RADICALLY DIFFERENT THAN OTHER APPROACHES. USES `CONTRACTS OF CARE AND OBLIGATION'. NO ONE SHOULD BE LEFT TO STRUGGLE ALONE! STEWARDS Corporation Movement - A NEW MOVEMENT OF POOR PEOPLE Website: http://www.stewards.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an introduction to the Stewards Corporation Movement. If you want to inform other individuals or listserves in your network about this movement, please forward this message to them. Thanks, Eric ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi there, The Stewards Corporation Movement, also known as the Stewards Planetary House, is a new just-being-born movement of working and non-working poor people who seek to become increasingly able to work together to care for one another together with the planet. Our approach is highly inquiry-oriented and includes new methods of social organization, economics, information technology, childcare, personal development, care of the earth, `co-obligation contracts to work together to care for one another', and much else. Our approach could, in a nutshell, be summed up as: `Organize the planetary underclass as the Stewards of the world!" The SPH also combines the seven ways people have traditionally sought liberation: The human potential movement, progressive social change, religion or spirituality, ecology, feminism, progressive art, and science. The Stewards Planetary House is open to all poor people, wherever they may be on the planet. People are needed to help us to begin our program of `organizing the poor people of the world - beginning with ourselves - to work together as Stewards to care for one another together with the world. One element that strongly distinguishes our approach from others is that while supporting all progressive struggles for greater freedom, equality, and democracy, we place emphasis as well on the new principal of `co- obligation', which entails the use of `Stewards Democratic contracts' through which we enter into formal and informal obligations which we undertake, outside the capitalist system, to work together to meet one anothers needs and to care for one another and the planet. This is Stewardship. The URL for our homepage, where you can read about us, and connect with us, is: http://www.stewards.net Along with many other documents of interest to poor people and their allies, the website includes an important new book entitled:`The Stewards Corporation: A System for Total Human Development'. This book sets out a model for a `corporation of a new type', which includes within itself: poor people's social unities called `Stewards Houses' (these are not primarily physical structures but social units of cooperation which can be used by anyone affiliated with a Stewards Corporation including homeless people); poor people's production systems called `Stewards Services'; poor people's education systems called `Stewards Guilds'; a poor people's democratic management, ownership, and governance system for the Stewards corporation called a `Stewards Polis'; poor people's use of advanced information technology for communication, collaboration, and coordination; poor people's ownership and management of land; and much more. The book on the Stewards Corporation is accessible from the `Contents' page, which is accessible from the homepage. We are involved in attempting to establish the first functioning Stewards Corporation here in Vancouver, British Columbia. Please call email or call us for further information. In case you - like ourselves - dislike the oppressive and life-fragmenting aspects of traditional business corporations, rest assured that the `Stewards Corporation' are corporations of a VERY different type! If you are interested in entering into regular dialogue and communication with us regarding the theoretical and practical steps involved in developing a Stewards Corporation in your area, please e-mail us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call us. If you want to inform other individuals or listserves in your network about this movement, please forward this message to them. Cordially yours, Solidarity, Blessings of light, Eric Sommer coordinator of B.C. Stewards Corporation http://www.stewards.net and The Chiapas Alert Network. http://www.stewards.net/chiapas/10.htm
