The mission of Mutual Aid Society of America, LLC (MASA) is to create a national partnership which provides its members with a high standard of living in rural America. Consistent with this goal, is to create economically robust rural communities on a self-sufficient, sustainable basis. MASA will achieve this goal by the vertical and horizontal integration of the entire chain for food production, distribution and retail sales; light manufacturing products; and intellectual services. “Reap what you sow” could well be MASA’s motto. What MASA will reap is a net high standard of living for its members and dependents, greater health, longer life, sustainable income, less dependence on the Private and Public Sectors and the engagement and development of the Ethical Sector. The “inputs” will be the MASA structure, “social glue” and our own mental, emotional, intellectual and physical resources. We will embrace biodynamic farming methods, sustainable and earth-friendly technology and the eco-village concept. The “outputs” will be sustainable high profits from niche markets for both agricultural products and light industrial products. The most important “output” will be vastly improved interpersonal relationships -- “permaculture” of both mind and body.

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Saturday, March 27, 2010

BOTTOM-UP CAPITALISM VS. "BOTTOMS-UP" CAPITALISM

Stop Global Warming? Stop poverty? Stop wasting human resources (treatable diseases, worker safety, safety nets, and a livable income)? How? Answer: Start worker cooperatives as the next generation of profitable enterprise operations (“Bottom-Up Capitalism” as opposed to “Bottoms-up Capitalism”).
We who are aware of the huge losses to mankind in the offing from global warming (http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/03/17/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy/); the New World Order (Travistock Institute and Milton Friedman's business greed); enslavement (the Patriot Act gone wrong); and the failure of non-reality based philosophies; need to join forces.   What are the risks from the “bail-out” financing of the depression? The question is “whose depression”? The answer: “Cracks in the Edifice” http://www.zcommunications.org/zstore/94
We can succeed where others fail, by creating a large number of worker-owned cooperatives which manage and operate profitable enterprises. See: Rainbow Grocery, et al., documentary: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4765137760763676264 and Data Commons: http://www.geo.coop/node/29
In order to find folks willing to create and adopt the worker cooperative as the best model for profitable enterprises, we need to create a “social network” which soon becomes a “worker network” which will yield the ideas, passions, foresight and resources necessary to form successful worker cooperatives. A “successful worker cooperative” involves commitment, trust, mutual caring, proficient and capable folks, and also some fun. See: The right to associate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYI76UkMzqI

Here is the probable list of ideas which each cooperative should adopt or at least give serious consideration:
  • Be mature in all your acts and thoughts – think before you act or say anything.
  • Love of learning should be exhibited by obtaining college degrees or self-education.
  • Be experienced in your job, occupation, career, skills and abilities.
  • Have a temperament which is conducive to collaboration, compromise and yet, able to stand firm on core values.
  • Be willing to share your knowledge, experience, time, and resources.
  • Have core values which are consistent with human thought such as the Humanist Manifesto: http://contenderministries.org/humanism/manifesto2000.php.
  • Be willing to have fun, seek and enjoy the friendship and warmth of shipmates (“Spaceship Earth”).
  • Help build the community of the future be it an ecovillage, a hamlet, an intentional community or a shared resource network in a worker cooperative.

If any of the above interests you, please join the this blog or “Discussion” hosted on Mutual Aid Society of America's website: http://masallp.wetpaint.com/page/DISCUSSION
Jim Miller
jimmiller5417@yahoo.com
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