Dear Ms. Baker-Pilgrim,
I am writing you because I have been inspired by your words and I believe we share a vision for healing and because you have met my sister Elizabeth and she says that you have a great and loving spirit.
What I have to say will sound a little odd, but I cannot say what is in my heart using mainstream, dominant culture phrases.
I believe that the spirit of the Great Peacemaker has spoken to me. He has giving me a vision for healing the people by calling all the "warring tribes" together to form a new great confederacy to nurture us as, and teach us to be, human beings again -- E Plurabus Unum (out of many, one).
This confederacy is to take a very specific form. It is a marriage of the old and the new. I am a mutt. My ancestors are the Kings of England back to William the Conqueror and Charlemagne, but I am also lost Aniyunwiya who walked our trail of tears to Oklahoma, then during the time of the dust bowl migrated to Los Angeles when an "Indian Oky" was the lowest wrung on societies' ladder and proceeded to pass for white. I have many ancestors, but I consider myself 100% Native American. And the time has come for us all to become Indigenous again. But to do that, we need to form the lost ones into the Next Nations and strengthen and empower the First Nations and then join together as equal, respected partners, for only in the context of ourselves as a "people" can we be Human Beings.
The core of this new vision is "Sacred Capital". The marriage of the First Nations belief in the sacred regarding the earth and all that she provides to care for us, and the economic structures of the modern economy. 2007 was the tipping point in human history. It marked the rise of the corporate state. It was the first time that of the 100 largest economies of the world, more than 51% are now corporations, not nation states. It is primarily "unsacred" capital which is consuming the beauty of the earth, poisoning two leggeds, and four, and eights, and so on. It is "unsacred" capital which is imprisoning the people, dividing us from ourselves as interdependent beings, taking away and defiling our sacred lands that have nurtured us as human beings, and removing us to environmental barren "reservations" and where we cannot get what we need truly survive and where we are forced to work on the economic plantations of a ruling class.
Aggie (if I may be so bold), the Kings have returned, and all people and animals and rivers are in peril, but together we can heal our economic structures by looking to the wisdom of indigenous people who have not yet forgotten how to be human beings.
My vision tells me that the first step is to offer my vision to a coalition of First Nations people on my land this Summer. To ask them to embrace the idea of Sacred Capital and then to suggest that they call out to the lost people and ask them to join them in building a new sacred economy. The "moral authority" of this act would be a powerful catalyst to start this much needed shift. To encourage all of us to stop empowering the "unsacred" economy with our purchases and creativity. To ask people to come together and form a sacred Bank so that we can take our power back. That Bank will take our sacred capital and lend it to build new businesses, or buy old ones, that are based on sacred principals including the Great Law of Peace. From there the creation of an insurance company that will operate on the principal of taking care of it customers as efficiently as possible. From there I see the building of radically resource efficient communities that are built around people and eliminate the need for automobiles and fossil fuels as much as possible and leave as much land we can for the four leggeds and winged animals and for the creation of pure water and air.
The good news is that these economic concepts can actually be more powerful than the current dominate economic structures. See the work of Nobel Prize winning Economist Elinor Olstrom (http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1229 this link takes you to an interview where she talks about the efficiency of "community pooled resources" and how they lead to less "over harvesting of resources and more equitable distribution of benefits).
I know this is a lot, and I hope I have not over whelmed you. I would love to come to Oregon to met with you in person and discuss these matters, or offer you a cabin in the Tahoe National Forest to enjoy (www.shinneyboocreek.com) if you are ever passing thru the land I call home.
Please give me the benefit of your wisdom and advice. I wait in excited expectation for your reply.
With Hope and Determination,
Alisgia Awohali
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
12/21/09
Dear Ms. Ostrom.
I hope that things have calmed down for you a bit after your great honor. The Noble Prize has given me the opportunity to discover your work, as well as many, many others I am sure. I realize that you may not be able to respond to this, given all the world attention your recent fame is sure to have brought you. However, I am writing anyway in an attempt to get your perspective on the work I am doing and to possibly have you speak at a conference I am organizing on "Sacred Capital". So, here goes nothing . . .
