Re: MONETARY: Thank you Sir

[Norman Kurland <thirdway@cesj.org>]

Dear Eric,

I wish we were in a position to make greater contributions to your work.  Having spent the last 45 years in the battle against poverty and group oppression in the US, it is obsolutely clear to me that the problem is not good or bad individuals but "the system", which under capitalism and under socialism perpetuate the cancer of wage slavery. Thus, while I admire the work of people like you who help the poor and minister to their needs, I am convinced that good people must commit a portion of their time in what I call "social justice tithing."  Social justice timing requires that each of us must study the socio-economic system, pinpoint its fundamental systemic flaws, discover a new system that would address those flaws, develop a vision and plan to transform the present system peacefully, then organize with others who want to make the system more just to teach and mobilize enough "people power" to demand the revolutionary reforms needed to make the sytem work for the betterment of all members of society, from the bottom-up.  If you want to get money power to the people, you need to mobilize people power targetted directly on the money system as pointed out in the Declaration on Monetary Justice at  http://www.cesj.org/about/programs/declarations/monetaryjustice.htm.  If the Philippine poor need money to survive and thrive, then you should take this document to the people and selfless new leaders who are  willing to devote their lives to empowering and enriching the people.

Since the current socio-economic system was created not by God but by human beings, the system can and must be perfected by humans organized to achieve peace through justice.  I use each word with great care, and you and others can see what I mean by each word in the glossary at http://www.cesj.org/definitions/glossary.html.  If we don't change the system we are responsible for the problems in the present system.  This means that good people should shift some of the time they spend in charity work, to devote some "social justice tithing time" to acts of social justice that lead to revolutionary change in the social order (the laws and basic institutions) that perpetuate the problems that charity is trying but is unable to overcome.

If I'm making some sense to you, you should consider the following web sites of "the Just Third Way" as your movement's "virtual library" of revolutionary ideas that can uproot the root causes of poverty in a world that has the technologies that could produce empower the poor economically and politically, produce abundance for all, and create a culture of participatory ownership, without depriving the rich with fundamental human rights.  We can lift up the poor, close the wealth and power gaps in society, and achieve this without pulling down the rich.  To learn the specifics of how to change the current unjust social order, the following web sites are free to you and your movement to use, adapt from, and become part of the Global Justice Movement that is carrying our message to all parts of the globe:

http://www.cesj.org
http://www.globaljusticemovement.org
http://www.americanrevolutionaryparty.us

If you want to carry out a continued dialogue with others in our movement on the monetary and shared ownership reforms of the Just Third Way, I invite you to become a member of COG's Kelso Binary Economic Discussion Group by clicking on http://listserv.kent.edu/archives/kelso_binary_economics.html.

I wish you well in your devotion to the poor. 

In Peace, only through Justice,
Norm Kurland

Eric Encina wrote:

Norman Kurland <thirdway@cesj.org> wrote:

Eric,

Art Bell's hate letter is the product of a sick mind.  Try to ignore it.

Two of the earliest supporters of Louis Kelso's Just Third Way revolution (http://www.globaljusticemovement.org/thirdway.htm and http://www.cesj.org/binaryeconomics/kelsovision.htm) were Dr. Salvador Araneta and the late foreign minister Raul Manglapus.  Both of those globally respected fighters for justice were members of the Institute for the Study of Economic System that I once directed.  My daughter-in-law, as fine a woman as I have known, is the daughter of Dr. Tony De Leon, one of America's leading cardiologists, and the niece of Gus De Leon, all members of a highly respected Philippine family.  Who knows why Bell is so full of venomous hate for Philippine women?  The only possible way to reduce those levels of hate and insensitivity toward poor Philippine women is to radically overhaul the economic systems of the Philippines so that there can be full equality of access to money power.  Then every man, woman and child could lift themselves out of wage slavery by becoming an independent owner of wealth-producing capital.  Perhaps a world structured to produce widespread ownership sharing would cure the Art Bells of the world of their poisonous passions.

Here's the platform of the American Revolutionary Party: http://www.americanrevolutionaryparty.us/partyplatform.htm.  Do you think the populists of the Philippines could rally behind such an agenda?

Norm Kurland
Center for Economic and Social Justice
www.cesj.org

Eric Encina wrote:

 

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Dear Sir,

Thank you very much for all your interesting email.

I am planning to send you some documents about the existence of our NGO of poor Filipino families for economic justice. Also I will try to send photos if they are acceptable.

This 29th of April 2006, Sat. 7:30am to 7:30pm, we will have a seminar on monetary and economic justice and organic farming as alternative solutions for our survival in the Philippines. We will see to get some references cesj if permissible.  We are expecting 25-30 poor family participants.

We have so many documents to send you about our organization. We do not have yet website but hopefully soon.

Thank you very much for all the information. We will study them in due course and use in our campaigns for economic justice in the Philippines.

Yes, we ignore Art Bell's defamatory commentary against the dignity of the Filipino people as if we are the most worthless human beings on earth.

Thank you.

Remain us united for economic justice.

Sincerely & Gratefully yours in Christ for genuine economic justice for all,

 

Eric V. Encina

Founder/Director/Administrator

Filipino Alternative Solutions For Sustainable Survival, Inc.

c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite, Km2, Brgy. Lawa-an,

PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines

Tel. No. 0063 36 6216-454

ericencina@yahoo.com

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