Poster - How To Build Global Community

How To Build Global Community

Text: Members SCW community©2002 Illustration: Melinda Levine, cut paper

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IMAGINE OTHER CULTURES through their art, poetry, film and novels 
Listen to new music - Dance to it
Notice the workings of power & privilege in your culture
Learn a second (or third) language
Visit people, places, and cultures - not tourist attractions
QUESTION CONSUMPTION
Know how and where bananas and coffee are grown
Eat local food, mostly organic
Look for fair trade and union labels
Oppose NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO
Understand "free" trade is not Fair Trade
Recognize imperialism and militarism
LEARN PEOPLE'S HISTORY
Help build economies from the bottom up
Refuse to wear corporate logos: defy corporate domination
Challenge "corporate personhood"
SUPPORT COOPERATIVES
Move your money to a credit union
Know physical & political geography
READ THE UN'S UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Work to reverse climate change
RESPECT INDIGENOUS CULTURES
Judge governance by how well it meets all people's needs
Know your water source and where your wastes go
PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE EARTH
Question nationalism
Think South, Central, and North - there are many Americans
RECOGNIZE OUR SHARED HUMANITY
Know that no one is silent though many are not heard - Work to change this.