I have been working on redirecting the huge body of organizational design that has gone into good civic governance and applying those methodologies to corporate governance. Some of the good design parameters being checks and balances, separation of powers, and elected leadership. I hope to be the catalyst for an economic evolution modeled after the American governmental revolution. As your work so clearly shows, good democratic governance is far more efficient, effective, and equitable than hierarchy. I am not a scientist, I am a public entrepreneur and I excited about the social, environmental, and economic benefits that could flow from a shift to good corporate governance, just as the shift to good national governance was the catalyst for our current abundance and ease.
The purpose of the Sacred Capital Conference that I am organizing this Summer at my resort in Northern California is to create a public awareness of the benefits of good economic organizational design. I am attempting to make the connection between the American Indigenous People's concept of sacredness and the management and governance of economic capital. I believe the indigenous concept of sacredness to have been a mechanism of social governance and resource management that lead to their pooled resources being managed for abundance and to avoid over harvesting. The challenge is that we don't hunt deer any more, we hunt money. But if we could apply some of the same reverence (i.e. acknowledgment of good organization design parameters) to the acquisition of capital, that the First Nations applied to the acquisition of the resources they needed to survive, then perhaps we could move our society away from the insatiable orgy for independent means, and over harvesting, towards more interdependent, decentralized, and efficient community control of economic resources.
I am in discussions with Anges Baker Pilgrim, one of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers who are speaking up for future generations, and whom have a great deal of authority among the under 40 crowd. My plan is to convene a council of First Nation representatives to discuss the concept of Sacred Capital, and the benefits of community pooled resources. My hope is to have a broad coalition of First Nation leaders agree to a plan of, basically, welcoming the latest wave immigrants (post 1492) to join with them to build the New Nations. These New Nations would be what I call "Policorps", hybrid organization structures that blends the three engines of our society -- the best of democratic governance, entrepreneurial creativity and energy, and the social cohesion and mutual care of traditional community. I believe the inherent dramatic potential of this event would be broadly covered in the international media and online, helping to bring attention to the good work you and others like you are doing and hopefully leading towards structural changes in how we organize ourselves.
I hope that you might come and help convince the gathering of the real, tangible, scientifically verifiable benefits of community pooled resources, thus blending the sacred with the science. If your schedule does not allow it, I hope that there is a brilliant graduate student or colleague who might want to spend a week in the High Sierra off the Yuba River talking about the future.
With hope and determination,
M
I hope that things have calmed down for you a bit after your great honor. The Noble Prize has given me the opportunity to discover your work, as well as many, many others I am sure. I realize that you may not be able to respond to this, given all the world attention your recent fame is sure to have brought you. However, I am writing anyway in an attempt to get your perspective on the work I am doing and to possibly have you speak at a conference I am organizing on "Sacred Capital". So, here goes nothing . . .
I have been working on redirecting the huge body of organizational design that has gone into good civic governance and applying those methodologies to corporate governance. Some of the good design parameters being checks and balances, separation of powers, and elected leadership. I hope to be the catalyst for an economic evolution modeled after the American governmental revolution. As your work so clearly shows, good democratic governance is far more efficient, effective, and equitable than hierarchy. I am not a scientist, I am a public entrepreneur and I excited about the social, environmental, and economic benefits that could flow from a shift to good corporate governance, just as the shift to good national governance was the catalyst for our current abundance and ease.
The purpose of the Sacred Capital Conference that I am organizing this Summer at my resort in Northern California is to create a public awareness of the benefits of good economic organizational design. I am attempting to make the connection between the American Indigenous People's concept of sacredness and the management and governance of economic capital. I believe the indigenous concept of sacredness to have been a mechanism of social governance and resource management that lead to their pooled resources being managed for abundance and to avoid over harvesting. The challenge is that we don't hunt deer any more, we hunt money. But if we could apply some of the same reverence (i.e. acknowledgment of good organization design parameters) to the acquisition of capital, that the First Nations applied to the acquisition of the resources they needed to survive, then perhaps we could move our society away from the insatiable orgy for independent means, and over harvesting, towards more interdependent, decentralized, and efficient community control of economic resources.
