If you're living in the community and you own your local businesses and you're engaged in the local economy you should have a definite interest in the strength and health of your community, the caring relationships that bind people together.

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

Global competition is about winners and losers.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.