My Fellow Radicals & Revolutionaries,

My name is Zevin X. Cruz from Occupy Cortland of upstate New York. I have attached my vision proposal to contribute to the visioning process of the Occupy NATGAT where I am currently participating at and it has been pasted down below. I welcome all comments, suggestions and additions. ([email protected])

THE GRAND SYNTHESIS: A New Millennium Manifesto For The Next Phases Of The Cultural Creatives’ Convergence Like OWS

(Proposal & Future Book by Zevin X. Cruz, Guerrilla X Artivist

THE DECALOGUE

The following is an integral approach to art, activ­ism and fundamental social change partially influenced as a past participant of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the Transition Movement and the Ron Paul Libertarian faction of the Tea Party and We The People Foundation. This groundbreaking strategy has been in the works for at least 12 years since the 1999 “Battle In Seattle”—the trigger event of the Economic Justice / Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement—which has its modern roots to Martin Luther King’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign and it’s Resurrection City encampments. It offers what’s been missing from activism for decades—a new FOUNDATIONAL FRAMEWORK that resolves the obstacles plaguing the new social and consciousness movements through “The SUM: The Ten Philosophical Pillars of Neo-Transcendental-ism.” It includes: 1) A New Cosmology (Conscious Evolution) the novel philosophical and scientific assessment of the origins, nature and structure of the universe as depicted by Barbara Marx Hubbard and Ken Wilber’s Twenty Tenets of the “Kosmos.” 2) A New Integral Worldview (The AQAL Model / Integral Operating System) that provides a comprehensive theoretical framework of the world and ourselves. 3) Integral Activism (The Grand Continuums of Evolutionary Transformation) a new theory for nonviolent revolution that is the most sophisticated application of the AQAL Model to activism available today. 4) A New Narrative (Cultural Evolution from Empire to Earth Community) a humanistic mythos and meta-analysis of history that redefines human nature. 5) A New Collective Identity (Neo-Transcendentalists) to solidify the Cultural Creatives / New Progressives sub-culture of at least 80 million Americans as a proposed rebranding of activists, anarchists, socialists, communists, progressives, liberals, independents, green conservatives, libertarians, third parties and culture jammers through an integration of overlapping values, issues and our common opposition to the economic oligarchs of the corporatocracy. 6) A Common Code of Conduct (Integral Ethics) from the new ethos of the empathetic civilization that does not justify the means for the ends because the means are the ends in the making, thus, strictly adhering to nonviolence as way of life while maximizing our moral authority to win the support of the majority in order to create a critical mass for radical transformation. 7) A Cohesive Vision (The Society of the Third Millennium) of community resiliency through a post-capitalist, post-carbon, democratization of energy due to the Third Industrial Revolution of the Hydrogen Economy and eventually the eradication of debt and money via the “Venus Project” as advocated by the Zeigeist Movement. 8) A Coherent Plan (The Grand Unified Strategy) that consists of “Seven Strategic and Interdependent Initiatives” that acts as the vehicle for comprehensive change. 9) A National Unifying Purpose (The Grand Ultimatum) that lays down the gauntlet for fundamental social change to our entire society as the engine for a mass mobilization of civil society to mitigate the converging crises of climate chaos, peak oil and economic collapse through post-carbon relocalization, preparation for the possibility of a nationwide general strike and the beginning phase of the Hydrogen Energy Web (HEW). 10) The Ultimate Goal (The Grand Imperative)—Abolish Empire & Establish Earth Community—the one global demand that is big enough to encapsulate the root cause of all of our social problems in one succinct, six-word, uncomplicated, yet all-encompassing sentence that states both what we are for and against.

