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Invitation to Join "Peoples' Equity Union" Discussion and Organizing Initiative
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I apologize to thee all that know this.
I thought it was particularly pertinent given current affairs in Latin America and other parts of the world.
We, in the English speaking world need to promote our solidarity. More and more people in the worl…
Hi Ashel,
Thanks for the note, and thanks for the invitation.
I am in Eugene, Oregon. otherwise I would attend.
Not many in the transition movement seem to be concerned about equity. It seems to me to be a very elitist movement, typical in a very…
Mike,
Thanks for sending this invite...I want to invite you to an Oakland Resilience Alliance meeting that is happening this Thursday the 28th @ 704 39th St. Oakland CA. 94609. I am really interested in how we can achieve equity in our movements...W…
Please join us in an attempt to make socialism real.
Join the Yahoo discussion group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peoplesequityunion .
This is a discussion group that aims to realize the eutopian ("good place") socialism goals of the Peoples' Eq…
Please join us in an attempt to make socialism real.
Join the Yahoo discussion group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peoplesequityunion .
This is a discussion group that aims to realize the eutopian ("good place") socialism goals of the Peoples' Eq…
That seems to be the dilemma that many face.
They offer services and they expect bourgeois rewards and they have to sell books and so forth and excuse my frankness, but it begins to seem like bordering on prostitution, if not full blown.
Just a th…
Sounds like a good strategy as part of a larger plan.
Wish I was in Bay Area to attend.
Please see, feel free to copy and circulate that which I have posted on this website with respect to Agriculture and Food and Extended CSAs.
Will check out Po…
Have been contacting many organizations to put together a march on DeCeaser to rid the world of its Military and Capitalist hegemony and to enlist the more enlightened souls in the governments to minimalize themselves and work to facilitate to a nei…
I share Kunstler's cynicism and quasi-contempt for the socially liberal, economically non-commital wealthy of the suburbs.
Healthy cynicism is critical to hopeful idealism.
Here's part of my counter to Kunstler:
Demand Side Management, Supply Si…
Michael & Company,
SUPERB VIDEO, though appropriately disturbing.
Keep up the good work.
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR
Very good short.
I don't need to see the extended, but it would be interesting to maximize the short, at least, and probably helpful to many, if not some, to see the extended, if one exists.
Send me a DVD, if you think that I can help spread the m…
Here's a response I wrote to William Spademan, Originator of the Bank of Common Good idea:
For what it's worth... By 1971, we had 500,000 people on the street and on more than one occasion...
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- How might your current work contribute to the Transition movement?
- Very deeply, extensively, and with much care.
- In what ways do you personally identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?
- In the gentle sense of the heart of Social Liberalism, but not in the bourgeoise/aristocratic Capitalist mentality.
- What background and skills do you bring to this community?
- I am a Friend. BS - Environmental Studies Graduate Study in Planning and Economics MBA have worked construction, real estate appraisal, health care cost and util. report systems developer, Director of Managed Care Contracting for hospital,farm work, farm fertilizer delivery, lumber yard/hardware and delivery, Small Business Development Center, taught Computer Methods, etc. fellowship for the last fourteen years studying and developing interests listed (in profile). have lived in Massachusetts (Boston area and Connecticut River Valley), New Hampshire, Vermont, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Connecticut. have lived in Eugene since 2000. Published Book on Cooperative Housing at the UMass Mgmt. Research Center in 1980. Wrote and Self-Published, sold and distributed book entitled Who is George Fox and Why Should I Care? (published 1996). George Fox was the founder of the Society of Friends. The book is not about George Fox but is consistent with his teachings as well as being consistent with other great teachings and discusses those teachings as they relate to the modern world and the future.
- What aspects of the Transition Town movement most interests you?
- With my work.
- Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement
- "The New Exploration", by Benton MacKaye
"Comparative Economic Systems" (forget authors, written and published in the early 1970's).
"When Corporations Rule the World" by David Korten
"Who is George Fox and Why Should I Care" by me
so many others that I must stop now.
- Your Personal Website (if you have one)
- http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com
- Suggestions you have for improving our registration questions or how to know you better.
- None.
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