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Working Group on Economic
Justice and Non-Violence
A Radical Revolution of Values
All Saints Church Vestry Retreat
Reorganizing for Transformation
March 1, 2013
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Agenda
Robyn Smith – Working Group for Economic
Justice and Nonviolence
Jonathan Williams – Nonviolent Parenting
Cecil Hoffman – Integrating Contemplation
and Action
Charlie Rahilly – Economic Update
Robyn Smith – Vision + Next Steps
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―A true revolution of values will
soon cause us to question the
fairness and justice of many of our
past and present policies. On theone hand, we are called to play
the good Samaritan on life’s
roadside; but that will be only an
initial act. One day we must come
to see that the whole Jericho road
must be transformed so that men
and women will not be constantly
beaten and robbed as they make
their journey on life’s highway.
True compassion is more than
flinging a coin to a beggar; it is nothaphazard and superficial. It
comes to see that an edifice which
produces beggars needs
restructuring.‖
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Economic Justice Topics Addressed at
2012 Vestry Conference
Money in politics post-Citizens United ;
Regulation of financial markets;
Taxation and progressive taxation; Role of war making in the economy;
Wealth inequality;
Globalization;
Education issues;
Budget values; and
Critique of unlimited growth/GDP.
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Working Group
Discussions
Reverend Lawson’s
Non-Violent Method
FOCUS AND
STUDY
STRATEGIZE
DIRECT ACTION
W. Brueggeman’s
Exodus transformation
Questioning the dominant
ideology;
Public processing of pain;
and Release of a new social
imagination.
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―For people generally, their story of the universe and the human role in
the universe is their primary source of intelligibility and value. The
deepest crises experienced by any society are those moments of
change when the story becomes inadequate for meeting the survival
demands of a present situation.‖
— Thomas Berry, Dream of the Earth
―It can be
argued that we
are in the time
of greatest
change that
humanity has
ever known.‖
— John Phillip
Newell
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DISTANT P ATRIARCH
(RELIGION) Emphasizes an individual
relationship with a personal
God whose home is in a
separate dimension.
Our human relationships withone another and with nature
are secondary.
In many interpretations of this
story, life on Earth is but a
way station, and nature solelyexists for our use and
comfort.
Source: David Korten, Religion, Science & SpiritPowerPoint Presentation, 1/31/13
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GRAND M ACHINE
(SCIENCE) The universe and the evolution
of life are consequences of a
combination of physical
mechanism and random change
that have no larger meaning or
purpose.
A brutal competition for survival
is the basic law of nature.
Neglects the role of cooperation
and synergy on which all livingsystems – and human society –
depend.
Source: David Korten, Religion, Science &
Spirit PowerPoint Presentation, 1/31/13
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• Both cosmologies affirm the self-destructiveindividualism and separation that lead us to relate
to one another and to nature in deeply destructive
ways.
• John Phillip Newell – We have lived in a deep
falseness to think we could take care of the needs
of our own family, while ignoring the well-being of
the family down the street; to think we could be
truly healthy while infecting the earth.
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What if we turn our economic and
environmental crisis into a love
story?
From Fierce Light , Conscientious
Projector movie for Earth Day on
Apr. 19, 2013
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INTEGRAL SPIRIT
(RELIGION & SCIENCE) God is in the world and the world
is in God, yet they are notidentical.
All of creation is a sacredexpression of an eternal and
intimately divine will. All beingsare interconnected and our fatesare intertwined.
As participants in the ongoingprocess of creation, we each bear a sacred responsibility. Our lives
take on profound meaning andpurpose in relationship andservice to the sacred whole.
Source: David Korten, Religion, Science &
Spirit PowerPoint Presentation, 1/31/13
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• The growing consciousness of interrelatedness is the
deep spirit of this moment in time. We have two
choices:1) further fragmentation and destruction of the
species; or
2) transformation and healing, giving up your life to
save it, truly following Jesus rather than followingthe ego of nation, species, religion, etc.
