This book, meant for use by community organizers, builds on systems critiques with action item sets which lay out a vision of a world described by FDR's Four Freedoms. It reiterates Dr. King's call for a Citizen's Income with updated planning and a pathway to get there. Suggestions for new ways to solve the housing and homeless crises over the next 70 years offer new models for participatory and engaged local and national democracy.
This work is offered freely as long as no profit is made from it. It is available from ShiraDest publishing at ShiraDest via Wordpress, as well as on The Internet Archive.
Sou uma academica, autora, do Project Do Better , tambem escrevo livros. O trabalho da minha vida é Project Do Better, PhaseI: Public Domain social Infrastructure (#PublicDomainInfrastructure):
1.) Public Transportation, 2.) Public Libraries, 3.) ProBono Legal & Consumer Education particularly around housing issues, & 4.) Universal Health Care. (She insists that these 4 parts of our Public Domain social Infrastructure need to be undergirded by adopting a Universal Basic Income for all. She has organized community events such as film discussions, multi-ethnic song events and cooperative presentations in her native city of Washington, DC and abroad. )
Enough for all -- what a concept! By Jones drawing on her own economically challenging childhood, on what she learned globetrotting, on her experience serving in the military, and on the wisdom of people like President FDR -- she has come up with an ambitious plan where no one goes without. She not only hypothesizes that, with sober thought and implementation, there's no reason for destitution and loss of self -- she shows us how to achieve such a world!
In her book “Project Do Better: Enough For All, in Four Phases”, author Shira Destinie Jones outlines a plan for the improvement of our societies in a way that the basic necessities of everybody are secured. In her project she gives us not only an idea, but also practical measures how to achieve the goal, incorporating existing measures and giving implementable examples for the execution of the plan in four phases. In my opinion, everybody, but especially decision makers in public service and businesses should read this book. If all people have the basic necessities like housing, job, transport and food covered, this would strengthen the work force and therewith the economy, and would create more capability for empathy and solidarity among a population, which in its turn would make a society stronger as a group and safer for its individuals.
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