"Boycott Money and Save Your Soul -
Launching the Goodwill Revolution"
by Michael I Phillips
Become a goodwillie - join The Goodwill Revolution
Goodwill is the goal, the method and
the reward
Michael
I. Phillips was born in Jamaica. He left home for Howard University in the
US where he received MA
(Education) and BS (Chemistry) degrees. Previous work includes “Poems
for Husbands and Other Underdogs”, compilation and publishing poetry
books “Bitten by Bonzo” and “Living in Constant Spring”.
However, most recent years have been spent in a one-man production of
Hot Calaloo, a newsletter about
Caribbean news and views. From April 1992 to December 1999 it was
published monthly and was transferred to the web at hotcalaloo.com
since then.
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Don't be a consumerholic!
Just say no to: -
- Self-aggrandisement
- SUV's
- King size beds
- Manipulation by ads
- Moneylords
Do not be ashamed to be nice
Moral superiority over monetary superiority
Goodwillie and the 10 Commandments
The Goodwillie Database
Goodwillie Links
Co-op America ...vital source to weed out bad corporations
Ben & Jerrys ...a goodwillie corporation model
Corporate Accountability Rating
Corporate Accountability International
Tribute to Rachel Corrie by MIFTAH
Vermont Boycott For Peace perfect boycott model but needs database of signers
Co-op America's..boycott ideas
Working Assets great organisation but uses MBNA credit card
Open Secrets - bible on political donors
True hero, Malden Mills the story of Aaron Feuerstein
The book to launch the Revolution:
Boycott Money and Save Your Soul –
Launching the Goodwill Revolution
By Michael I. Phillips
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Not just a book
Not Just a book but a manual for Revolution
A manual for the Goodwill-to-All Revolution
A Revolution against the addiction, worship and corrupting influence of
money on our personal goals, institutions, value system, and our
democracy.
An Up-With-People-Down-With-Money Revolution
A Revolution that Revalues People and Devalues Money
So Read it – Join the Revolution – Proclaim it!
About the book:
Everyone admits that money cannot bring happiness. But, we all act as if
it can and with dire consequences. This book is an invitation to join the
Goodwill Revolution against the addiction, worship and corrupting
influence of money. Through this addiction to money, a small rich ruling
elite of money- pushers and money-lords has captured our democracy and
manipulated our value system. So, even though man is basically good and
has made amazing technological advances, we continue to be mired in wars,
poverty, crime and all sorts of social instability. This
up-with-people-down-with-money revolution
proposes that if we treat ‘goodwill towards all’ with all the
energy, enthusiasm, skills and resources as
we have treated money, we will fix the social disintegration and
find real happiness. It is a systematic comprehensive realistic plan to
devalue money and revalue people and relationships.
Of course, goodwill to all people means we oppose the exploitation
of all people. We seek positive change, but without hostility and rancor
because goodwill is not only our goal but our means too. Those big bad
domineering corporations will no longer be untouchable.
We can fight political helplessness and win by networking and
voting with our buying dollars so that every day is election day.
Lets face it. Democracy sucks!
We are not in control of our vaunted democracy.
Money controls our Democracy.
Find out how :
- Democracy is a hoax.
- It has become a red herring to keep us politically powerless.
- The Goodwill Revolution can fix our busted democracy
Find out why:
- Money Sucks – it has devalued people and become the worst addiction which has corrupted our personal goals, institutions, value system and our revered democracy
- Democracy Sucks – it has become a red herring to keep us powerless
- Personal and Family relations suck – has deteriorated into feuds instead
- Religion sucks – divides people rather than bring them together
- Good people suck – have created more calamity than bad people
- Peace sucks – peace does not bring peace
The GOODWILL REVOLUTION to the rescue!
IMMEDIATE BENEFITS
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You will feel good
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You will live better on less
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You will have more friends
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You will have a more harmonious workplace and environment in general
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You will have less pressure and stress from the rat race to get material things
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You will have more satisfaction and less frustration
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You will be building a kinder, gentler world
And that’s just the beginning..
