Ive made it easier to send Google a proposal for a doodle tribute about Henry George next September 2nd. Simply copy and paste this brief email template and make any changes you see fit. While its impacting to offer unique proposals as well, an organized approach is beneficial too. If enough people bring it to their attention, perhaps they will make it happen. The email address to send the proposals is proposals@google SUBJECT: Birthday of Social Reformer Henry George for Google Doodle on September 2nd Hello Google Doodle Team, I would like to propose a doodle tribute to the Birthday of famous yet largely unknown Socio-Economic Reformer Henry George for September 2nd. Henry George was a household name in the late 1800s and about as well known as Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and Thomas Edison. He became internationally known as he traveled the world speaking and managed to spawn a school of economics of lasting impact, based on his prolific writing and speaking as well as his dedicated pursuit of economic justice and political change. Similar to Founding Father Thomas Paine, Economic Philosopher Adam Smith, and Human Rights Activist Martin Luther King, Georges published ideas about economic equality and Earth sharing challenged the prevailing policy of the time and still do to this day. He is seldom included in curricula and therefore not as well known these days although his ideas are still widely relevant today. Many people who remain famous were heavily influenced by him, such as George Bernard Shaw, Leo Tolstoy, Sun Yat Sen, and David Lloyd George. A follower of George, Lizzie Magie, created the board game Monopoly in 1904 to demonstrate his theories. Henry George inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, whose main tenet is that people should own what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly the value of land, belongs equally to all humanity. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), is a treatise on inequality, the cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of the land value tax as a remedy. In opposition to land monopoly as well as social injustice, he stated that people have equal right to the use of land as they have equal right to breathe the air. Georgists also advocate for a Citizens Dividend to be established with the revenue raised by the state through leasing or taxing land and natural resources for private use, similar to the Alaska Permanent Fund. Here are some websites with additional information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George hgfa.org.au/who-was-henry-george progress.org/views/editorials/september-2-birthday-of-henry-george-labor-day/ Thanks,
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