EOpriv: Statement of Shared Vision (Reformatted)

["Norman G. Kurland" <thirdway@cesj.org>]

Sorry I goofed in formatting yesterday's e-mail.  Here's an updated
version for you to copy and send to others.  Shann Turnbull and I think
this statement is relevant to all the COG discussion groups and their
respective participants.

                                 *   *   *   *   *

With great pleasure I am sending you for your serious consideration and
support a "Statement of Shared Vision" that was jointly developed by
Shann Turnbull, the Australian author of "Democratizing the Wealth of
Nations", and me, an advocate of the late Louis Kelso's ideas for
reaching the same goal as expressed in Shann's title.

If you agree to become a signatory to this statement, and I hope you
find it in your heart to do so, I ask you also to make a concerted
effort to get at least 10 others in your personal and professional
networks around the world to join as signatories and make a similar
commitment.  In this chain letter approach we will achieve the critical
mass of positive people power needed to build a better world for
ourselves and future generations.

The names of all the signatories will be posted weekly on the internet
site of the Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ) at
http:www.cesj.org.  As soon as 10,000 signatories worldwide sign our
"Statement of Shared Vision" and join our movement for raising the level

of justice in the global economic order, we will convene a global
conference in Washington, D.C.  At the conference we will explore
alternative ideas, economic systems, global strategies and the most
effective ways and means to achieve our shared vision consistent with
universal principles of human rights.

If you agree to join this bottom-up grassroots initiative for creating a

more prosperous and just world for all, please add your name and contact

data to the bottom of the statement and return it by e-mail at
thirdway@cesj.org or by fax at 703-243-5935.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Norm Kurland
Center for Economic and Social Justice
P. O. Box 40711
Washington, DC 20016
Tel.: 703-243-5155
Fax: 703-243-5935
e-mail: thirdway@cesj.org
CESJ Web: http://www.cesj.org

Shann Turnbull
e-mail: sturnbull@mba1963.hbs.edu
Web Site: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~sturnbull/index.html


Here is our Statement of Shared Vision:

=============================================

STATEMENT OF SHARED VISION:
"TOWARD A NEW ECONOMIC ORDER FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM"

Having entered the third millennium, new ideas are emerging on how to
overcome:

**  Widespread poverty, hunger and homelessness,

**  The growing wealth gap between the richest 1% and the remaining 99%
of humanity,

**  The growing fear of technological change and its impact on the
global environment and the quality of life at the family and community
level,

**  The rising sense of powerlessness and alienation among the young
toward traditional leadership and basic institutions of human society,

**  The growing levels of corruption and crime resulting from
concentrated power,

**  The proliferating violence and deprivation of human rights -- at the

family, community and global levels.

We mutually acknowledge the reality of these concerns and agree that
none of the traditional approaches -- from the left to the right of the
political spectrum -- can adequately address these social ills.

We therefore join together seeking a new, more liberating and just
economic system that will promote human dignity and bring about genuine
economic empowerment, security and self-determination for every member
of the human family.  This is our shared vision.

Further, we agree that the critical means to attain these goals within
the emerging global marketplace will require:

1.  the elevation of full participation in future productive asset
ownership as a universal and fundamental human right;

2.  the democratization of credit to widely spread the ownership of
self-financing productive assets and other basic economic reforms as
appropriate means for closing the wealth gap between the rich and the
non-rich;  and

3.  new policies and laws that lift the non-rich without depriving the
rich of fundamental human rights.

In solidarity with our shared vision and goals, we hereby acknowledge
our support for universal access to productive asset ownership as a
fundamental human right.  While respecting possible differences, we will

strive to work together whenever possible and to promote dialogues,
debates and conferences in which all can participate.

=============================================

Having read the above Statement of Shared Vision, I hereby acknowledge
my support and give my permission to publish my name with other
signatories:


Name____________________________

Date_____________________________

Title and Organization (for identification only)

_________________________________

e-mail____________________________

Street Address_____________________

________________________________

City/State/Country__________________

________________________________

Please send acknowledgment of support by:

e-mail to:  thirdway@cesj.org

or fax to:  703-243-5935

[Approved January 16, 2001]