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Holding Hands
Community


How to Build Global Community

• Think of no one as “them”
• Don’t confuse your comfort with your safety
• Talk to strangers
• Imagine other cultures through their poetry and novels
• Listen to music you don’t understand
• Dance to it
• Act locally
• Notice the workings of power and privilege in your culture
• Question consumption
• Know how your lettuce and coffee are grown: wake up and smell the exploitation
• Look for fair trade and union labels
• Help build economies from the bottom up
• Acquire few needs
• Learn a second (or third) language
• Visit people, places, and cultures – not tourist attractions
• Learn people’s history
• Re-define progress
• Know physical and political geography
• Play games from other cultures
• Watch films with subtitles
• Know your heritage
• Honor everyone’s holidays
• Look at the moon and imagine someone else, somewhere else, looking at it, too
• Read the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Understand the global economy in terms of people, land and water
• Know where your bank banks
• Never believe you have a right to anyone else’s resources
• Refuse to wear corporate logos: defy corporate domination
• Question military/corporate connections
• Don’t confuse money with wealth, or time with money
• Have a pen/email pal
• Honor indigenous cultures
• Judge governance by how well it meets all people’s needs
• Be skeptical about what you read
• Eat adventurously
• Enjoy vegetables, beans and grains in your diet
• Choose curiosity over certainty
• Know where your water comes from and where your wastes go
• Pledge allegiance to the earth: questikon nationalism
• Think South, Central and North – there are many Americans
• Assume that many others share your dreams
• Know that no one is silent though many are not heard.  Work to change this.

Copied from Tools for Change catalogue from
Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW)
Box 6367
Syracuse, NY 13217
(315) 474-1132
http://www.syrculturalworkers.org


  • Freedom Towns  http://www.freedomtowns.com/ Fellow Stewards of the Earth: eco friendly practices & self-sufficient living for a sustainable environment.
  • Arcosanti  (www.arcosanti.org) Archetypal futuristic city in Arizona
  • Twin Oaks (www.twinoaks.org) Communal living embodied
  • Federation of Egalitarian Communities (www.thefec.org)
  • Camp Nor'wester http://www.norwester.org/Summer camp in the San Juan Islands in Washington State.
  • Co-Housing  (http://www.cohousing.org) Intentional community organization
  • Earthship  (http://www.earthship.org) Off-the-grid housing community outside of taos, New Mexico
  • Communities by Choice (www.CommunitiesbyChoice.org)
  • Intentional Communities (http://www.ic.org)
  • Barefoot College http://www.barefootcollege.org
  • Syr Cultural Workers  http://www.syrculturalworkers.org  How To Build Global Community Global community

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