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Here are the demands from the site as of when I accessed it:

• Protection and permanent guarantee of civil rights for all

• Total government reform

• Publicly funded health care

• Adequate and accessible disability support and services

• A permanent solution to Homelessness, hunger and the housing crisis

• Respect and support for tribal Sovereignty and involvement with indigenous leadership for environmental action

• Enhanced enforcement of constitutional rights

• More power to american voters

Personally, I believe these are not specific enough. If I may be so bold, I'll rewrite them:

• Improved laws at the municipal, state, and federal levels to include LGBTQ persons as protected classes under anti-discrimination law, including explicit punishments for owners and minimum damages award amounts

• Replacing district-based voting with proportional representation for representatives at state and federal levels, first-past-the-post voting with either ranked choice voting or approval voting at municipal and state levels, and your state joining or better advertising if already joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

• Single-payer healthcare at the federal level, including coverage of preventative treatment and protection for pre-existing conditions

• Clarified laws around enforcement of disability support, including failure modes to prevent dropping compliance and punishments scaling to the wealth of the offender, at the state level for physical locations and services and at the federal level for online services

• Funding and development of government housing and support for the unhoused, including mental health services, training for entering the workforce, training in financial hygiene, and addiction treatment, be it chemical (e.g. drugs) or behavioral (e.g. gambling)

• Clarified and improved enforcement of laws at the federal level for ensuring the sovereignty and support of indigenous peoples, including environmental protections in line with their beliefs, punishments for private entities including corporations that violate their sovereignty, and failsafes to prevent intentional lack of enforcement by government entities

• Incorporating government ethical norms into the US Constitution, closing loopholes that enable abuse of power, strengthening ethics review committees' power to remove individuals using government power unethical, creating federal and state level departmental entities enshrined in law to ensure constitutionally granted rights

• Explicitly excluding corporations and similar non-individual entities from contributing campaign funds to political candidates, outlawing lobbying, drastically increasing public political campaign funding based on a metric that scales with the economy, further limiting private funding for political campaign funding based on a metric that scales with the economy, defining independent entities for auditing and pursuing legal action against tampering with voting mechanisms including voters registration methods, ballot submission methods, and voter tampering methods - all via constitutional amendment

People can fix my grammar/typos. Yes, I know more specific demands are more difficult to acquire alignment on from broader audiences, but I think these would be palatable up most Americans.

However, I am realizing that my points above are too verbose for quick consumption. Via web media, maybe they could be hidden as expandable sections beneath the original bullet points

My friend, maybe edit the original post to include this? A lot of us remember how much support and visibility Occupy Wallstreet got and how ineffective it was due to lack of direction.

It's only my intuition, but I think it may be easier to get people onboard by listing demands/goals, even if they're only tentative.

With these kinds of things, we're asking people to do a lot of work. The lower we can make the initial barriers to entry, the more likely people are to consume enough info that they become more willing to put in effort. This means prioritizing headline information well, making graphics appealing, etc

All this said, I haven't organized this kind of stuff. I defer to those with demonstrable success in these things

Keep fighting the good fight <3