A Brief Introduction to My Intentions and Plans
I am trying to organize locally, regionally, and worldwide.
I have contacted Eugene-Springfield Solidarity (Oregon, USA) with respect to their initiative and to express to thee all that peace, equity and sustainability, and relocalization need to be the among the major pillars of an ecological economic redevelopment plan.
At risk of going into a long-winded explanation, I will elaborate some.
I am sufficiently knowledgeable and experienced to be quite cynical about the prospects for people. However, I maintain hope based on being in a position where I am allowed to pursue a right livelihood at assessing the world, local, and regional situation and imagining alternatives to what is extant.
We need to put great efforts into organizing on the local/regional level, yet we cannot separate our efforts from those of other regions of the world. That is, we cannot isolate ourselves. That has been the mistake of all eutopian experiments (according to Lewis Mumford, eutopian means "good place", outopian means "no place"), Thus, if we progress along the lines of local/regional organizing, we must also reach out and find, and/or foster and facilitate the formation of similar organizing efforts in all locales of the planet. Only working together as one world can we hope to overcome the peril facing the people.
We must reform the financial system. The alternative to the status quo is to form an Equity Union. Perhaps we may want to call it (in English) The Peoples' Equity Union. It would be a worldwide united equity system with cooperating inter-community entities. It would preclude the use of loans, which are fundamentally usurious. It would place the most destitute, the most in need, and all children (which I define as about 25 years old or less) as the highest priority. However, the Plan would include the needs of everybuddy. As the old Socialist slogan goes, "for all according to their needs, by all according to their abilities".
A major focus of the Ecological Economic Redevelopment Plan is the walkable neighborhood. This Plann(er) recognizes that the age of the automobile is racing to a disastrous ending and that if we want to maintain the true benefits of automotive power and sustain our precious fossil fuels (as well as other natural resources), that we must reduce the use of automobiles by 80% in the next 20 years. There will be great resistance from the economic interests of the status quo. We need to work in cooperation with them as well.
Locally, we need to begin to organize in neighborhoods (however they are to be defined). The City of Eugene has taken an initiative to identify neighborhoods and encourage the formation of neighborhood associations. In Eugene, this would be a good place to start, and such could serve as a model for other communities.
Walkable neighborhoods are defined as neighborhoods where people can get the things they need within walking distance and have the goal and create the resources to facilitate the maximum amount of people working in their neighborhoods and/or at home. Bring the goods and the means of communication to the people instead of all those willy-nilly inefficient, and tragically squandering automobile trips. Perhaps a part of the Plan would be an evolution to a pre-order cooperative system for food and other necessities. Such a system would go a long way to promote accurate and quality production, efficient distribution and a large reduction in waste.
I'm a Work Kin for peace and cooperation.
With much love and care,
Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com
(541) 343-3808
I have contacted Eugene-Springfield Solidarity (Oregon, USA) with respect to their initiative and to express to thee all that peace, equity and sustainability, and relocalization need to be the among the major pillars of an ecological economic redevelopment plan.
At risk of going into a long-winded explanation, I will elaborate some.
I am sufficiently knowledgeable and experienced to be quite cynical about the prospects for people. However, I maintain hope based on being in a position where I am allowed to pursue a right livelihood at assessing the world, local, and regional situation and imagining alternatives to what is extant.
We need to put great efforts into organizing on the local/regional level, yet we cannot separate our efforts from those of other regions of the world. That is, we cannot isolate ourselves. That has been the mistake of all eutopian experiments (according to Lewis Mumford, eutopian means "good place", outopian means "no place"), Thus, if we progress along the lines of local/regional organizing, we must also reach out and find, and/or foster and facilitate the formation of similar organizing efforts in all locales of the planet. Only working together as one world can we hope to overcome the peril facing the people.
We must reform the financial system. The alternative to the status quo is to form an Equity Union. Perhaps we may want to call it (in English) The Peoples' Equity Union. It would be a worldwide united equity system with cooperating inter-community entities. It would preclude the use of loans, which are fundamentally usurious. It would place the most destitute, the most in need, and all children (which I define as about 25 years old or less) as the highest priority. However, the Plan would include the needs of everybuddy. As the old Socialist slogan goes, "for all according to their needs, by all according to their abilities".
