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Our front against corporate fascism cannot be a weekend hobby for the well-to-do. It must be a 24 hours a day effort that is supported at every step by our independent communities.
At the core of this movement will stand a network of 100% economically independent, intellectually independent and self-sufficient communities. The number of these cooperatives and communities may be small at first, but once we have a model that can be exported, they will increase rapidly.
Economically independent means that we can produce our own products (clothes, furniture, tools, housing) within the community, create our own currency and our own barter system that is 100% independent of the Federal financial system, and we can grow our own food to the best of our ability without relying on the monopoly of distribution and logistics, the wrapping of everything in plastic and paper, the taxes and charges on everything that we eat, and the pesticides, herbicides and petro-fertilizers and the GMOs that cost us and kill us. If we get these vampire middle men out of the way, our movement will be far more powerful and we will not have these parasites sucking our economic lifeblood.
Intellectually independent means that we avoid the commercial television broadcasts that are meant to dumb down the population, and we create our own independent journalism and run our own alternative schools for our children. We will engage in discussions among citizens concerning local, national and international issues that will allow for a rational and informed discussion without the fluff, the hype and the blatantly anti-intellectual agenda of the corporate media.
That means that we will avoid like the plague the thought leaders that corporations force-feed us and rather strive to increase the intellectual independence and capacity of all citizens; we will recognize the potential of all to rise to the intellectual level demanded of them as citizens.
A pledge of membership and of joint ownership of the village, the community, that we join is an extremely effective means of creating a clear awareness of our independence through cooperation.
We will welcome to our growing communities those who were laid off in the COVID-19 firings, those who have been economically destroyed by lockdowns and other political attacks, and those persecuted for not taking vaccines. Moreover, the farmland that multinational corporations and billionaires like Bill Gates claim to possess belongs to our communities. In accord with the Constitution of the United States, we do not recognize the purchase of our precious farmland, critical to our survival, by billionaires and multinational corporations using fake money and other financial tricks. They own nothing.
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This article was originally published on Fear No Evil.
Emanuel Pastreich served as the president of the Asia Institute, a think tank with offices in Washington DC, Seoul, Tokyo and Hanoi. Pastreich also serves as director general of the Institute for Future Urban Environments. Pastreich declared his candidacy for president of the United States as an independent in February, 2020.
He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
