Transcript Values Slides - OSPI Moodle Server

Acting on our values
Value-based community organizing
Oct. 7, 2013, Proclaim! with Ta`Kaiya Blaney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmT2CJ2ssbs
Ta`Kaiya Blaney, Sliammon First Nation, British Columbia
Shared Values
What do you like?
What makes you happy?
Examples of KIDS’ Shared Values
• Best friends
• Mom and Dad
• My home
• My cat/dog or animals
• Ocean/mountains/water
• Surfboard
• Peace
• Candy
Types of shared wealth
Economic Wealth
Total of all assets that
generate income or barter
or have the potential to
generate future income
or barter
Environmental Wealth
The biosphere – all life
and the habitat to sustain
and perpetuate thriving,
diverse ecosystems
Wealth
Relationships of trust
between one or more
persons; things for
which there is a demand
but
no price
The recognition, in
principle and law, of the
inherent dignity and
equality of all life
Wealth is…
A tangible or intangible, living or non-living entity that
enhances the physical, mental, emotional or spiritual
states, or the feelings of, the beholder or possessor
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Examples of adults’ shared values
Wealth
Economic Wealth
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Living wages
Affordable homes
Retirement security
Affordable health care
Affordable healthy food
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5.
Quality family time
Leisure time
Safe neighborhoods
Good health
Education
Environmental Wealth
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5.
Healthy food
Clean air and water
Healthy ocean and forests
Life-supporting climate
Biodiversity
1.Freedom of religion
2.Freedom of speech
3.Born free and equal
4.Life, liberty and security
of person
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,
 That all men are created equal,
 That they are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights,
 That among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness. ––
 That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed,
 That whenever any form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government…”
Bill of Rights – 1791
1A Right to freedom of religion, speech, the press;
right of people to assembly peacefully
2A Right to keep & bear arms
4A Right to be secure in homes & persons against
unreasonable search & seizure
5A Freedom from testifying against oneself; being
deprived of property or life without due process
of law; being deprived of private property for
public use without just compensation
6A Right to a speedy & public trial in criminal cases
7A Right to a trial by jury in common law
Four freedoms = types of wealth
Freedom
of
Speech
Freedom
of
Religion
Freedom
from
Want
Freedom
from
Fear
Second Bill of Rights – 1944
Right to:
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living wages
medical care
a decent home
adequate food
a good education
“A small group had concentrated into their own hands an
almost complete control over other people’s property, other
people’s money, other people’s labor – other people’s lives.
For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer
real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.”
Types of wealth = human rights
Universal human rights = freedom
3. Right to life, liberty and security of person
17. Right to own property
19. Right to freedom of opinion and expression
19. Right to freedom of peaceful assembly
25. Right to standard of living adequate for health
and wellbeing
25. Right to education
25. Right to participate in the cultural life of the
community
Gross Domestic Product: Wealth = Money
Externalities
GDP GDP
Low
• Gender equality
• Long life expectancy
• Trust among neighbors
• Educational achievement
Environmental
Environmental
Social Wealth
Social Wealth Wealth
Wealth
High
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Mental illness
Teen pregnancy
Violent crime
Incarceration
Obesity
Suicide Economy
Loss of quality of life
Arkansas – tar sands spill, 2013
Texas – tar sands pipeline land seizure, 2013
Many states – poisoned water from
fracking
Loss of social & environmental wealth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0fAsFQsFAs
Gasland 2010
The economy reflects
whose values?
Economy reflects a sovereignty crisis
People
Wealthy Elite
Human values count
(as corporate persons)
Money counts
WEALTH
&
WELLBEING
Economic
Wealth
14th
Amendment
Measures of societal wellbeing: GNH
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Psychological wellbeing
Physical health
Work-life balance
Education
Cultural vitality
Community vitality
Environmental quality
Material wellbeing
Domestic governance
www.sustainableseattle.org
Over 350 communities in U.S. have developed
wellbeing or sustainability measures
When society reflects human values & rights
Quality of Life
Environmental Wealth
Social Wealth
HIGH
•Gender equality
•Long life expectancy
•Trust
among neighbors
Strengthen
•Educational achievement
democratic control
Economic over ecological
Wealth
LOW&
commons
• Mental illness
financial
markets
• Teen
pregnancy
Political
Wealth
• Violent crime
• Incarceration
• Obesity
Living Economy
How to be a Game Changer
http://storyofstuff.org/
Story of Solutions