Integral Insights on Social Activism

Vom 12. bis 14. September fand an der Uni Basel der soziologische Kongress „Krieg!“ statt. Neben dem bekannten Friedensforscher Johan Galtung und zahlreichen Workshops, die das Thema Krieg aus postmoderner Sicht erörterten, wurde es durch Dr. Elke Fein aus Freiburg ermöglicht, auch integral im akademischen Bereich vertreten zu sein.

Ganz „konkret angeklopft“ habe er, so Ibrahim Abouleish, im Jahr 1977 bei der GLS Bank. Es ging um die Finanzierung des Transports von Allgäu-Kühen in die ägyptische Wüste. Schon damals unterstützte die „Gemeinschaftsbank für Leihen und Schenken“ (GLS) in Bochum die Vision des Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish, seines Zeichens Alternativer Nobelpreisträger.

Evolution of human Consciousness

In an article in January Nicanor wrote about neuroscience, social tools, and the need for civil society to build collective structure that can meet the new challenges. Nicanor’s argument is that neuroscience will play a key element in order to meet the challenges. First I want to give a summary of which I think is critically important and expressed in a very clear and beautiful way:

Business right now, is destroying our planet, exploiting natural resources and meanwhile heating up our climate. Business is able to do that because of the powerful tools, which emerged in the last 20 years. These tools enabled business to design global supply chains, and organizational structures that are more a complex ecosystem than the structure of an average firm. These organizations in common language are called ?Global Players? and their impact on our planet is often not even understood by themselves. The so called ?Global Players? have outgrown the structure of a Nation States and some of them are even more complex and efficient than most of our so called modern democracies1. Unfortunately, they also have lost complete touch with the foundation of life. Nature, native and indigenous people and farmers are the ones who suffer the most2. How did it happen that out of business ?Global Players? emerged?

Stuttgart/Germany ? July 22-27 '07
Training week for young people on the development of a deeper consciousness - with Nicanor Perlas.

Meet-up is a day-long conference where small groups of people gather in local groups around the world to share ideas, discussion, and food and group activities. The day is organized by NetworkM and centers on a chosen theme or topic of focus, with the help of a streamed talk or interview to inspire discussion and other activities throughout the day. The May Meet-up will feature a podcasted talk by Gary Baran, the Executive Director of the Center for Nonviolent Communication.

What does this mean? Social Activism as it is defined on this Blogg is a human being that is engaged in changing the social condition for better living.

zur Förderung des gesellschaftlichen, persönlichen und institutionellen Wandels und der Führungspersönlichkeiten
Nicanor Perlas für das Gamot Cogon Institut

Wal-Mart considered to the book ?The Wal-Mart Effect? is not just ?the most powerful, most influential factory in the world?, Wal-Mart has also reshaped the ?very ecosystem and rhythm of supermarket business?. The prices are 15 % cheaper than anywhere else. In 2004 Wal-Mart opened 244 Super centers in the States, in 2005 it opened in the first 10 months 232 new Super centers. That is 5 centers per week, each working day a new super center. How can they grow that fast, sell stuff so cheap and have an annual profit of over 10 billions (10,3 in 2004)?