Community Conscience Advocacy  
Livable Communities, Bottom-Up Government & Responsible Civic Action
A Proposal and a New Paradigm
 
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Section 1 ... Overview
Section 2 ... Requirements
Section 3 ... Activities
Section 4 ... Livability
Section 5 ... Case Study

 
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Section 1 ...... Overview ........................................................................................

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Civic accountability
1.3 Community Conscience Advocacy – representing consciousness

Section 2 ...... Requirements ..................................................................................

2.1 Community Conscience Advocacy: CCA, CCPA
2.2 Community Conscience Program Administrator Qualifications
2.3 Community Conscience Advocate Qualifications
2.4 Spiritual Assessment Board
2.5 Minimum Community Requirements

Section 3 ...... Community Conscience Advocate Activities .................................

3.1 CCA Activities – Overview ...................................................................
3.2 CCA Activities – Spiritual .....................................................................

1. Self-development
    (a) Maintain a routine
    (b) Handling consciousness
    (c) Knower, process of knowing, known
2. Personal contact
3. Preserve community integrity
    (a) Multigenerational continuity
    (b) Selective approach
    (c) Welcome the less wealthy; counteract anonymity

3.3 CCA Activities – Material ....................................................................

1. Coordinate support for special needs
2. Knowledge of public assistance services
3. Knowledge of tradesmen and merchants
4. List of gardening resources

3.4 CCA Activities – Common Interest .............................................................

1. Common dining
2. Common workshop
3. Community gardening
4. Neighborhood watch
5. Green space maintenance
6. Community-wide landscaping
7. Interfaith dialog
8. Education
9. Mind-body development
10. Fund raising
11. Sister community outreach
12. Legalities

3.5 CCA Activities – Legal-Judicial ..............................................................

1. First line interface to courts; personalize application of the law
    (a) Consultation and mediation
    (b) CCA objection
    (c) Speaking out
    (d) Override of cA objection
2. Personal contact with officials
3. Character assessment and testimony
    (a) Conflict creates confusion
    (b) The key importance of character
    (c) Input from the CCA
    (d) Character of prosecutors, attorneys, judges, witnesses
    (e) Discretionary involvement
    (f) Incline towards the positive
    (g) Intuitive methods
4. Fine mitigation
    (a) Appeal through CCA
    (b) Recommend by letter
    (c) Refrain from collection
5. Introduce community considerations into civil litigation
    (a) Law suits mean community failure
    (b) CCA mediation
    (c) Character testimony
    (d) Neutralize the attorney advantage
6. Sentencing advice
    (a) CCA input
    (b) Sentence reduction, substitution, suspension
    (c) Recommend in writing or in person
    (d) Enlightened sentencing
    (e) Educate rather than punish
7. Support for family of jailed
8. Legal fund
9. Formal laws optional
    (a) Rituals and sacredness
    (b) Acting instinctively

3.6 CCA Activities – Legal-legislative ........................................................

1. Bridge community and lawmakers
    (a) Fill the gap
    (b) Regular consultations
2. Lobby for long-term livability
    (a) Quality of life takes precedence
    (b) Self-sufficiency
    (c) Thousand-year planning
3. Environmental lobby: connected green space; noise reduction
    (a) Connected green space
    (b) Noise – eliminate sources
    (c) Quiet hour, quiet day
    (d) Educational approach
    (e) Procuring parkland
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    (a) Church/state – confusion over concepts
    (b) Department of spiritual affairs
    (c) Religious cooperation
    (d) Formal laws optional

3.7 CCPA Activities ...................................................................................

1. Identify prospective communities
2. Program promotion
3. Review CCA applicants
4. Assemble spiritual assessment board
5. Review, recommend instructors, lecturers
6. Legislative lobby

Section 4 ...... Livability .........................................................................................

4.1 Vision of a livable city
4.2 Connected green space – a network of paths
4.3 Access for every resident
4.4 Noise pollution
4.5 Behavioral criteria
    4.5.1 Open window test
    4.5.2 Lottery outlet density test

Section 5 ...... Case Study .......................................................................................

5.1 Overview and background
5.2 A personal approach
5.3 Contrasting views – the key issue of character
5.4 Affecting the outcome
5.5 A flawed system
5.6 Family as community
5.7 What ever happened to trust?
5.8 Raising an autistic child
5.9 The livability of condo developments
5.10 Preventing tragedies

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