Why we need the Goodwill Revolution
- We are on the verge of cloning humans
- we have walked on the moon
- we can change the TV channel from the other side of the room
- we can even use the urinal, without having to flush it ourselves.
But despite these technological advances the world is worse off because:
- Millions of people all over the world, especially in Africa, Asia and the rest of the developing world suffer the most inhuman poverty
- Communism is dead but the most brutal vicious wars envelop the earth
- Vicious brutal crimes are sweeping the planet
- Intolerance of people on the basis of differences, be it race, tribe, religion, national origin seems to be getting worse and worse
- Good people suffer and the evil prospers
I could go on.
This is not acceptable. It is obvious that there is something fundamentally wrong and things will continue to deteriorate. All these ills constitute the failure of our institutions. We cannot go on this way. We need a drastic change. We need a revolution and the answer is the goodwill revolution!
Reject materialism, embrace people-ism!
All attempts to solve these problems are
doomed to fail as long as we are driven by materialism with its inherent
inequities. So we must reject materialism as this big overpowering goal of
life. Instead set as our goal spreading goodwill by actively reaching out
the hand of friendship and understanding to all people. In short join me
in becoming a goodwillie by abandoning materialism and spreading goodwill
instead. In a nutshell:
- Goodwill is our goal
- Goodwill is our method
- Goodwill is our reward
Requirements
- Abandon materialism as a goal
- Seek to establish goodwill and friendship to all instead
- Espouse and support legitimate efforts to eliminate poverty and things which divide us.
- Encourage others to become goodwillies
Goodwillie Pledge
We will fight against the addiction, worship and corrupting influence of money by:
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Choosing to be happy rather than to be rich
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Recognizing and resisting our addiction to money and materialism
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Making a strong deliberate effort to reduce our appetite for material things.
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Rejecting the manipulation, snob-appeal and propaganda of advertising
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Making a conscious effort to be happy with less
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Refusing to buy extravagant earth-resource-stripping products like gas guzzling SUV’s, and hotel-size homes.
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Admire people on the basis of their good deeds and their character rather than on the amount of money they have and other material criteria.
We will use all the skills, ingenuity, resources, and determination that we have been using to amass wealth in order to:
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Improve our relationships with family, friends and all people in general.
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Reach out to be a friend to all but especially those who differ from us by race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, politics, and so on.
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Make a special effort to get to know people better
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Try to find the good in all
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Overcome the fear of rejection in reaching out to befriend all
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Embrace goodwill to all including those who do not like us.
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Oppose belligerence and hostility with goodwill.
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Try to make sure that all interactions with people are positive and uplifting regardless of how obnoxious and belligerent the other person is.
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Shun retaliation and instead try to convert an enemy into a friend. Seek reconciliation instead of retaliation.
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Constantly seek opportunities to do good deeds
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Acknowledge and appreciate the good deeds of others.
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Oppose bad and evil deeds but in such a way that goodwill is maintained with the perpetrator
Democracy or tyranny of the majority? We have lost political power to the rich pushers of the money addiction. They think we are powerless. We are dispirited because we too think we are powerless. We do not have political power, but we have buying power and that is what we will use. So to use our buying power we will:
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Not buy products that are the result of the exploitation of workers.
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Join coordinated boycott of companies that amass their wealth by exploiting workers
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Boycott companies that support the prime supporters of the Iraq war and occupation. The Republican Party is the ringleader of this atrocious war and every Republican leader supported it so companies that support the Republican Party will be targeted.
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Seek to support unions’ fight for workers
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Add our names to a giant boycott database through a national organization or a coalition of goodwillie organizations so that we can create and join a force of millions of consumers ready to mobilize against selected target corporations.
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Support a goodwillie foreign policy that advocates goodwill to all countries including enemies and concentrates efforts on converting enemy countries into friends.
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Support a living wage for all.
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Support universal health care for all