[ecovillageuk] give every family in every land enough of the earth to live on

[creuynni]

this is what i'd love to do with our project, or part of our project.be part of "give every family in every land enough of the earth to live on"
to give the land back to itself legally, but individuals and families to steward their 'own' plots, with right to that plot, and responsibilties to the land e.g. treat with respect, sustainable goals etc....'to each according to their ability, to each according to their need', but likely an acre or two max...with more potential possible if they pay for themselves (or something).
closest we've got is forming a land trust...with a beautiful group who we keep getting described by visitors as 'more like a family than just a group'
anyone else here any closer to achieving this? any tips?we're working with the legal system at the moment to do what we can. e.g. showing how we can assist them achieve the sustainable policies and providing community services etc to assist them in this kind of work too.
and/or anyone who would like to link up with the community we're forming...as individuals groups in our area, or as groups in other areas where we can visit and support eachother...let us know 
katie x
 
www.creuynni.wordpress.com




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 From: "Tony Gosling tony at cultureshop.org.uk [ecovillageuk]" <ecovillageuk-noreply at yahoogroups.com>
To: diggers350 at yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, 5 July 2014, 1:27
Subject: [ecovillageuk] give every family in every land enough of the earth to live on
 




Money that serves rather than rules should simply be a
means to facilitate exchange, and there's something unwholesome about how
we've become so utterly dependent on it. We all seem to have lost sight
of the fact that it would be relatively simple to give every family in
every land enough of the earth to live on, work on and grow some food and
keep a few chickens on without having to pay anybody anything for the
privilege of doing so.




Biting the economic bullet

 http://rt.com/op-edge/170432-west-delusions-right-forget/


It has been so much easier for our politicians to go along with the
lie of an �conomic recovery�/i> bubble than to spill the beans about
all this printed �E�/i> money just artificially 'puffing up' the figures. Neither do they like to mention the inexorable rise in the
national debt, now around 1.3 trillion pounds ($2.23 trillion) which will
clearly never stop growing let alone be paid off. Certainly QE is helping
stocks, shares and asset prices as well as keeping the pension funds
happy but at some time in the future those valuations will have to come
down to earth, most likely with a bang. And a crash.


When they do you can be sure the power elite financiers will make a
killing buying up distressed assets which are being sold off cheap but
there will also be the sort of turmoil that goes with any collapse in
confidence. The financial services industry sells confidence but when the
bubble bursts and that confidence breaks it will smash across the real
economy like a tsunami.


Imagine the 2001 Argentinian financial crisis but on a transcontinental
scale. Savings wiped out for hundreds of millions of people. Millions
made jobless overnight. Suddenly everything we ever thought we knew we
could rely on, the very life blood of a capitalist society, collapses.
What takes over rather quickly is the need to secure water, food and
shelter for us and our families. Without money for these basics societies
quickly atomize into a fight, even amongst neighbors, for physical
control of territory and provisions. Out come the handguns, then the
AK47s and inevitable invoking of the most draconian government powers in
martial law.


 
  
View of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange building, March 7, 2001.
(Reuters)


It� times like this that anarchists and other romantics might get the
chance to show what they're made of but for the rest of us policies and
priorities to avoid this law of the urban jungle must center around
responsible state intervention and planning but it's difficult to see any
government across the West that would be up to the job. Their plan of
action to turn things round quickly should mean nationalization,
arresting auditors and bankers, spending debt-free money from central
banks directly into the economy, a guaranteed citizen� income for
everyone, exchange controls to stop predatory capital flight for starters
but how many would be up to the job?


Money that serves rather than rules should simply be a means to
facilitate exchange, and there's something unwholesome about how we've
become so utterly dependent on it. We all seem to have lost sight of the
fact that it would be relatively simple to give every family in every
land enough of the earth to live on, work on and grow some food and keep
a few chickens on without having to pay anybody anything for the
privilege of doing so.


But what would that do to GDP? Perhaps the quest for ever greater GDP is
just killing us and the planet and it has to go, the sooner the better?
In that case a crash might be the opportunity for a 'great reset'.
What in the Old Testament they used to call the Jubilee? Sharing out the
land again to everyone, yes everyone.
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