Generating a Transformative

Mass Movement for Entrepreneurship

Culture of Corruption

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Culture of Poverty

Theoretical Basis

“Grasping the Principle of Revolutionary Mass Movements”

Published January 1978, Talamdan (Journal of the Mindanao Commission)

http://www.mda.ph/essays/building_mass_movements

3 Concentric Circles

Core

Looser Grps

Broad Masses

Without a vision, the people perish.

Past>>>Present>>>Vision

Why Christians?

Birthing Lupang Hinirang

Rick Warren’s Purpose-Driven Life

Cindy Jacobs’ Prophecy for the Philippines

God has a purpose for our nation

The LandAn archipelago made up of 7,107 islandsTotal area of 300,780 square kilometersas large as Italylarger than New Zealandvery much larger than Britain

Rivers and seas all aroundA ‘crossroad’ in the migration and trade route

The Resourcesextremely fertile agricultural land with potential of 18 million hectares, only 1/3 of which is currently cultivatedteeming biodiversity in flora and fauna on land and marine life on seainexhaustible sources of energy – oil, natural gas, deuteriumminerals for the technological age - gold, silver, copper, silicon, uranium

The PeopleEarly Filipinos believed in a Supreme Being.Each tribe had a deep sense of consensual democracy.Women were the equals of men, and played a pivotal role in tribal society.Tribes had no intent of expanding their territories or subjugating other peoples.

Rent-Seeking Economy

Manifested in politics as the use of public office for private financial gain

To demolish the rent-seeking economy: generate an entrepreneurial mass movement