UNION Option 2028
UNION Option 2028 — One‑Page Overview
/A bottom‑up invitation to system change and Full Spectrum Cooperation/
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*What UNION Option 2028 Is*
UNION (“Unlimited Network Integrating Our Nations”) is Alan Haber’s
call for a broad, bottom‑up political opening in 2028 — a chance for
people across movements, generations, and communities to shape a new
system grounded in cooperation rather than domination. It is not a
party, campaign, or organization. It is a networked invitation: people
telling people, movements recognizing each other, and communities
pooling their lived knowledge.
*The Core Diagnosis: We Live Inside a War System*
Alan names “the system” as a 5000‑year War System — a culture built on
hierarchy, patriarchy, fear, impunity, debt, violence, and organized
power. Its modern forms include capitalism, imperialism, and militarism.
Its purpose is to maintain or shift power through force. People inherit
it; they did not create it.
/“It is our right, privilege, choice, our option to change it.”/
*The Alternative: A Peace System*
UNION proposes Full Spectrum Cooperation as the principle of a new
system — a Peace System grounded in human needs, ecological
responsibility, diplomacy, justice, and shared agency. “Right makes
Might.” This includes converting war industries to economic production,
repairing past injustices, and building cooperative international relations.
*A Call for a Civil Society World Peace Meeting*
UNION urges a global Peace Table where all parties in current conflicts
— Ukraine/Russia, Palestine/Israel, India/Pakistan, China/Taiwan, Sudan,
Congo, the Koreas, and the United States — sit down to negotiate. Civil
society would convene the meeting and present a “Peacemaker Proposal”
to move conflicts from battlefields to negotiating tables.
*A Bottom‑Up Strategy for 2028*
UNION Option 2028 imagines a two-year process in which movements,
communities, and generations combine their programs into a shared
“system change” agenda. By summer 2028, this could produce:
A collective leadership emerging from cooperation across movements
A challenge to mainstream political options
A model of new governance rooted in cooperative leadership across
all departments
A “Program 2029” for a four‑year transition toward a Peace System
This is not driven by money or media. It spreads through relationships,
conversations, local circles, and shared commitments.
*The Ten Easels (from the 1976 Bicentennial vision)*
Alan’s earlier UNION sketches still guide the agenda:
*Piloting spaceship earth* — ecological repair and fossil‑fuel
transition
*Swords into plowshares* — shifting from war‑making to peace‑making
*Our way of life* — labor sovereignty, good work, stable population
*A free economy of full employment* — democratic authority, right
livelihood
*An invisible hand you love to touch* — de‑financializing the economy
*It’s about time* — corporate reform and disempowering oligarchy
*Using our heads* — education, knowledge, social pioneers
*Government of, by and for the people* — decentralization and democracy
*With liberty and justice for all* — legal reform and ending mass
incarceration
*An American dream* — ending imperialism and becoming a cooperative
nation
*Why This Moment Matters*
People across the country feel the system breaking in daily life —
housing, health, work, safety, community. System change is widely
understandable. UNION Option 2028 offers a way to name the system,
confront it, and imagine a Peace System built from the ground up.
*The Invitation*
UNION Option 2028 asks each person, movement, and community to:
Share the vision within their circles
Contribute their knowledge and experience
Build bridges across struggles
Help shape a collective leadership rooted in cooperation
Participate in designing a new system good for everyone
It is a call for solidarity deeper than differences — a rising from the
“square of militarism, racism, materialism, and nationalism” into the
“circle of community.”
S/ Alan Haber