Our Mission
404 System Error is a social justice advocate whose mission is deeply rooted in the philosophy of human dignity. 404 System Error aims to create the tools and platform to facilitate the building and maintenance of sustainable communities where global citizens empower themselves to achieve their full critical thinking, creative, and productive potentials.
Our ultimate goal is for 404 System Error itself to become obsolete having successfully empowered global citizens to work in collaboration in building sustainable communities through research and project management.
Why We Are Here
We believe that in our market society, individuals are not able to live up to their full human potential. We recognize a fundamental difference between surviving as a member of a market society trying to make ends meet, and living up to one’s true potential through application of reason, critical thinking, creativity, and productivity.
Having emerged from the core of the Occupy Canada movement, 404SE focuses on practical approaches to participation building and strategic organization.
Our overall goals comprise the following:
- To identify the systemic processes hindering meaningful public participation with the goal of challenging them through local, provincial, and federal information campaigns and mobilization.
- To address the systemic lack of information necessary for the public to understand and make sense of the current affairs in the local, regional, national, and international spheres.
- To build a solid network of solidarity and collaboration with established social justice organizations to address issues of public concerns.
- To draft and implement a new democratic media model.
- To build a social justice research and development program through collective participation: crowd sourcing.
- To create a functional micro model of social organization and direct participation aimed at building sustainable communities.
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keep up the fight enough is enough.
what he said:)
.. and on that note, how about writing a canadian version of these? http://ow.ly/8a4Xs
3. CONGRESS ENACT LEGISLATION TO PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY BY REVERSING THE EFFECTS OF THE CITIZENS UNITED SUPREME COURT DECISION which essentially said corporations can spend as much as they want on elections. The result is that corporations can pretty much buy elections. Corporations should be highly limited in ability to contribute to political campaigns no matter what the election and no matter what the form of media. The Supreme Court decision is really weird. Read it when you have a chance. The justices who argued for unlimited corporate contributions thought that wouldn’t have an adverse effect on democracy and wouldn’t undermine the citizen’s view of legitimacy of elections. I’m not sure there’s a word for that it’s so strange.
4. CONGRESS PASS THE BUFFETT RULE ON FAIR TAXATION SO THE RICH AND CORPORATIONS PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE & CLOSE CORPORATE TAX LOOP HOLES AND ENACT A PROHIBITION ON HIDING FUNDS OFF SHORE. No more GE paying zero or negative taxes. Pass the Buffet Rule on fair taxation so the rich pay their fair share. (If we have a really had a good negotiating position and have the place surrounded, we could actually dial up taxes on millionaires, billionaires and corporations even higher…back to what they once were in the 50′s and 60′s.
5. CONGRESS COMPLETELY REVAMP THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION and staff it at all levels with proven professionals who get the job done protecting the integrity of the marketplace so citizens and investors are both protected. This agency needs a large staff and needs to be well-funded. It’s currently has a joke of a budget and is run by Wall St. insiders who often leave for high ticket cushy jobs with the corporations they were just regulating. Hmmm.
6. CONGRESS PASS SPECIFIC AND EFFECTIVE LAWS LIMITING THE INFLUENCE OF LOBBYISTS AND ELIMINATING THE PRACTICE OF LOBBYISTS WRITING LEGISLATION THAT ENDS UP ON THE FLOOR OF CONGRESS.
7. CONGRESS PASSING “Revolving Door Legislation” LEGISLATION ELIMINATING THE ABILITY OF FORMER GOVERNMENT REGULATORS GOING TO WORK FOR CORPORATIONS THAT THEY ONCE REGULATED. So, you don’t get to work at the FDA for five years playing softball with Pfizer and then go to work for Pfizer making $195,000 a year. While they’re at it, Congress should pass specific and effective laws to enforce strict judicial standards of conduct in matters concerning conflicts of interest. So long as judges are culled from the ranks of corporate attorneys the 1% will retain control.
8. ELIMINATE “PERSONHOOD” STATUS FOR CORPORATIONS (Sorry Mitt Romney)
9. RE-ESTABLISH THE PUBLIC AIRWAVES IN THE U.S. SO THAT POLITICAL CANDIDATES ARE GIVEN EQUAL TIME FOR FREE AT REASONABLE INTERVALS IN DAILY PROGRAMMING DURING CAMPAIGN SEASON. The same should extend to other media.
let’s do it!