[GJM] Another Viewpoint Bill Ellis and mary rose again

[mary rose]

From: Bill Ellis 
To: FixGov at yahoogroups.com 
Cc: Discussion Forum for Global Justice 
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: [FixGov] Fw: Another viewpoint: (was: World Bank IMF and WTO are REAL culprits in the current global food crisis....)

On 26, Jun 2008, at 12:00 AM, mary rose wrote:

> In order to protect ourselves from these monsters, we are going to 
> have to take control of our own lives by taking control of our own 
> food supply ... [snip]

BE:
This is a good but small beginning.
We-the-people need to do more than worry about our own food supply. 
Millions of people are now starving. The peak oil threat will make 
food too expensive for even the middle class. We are facing a food 
crisis that will change our whole culture. The threat is a collapse of 
our world, not just a shortage of food.

This will not be recognize by the corporate food system nor their 
governments as long as money rules. We-the-people can, perhaps, ease 
the threats and end starvation by controlling the world food supply -- 
by recognizing that an adequate food diet as a human right.

We-the-people can do that by creating a free-food-for-all global 
network. This would be a two tiered food system. A minimum basic 
human diet could be free to all. Now the world grows some 8000 
calories per person on the planet. It take only 1500 to 2000 calories 
for a minimum nutritious diet. There are in operation hundred of 
local, national, and local free food programs. WWOOF (Willing Workers 
on Organic Farms), 4-H clubs, local food pantries, the Peace Corps 
"Lawns into Gardens," Food co-ops, CFAs (Community Food Associations). 
Networked together, and with grassroots public commitment, such 
groups could stem the threat.

A Global Free Food Network could have the goal of making ever local 
community food independent. It could train local nutrition and 
horticulture exerts. I could invite trainees and experts from around 
the world to exchange communities and train one another in the 
technologies as well as the organization of free food systems. The 
experts could help other communities to design their food system so 
that every person was given a minimum adequate diet.

A Free Food System would not interfere with the existing food market 
system. Out of season foods, exotic fruits and vegetables, meat, 
gourmet dishes, and non essential foods would be added at their market 
cost (plus perhaps 15% to support the free food system).

As the book "Feeding the People is Easy" suggests all it takes is the 
will.

IMHO
Bill Ellis
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AGaianParadigm/files/

Bill, this is a good idea, but a little short-sighted in that with the shortage of
oil and fuel prices as they are, having people travel to be trained is not a very
efficient way to do this.  People need to learn in their own communities -- 
there are people in every community that have some sort of expertise in 
gardening and know the ins and outs of their ecosystem.  Mapping the 
territory first provides people with intimate knowledge of their environment. 
General information is quite readily available on the Internet, but it is 
scattered, so bringing it together on one easily accessed website it is 
much more productive.  And, as well, provides for the beginning of the 
worldwide network.  

As well, this cannot be limited to just gardening, but must include information
on how to design and construct sustainable self-reliant communities, while 
at the same time revitalizing ecosystems. 

While you can only train a few people at a time at your facility, by helping people 
create learning spaces in their own communities and providing both new and back 
up information via an Internet website, we can have millions, if not billions of 
people around the world spontaneously enacting social/cultural transformation all 
at one time.  When necessary, i would be better to have instructors travel to 
diffent regions, rather than having students travel to learning centers. As we 
move further into peal oil, travel is going to become increasingly expensive and
the use of the Internet and computer/TV programming will have to fill in the gap.  

Let's take the barriers down here and go for the full potential of what we can 
accomplish.We have the technology, let's take advantage of it use it and use 
it appropriately. 

What you are talking about here, Bill, is the idea behind CLICs (community learning
and information centers) but we need to take it to a higher level than what you see
at the present time.  What we need to do is to bring the particles together in order 
for form a wave (movement).  So, let's get out of the "small stuff" and go for the full
potential of the situation.  

Creating this movement as the Crystal Clearwater Alliance is the intent of both Kent
Mesplay and myself.  We are awaiting to see if Kent gets the nomination for the 
Presidency with the Green Party on July 13 in Chicago, or the V.P. position. If neither
of these is forth-coming, then we will move into creating the CCA network immediately.
Our goal will be to obtain a minimum of 1 million members who will commit to funding
the enterprise with a $10 annual donation in order to put up the website and maintain
it.  

The website will list each and every person or group around the world who is involved
in sustainable living practices in some way, and list how they are involved.  A map 
will show their location so others may locate and interact with them in some way. 

In addition, the site will provide for Internet-based free, or minimally-priced courses on 
related subjects.  And as well, we will provide links to websites containing relevant 
information.  For instance, we will include a link to TAGARI, the publishing arm of 
world renowned permaculture founder, Bill Mollisson. http://www.tagari.com/?p=58, 
and other sites that offer info on "how to do it" -- for example,  a link to the website of 
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, how to xeriscape (using minimal water)
http://www.tagari.com/?p=58, how to create edible landscapes,  
http://www.plantea.com/edibleland.htm.

The site will aslo include information on eating healthy, solar cooking, raw foods diet 
(not for weight loss, but for health; meditation; Tai Chi, Qui Gong and Yoga. How to
create homes out of recycled materials, paper, and straw bale.  How to map the 
land and develop bio-regions, create a sustainable self-reliant community, and 
much much more. Everyone needs a road map, but, of course, the map is not the
territory so just a general guide from which community creatives can pick and 
choose what is appropriate for them.  

As people become involved and their creative juices take hold, they will come up 
with new and creative concepts that will keep making older ideas obsolete. Change
will thus take place rapidly as people around the world search for answers to the
challenges that face us today.  

This is a grassroots initiative where everyone gets to participate in designing their
future.  In his book, "The Biology of Transcendence - A Blueprint of the Human Spirit,"
Joseph Chilton Pearce reveals that most children demonstrate the use of a holographic
mind; however by the time they are adolescents they have lost this ability -- something
that Marion Brady has just fortified.  Tnis is the result of education based on teaching
(programming) rather than on aiding the child in learning. And teaching using materials 
that are designed to program individuals into a left-brain orientation.  

I believe it is possible to program individuals for a holographic mind orientation using 
teaching methods; however, I personally, consider this to be unethical because it 
denies the person the right and the ability to do it themselves -- the end result is 
based on the agenda of the facilitator rather than on aiding the individual to develop 
their personal power naturally.  A good example of this is Dynamic
Facilitation (a form of NLP or neural linguistic programming) now being used by
those intent on developing so-called 'Wisdom Groups' where there is no real learning
component involved.  More to the point, people are manipulated into "consensus"
rather than coming to a conclusion based on their own innate intelligence.  I do not
believe that the end result justifies the means.  It is de-humanizing. The media does
enough of this, we-the-people don't need to emulate their mistakes. 

Enuff said.  

with love and gratitude for all that you do, Bill, and all that we do together.  

mary rose    
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