Citizens Prerogative

Citizens Prerogative

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  • No New Episodes for Summer 2022

    In times like these, being a citizen is a big job. Thank you for joining us to celebrate the virtues of self-rule and debate the state of our republic. Welcome to the Citizens Prerogative podcast.

     

    This is your nerdy host Michael Piscitelli and I am here to share the news that we won't have any new episodes for you this summer. None of the behind-the-scenes, no in-front of the scenes, nor anything in-between. We expect to return by September 27, 2022.

     

    Please join us again next time by staying subscribed so you can receive the latest episode hot off the podcast maker.

     

    Until then, feel free to yell at us from the contact us page at citizendogood.com or on Facebook.

     

    Join our newsletter to stay updated on all our antics including this podcast.

     

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    2 min
  • No New Episode This Week - Jun 14 2022

    In times like these, being a citizen is a big job. Thank you for joining us to celebrate the virtues of self-rule and debate the state of our republic. Welcome to the Citizens Prerogative podcast.

     

    This is your nerdy host Michael Piscitelli and I am here to share the news that we don't have a new episode for you this week. None of the behind-the-scenes, no in-front of the scenes, nor anything in-between.

     

    Instead, just this message: Please join us again next week by staying subscribed so you can receive the latest episode hot off the podcast maker.

     

    Until then, feel free to yell at us from the contact us page at citizendogood.com or on Facebook.

     

    Thank you for listening and staying subscribed.

     

    2 min
  • S3 E55 P5: Convert to a New Economy
    Episode discussion topics
    • This represents part 5 of the Five-Point Plan introduced in episode 50.
  • Leading by example by going all-in on converting to a new economy for climate's sake.
  • We can no longer rely on endlessly increasing profits, waste, and carbonization for shareholders' sake. We need to build clean local economies, live in the doughnut of sustainability, and think full circle about resource use.
  • This new economy will offer the freedom of choice as to when and where you participate in the corporate concrete jungle, start your own business, or do something more creative. Learn more about how this could be possible by revisiting S3 E52 | P2: Right to A Minimum Standard of Living.
  • The end game is that we all get to live a collaborative and fulfilling life within the means of our communities and our biosphere. No more borrowing against future generations for the greed of those alive today.
  • The transition begins by focusing on four major areas of reform...
  • Area 1: Legislation and law enforcement:
    • Enforcing anti-trust laws. Small business is better business.
  • Promoting tax policies that enable small, local, sustainable, resilient, community-oriented, businesses and institutions for the common good.
  • Promoting the replacement of fossil fuels and old-school industrialization with sustainable and renewable systems for life-support's sake.
  • Provide programs to make every home self-sustainable and grid-independent for resiliency's sake.
  • Area 2: Promote government policies with a focus on relationships with the community. This includes things like:
    • Policies that provide for caregiving at the beginning and end of life in an integrated community way.
  • Policies that establish systems to help facilitate people's role transitions throughout life. Managing a multipronged career path.
  • Role transitions include things like serving as an apprentice, creator, follower, leader, teacher, and mentor. Some may be taken on simultaneously.
  • Area 3: Government needs to make resources available to spur advancements in new ways to conduct business and also encourage more sustainable ownership structures like worker-owned cooperatives, credit unions, and other types of non-profits.
  • Area 4: Add stakeholder seats to company boards that represent the interests of:
    • Employees of the company or their union.
  • Regulatory oversight agencies by industry, for example: financial, environmental, agriculture, aerospace, and health.
  • Department of the Treasury would be seated any time there is government ownership or equity stake in a company.
  • Calls to Action:
    • Consider how you or your children might be benefitted from such an economy and have the freedom of how and when to participate in the capitalist parts of our system.
  • Consider how you might transition between the roles we described.  Also, think about how might you want your children to experience roles in their lives.
  • The Atlantic has published a thought-provoking article on the value of sabbaticals, an idea that we highlight during this episode. Check it out: What Is Life Like When We Subtract Work From It?
  • Learn more about doughnut economics and the steps you can take towards living sustainably for our posterity's sake. Check it out: S2 E25 | New Economics a la Doughnut.

    • Your hosts: Michael V. Piscitelli and Raymond Wong Jr.