THE SUM: The Ten Philosophical Pillars Of Neo-Transcendentalism

A comprehensive map for swift and sweeping social change derived from a deep, full-spectrum analysis that incorporates ideas from various thinkers like Ken Wilbers’ “Integral Theory of Everything” otherwise known as the AQAL Model (all quadrants, all levels) comprise of three main perspectives personified with pronouns and subdivided for symmetry as “I,” “WE,” “IT,” “ITS.” It begins with “An Accurate Assessment of the Present Predicament” that we have virtually run out of time creating a new sense of urgency (Pillar One). Ecological, economic, cultural, social and political events have converged to make 2012 The Year for radical transformation otherwise we will traverse the threshold of human extinction. Analysis of our current condition has led to a synthesis of suggestions from various groups, organizations and publications that I have designated as “The New Millennium Memes & Mandates” (Pillar Two) that provides diverse strategic courses of actions. It begins with identifying the true source of our societal ills, “The Crux Of The Crises” (Pillar Three), which is the Pathological Culture of Empire consisting of the Value Disorder (“We”), Dysfunctional System (“Its”) and the Manufacturing of Maladaptive Individuals (“I”) suffering from economic distress, plagued with feelings of powerlessness, crippled with neuroses, coping by overconsumption, inundated with constant environmental health threats, and distracted with electronic gadgets, trivial lifestyle pursuits, political scandals, celebrity worship and other pop culture addictions. Having diagnosed the root cause of our current condition it becomes necessary to understand how we are ruled and the means of control by “Deconstructing the System of Dominance” (Pillar Four) through the identification of our common opposition, the prevailing paradigm of infinite growth, and the maladaptive social system of oppression, economic inequality and social injustice. Resulting in an all-encompassing purpose: “The Grand Imperative—Abolish Empire & Establish Earth Community—The One Global Demand & Ultimate Goal,” (Pillar Five) that can finally mend the fragmentation of all of the new social and consciousness movements. But how to accomplish such a comprehensive feat would have to be based on a new set of beliefs about the nature of reality, knowledge and the essence of being, forming a new cosmology: “The Post-Metaphysics Of The AQAL Model & The Integral Life Practice (ILP)” (Pillar Six). Such an ambitious aim has resulted in the organic development of a new integral theory of social change called “The Grand Continuum Theory of Evolutionary Transformation,” (Pillar Seven) that prioritizes cultural change (Phase I: Cultural Evolution), which is divided into three Continuums (X: Separation, Y: Transition, Z: Integration) before institutional change (Phase II: Structural Revolution) that comprises of Continuum A: Deconstruction and Continuum B: Reconstruction leading to Phase III: Global Transformation (Continuum C: Dynamic Equilibrium Through The Third Industrial Revolution of the worldwide Hydrogen Energy Web). All of which is based on enduring “Principles & Proclamations For Earth Community/The Society of the Third Millennium (S3K),” (Pillar Eight) comprise of (on the global scale) “The Earth Charter,” 2001, on the national level “Second Bill of (Economic) Rights,” by FDR 1944, and the local “Community Bill of Rights,” 2010 to preserve our local sovereignty to safeguard our environment, our health and natural resources against corporate pillaging. “Envisioning & Exhibiting Earth Community” (Pillar Nine) offers a concrete alternative to the self-destructive status-quo in order for the masses to make the necessary paradigm shift required to accept a new vision of a post-capitalist and post-carbon society. What will act as the catalyst for change is (Pillar Ten) the Grand Unified Strategy (GUS).

The GUS consists of Seven Strategic & Interdependent Initiatives for the Mass Mobilization of Civil Society: 1) Cultivate Counter-Institutions like OWS through the eight stages of Bill Moyers’ “Movement Action Plan (MAP).” 2) Build Alternative Institutions like the Transition Movement’s efforts of community resiliency through the revolutionary act of relocalization. 3) Create A Parallel Government with a new provisional cabinet, President, Supreme Court and Congress consisting of 535 nationally elected citizen legislators that pledge to end the infinite growth paradigm and get money out of politics. 4) Convene A National Summit of Activists like the Occupy National Gathering or Second Constitutional Convention to present a new vision by drafting a Redress of Grievances, new amendments like The Second Bill of (Economic) Rights, a Common Ground Agenda For The People and a new Declaration of Re-Independence from the corporate tyranny of the economic oligarchy. All publicly proclaim on July 5, 2012, along with 5) The Grand Ultimatum to launch a “Massive Mobilization of Civil Society” by “Drawing-A-Line-In-The-Sand,” once and for all, as our ultimate leverage point for government accountability and creating a sense of urgency as a National Unifying Purpose (NUP) to accelerate all relocalization efforts in preparation for the possibility of a sustained, nationwide, general strike by November 5, 2012, (Guy Fawkes Day), one day before the U.S. Presidential Election to unplug the machinery of the system through withdrawal of our consent (where our true power lies) by abstaining from political participation within the corporate tyranny of the two-party system. 6) The Cultural Creatives’ Convergence Quest (C3Q) is launch to promote a profound paradigm shift required to trigger a tipping point in this 50-project, 50-state, 3-month, cross-country, site-specific, outdoor, guerrilla art installations portrayed as a live Reality TV show of a change of consciousness campaign. When a critical mass is created and if the government still refuses to comply with the people’s last plea for comprehensive change than the greatest and most powerful unified mega-move-ment campaign of civil disobedience begins based on Gene Sharp’s methods of nonviolent actions like 7) A National General Strike that countdowns in a strategically staggered withdrawal of the system in the following proposed manner:

MON, NOV. 5, 2012—Day 1: SOCIAL Noncooperation (school strikes, boycott of sport events, etc.); TUES, NOV. 6—Day 2: POLITICAL Noncooperation (withdraw consent to demonstrate the illegitimacy of government authority by boycotting the U.S. Presidential Election, etc.); WED, NOV. 7—DAY 3: ECONOMIC Noncooperation (withholding of labor and non-essential services)—all done until the government complies with our demands or forced to relinquish their power in a peaceful political purge of Congress, the Presidency and the Supreme Court that finally commences the creation of Earth Community. In order to coalesce all of the fragmented alternatives into a unified vision we need to give it a name to solidify this new sub-culture that underscores ecological sustainability. One suggestion is the Society of the Third Millennium (S3K).