Frequently Asked Questions

What issue is Tarka Accord trying to combat?

It is becoming ever more clear that the United States, under the governance of the Trump administration, is spiralling down the path of public insecurity and government kleptocracy. We are seeing the constant threat of massive tariff hikes, the acceleration of debt accruement by the Federal Government, the introduction of ICE as an organised paramilitary gang of thugs, the construction and avid advertisement of a Floridian concentration camp, the harassment of opposition politicians and the interfering in free democratic processes.

Not only does all of this pose a significant threat to the continuation of America as a free and democratic country, it also threatens the stability of people’s lives in two key ways.

• The threat of tariffs and imagery of a fascist takeover are pushing the US further from the international community, making now an incredibly inopportune time to massively increase the debt taken on by the Federal Government. The reason why this is a poor decision is that it effectively drives the US further away from the global market while simultaneously making the Government more reliant upon it for spending. 

• The ICE headed push against immigrants in the US will, internally, damage economic sectors that heavily rely on them to sustain themselves. Chiefly, farming is at incredible risk of collapse due to droves of migrant labourers fleeing their stations to avoid ICE abduction, detention and deportation. When combining this collapse in domestic production and the significant financial hurdles introduced to global trade, the Trump administration is putting the US in a place where food prices are highly likely to skyrocket if nothing is done to change these insane policies.

What is Tarka Accord proposing?

As a means of dealing with the issues of security in the US, we are proposing the establishment of a widespread and organised network of community unions all across the country. A ‘community union’ - as we would define it - is a body of people that takes the collective action and bargaining aspect of labour unions and applies it to a geographical area. Even without the organisation of an interconnected and collaborating network of community unions, we believe that they are individually capable of doing the following:

• Pressure elected officials by presenting to them an organised local opposition that can kick them out of power if need be.

• Promote the growth and establishment of labour unions within the territorial extent of a community union in order to combat unjust corporate activity.

• Collaborate on the production of cheap food, grown either in individuals’ properties or in designated farms.

• Found community-owned companies to compete with private capital with the hopes of providing cheaper alternatives to various chosen products and services.

When including the collaboration between different community unions on shared goals, we believe that the aforementioned opportunities that individual community unions can provide become more attainable than they already were. And so, our proposition is to create as many community unions as possible all across the country and to work them all into the Tarka Accord structure (either as members or affiliates) so they can collaborate with one another and with the rest of Tarka Accord more broadly.