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For a New World Order

Aspiring for a human race that is fair, sustainable and free...

1. We are inspired and driven by many waters of political thought. Republicanismtaught us that the autonomy of the individual should always trump the privileges ofinheritance. Democracy convinced us that the decisions of leaders of any institutionshould be informed not by personal incentives, but by the needs and interests of thosearound them. Anarchism sees that all forms of authority are devised and artificial andshould be subject to critical thought. Communism dreamed universal solidarity ofhuman ind. Conservatism nows not to s!uander the earth.

". We are aware that the structures of our political reality are made and imagined#no language, legal framewor or system of rights is absolute. $ur schools, ourfactories, our stores, our constitutions% all of our institutions are human inventions andwe resent when the presiding or e&ecutive control of these creations enslaves us. Weresent when entrenched policies, precedents and systems rule over our possibilitiesfor the future. We believe that all human office and direction should be open to thelights of criticism and revision and that nowledge and information should never beowned by and manipulated for the benefits of the few.

'. We believe that an enlightened people can transcend the divisions of ethnicitiesgenders, classes, faiths, parties, and nations, and that only by transcending thesedivisions can we create e!uality and wealth for all.

(. We understand that only foundation for our e&istence is our biological incarnationand we hold the earth, which sustains us, to be sacred. We now that the body andbrain and mind are destined for death and awareness of our limited time here informsour way of life.

). We welcome the visions and perspectives of the many religious traditions thathave grown upon the earth. We understand that religious culture is shaped byevolution and encourage the developments of religious thought in all spheres ofhuman life. *owever, we can see that we live in a time of spiritual confusion andaimlessness#+he culture that has come to dominate the earth was once led by od% in our timemany have come to !uestion his laws, his account of our origins and destiny and evenhis e&istence. While some continue to await his final coming, religiosity and the!uestions and mysteries of e&istential thought have been stripped from our publicdiscourses and medias.

-. ac ing a unified conception of human identity or being, the artifices of politicsand entertainment have become overwhelmed by animosities, antagonisms, andconflict. We retreat into communities or companies of e&clusive membership./eanwhile our societies have felt the unprecedented growth of mental or spiritualillness and disease, from depression or isolation and the conditions of an&iety or fearand to most severely the lunatics who have stric en out in frea attac s of murder andterrorism. While policy0ma ers have heralded scientific thin ing as the standard forpractice, scientific psychiatry, the official and legislated authority on the mind, hasprovided no compass in guiding our faltering culture, only a handboo of disordersgerrymandered to benefit the pharmaceutical corporations that offer regimens ofchemical aids for soul. either have our members or government, preoccupied by self0promotion and performance succeeded in guiding the spirits and hearts of our people.2n our private lives may follow spiritual practices and guidance but the .

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3. 4piritual alienation At the twilight the last century we discovered that theecosystem of our planet was endangered the by industrial development of our nations.We now that we depend upon the consumption of vast !uantities of energy in order tosupport our cities, our transportation, our technologies and our homes. 5ut our newawareness of the detrimental impact we are effecting to our planet demands a newethos for our technological and material development.

6. We believe that the e&traction of natural resources and the development ofinfrastructure and products must no longer be e&ecuted for the purpose of bolsteringprivate wealth. 2t is not enough for governments to regulate, at arm7s length, theoperations of our industries. We must have companies which e&ist in order to serve theplanet and our species rather than themselves, we will fight to create them.

8. We despise the corporate empires which systematically e&ploit wor ers aroundthe globe. +hough these economic structures are supported and defended by the lawwe see that they are fundamentally unfair and undemocratic and actively see tochange them.

19. We decry the ideal and celebration of economic growth. While see ing to endunemployment and poverty we should

11. We reject the claim that an economy depends upon antagonistic competition. Webelieve a more productive economy is one in which the methods and modes ofproduction can be openly shared between peoples.

1". We reject the moral legitimacy of franchises, patents, trade secrets and e&clusiveaccess. We reject the laws that the proponents of such practices have created in order to defend their dominions over words and ideas% whether the names and trademar s of organi:ations or the methods and brands of production. 4uch laws have enabledproducers of drugs, food, clothing, machines and information to reserve control overabilities which should be available to all% they serve corporate interests rather than thefree mar et or the public. We believe that nowledge of a businesses which servesdemocracy should be openly available to the public, that any business should be freeto copy or draw inspiration from the practices of any other. While disallowinge&clusivity of nowledge may subtract from an entity7s possibilities for $nly by allowing

the freedom of nowledge and information, we can create a society which ma&imi:esthe possibilities of creativity and entrepreneurship in all human practices. *umansociety has only begun to tap into the possibilities of biological, electrical andcomputational technology and we should not enforce the mechanisms of control whichhalt our potentials for development.

1'. We believe that no organi:ation should never be structured despotically.;residents, ministers, priests, boards, chiefs, e&ecutives, and officers must beaccountable to those that they lead. A truly democratic society is one in which themar et is democratic together with the state, we wor to create one. and we demandthis change in the institutions of production, technology, and resale.

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/eanwhile, the very wealthy, celebrated and envied in financial culture, direct thecourse of planet.

1). We recogni:e the need, today, to depend upon the system of capital in order toensure accountability for labor. *owever, we see that using wealth in order to createfurther wealth is a meaningless way of life. We believe that wealth should always servefirst to alleviate international poverty and suffering and second to foster humandevelopment and flourishing in the creation of the technological and symbolicinfrastructure. We now that a redirection of our economy could create a planet morefair and more free and we demand to create it. ;ublic service and the creation of well0being should not be the incidental wor of charities of nonprofits, but the fundamentaland only function of wealth.

1-. We regard the international system of stoc s and the trades on the stoc mar etas a corruption of the concept of ownership and reject the stoc mar et as a measureof the health of nations. What began as a system by which entrepreneurs could seesupport for new ventures has deteriorated into an arbitrary system in whichsta eholders distant to the operations of an organi:ation gamble for their own ends.5ut those who have invested in ownership of names are cogni:ant of the ris s ofinvestment and that the entities they own may cease to e&ist at any time...

13. We believe the internet is a new human utility which has brought new abilitiesand potentials to human ind. *owever, we are concerned and critical of that thedevelopment of internet is unaccountably controlled and directed by private leadershipserving their own interests.

16. We are concerned that the growth and supply of food is increasingly controlledand directed by private leadership serving their own interests.

18. We are concerned that the growth and supply of food is increasingly controlledand directed by private leadership serving their own interests.

"9. We believe that all forms of governments should be open and transparent in all of their operations. 4ecrecy or confidentiality in governance is only ever used as a meansof conspiring against a people and we therefore consider it wholly unethical. We callfor the public availability of all documentation of governance in all nations on the earth.

"1. >ust as we have aspired to governments which serve the people, we aspire to

create an economy which serves the people and the earth."". We believe that nowledge and information should never be owned by or

reserved for the few. Wor ers of the speciali:ed nowledge0based professions 00doctors, nurses, lawyers ? should serve to inform the public. And we can imagine afuture in which all citi:en have the privilege of learning and nowing about thefunctioning and remedies of the human body and all citi:ens have nowledge of andsay in the systems of our laws.

2n our volatiles times, ripe for change, many premonitions of immanent new politicalorders have emerged in the imagination. We must reject the fanciful, the conspiratorialand the dystopian. We can only accept a new world order which is owned dreamed by

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