Policy Projection: 1 – 8 October 2016

We have announced LGBTQ+ Pride Week in Sandus (12/6).
We have witnessed the traditional nine-day period of mourning for the shooting in Orlando, FL, USA. (12/6)
We have lowered both the L/G and Bisexual pride flags from the Sagamorial Residence in observance of the period of mourning. (14/6)
We have published a new song, “Today, Tomorrow, For Our Lives.” (16/6)
We have published the decisions of the Sixth Session of the Council in 2016. (20/6)
We have published the Solstice report. (20/6)
We have celebrated the Strawberry Moon and the Summer Solstice. (20/6)
We have shared Thomas Walker’s “Peaceful Valley.” (20/6)
We have sent best wishes to the European Union after a British referendum decided to leave the union. (24/6)
We have shared Nuntii Latini. (25/6)
We have started to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Week. (25/6)
We have shared our LGBTQ+ Pride Week playlist. (26/6)
We have formed a caucus to author a new omnibus citizenship law. (29/6)
We have voted unanimously to join the Grand Unified Micronational. (30/6)
We have established three new days of recognition for the Three Political Theories. (2/7)
We have released a statement on the rejection of the Sandum application to the GUM. (3/7)
We have shared news that the Acting-Chairwoman of the State Council of Zealandia had announced that Zealandia would not seek GUM membership. (3/7)
We have shared news that the Prime Minister of Austenasia said that it is not the Imperial Government’s priority to repair or maintain the Austenasian-Sandum alliance. (3/7)
We have shared the Internationale. (3/7)
We have shared an opinion piece from the polemic journal Jacobin on American Independence Day. (4/7)
We have celebrated the Poplifugia. (5/7)
We have expressed our sadness at the shootings in Baton Rouge, LA, and Falcon Heights, MN, USA. (7/7)
We have sworn the new oath of citizenship. (7/7)
We have shared the Sandum national anthem. (9/7)
We have announced that we would not respond to a belated statement by the Wyvernian Prime Minister on the rejection of Sandus’s GUM application. (9/7)
We have celebrated Überstadt Socilivanço Day. (10/7)
We have shared news from two Sandum friends, Hélianthis and Padrhom. (10/7)
We have signed a treaty with Nova Francia. (10/7)
We have signed a treaty with Kraveitya-Ratmatnovia. (11/7)
We have added the European flag to the Mur des Drapeaux. (12/7)
We have announced that the State of Sandus would no longer be signatory to the Denton Protocol, yet take up its provisions as Sandum policy. (14/7)
We have signed a treaty with Pavlov, ending a prolonged diplomatic conflict. (14/7)
We have announced news that Zealandia would withdraw support from the Denton Protocol and that Zealandia had single-handedly undermined Sandum-Zealandian relations. (18/7)
We have announced that the Chairwoman of the Zealandian Council of State had issued a temporary suspension of Sandum-Zealandian relations. (19/7)
We have published the decisions of the Council in the Seventh Session of 2016. (19/7)
We have ordered the indefinite suspension of diplomatic relations with the Commonwealth of Zealandia. (19/7)
We have announced that the Sôgmô had adopted new pronouns. (21/7)
We have supported a Mercian investigation into transphobic attacks against Bee Rodgers Albina. (21/7)
We have announced that the Council was in deadlock over a motion to rejoin the GUM. (21/7)
We have announced that a new Council motion to rejoin the GUM as an observer has narrowly failed. (21/7)
We have commemorated the fifth anniversary of the attacks on Oslo and Utøya. (22/7)
We have published the Philia Plan for the Major Societal Shift. (23/7)
We have announced that Kremlum Sandus State Press would work on a renewed publish series. (23/7)
We have published a propaganda on the diplomatic upheaval. (25/7)
We have announced that Jacob Barnet had applied for Sandum citizenship. (26/7)
We have announced that Austenasian Prime Minister, Joseph Kennedy, had suspended Sandum-Austenasian diplomatic relations. (26/7)
We have shared news that Kit McCarthy, who had worked jointly on a Sandum investigation into the Chair’s role on the rejection of Sandus’s application, would leave micronationalism. (27/7)
We have announced that discussions between Sandus and Wyvern to resolve a years-long dispute had failed to achieve any ends. (27/7)
We have shared a statement on trilateral negotiations to resolve the diplomatic dispute following the GUM’s rejection of the Sandum application. (28/7)
