RAINBOW FOUNDRY

The primary purpose of the Rainbow Foundry is to serve as a sanctuary for the oppressed in the face of rising neofascist sentiment. Each Foundry will provide residents with food, shelter, and opportunities for meaningful work. It will also sequester funds to help provide for founding more Rainbow Foundries elsewhere. Its secondary purpose is to serve as the prototype of a new vision of community enabled, urban futurism. The Foundry is conceived as a self-contained, resident-owned neighborhood in a minimal geographic footprint.
The fully developed Rainbow Foundry will contain living space for individuals and variously-sized group households. The precise number will depend on funding, and may be expanded later. The plan laid out below is for approximately 40 residents. The Foundries are planned to be able to retrofitted into existing buildings where available.
Each household (of however many residents) will have a private unit, with sanitary facilities, sleeping quarters (how many to be determined by the household) and the capacity for at least basic food storage and preparation.
In addition, the Foundry will have a number of communal amenities available for residents. Prepared food will be available in an open refectory, and delivered to individual units at need. The Foundry will include aeroponicand/or aquaponic gardens to maintain a supply of vegetables. Residents will also be able to request groceries through the refectory’s bulk ordering system. There will be childcare facilities, staffed by fellow residents. The Rainbow Foundry will be self-supporting, via resident operated enterprises of various sorts. .
While it will be incorporated for legal reasons, each resident will have one, and only one, equal vote in the Foundry’s doings. Every resident is entitled to food, shelter, and maintenance (clothing, sanitary necessities, caretaking, and such amenities as may be present) to the extent that the Foundry can provide it. The Foundry will also, resources permitting, materially support residents’ various endeavours. Should the Foundry’s monetary income exceed its needs, the excess will go to a fund to enable others to start Foundries of their own.
The present plan assumes that the Foundry will be located in Portland, Oregon due to robust trans protection laws and extensive Medicaid availability.