, classism and racism.

• Embracing the overview effect: The cognitive shift when viewing Earth from space, leading to a sense of wonder, fragility, mortality, and interconnectedness.

Fostering Global Identities

• Adopting a Global Identity: Recognizing our interconnectedness and shared history. Prioritizing universal obligations and well-being over sectarian dominance or nationalism.

• Dispelling myths of east vs west. Countering Islamophobia and xenophobia in general. Raising awareness of the universal values and brilliance of all our great traditions from Islam, to Christianity, Hinduism, secular ethics, Confucius, Buddhism, Judaism, indigenous communities, and many others.

• Prioritizing Local Communities: Innovation and problem-solving with city planning, urban design, individualized education models, and healthy food systems.

Addressing Urgent Environmental Issues

• Climate Emergency: Declaring a climate emergency, rapidly phasing out fossil fuels, and radically changing energy policies to address the ongoing atmospheric crisis.

• Demilitarization: The U.S. Department of Defense, is one of the world’s largest consumers of fossil fuels, biggest drains on public funds, and most powerful political influencers, fuels a self-perpetuating cycle by using military force to secure more oil resources, driving global instability and environmental destruction.

• Addressing Environmental Toxicity: Combating environmental toxicity to ensure a healthier planet.

• Healthy Food Access: Promoting the production and access to healthy food.

• Phasing Out Driver-Operated Cars: Transitioning away from the number one contributor to climate change - fossil fueled cars which have caused additional climate chaos by terraforming the earth with concrete.

Political and Economic Reforms

• Abolishing Big Money in Politics: Eliminating corporate domination and conflicts of interest from public office to ensure fair governance.

• Dismantling Monopoly Control over markets: Reducing corporate control, breaking up oligarchies, to unlock innovation and competition. All our major industries, from finance, military, energy, tech, health care, food, to real estate, must be regulated by public representatives without conflicts of interest.

• Promoting Economic Systems that Incentivize Meaningful Work, like publicly funded creative and innovation programs, work-owned cooperatives, benefit corporations, social enterprises, employee stock ownership plans, and “new deal” guaranteed pubic service jobs.

• Universal Basic Income: Establishing a Universal Basic Income for all humans, following Thomas Paine and Martin Luther King’s vision.

• Promoting Social Democracy: Advocating for natural economic liberty as outlined in FDR’s second bill of rights.

Community and Social Support

• Prioritizing Community Support: Investing in schools, medical care, elder care, and community support for a stronger society.

• Redesigning Education: Creating educational systems that empower individual talents, inspire intergenerational community, and foster creativity.

• Holistic Reparations: Providing reparations for survivors and descendants of collective trauma.

Technological and Ethical Standards

• Establishing a Digital Bill of Rights: Securing individual freedom, ensuring ethical accountability, and inspiring innovation.

• Ethical Science and Technology: Ensuring science and technology serve ethical purposes.

• Abolition of Advertising for Addictive Substances: Eliminating advertising for addictive substances and setting limits in public and digital spaces.

Promoting Safety and Justice

• Ending modern slavery and wage slavery.

• Criminal Justice Reform: Deradicalizing the criminal justice system, prioritizing prevention and restorative justice.

• Abolition of Guns: Advocating for the demilitarization of public spaces, law enforcement, and government.

• Decriminalization of drugs and poverty.