We have met with the leaders of the social states to reform the Social System. (31/7)
We have issued a state of emergency over the historic flooding of Ellicott City. (31/7)
We have celebrated Lammas. (1/8)
We have announced that the Sôgmô had been awarded the LGBT Equity Scholarship from the University of Maryland’s LGBT Equity Center. (2/8)
We have shared Überdstadti King Adam I’s statement on foreign relations. (2/8)
We have shared news that Facilitator Bee Rodgers Albina had filed multiple motions in the Council in order to ratify the Sôgmô’s Philia Plan. (11/8)
We have shared news on the new head of state of Kumano. (14/8)
We have announced efforts to draft a new social treaty. (14/8)
We have celebrated the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, also known as the Dormition of the Mother of God. (15/8)
We have entered into a 48-hour cession of all communication with the Empire of Austenasia after a diplomatic spat. (16/8)
We have announced that six motions in the Council on ratifying the Sôgmô’s Philia Plan had passed. (18/8)
We have announced the promulgation of the Ministry of Diplomatic Affairs. (18/8)
We have shared the decisions of the Council in the Eighth Session of 2016. (18/8)
We have appointed Jacob Barnet Pharmacologus Σαρκαστικός as Minister of Diplomatic Affairs. (18/8)
We have celebrated the Vinalia Rustica. (19/8)
We have introduced the new Minister of Diplomatic Affairs. (19/8)
We have shared news that the Sôgmô was a subject of a New Israeli ultimatum. (22/8)
We have announced a coin design competition. (22/8)
We have shared news that the Empire of Pavlov had decided to leave the Holy League in response to the New Israeli ultimatum. (23/8)
We have announced that Jacob Barnet had become a civis citizen. (26/8)
We have reaffirmed our commitment in making Sandus a safe-space for all people. (26/8)
We have announced a trip to Reykjavík in January 2017 where the Sôgmô will meet Mercian Lord Spiritual Richard Hytholoday. (27/8)
We have announced that Sisenna Melville had become a civis citizen. (28/8)
We have shared Jacob Barnet’s Sagamorial Consideration on Matter Realism. (31/8)
We have announced le Jeu contre l’impérialisme. (2/9)
We have announced the creation of Sandus Europāi Province. (3/9)
We have shared news about Project Zephyr. (3/9)
We have shared some elements of Sandum patrimony. (4/9)
We have signed a treaty with the third Nemkhav Federation. (4/9)
We have commemorated the Day against Imperialism & Terrorism. (10/9)
We have shared the Sôgmô’s Sagamorial Consideration in defence of cultural production. (11/9)
We have accepted the Überstadti King’s invitation for arbitration with Austenasia. (14/9)
We have shared the decisions of the Council in the Ninth Session of 2016. (16/9)
We have celebrated the Autumn Solstice. (22/9)
We have announced that Sandus had donated more than $1,000USD in Summer 2016. (22/9)
We have awarded the MHOTS to new people and removed Jonathan Augustus and Charlotte Lindström as members of the order. (22/9)
We have shared news from members of l’Organisation de la MicroFrancophonie on the summit at Aigues-Mortes. (22-24/9)
We have announced that Sandus had donated more than $2,250USD in Summer 2016. (25/9)
We have announced that Adam von Friedeck had been awarded an agnomen and is now known as Adam Camillus von Friedeck. (25/9)
We have announced that the Sôgmô was invited and attended the third annual Bisexual Policy Briefing at the White House in Washington D.C., USA. (27/9)
We have shared information about Sandus’s policy to provide or cover part of the cost of chest binders for transgender and gender non-binary people. (29/9)

In the upcoming week,
We shall prepare for the Armilustrium.
We shall work on the omnibus citizenship law.
We shall begin negotiations with Austenasia on 2 and 22 October.
We shall present the new social treaty to the Council.
We shall restart Sandus’s coin design competition.
We shall publish a Sagamorial Consideration on changing micropatriological jargon concerning federations, such as “accretionist micronations.”
We shall begin to publish Sandum cultural holidays by each month.
We shall begin work on establishing the Εκκλησία sodality of the Collegium Sacerdotum.

We shall lay forth work on these objectives from today, 1 October 2016, to 8 October 2016 and draft another projection for the following administrative week of 8 days on 9 October 2016.