• Christ is our memory, he embodies what is deep within
us, a yearning for oneness.
• We need to access Jesus’ energy of non-violence for
true transformation.
John Phillip Newell
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TALE OF TWO ECONOMIESDifferent Values - Different Outcomes
Old Suicide Economyvalues money & self-
organizes toward: New Living Economy
values life & self-
organizes toward: EnvironmentalCollapse Earth Balance
Wealth Concentration Shared Prosperity Political Corruption Living Democracy
Source: David Korten, Religion, Science & Spirit
PowerPoint Presentation, 1/31/13
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Sacred Earth Rights
HierarchyOld Economy
Financial System
Logic
Nature (Sacred Earth)
Humans
Property
Corporations
New EconomyLiving System Logic
Corporations
Property
Humans
Nature (Sacred Earth)
Source: David Korten, Religion, Science & Spirit
PowerPoint Presentation, 1/31/13
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―This call for a world-wide
fellowship that lifts
neighborly concern beyondone’s tribe, race, class and
nation is in reality a call for
an all-embracing and
unconditional love for allmen. This . . . has now
become an absolute
necessity for the survival of
man.‖
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What’s Next? • The integral spirit cosmology is not a story we hear in
the public domain. The absence of public visibility
limits its influence as a guide to rethinking and
restructuring our human relationships with one another
and nature.
• How can we as a Parish articulate and amplify
narratives that will lead to systemic change and
support the needs of the entire human family and the
planet?
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Jonathan WilliamsNonviolent Parenting
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Cecil HoffmanIntegrating Contemplation and Action
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Charlie RahillyEconomic Update
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Discussion
• Latest Conditions• Economy of the last decade or so…
– Debt…it felt good for a while
– State of the “Financial System”
– Federal finances
• Impacts
– Jobs and Employment
– Housing
– Income and Wealth
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Current Conditions
• After initially printing -0.1% for Q4-2012, GDP
growth revised up to +0.1%
• The consensus is that if the Sequester goes
into effect, GDP will drop by approximately.6% and there will be 750,000 to 1 million jobslost. - Comstock Partners
• Continuing challenges – Excessive household debt
– Potential LT problem with excessive gov’t debt
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Big Economic Dilemma
• How to get the economy growing again
– At a rate high enough to bring down
• Unemployment rate
• Household debt
– While, at the same time, not letting government
debt soar to unsustainable levels
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Corporate Profits Go Parabolic
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Real GDP and Total Employment
(How the U.S. Worker is Getting Screwed!)
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Labor’s Share of National Income
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Economy of the last decade or so…
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Leveraged Future with Diminished
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Leveraged Future with Diminished
Returns
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Central Bank Assets
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Financial Regulation – Page Count
37 pages
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Impacts - Jobs and Employment
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Impacts – Income and Wealth
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2010 IRS Data
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Impacts – Housing
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Working Group
Vision• Guide the parish through
a process of
discernment
• Move from education,consciousness-raising,
spiritual sustenance,
and community-building
• To strategizing
• To organizing and
mobilizing for action.
Working Group Vision for this
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Working Group Vision for this
Fall Facilitate conversations and reflection about the narratives
that impact our lives and our economic and politicalsystems;
Explore and learn how economics underlies most injustices,
the power leverages involved, and the theological basis for our concern and response;
Provide a way for every parishioner to participate andengage in this process;
Involvement of and offerings from all ministries and vestrycommittees, many of whom are already exploring theseissues.
Offerings Could Include
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Offerings Could Include Kick-off event
Forums
Parish-wide meetings and discussions
Small groups will be key Spiritual practices
Book studies or other kinds of study groups Discussion groups
Bible studies
Sabbath dinners
Experiential learning Encourage participants to share their own economic or other
stories that for them are urgent in every group
Every group to feed into the larger discernment process
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―Justice must be
rescued by
something deeper than justice –
love.‖
Cornel West