A major focus of the Ecological Economic Redevelopment Plan is the walkable neighborhood. This Plann(er) recognizes that the age of the automobile is racing to a disastrous ending and that if we want to maintain the true benefits of automotive power and sustain our precious fossil fuels (as well as other natural resources), that we must reduce the use of automobiles by 80% in the next 20 years. There will be great resistance from the economic interests of the status quo. We need to work in cooperation with them as well.
Locally, we need to begin to organize in neighborhoods (however they are to be defined). The City of Eugene has taken an initiative to identify neighborhoods and encourage the formation of neighborhood associations. In Eugene, this would be a good place to start, and such could serve as a model for other communities.
Walkable neighborhoods are defined as neighborhoods where people can get the things they need within walking distance and have the goal and create the resources to facilitate the maximum amount of people working in their neighborhoods and/or at home. Bring the goods and the means of communication to the people instead of all those willy-nilly inefficient, and tragically squandering automobile trips. Perhaps a part of the Plan would be an evolution to a pre-order cooperative system for food and other necessities. Such a system would go a long way to promote accurate and quality production, efficient distribution and a large reduction in waste.
I'm a Work Kin for peace and cooperation.
With much love and care,
Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com
(541) 343-3808
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Permalink Reply by Mike Morin on
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Financial Systems Reform and worldwide intra and inter-community communications and Planning are essential to any hope for peace and sustainability.
Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com
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Permalink Reply by David Braden on
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Mike, I very much appreciate your concerns. Peace will not come from prayer vigils. Peace will come from systems of production that heal nature and produce abundance.
I would love to compare notes with you - I have collected my ideas on these issues at Community Investment Enterprises.
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David,
Thanks for the note. I have posted a response on your website (or was it a blog?).
In response to what you have said here, I strongly believe that we have enough wealth already. It is a matter of equitably distributing that wealth.
Of course, we can not stop production, it is ongoing and necessary. What we need to do is rearrange it, by way of a slow transition to equitable, sustainable, and humane systems of production and distribution.
None of this can be done without financial systems reform.
With much love and care,
Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com
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I disagree with you Mike. Which is why I would like to compare notes. Wealth is not money in a bank account. Wealth is the ownership of the capacity to produce value - and we all have a greater capacity to produce value than we use - because we insist on measuring value in money.
The answer is not to replace one incomplete system with another, the answer is to add new complexity to the existing system. The creation and distribution of value is the process of human systems. How that value flows through the system is determined by the "bridges" each of us maintain. The answer is not in tearing down the bridges of other people - all people will defend the bridges on which they rely to obtain value. The answer is in building new bridges to the people, plants and creatures left out of the market.
See: Using a Better Map
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I don't think that we disagree at all.
Read carefully, the various essays in my blog at www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com.
You will see that I am into a peaceful, methodical transition in which no one gets hurt, very many benefit, and all are included.
The wealthy and their followers must adjust their concept of wealth, by shifting their activity driven paradigm to one that embraces quality of life in lieu of the ecocidal, genocidal, and suicidal "standard of living", which is so important in our "consumer society". People's needs are so much more complex than what they buy.
The wealthy and their followers, and all others, must also embrace the concepts and mission of peace, equity, humanity, sustainability, and inclusion. We all must recognize the finitude of our planet. Shouldn't our goals be primarily centered around the future generations of the progeny of all people on the planet?
With respect to your concept of "bridges", I'll repeat myself that we should seek peaceful, methodical, and orderly change. I have no desire to burn bridges, hurt anyone. Organizations like GE, Metropolitan Life, Toyota, GM, Bank of America, Cargill, Monsanto, Wal-Mart, Halliburton, etc., as well as all the smaller players, need to join the equity union. That way, we can rearrange our economic production and distribution activities to be consistent with the mission and goals that I have listed heretofore in this note and more extensively (including much more specific plans) on my blog, by reallocating reources.
At risk of understatement, it is not going to be easy. But then again, anything worth doing almost never is...
With much love and care,
Mike Morin
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I have bookmarked your blog and will read more - I hope you will do the same so that we can both learn. I like to think in term of 'What and WE do to make OUR community a better place to live?' instead of what other people "should" do.
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