    More info
    • We have transcripts located at the end of each podcast episode's  page on our site. Check it out, but know this: It's all AI and not us. So thank you in advance for forgiving any and all errors.
  • Please feel free to share your thoughts through our Contact Us page or like us on Facebook.
  • Disclaimer: The opinions expressed on this podcast are for listener consideration and are not necessarily those of the show or its sponsors.
    • Learn more and reach out
    • Head to Citizens Prerogative for additional information and log in or sign up to leave a comment.
  • Don't forget to join our free newsletter and get 10% off at our shop! Go the extra mile by supporting us through Patreon.
  • Please contact us with any questions or suggestions.
    • Special thanks
    • Our ongoing supporters, thank you!
  • Our sponsor CitizenDoGood.com.
  • Graphic design by SergeShop.com.
  • Intro music sampled from “Okay Class” by Ozzy Jock under creative commons license through freemusicarchive.org.
  • Other music provided royalty-free through Fesliyan Studios Inc. 
    • 35 min
  • S3 E54 P4: In Service of Our Nation
    Episode discussion topics
    • This represents part 4 of the Five-Point Plan introduced in episode 50.
  • What it means to be in service of our nation and recognizing that this also means we are acting in service to one another and our posterity in turn. No small feat.
  • Re-establish our sense of community on a grander scale with things like a civil service core and public works administration.
  • A service core for public works programs would aim to maintain an active pipeline of people and small business contracts to accomplish the following:
    • Actively combat climate change
  • Contribute to infrastructure projects
  • Cover shortages in healthcare
  • Provide training for entry into new trades
  • Create public works
  • Respond to disasters
  • These programs would provide opportunities for training and experience. Added value from a reinvigorated sense of national pride in doing good works and instill a sense of connectedness and perhaps a shared identity.
  • Foster the development of new fully supportive programs for people reintegrating back into society. Meet people where they are as they reintegrate from:
    • Military service
  • Incarceration
  • Supportive housing
  • Treatment programs
  • Trauma recovery
  • All of these scenarios require their own solutions for helping people to get established in a new life. Much like the doughnut economy, we need to think full circle in support of our citizens' human needs.
  • Calls to Action:
    • Consider how you or your children and our society might be benefited from such civil service programs.
  • Find out ways to get involved in your community. Join or create your own community service project today.
  • With food prices and contaminants on the rise - you may consider starting with a community garden or participating in one near you. These can help cut the cost of fresh produce and know exactly where some of your food comes from.
  • Smile at a neighbor and say hello. Then try to practice it more regularly.

    • Your hosts: Michael V. Piscitelli and Raymond Wong Jr.

    More info
    • We have transcripts located at the end of each podcast episode's  page on our site. Check it out, but know this: It's all AI and not us. So thank you in advance for forgiving any and all errors.
  • Please feel free to share your thoughts through our Contact Us page or like us on Facebook.
  • Disclaimer: The opinions expressed on this podcast are for listener consideration and are not necessarily those of the show or its sponsors.
    • Learn more and reach out
    • Head to Citizens Prerogative for additional information and log in or sign up to leave a comment.
  • Don't forget to join our free newsletter and get 10% off at our shop! Go the extra mile by supporting us through Patreon.
  • Please contact us with any questions or suggestions.
    • Special thanks
    • Our ongoing supporters, thank you!
  • Our sponsor CitizenDoGood.com.
  • Graphic design by SergeShop.com.
  • Intro music sampled from “Okay Class” by Ozzy Jock under creative commons license through freemusicarchive.org.
  • Other music provided royalty-free through Fesliyan Studios Inc. 
    • 31 min
  • No New Episode This Week - May 24 2022

    In times like these, being a citizen is a big job. Thank you for joining us to celebrate the virtues of self-rule and debate the state of our republic. Welcome to the Citizens Prerogative podcast.

     

    This is your nerdy host Michael Piscitelli and I am here to share the news that we don't have a new episode for you this week. None of the behind-the-scenes, no in-front of the scenes, nor anything in-between.

     

    Instead, just this message: Please join us again next week by staying subscribed so you can receive the latest episode hot off the podcast maker.

     

    Until then, feel free to yell at us from the contact us page at citizendogood.com or on Facebook.

     

    Thank you for listening and staying subscribed.

     

    2 min
  • No New Episode This Week - May 17 2022

    In times like these, being a citizen is a big job. Thank you for joining us to celebrate the virtues of self-rule and debate the state of our republic. Welcome to the Citizens Prerogative podcast.

     

    This is your nerdy host Michael Piscitelli and I am here to share the news that we don't have a new episode for you this week. None of the behind-the-scenes, no in-front of the scenes, nor anything in-between.

     

    Instead, just this message: Please join us again next week by staying subscribed so you can receive the latest episode hot off the podcast maker.

     

    Until then, feel free to yell at us from the contact us page at citizendogood.com or on Facebook.

     

    Thank you for listening and staying subscribed.

     