I am in discussions with Anges Baker Pilgrim, one of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers who are speaking up for future generations, and whom have a great deal of authority among the under 40 crowd. My plan is to convene a council of First Nation representatives to discuss the concept of Sacred Capital, and the benefits of community pooled resources. My hope is to have a broad coalition of First Nation leaders agree to a plan of, basically, welcoming the latest wave immigrants (post 1492) to join with them to build the New Nations. These New Nations would be what I call "Policorps", hybrid organization structures that blends the three engines of our society -- the best of democratic governance, entrepreneurial creativity and energy, and the social cohesion and mutual care of traditional community. I believe the inherent dramatic potential of this event would be broadly covered in the international media and online, helping to bring attention to the good work you and others like you are doing and hopefully leading towards structural changes in how we organize ourselves.
I hope that you might come and help convince the gathering of the real, tangible, scientifically verifiable benefits of community pooled resources, thus blending the sacred with the science. If your schedule does not allow it, I hope that there is a brilliant graduate student or colleague who might want to spend a week in the High Sierra off the Yuba River talking about the future.
With hope and determination,
M
Friday, October 16, 2009
10/16/09
Thanks. The ideas are very serious for me however. I believe that the democratization of capital is the great task of our generation. For me it is an important idea to get out into the world and your talents could be the very way to do so in a humorous, entertaining way. How much would I need to raise to contract with you for a Captain Capitalism cartoon like the ones you have done already? Say, were Captain Capitalism has an epiphany, maybe with the help of a little yoda like Gandi who tells him "Change the be you want the world to see" then he falls asleep and Thomas Paine's Common Sense falls off the bookshelf and clobbers him on the head.
Then he wakes up realizing that his beloved capitalism is in danger and he must save it, but he can't do it alone. He needs all the boys and girls to help. To gather all their dimes an quarters and energize new corporations of the people, by the people, and for the people. Corporations with out kings. Corporations there to serve the governed.
One of the largest shifts in human society has occurred in the last 20 years - up there with the wheel, the hunter/gatherer band, and the rise of the nation state. The majority of the 100 largest economies in the world are now corporate states, not nation states. The corporate state is the ascendant form of governance in our world and we must begin the work of making them self-regulating, accountable structures if we have any hope of a free and prosperous future for our children.
Peace.
Then he wakes up realizing that his beloved capitalism is in danger and he must save it, but he can't do it alone. He needs all the boys and girls to help. To gather all their dimes an quarters and energize new corporations of the people, by the people, and for the people. Corporations with out kings. Corporations there to serve the governed.
One of the largest shifts in human society has occurred in the last 20 years - up there with the wheel, the hunter/gatherer band, and the rise of the nation state. The majority of the 100 largest economies in the world are now corporate states, not nation states. The corporate state is the ascendant form of governance in our world and we must begin the work of making them self-regulating, accountable structures if we have any hope of a free and prosperous future for our children.
Peace.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
October 13, 2009
XXXXXX XXXXX Baker wrote:
> How about a synopsis on your theory on economic evolution? - I am interested that someone has a new idea - I think most people are just trying to wait it out.
Basically, the premise is this. A seismic shift has occurred in human society. The majority of the largest economies in the world are corporations, not governments. These top companies control 40% of the world economy but only employ 1% of the population. The question is not whether this is true, but what are we going to do about it, to insure our access to prosperity, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? I think the answer is simple. Millions and millions of brilliant human minds have dedicated themselves, since the rise of the nation state over 1,000 years ago, to the problem of creating accountable governments that are of the people, for the people, and by the people. Now is the time to apply all of that thought to the ascendant form of government, the corporate state. We are building a Democratic Economic Nation (DEN) at Shinneyboo where no one can ever become King (myself especially). We will do this by creating governing constitution that applies the concepts of Checks and Balances, Branches of Governance, Elected Accountable Leadership, etc. We will build a strong, profitable, corporation that is created to serve the people who work for it and invest in it.
> How about a synopsis on your theory on economic evolution? - I am interested that someone has a new idea - I think most people are just trying to wait it out.
Basically, the premise is this. A seismic shift has occurred in human society. The majority of the largest economies in the world are corporations, not governments. These top companies control 40% of the world economy but only employ 1% of the population. The question is not whether this is true, but what are we going to do about it, to insure our access to prosperity, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? I think the answer is simple. Millions and millions of brilliant human minds have dedicated themselves, since the rise of the nation state over 1,000 years ago, to the problem of creating accountable governments that are of the people, for the people, and by the people. Now is the time to apply all of that thought to the ascendant form of government, the corporate state. We are building a Democratic Economic Nation (DEN) at Shinneyboo where no one can ever become King (myself especially). We will do this by creating governing constitution that applies the concepts of Checks and Balances, Branches of Governance, Elected Accountable Leadership, etc. We will build a strong, profitable, corporation that is created to serve the people who work for it and invest in it.
