Acting on our valuesValue-based community organizing

Ta`Kaiya Blaney, Sliammon First Nation, British Columbia

Oct. 7, 2013, Proclaim! with Ta`Kaiya Blaneyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmT2CJ2ssbs

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

Relationships of trust between one or more persons; things for which there is a demand but no price

The biosphere – all life and the habitat to sustain and perpetuate thriving, diverse ecosystems

Economic WealthTotal of all assets that generate income or barter or have the potential to generate future income or barter

The recognition, in principle and law, of the inherent dignity and equality of all life

Environmental Wealth

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

1. Quality family time2. Leisure time3. Safe neighborhoods4. Good health5. Education

1. Healthy food2. Clean air and water3. Healthy ocean and forests4. Life-supporting climate5. Biodiversity

Economic Wealth1. Living wages2. Affordable homes3. Retirement security4. Affordable health care5. Affordable healthy food

1.Freedom of religion2.Freedom of speech3.Born free and equal4.Life, liberty and security

of person

Environmental Wealth

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…”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident,

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

Bill of Rights – 1791

Four freedoms = types of wealth

Freedom of

Speech

Freedom from Want

Freedom of

Religion

Freedom from Fear

Second Bill of Rights – 1944

Right to: • 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

• Right to participate in the cultural life of the community

Environmental WealthSocial WealthGDP Environmental

WealthSocial WealthGDP

Suicide Economy

Gross Domestic Product: Wealth = Money

Low•Gender equality•Long life expectancy•Trust among neighbors•Educational achievement

High•Mental illness•Teen pregnancy•Violent crime•Incarceration•Obesity

Externalities

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

Gasland 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0fAsFQsFAs

The economy reflects whose values?

Economy reflects a sovereignty crisis

PeopleHuman values count

Wealthy Elite(as corporate persons)

Money counts

Economic Wealth

WEALTH&

WELLBEING14th

Amendment

Measures of societal wellbeing: GNH• Psychological wellbeing• Physical health• Work-life balance• Education• Cultural vitality• Community vitality• Environmental quality• Material wellbeing• Domestic governance

Over 350 communities in U.S. have developed wellbeing or sustainability measures

www.sustainableseattle.org

EconomicWealth

Environmental Wealth

Social Wealth

When society reflects human values & rights

Quality of Life

Political Wealth

Living Economy

HIGH•Gender equality•Long life expectancy•Trust among neighbors•Educational achievement

LOW•Mental illness•Teen pregnancy•Violent crime•Incarceration•Obesity

Strengthen democratic control

over ecological commons &

financial markets

How to be a Game Changer

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