[GJM] Fw: Learning together as Co-learner's was: [FixGov] Digest Number 2584

[mary rose]

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From: Bill Ellis 
To: FixGov FixGov 
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: [FixGov] Digest Number 2584



On 16, Jul 2008, at 7:48 AM, FixGov at yahoogroups.com wrote:

> mary rose" maryrose333 at att.net maryrose3332000
> Date: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:49 am ((PDT))
>
> This article emphasizes how the subsidizing of export products by the 
> U..S.
> (and other developed countries) has crippled the developing countries 
> in
> food security.

BE:
This is the key to starvation around the world, as well as the threat 
to us all of food shortage. There is no shortage of food production 
now or in the
future. The problem is dependence on money. Corporate greed drives 
food export. Not the love of starving people. In fact, the imported 
food, subsicized by American taxpayers, competes with locally grown 
food and puts local farmers out of work. The export of exotic food 
from the Third World also takes land away from production for local 
needs. The large shrimp from Indonesia is a good example. Not only 
have shrimp farms taken over rice fields but they have also taken of 
mango swamps that once protected shore lines from large waves. Now a 
tsunami wipes out once save villages for mile inland.

The solution is recognition that food is a human right. A free food 
network could provide all humans with a minimum adequate diet and still 
leave the market import and export of exotic foods, like meat, fruits, 
and out of season crops.

The place to start is in every community world wide. First to 
determine the minimum diet that could be produced by local 
horticulture. Second to start doing it and making it available without 
cost to all local citizens. Third to train local nutritionists and 
gardeners to serve the program both locally a d worldwide. The Peace 
Corps, 4-H clubs, WWOOF, Food Pantries, Lawns to Gardens, IFOAM, and 
other non corporate food programs could come together to from a Global 
Free Food Network and end the current and coming food crisis.

So far this year we have given over a bushel of green beans and 
assorted other vegetables to the local food pantry. We now have a 
cider press out for community use ready for the coming apple crop. Our 
raspberry crop is on a pick two (berries, boxes or bushels) take one 
for you self and leave the other for other people. And the nut trees 
we planted in the public park a few years ago are now producing. 
walnuts, black walnuts, and others. We exchange with others in MOFGA, 
the Maine Organic Food Organization. But there is still much to do to 
get the exchange system to reach those who need it most. Any ideas ?

mary rose:  Yes, I have been promoting the idea of the community learning and 

information centers in each and every community for a decade now.  The 

organizations you mention already know how to do what needs to be done. 

We need centers where people who don't know how to raise their own food 

any more, or how to become whole brain - heart centered  thinkers can learn 

with the support of others in their community.  We need places where those 

who have information of some kind can exchange it with others who have 

something else to exchange -- a co-learner's group.  We need places where 

people of all ages can come together and get a hands-on learning experience 

personalized for their particular ecosystem and right in their own community. They need to learn how to set up a monetary system for their own 

community that meets their needs, not the needs of the banking cartel.  This is

called developing self-reliance and as Bill Mollison wrote in the article I posted 

recently, this is currently called "subversive" but it is also the road to survival and 

onto the highway of magnificence and paradise as we learn how to do things in a 

life-enhancing manner rather than in the death-defining rut we currently find ourselves in.  

This is not just about people getting free food, it is about people getting the knowledge they need to have in order to survive this time and getting it free.  People are entitled to have this knowledge and not have to pay someone to stand up in front of a room and stuff it down their throats. People don't need to be programmed from someone other than themselves -- it is their right to have access to free knowledge of how to live a healthy life on this Earth.  

The education that millions and millions of people have been paying for some specialist to give them for centuries, whether from the pulpit or the classroom is what has led to our present position.  It is now time to reverse this and let everyone be their own teacher as knowledge is freely exchanged among people and not as a "for-profit" endeavor. 



 

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Bill Ellis
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