October 13, 2009
XXXXXX XXXXX Baker wrote:
> How about a synopsis on your theory on economic evolution? - I am interested that someone has a new idea - I think most people are just trying to wait it out.
Basically, the premise is this. A seismic shift has occurred in human society. The majority of the largest economies in the world are corporations, not governments. These top companies control 40% of the world economy but only employ 1% of the population. The question is not whether this is true, but what are we going to do about it, to insure our access to prosperity, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? I think the answer is simple. Millions and millions of brilliant human minds have dedicated themselves, since the rise of the nation state over 1,000 years ago, to the problem of creating accountable governments that are of the people, for the people, and by the people. Now is the time to apply all of that thought to the ascendant form of government, the corporate state. We are building a Democratic Economic Nation (DEN) at Shinneyboo where no one can ever become King (myself especially). We will do this by creating governing constitution that applies the concepts of Checks and Balances, Branches of Governance, Elected Accountable Leadership, etc. We will build a strong, profitable, corporation that is created to serve the people who work for it and invest in it.
> How about a synopsis on your theory on economic evolution? - I am interested that someone has a new idea - I think most people are just trying to wait it out.
Basically, the premise is this. A seismic shift has occurred in human society. The majority of the largest economies in the world are corporations, not governments. These top companies control 40% of the world economy but only employ 1% of the population. The question is not whether this is true, but what are we going to do about it, to insure our access to prosperity, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? I think the answer is simple. Millions and millions of brilliant human minds have dedicated themselves, since the rise of the nation state over 1,000 years ago, to the problem of creating accountable governments that are of the people, for the people, and by the people. Now is the time to apply all of that thought to the ascendant form of government, the corporate state. We are building a Democratic Economic Nation (DEN) at Shinneyboo where no one can ever become King (myself especially). We will do this by creating governing constitution that applies the concepts of Checks and Balances, Branches of Governance, Elected Accountable Leadership, etc. We will build a strong, profitable, corporation that is created to serve the people who work for it and invest in it.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
September 10, 2009
It was a pleasure talking to you. You obviously have a depth of knowledge that could be useful to me and I look forward to speaking with you further. I agree with you on the short comings of Alexander the Great, however, my breath of knowledge and study comes from the more collaborative cultures of North America, specifically the Nez Perce and the Iroquois cultures, and a more systemic, less authoritarian, brand of leadership model.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haudenosaunee
I think it is precisely the western style of authoritarian, dictatorial leadership that has gotten us in this problem. A systemic leader tries to till the soil and make the conditions right for desired outcomes like prosperity and community, but is willing to detach from what actually ends up occurring (as long as the systemic goals are met).
Also, the book "The Genius of America" makes the case that the American Revolution was one of the only ones in history based on the premise that leaders will become greedy and corrupt and therefore care needs to be taken with separation of powers, elections, and an independent judiciary to insure that no one can ever become king (although people have come pretty close).
My vision has been to take all of what we have learned about western style political democracy and apply it to corporations and to bring the new "warring tribes" together in a great economic prosperity to insure that tyranny does not prevail in our world and that corporate "nobility" can no longer be free riders on the backs of hard working, honest, individuals.
I hope that I can convince you to believe in what collaborations of free people are capable of achieving and that you will find promise in becoming a patriot for this great cause.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haudenosaunee
I think it is precisely the western style of authoritarian, dictatorial leadership that has gotten us in this problem. A systemic leader tries to till the soil and make the conditions right for desired outcomes like prosperity and community, but is willing to detach from what actually ends up occurring (as long as the systemic goals are met).
Also, the book "The Genius of America" makes the case that the American Revolution was one of the only ones in history based on the premise that leaders will become greedy and corrupt and therefore care needs to be taken with separation of powers, elections, and an independent judiciary to insure that no one can ever become king (although people have come pretty close).
