Manifesto

The Local Living Economies Movement is about:

Maximizing relationships, not maximizing profits
Growth of consciousness and creativity, not brands and market-share,
Democracy and decentralized ownership, not concentrated wealth.
A living return, not the highest return.
A fair price, not the lowest price.
Sharing, not hoarding,
Simplicity, not gluttony,
Life serving, not self-serving.
Partnership, not domination.
Cooperation based, not competition based.
Win-win exchange, not win-loose exploitation.
Family farms, not factory farms.
Bio-diversity, not monocrops.
Cultural diversity, not monoculture.
Creativity, not conformity.
Slow food, not fast food.
Our bucks, not Starbucks.
Our mart, not Wal-Mart.
Valuing life over life-style.
And as the Earth Charter says,
“Being more, not having more.”

Judi Wicks
The Local Living Economies Movement Manifesto

3 Responses to “Manifesto”

  1. greenadine Says:

    a whole world in a capsule. sanity well served, thanks. nadine

  2. Lauren Says:

    Sharing not hoarding

    In the middle of the night the other night, I was half awake,
    and it struck me in a new way how hoarding is an instinct and sharing is an instinct. The current culture stimulates the hoarding instinct. The local living economies culture stimulates the sharing instinct.

    A new day is dawning, I can feel the force of life, pushing up through the cracks in maya, the illusion.

    Babylon, it all fall down.
    Let’s compost it.

  3. sejelememan Says:

    They are beautiful thoughts. I wonder how you would define work in this context?

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