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Bringing prosperity through freedom, equality, local autonomy and respect for the commons

Events

Coming Events

Land Tenure and Race

Pittsburgh
Sat. Jan. 7, 2006
10AM-Noon

How our systems of land tenure and taxation hurt racial minorities, beginning with the demographics of African Americans in Pittsburgh, followed by a look at the deeper relationships between land monopoly and slavery.

Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
No charge. Contact Us to RSVP


Land Tenure and Warfare

Pittsburgh
Sat. Feb. 4, 2006
10AM-Noon

How the Euro-American land tenure system derives from conquest and consequently drives the perpetuation of conquest, with a look at alternate land tenure systems based on mutual respect.

Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
No charge. Contact Us to RSVP


Gentrification and Displacement

Pittsburgh
Sat. Mar. 11, 2006
10AM-Noon

How to minimize the displacement of poor people and the disruption of neighborhoods when revitalizing a city. Looks at the economics of slumlording, speculation, real estate taxation and redevelopment authorities.

Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
No charge. Contact Us to RSVP


How to Fund Transportation

Pittsburgh
Sat. Apr. 1, 2006
10AM-Noon

How the funding mechanisms for transportation drive transportation policy, including over-reliance on highways, extending transit systems outward instead of improving them at the core, and other issues where political clout overpowers economic sense.

Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
No charge. Contact Us to RSVP


The Free Trade Fraud

Pittsburgh
Sat. May 6, 2006
10AM-Noon

Errors on both sides of the free-trade debate, and differences between true free trade, which is good for labor, and right-wing free trade, which hurts labor.

Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
No charge. Contact Us to RSVP


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Our Constituents

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  • Vegetarians
  • Labor
  • Real Estate Leaders
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  • Homeowners
  • Tenants
  • Ethnic Minorities
  • Ideological Groups

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  • Decentralism and Freedom
  • Focusing on Local Reform
  • Government as Referee
  • Government as Public Servant
  • Earth as a Commons
  • Money as a Common Medium
  • Property Derives from Labor

Core Issues

  • Democratic Process
  • Monopoly
  • Debt Money
  • Taxation
  • Privilege

Derivative Issues

  • Wealth Concentration
  • Corruption
  • Bureaucracy
  • Authorities
  • Privatization
  • Centralization
  • Globalization and Trade
  • Economic Stagnation
  • Boom-Bust Cycles
  • Development Subsidies
  • Sprawl
  • Gentrification
  • Pollution and Depletion
  • Public Services
  • Transportation
  • Education
  • Health Care
  • Retirement
  • Wages
  • Zoning
  • Parks
  • Shared Services

Blinding Misconceptions

  • Orwellian Economics
  • Corporate Efficiency
  • Democracy vs. Elections
  • Big Government Solutions
  • Founding Fathers
  • Politics of Fear
  • Politics of Least Resistance
  • Radical vs. Militant
  • Left vs. Right
  • Common vs. Collective
  • Analysis vs. Vilification
  • Influence vs. Power

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