Thursday, January 28, 2010

List #2!


Here's Natasha's list:
--bus or van for every school, or gas money, and a creative person to take kids on field trips, at least once-a-week
--more percent for art opportunities
---ice skates for every kid and a safe place to skate that's kept cleared of snow
--swimming lessons and free camping trips for kids==jobs for artists, money for all NGO's to hire artists, artists for all schools, institutions
--artist-in-residence programs in every school
--universal single-payer healthcare, free health clinics, free dental
--energy retro-fitting for every house
--community gardens for every town with master gardeners helping people set up backyard gardens
--subsidies for the most nutritious foods and distribution of them to low-income people; make good food as accessible as junk food
--public transportation system for everywhere
--bookmobiles, local libraries, access to computers in local libraries, book clubs, reading aloud programs
--prison release programs, counseling, educatgion, mentoring of prisoners
--a total ban on smoking
--more orchards
--more park benches, especially artist-designed ones
--free college tuition
--free cultural events and subsidized tickets for low-income people to attend ones that cost
--fuel efficient cars for everybody
--solar panels for all
--distribution of home-grown food to those who need it
--ice skates, sleds, cross-country skis for every school
--free health care, including acupuncture, homeopathy, massage, and alternative treatments
--grants to subsidize the best newspapers to hire investigative reporters
--high speed internet free for everybody
--fully fund educational mandates
--make schools equal whether in poor or rich communities
--increase teachers' salaries and get the best teachers available
--hire artist to teach non-art subjects using the arts
--teach history in wonderful ways to make it living and relevant, and to highlight how people have struggled for their rights
--fund public television so it will become more educational, relevant, and create a less passive, better-informed public
--state should buy more land for parks and public access, especially along the coast
--clone Bill Moyers
--create a viable third party
--help schools reach all kinds of kids' learning styles
--teach foreign languages from first grade up
--promote cultural exchanges
--teach every kid to play an instrument and make instruments available
--teach local history in inspiring ways, storytelling programs, murals, etc.
--provide free childcare, top-quality, and Head Start programs
--create meaningful job opportunities
--hire home-makers to teach nutritional low-cost cooking to everybody who needs it
--set up apprenticeship programs for trouble teens
--give money for Haitian relief
--free pre-natal care and free abortions
--beautiful affordable housing available to all who need it
--create vegetable gardens and orchards at every school
--funding for diversity training, and civil disobedience training

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