Corporatocracy - What we can do!

Corporatocracy - What we can do!
Cut back on oil consumption, don’t go shopping, read a book instead exercise, meditate and downsize home, wardrobe, car, office and most everything else.
Protest against “free” trade agreements and against companies that exploit desperate people in sweatshops or that pillage the environment.
Nothing is inherently wrong with the people who work for banks, corporations and overnments, our problems are not the result of malicious institutions, rather, from fallacious concepts about economic development.
At fault are our perceptions about how they function, interact and of the role the managers play in that process.
Worldwide communications and distribution networks could be used to bring about positive and compassionate changes.
Imagine if clothing and food companies became symbols of companies whose primary goals were to clothe and feed the world’s poor in environmentally beneficial ways.
We need a revolution in our approach to education to empower ourselves and our children to think, to question and to dare to act.
You can set an example. Be a teacher and a student and inspire everyone around you through your example.
Take specific actions to impact the institutions in your life.
Speak out whenever any forum presents itself: write letters, e-mails and phone in questions, concerns and vote for enlightened school boards, county commissions, local ordinances and public representatives.
Shop consciously and get personally involved.
The world is as you dream it and we can exchange an old nightmare of polluting industries, clogged highways and overcrowded cities for a new dream based on Earth-honoring and socially responsible principles of sustainability and equality.
It is within our power to transform ourselves, to change the paradigm.
Tools for conflict resolution could render wars obsolete.
Explore the possibilities offered here by John Perkins by offering study groups about Confessions of an Economic Hit Man at the library, book store or hold town hall forums.
(Find a guideline on http://www.johnperkins.org/)
We must commit ourselves absolutely and unequivocally to shaking ourselves and everyone around us awake.
Ask yourself, what will I do to make sure our children and all children everywhere, are able to fulfill the dream of our Founding Fathers and Mothers the dream of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
What changes will I commit to making in my attitudes and perceptions?
These are essential questions of our time.
It is now for each and every one of us to step up to the battle line, to ask the important questions, to search our souls for our own answers and to take action.

From Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins, http://www.johnperkins.org/. http://www.dreamchange.org/ works transforming global consciousness.
Book donated to Island County libraries by Tom Voorhees.
“Corporatocracy: What we can do” was assembled from the epilogue by Theresa Marie Gandhi.