    2 min
  • S3 E53 P3: Transform Learning
    Episode discussion topics
    • This represents part 3 of the Five-Point Plan introduced in episode 50.
  • Transforming the institutions of our learning system for a more perfect union.
  • We live in the age of infinitely expanding knowledge and automation. The past is not our future.
  • This means that we need a whole new perspective on learning for posterity’s sake and the future of our republic if they can keep it.
  • Forget memorization, short-cuts, and standardized tests. This Edutopia article hits on the major points of what the research says about testing. Recently, the UC system moved forward with suspending the use of SAT and ACT for entrance requirements.
  • Time for a change and we have a proposal in mind:
    • Teach young people how to learn skills, discern facts, think properly, and use their agency to find purpose and contribute to their communities.
  • Foster development of skills to continue growing, navigating life, and fending for themselves in whatever environment they may live.
  • Instill in pupils the practical habits necessary to collaborate and solve problems.
  • They should learn how to discover and rediscover who they are, know their purpose, and maintain an alignment with nature. By nature, I mean working in cooperation with one another and the environment. 
  • They should be provided with a knowledge base of practical information.
    • This includes a complete perspective of the world’s history as we know it. One that represents perspectives of a fair cross-section of all groups and fully explains why things are the way they are.
  • Also, practical ways to understand and navigate our modern economic environment as a consumer and a business.
  • Ultimately one of the primary goals is to help people develop their leadership skills and gain an understanding of civics and how our institutions work.
  • By the end of schooling, our people should be ready to participate in the next steps of their purpose-driven lives. Regardless of choosing apprenticeship, vocation, art, science, or academia, everyone should be prepared for the next phase of life after high school.
  • We might advocate for a free associate degree through an accredited community college in the short term and long term more needs to be done.
  • We propose equalizing the playing field and the funding to provide a more equal education for all. This major change could work like pooling all county tax dollars for education into one state fund to be distributed equally based on enrollment. Give each child a funded fair shot.
  • Calls to Action:
    • Consider how you or your children might have benefitted from such a learning program as described in this episode. Then answer these questions:
    • Why not make changes for the better?
  • What changes would you support in a radically different system and why?
  • Find out ways that you may influence or join your local school board in order to begin the hard work of introducing these ideas to the community at large. If we want to change, we have to act.
  • Explore local opportunities for apprenticeships available in your area. Either for you to retool yourself or for your loved ones to be aware of. These can be sponsored through local trade groups, unions, community colleges, and vocational institutes.
  • Don’t rely on the system to care for you or your child’s learning. Life-long learning is critical to have any chance of fulfilling a life’s purpose.
  • Keep growing and learning. Do it alone or with others. Do it now. So much is accessible at your fingertips through any internet-enabled device.
  • We only outlined the bones here, so stay tuned as we dive further into this during a future episode.

    • Your hosts: Michael V. Piscitelli and Raymond Wong Jr.

    More info
    • We have transcripts located at the end of each podcast episode's  page on our site. Check it out, but know this: It's all AI and not us. So thank you in advance for forgiving any and all errors.
  • Please feel free to share your thoughts through our Contact Us page or like us on Facebook.
  • Disclaimer: The opinions expressed on this podcast are for listener consideration and are not necessarily those of the show or its sponsors.
    • Learn more and reach out
    • Head to Citizens Prerogative for additional information and log in or sign up to leave a comment.
  • Don't forget to join our free newsletter and get 10% off at our shop! Go the extra mile by supporting us through Patreon.
  • Please contact us with any questions or suggestions.
    • Special thanks
    • Our ongoing supporters, thank you!
  • Our sponsor CitizenDoGood.com.
  • Graphic design by SergeShop.com.
  • Intro music sampled from “Okay Class” by Ozzy Jock under creative commons license through freemusicarchive.org.
  • Other music provided royalty-free through Fesliyan Studios Inc. 
    • 38 min
  • No New Episode This Week - May 3 2022

    In times like these, being a citizen is a big job. Thank you for joining us to celebrate the virtues of self-rule and debate the state of our republic. Welcome to the Citizens Prerogative podcast.

     

    This is your nerdy host Michael Piscitelli and I am here to share the news that we don't have a new episode for you this week. None of the behind-the-scenes, no in-front of the scenes, nor anything in-between.

     

    Instead, just this message: Please join us again next week by staying subscribed so you can receive the latest episode hot off the podcast maker.

     

    Until then, feel free to yell at us from the contact us page at citizendogood.com or on Facebook.

     

    Thank you for listening and staying subscribed.

     

    2 min
  • No New Episode This Week - Apr 26 2022

    In times like these, being a citizen is a big job. Thank you for joining us to celebrate the virtues of self-rule and debate the state of our republic. Welcome to the Citizens Prerogative podcast.

     

    This is your nerdy host Michael Piscitelli and I am here to share the news that we don't have a new episode for you this week. None of the behind-the-scenes, no in-front of the scenes, nor anything in-between.

     

    Instead, just this message: Please join us again next week by staying subscribed so you can receive the latest episode hot off the podcast maker.

     

    Until then, feel free to yell at us from the contact us page at citizendogood.com or on Facebook.

     

    Thank you for listening and staying subscribed.

     

    2 min
  • No New Episode This Week - Apr 19 2022

    In times like these, being a citizen is a big job. Thank you for joining us to celebrate the virtues of self-rule and debate the state of our republic. Welcome to the Citizens Prerogative podcast.

     

    This is your nerdy host Michael Piscitelli and I am here to share the news that we don't have a new episode for you this week. None of the behind-the-scenes, no in-front of the scenes, nor anything in-between.

     

    Instead, just this message: Please join us again next week by staying subscribed so you can receive the latest episode hot off the podcast maker.

     

    Until then, feel free to yell at us from the contact us page at citizendogood.com or on Facebook.

     

    Thank you for listening and staying subscribed.

     

    2 min

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