My vision has been to take all of what we have learned about western style political democracy and apply it to corporations and to bring the new "warring tribes" together in a great economic prosperity to insure that tyranny does not prevail in our world and that corporate "nobility" can no longer be free riders on the backs of hard working, honest, individuals.
I hope that I can convince you to believe in what collaborations of free people are capable of achieving and that you will find promise in becoming a patriot for this great cause.
Monday, July 13, 2009
July 13th, 2009
It was great meeting you. I am excited in moving forward with The Economic Alliance (TEA) Party -- a non-aligned, non-ideological Political and Economic Action Committee.
I will be working on coming up with a brief description of TEA Party, Policorps, the cellular multi-level organizational model, incorporated democracy, and some suggested initial goals and objectives. In addition, I will be setting up the bank account and Direct Debit system of dues payments. In the mean time, you can focus on getting a cell together in your area. This should be close, trusted family and friends who get together on a regular basis anyway and could easily add TEA Party organizing to your lives. Once you have 8 to 12 members, you will need to "hire" one among you to represent your cell in the central organization. Also, as soon as possible, each of your original members will need to begin forming their own cells. Each original member will be the initial "hire" to represent their newly formed "divided" cells in your original cell. Once the divided cells are formed with 8-12 members they will officially vote who they are hiring to represent them in your original cell. (I am going to work on simplifying how this is all described).
The cells that I am going to form up here will decide quickly if they want to focus on purchasing the property and moving forward with the development of "Aggressively Resource Efficient Communities (ARECs)" on the Western Slope and whether to try and go after acquiring additional parcels. I am open to any involvement you want to have in that process. No companies will be formed by TEA Party but there will be separate for-profit or non-profit incorporations as "states" in the Union. TEA Party will act like a loose federal confederation for the purpose of aggregating judgment, capital, political influence and the best ideas and practices. I will be forming both Fostering Industry and a for profit company call Nisenan Valley Group. My goal is to sell my equity to Nisenan and to transition from a owner/king to an employee/citizen. My initial thoughts are that if I can "naturalize" 600 citizens who commit to paying $15 per month for 10 years then we will sell our interest to these 600 citizens at $15 a month, or 300 citizens at $30 a month, or 150 citizens at $60 a month, or 75 citizens at $120 a month depending on where the goals and aspirations of the group go. I have to get back work as this has taken about an hour to write, but let me know your thoughts.
Please email this to your dad as I seem to have already lost his email (I need administrative help soon). Also, could you forward that to me?
I will be working on coming up with a brief description of TEA Party, Policorps, the cellular multi-level organizational model, incorporated democracy, and some suggested initial goals and objectives. In addition, I will be setting up the bank account and Direct Debit system of dues payments. In the mean time, you can focus on getting a cell together in your area. This should be close, trusted family and friends who get together on a regular basis anyway and could easily add TEA Party organizing to your lives. Once you have 8 to 12 members, you will need to "hire" one among you to represent your cell in the central organization. Also, as soon as possible, each of your original members will need to begin forming their own cells. Each original member will be the initial "hire" to represent their newly formed "divided" cells in your original cell. Once the divided cells are formed with 8-12 members they will officially vote who they are hiring to represent them in your original cell. (I am going to work on simplifying how this is all described).
The cells that I am going to form up here will decide quickly if they want to focus on purchasing the property and moving forward with the development of "Aggressively Resource Efficient Communities (ARECs)" on the Western Slope and whether to try and go after acquiring additional parcels. I am open to any involvement you want to have in that process. No companies will be formed by TEA Party but there will be separate for-profit or non-profit incorporations as "states" in the Union. TEA Party will act like a loose federal confederation for the purpose of aggregating judgment, capital, political influence and the best ideas and practices. I will be forming both Fostering Industry and a for profit company call Nisenan Valley Group. My goal is to sell my equity to Nisenan and to transition from a owner/king to an employee/citizen. My initial thoughts are that if I can "naturalize" 600 citizens who commit to paying $15 per month for 10 years then we will sell our interest to these 600 citizens at $15 a month, or 300 citizens at $30 a month, or 150 citizens at $60 a month, or 75 citizens at $120 a month depending on where the goals and aspirations of the group go. I have to get back work as this has taken about an hour to write, but let me know your thoughts.
Please email this to your dad as I seem to have already lost his email (I need administrative help soon). Also, could you forward that to me?
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