"Provisional set of demands At the final general assembly of our 9-day occupation of Parliament Square in October, we agreed a set of provisional demands under three headings – People Before Profit, Environment Before Profit and Democracy Before Profit. These provisional demands will be subject to an ongoing, open and democratic process of refinement and improvement. People Before Profit • No Privatisation of the NHS • Programme of Green Social Housing • Close down Tax Havens • No TTIP CETA & TISA trade deals • Abolish Tuition Fees • Living Wage for All • Universal Basic Income • No to privatisation of all public services, including but not limited to schools, police, public transport and public spaces • Reverse Privatisation of Public Spaces Environment Before Profit • Ban Fracking & Invest in Renewable Energy • New Green Deal including One Million Climate Jobs Democracy Before Profit • Reform of Party funding & lobbying and ensure full transparency • Reform and Democratise the City of London Corporation and end the role of Rembrancer • Introduce Proportional Representation • MPs not to have second jobs • Close the “revolving door” [between government and corporations] • Oppose corporate secondment * • On entering the Houses of Parliament members must divest themselves of all financial interests and this must be subject to credible oversight* • Major democratic reform of the media in order to break the stranglehold of the media by vested interests • Hold a citizen-led Constitutional Convention for real democracy which must recognise that a Constitution is a living document. UPDATES: At the Saturday General Assembly of the November occupation we agreed the following amendment to an existing demand: Invest in renewable energy and ban the production and import of all unsustainable, dangerous & extreme energy including Fracking, Coal Bed Methane, Tar Sands , Arctic Oil extraction and Industrial Biomass. and the following additional demands: A global decarbonisation programme for fossil fuels and an emergency transition to a truly sustainable energy system in line with the increasingly urgent climate science. To support the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth http://pwccc.wordpress.com/programa/ Right of Recall of MPs At the December assembly we agreed the following three additional housing-related demands: Reintroduce rent controls. Use the one and a half million empty buildings in the UK for homes and projects to solve the housing crisis. Amend the LASPO Act 2012 to decriminalise the squatting of unused residential buildings. "
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