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Dada Maheshvarananda
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Prout: Progressive Utilization Theory
socio-economic model
Hunger kills 9 million each year.
World produces enough to feed 10 billion people.
- Journal of Sustainable Agriculture
1.2 billion live on $1.25 or less per day.
Ending extreme poverty: $175 billion annually (10% spent on arms and military).
Responses to Exploitation
Silence
Reform
Revolution
1. Guarantee five minimum necessities of life to all:
First Priority of Every Economy
Should be the Right to Live
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Professor Maria Doronilla of the University of the Philippines interviewed several hundred Filipino elementary students. She asked: “What nationality would you like to be?” Most answered American, others Japanese or European. Only 15% wanted to be Filipino.
Our Culture is Our Strength!
Overcome colonial mentality
by reclaiming local cultural traditions, knowledge, memory, and identity.
Pride in One’s Culture + Universalism
Cosmic Inheritance
Sacrificing Spirit
Anyone can become a moral leader.
Honest, courageous, open-minded, multicultural, dedicated to justice for all.
Without personal ambition, with universal spiritual outlook.
My Heroes
Greta Thunberg, Sweden Strike to stop Climate Change
March for Our Lives high school students for gun control
#MeToo global movement against sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and rape culture
Co-op spirit
Story-telling key: �values inspire action through emotion.
Language
Express thoughts, feelings
Most people more comfortable with mother tongue.
Forced to speak language of colonizers, many feel shy or inferior.
Common language for global communication.
Easily understood
Can express powerfully
Easily adopts words from other languages.
7,139 Languages
40% in danger due to:
Few living speakers
Few people speak multiple languages
Adoption of national language
Government bans
Languages Returning from the Dead
Hebrew – now 7 million speakers
Hawaiian – now 24,000 speakers
Wampanoag in Massachussetts, USA
Diaspora
A people scattered from their land of origin.
Jews from Israel.
12 million West Africans enslaved to the Americas.
Southern Chinese, Indians, Scottish, Italians, Mexicans, Palestinians, Armenians, Lebanese, etc.
Maintain strong social / political ties within the community and with their homeland.
Immigrants
United States: 331 million, all but 1.6% are immigrants!
Immigrant communities scattered throughout USA, many in cities.
Native Americans
5.2 million in USA, 50+ nations speaking 50 languages.
574 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages.
European, American Imperial Powers
Imposed their language on the invaded people to demoralize, create inferiority complexes.
Suppressing local culture breaks people’s will to resist.
With pride in their culture, people rise up and fight for economic and political freedom.
Lifestyle �for the Planet
COOPERATIVE GAMES
Car-Car
Cooperative Musical Chairs
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