Re: POV-RED: The Geonomist

[rorac <rorac@laneta.apc.org>]

Hi Jeffery, 
        Male is not so romantic as to be Mayan name.  It is because my name is
María Adela, and my brothers couldn't pronounce the whole thing, so they
say "Male".  In fact, you pronounce as in english "Molley". 

I've read your article with a lot of interest!!!  You are absolutly right
in what you've said!... but...
in Mexico what we need is education first......... As you have said, Madero
was killed, and you don't know how many people is against Fox, (who have
voted for him) because of the structural reforms he proposes, and most of
all taxes. From the rich to the poor nobody has a consciousness of paying
taxes as the only way to be succesfull. 
And the idea of Geonomy Society is really great! I'll work for it, as much
as I can... But how to convince a whole country of it?   Do you know
something about how the parlament has attacked Fox? How they don't let him
work, and they don't let the country to go up?  Even the mass media are
against all this ideas... There is a lot of ignorance, and demagogie... We
need education.... a change of mentality... That is what we try to do in
our own small field of action.
Anyway I'm sending your article to some people who could do something also.

        Once more thanks!  we'll be in touch      Male




At 10:38 AM 1/23/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi, Male (is that a Mayan name?);
>
>On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:13:08 -0600 rorac <rorac@laneta.apc.org> writes:
>> SMITH, Jeffery J.
>>      I've read your article with a lot of interest! This is my 
>> working place in
>> México. To keep the land property in hands of more than a million 
>> peasants,
>> in the system called Ejidos. This is only posible, through education 
>> first,
>> and gouvermental support. There is Fox program for the second, but
>> education and educators is the hard part! I send you a paper 
>> explaining it
>> broader.
>
>Many thanks for your article. It was quite inspiring.
>
>When I lived in Mexico, I visited an ejido as a guest of the local
>government. What an experience! People feared normalizing their property
>because they worried that the official record would make their homes and
>fields less secure, not more. They negotiated heavily with my guide, the
>head of the cadastre.
>
>Another time, after some charitable Northamericans delivered some medical
>aid and built a clinic, one of the peasant fathers remarked that more
>than doctors, what had saved their children from the diseases caused by
>hunger was farmers getting their own land. Landlessness still seems to
>persist in some places. Mexican TV news once showed the police gunning
>down 17 unarmed peasants on a country road as they rode into town to a
>political demonstration for land rights.
>
>In Baja California, Mexicali and other towns have begun shifting their
>property tax off buildings, onto land, with good results. When owners pay
>more tax for land, not for improvements, then they quit speculating and
>start investing in new construction. Everybody benefits. Every place that
>has raised the tax on land has (by ending speculation) put land into the
>hands of more people.
>
>Here's an article of mine in Spanish that one of the Mexican papers
>published.
>
>Keep up the good work. Let's explore ways to network concretely. Ciao.
>
>SMITH, Jeffery J.
>President, Geonomy Society, www.progress.org/geonomy
>Share Earth's worth to prosper and conserve.
>
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Roberto oliveros Rivas A.C.
Baja California 26 Temamatla Edo. de Mexico
Tel: (52) (5) 9885597  Fax: (52) (5) 9885798
http://www.laneta.apc.org/rorac

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