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Leo Burke Explains the Commons - #Commons Education Series A
Professor Leo Burke of the University of Notre Dame describes the commons and the benefits of a commons viewpoint in this interview recorded in Berlin, Germany at the commons conference sponsored by the Heinrich Boll Stiftung (Heinrich Boll Foundation) in late 2010.
Students interested in the commons should also read the following article about Professor Burke by another well-know commons expert, Jay Walljasper:
A World that Works for Everyone
By Jay Walljasper
Original article in Notre Dame Magazine:
http://magazine.nd.edu/news/27932-a-world-that-works-for-everyone/
PUBLISHED: WINTER 2011-12 POSTED IN: CAMPUS & COMMUNITY AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
You would expect Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business to focus its teaching on making profits from the world as it is instead of asking students to explore how to fundamentally change it.
Becoming Human Again: Occupy Wall Street and the Restoration of Caring - #Commons
The Occupy Wall Street protests have uncovered what we had refused to see, and asked us to re-look at what had been taken for granted:
We have a good world when we take care of each other, recognize our interdependence, and correct the injustices that erode the fundamental goodness of our society.
Filmed in Late October 2011, we found so many extraordinarily articulate Occupy Wall Street-ers who were willing to say what needed to be said: that we are better when we do not allow a tiny few to degrade the quality of life for many.
Cameras:
Bunker Seyfert
Heather Craig
Production Assistance:
Krista Keenan
Interviews:
Kevin Hansen
Singing the Future: Rhetta Morgan
We met Rhetta Morgan at the Common Ground services in Bala Cynwyd, near Philadelphia.
She is truly an instrument of love, bringing and singing a new vision for human relationships, healing and devotion. Rhetta has the remarkable ability to sing a-Capella, a vision of the future that is so moving that audiences are brought to tears - as we have been.
Please experience a corner of this remarkable woman's presence.
Think Like A Forest
In the forest there is no such thing as garbage! Everything works together without harming anybody. They find ways to get along because they need each other. Pierre talks about how people can learn to think like a forest.
When we think like a forest, we seen many things newly. We see that waste does not exist, we can make our own food, and we can take only what we need - no more. We see that all living things have a right to live their lives, too. We see how to live together, and we see how to run a business - all by thinking like a forest.
Now is the Time
There is a restoration happening everywhere. Pierre invites you to action for your highest aspirations for a better world. In the affairs of humanity there is a tide of possibility, seen in places like the Global Marshall Plan, the Millennium Promise, and Green Design.
May you act now for the purpose of a new common ground with all people, goodwill towards all life, and the better world we have always dreamed of.
From Forgiveness to Activism: How Michael Berg Lost His Son to Revenge in Iraq Then Found His Voice for Peace
Peace activist Michael Berg's story of the horrific murder of his son, and his personal transformation thereafter into an activist using nonviolent peaceful protest against the war in Iraq.
Produced by: Pierre Terre, 3/11/2007 Language: English Run Time: 23 min. 0 sec. Story Level 3 = 12+ years of age
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
The Power of Love Is Greater Than The Love of Power
Jonathan Granoff speaks at Common Ground Fellowship. January 2007. The human being has the capacity of demonstrating that which is most worthy of praise, the indivisible unity of being realized through the divine attribute of love:
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