David came into our office one day late in January, asking
to speak to someone in private. After a long conversation,
during which we spoke of many of the things he touches on
in the following article, we agreed to print what could be
considered a beginning to his personal manifesto. It is im-
portant to note that he hopes to attain his goals by the end
of the century, and he hopes to do so with the help of our
generation, especially students. This is a vision of an alter-
native future to the one we are now facing, one with distinct
possibilities.

 

David L. Rose-Williams-Lofdahl

Every once in a while, an in-
credible idea comes along that
changes the perspective of the
whole world. All around the world,
right now, people are standing up
and revolting against what is wrong
with this world. At times violence
erupts, proving just how intense our
emotions and commitments are be-
coming. We are willing to die for a
better life.

Quite simply, it’s called peace.
Humankind’s survival into the fu-
ture is our greatest concern. A great
many factors are critical when sur-
vival is questioned. As nations
debate unendingly on the concept
of acceptable standards of environ-
mental destruction, large multi-na-
tional corporations play god with
the planet and all life, bringing us
all perilously closer to either an ac-
cidental annihilation by nuclear
weapons or

We now are seeing what it is that
we must protect ourselves against.
History shows us, all around the
world, what we must never fall into
again.

In China, as well as in Russia
and in Eastern Europe, in South
Africa, in Argentina and Brazil and
in Central Africa, Ethiopia and the
Sudan, the atrocities occurring
show us how the errors of our
global management system are
manifesting themselves. I could go
on into detail about the injustices
and abuses against both the en-
vironment and the people who have
followed their ancestors, but I
won’t. You already know.

Governments are supposed to
be helping to alleviate the
problems. Instead they all are con-
trolling and perpetuating the condi-
tions that appall the citizens of
nations around the world. Govern-

ment argues that

by some Governments are ‘ey operate in

chance bac-
teriological
change in

supposed to be

the people’s best
interests. Is it in
our best interest

the planet helping to alleviate to advocate and

brought on
by the
neglect of
governmen
ts and corporations who say that to
clean up the damage is too expen-
sive and therefore not economical-
ly wise for them. And they continue
to pollute the earth to death.

As one of five billion and some
odd human beings dealing with life
in the nineteen nineties, I too am
praying that we will not destroy
anything else or senselessly kill
anyone anymore. But that does not
look at all possible considering the
way the world is being governed.
Granted, not one leader anywhere
has spoken of a new way. Today’s
leaders lead some people, but not
all of the people. Today’s leader
leads like-minded people who have
realized a common need. What the
world needs today is a leader who
will show us all a new way. A way
that will sit well inside us all. A way
that will feel right and one that in-
sists upon doing the right thing.

From birth we all have had to
accept without question and
without explanation the course of
humanity that had been chosen so
many, many years ago when the
earth was huge and its peoples were
isolated from each other.

As we enter out of the dark
ages of famines and unbearable
poverty and stand poised before the
third millennia, we do so with the
sad knowledge that for so long we
were so wrong.

Stepping into the next century
we carry with us a new awareness
of our duties and responsibilities.

the problems.

encourage war
and so called
*police actions’?
Is it in our best
interest, yours and mine, or the in-
terests of faceless multi-national
conglomerations to maintain
poverty and whole nations of starv-
ing human beings for individual
financial gains?

We do not advocate wars of
any kind. They disgust us and make
us wonder at our leaders’ motives.
We do not encourage poverty. I’ve
never heard anyone say that pover-
ty is good and right.(Although I’ve
never had the opportunity to sit in
the back rooms and listen to the
people who arranged world wars
and arbitrarily condemned whole
races of people to generations of
oppression.) We cannot believe the
statements these few people have
made in the past because what they
have said in public, at press con-
ferences etc., has been completely
different from their actions. We
cannot applaud deceit.

A true world-wide peace is
what this world wants. The existing
social order is insulting, de-
humanizing and
criminal. Sustaining
this order in any way
after the truth has
been unveiled will
be the greatest crime
against humanity in
all of the history of
the Earth.

Peace for
everyone. Every
child; every woman
and every man,

regardless of where they live their
lives. This is what all people on
earth truly want.

All people wish to live in
peace, without fear. Never before
have the people of the Earth known
more about their world. They have
seen enough and now choose not to
continue perpetuating the killing of
life, be it in the sea, on land, or in
the air.

All around the world, ordinary
people are protesting and at times
violence breaks out. Ordinary
children are facing armed troops
and it is being seen more and more,
to the point where their deaths
shock us out of our complacency.
Those with nothing to lose and
everything to gain co-ordinate their
efforts in an attempt to bring about
a change to fairness and an ultimate
peace. It should not surprise
anyone that the Chinese govern-
ment is the leader today in per-
verted demonstrations of power:
they have over 5000 years ex-
perience to call upon. The murder
of the

students expressing a desire
for freedom has made the citizens
of the Earth quietly re-evaluate the
conditions that we all endure.

"Please, someone, save our
China," a quote from an old women
who witnessed the slaughter, and a
young girl who participated in the
actual demonstrations and sur-
vived. It is now seen as a plea for
China and a cry to save the Earth
from darkness.

Peace will only be attained
when we freely choose to
continue our lives without
ever making money the
most important object on

earth again.

Each and every person alive

 

today anywhere deserves any and
all of the products that through
human intelligence we have
created for ourselves. That is our
true right as human beings. Noth-
ing should ever be withheld for a
profitable gain. This only disrupts
the peace between people, let alone
nations. With money and credit as
the standard for survival, there will
always be someone who will offer
enough money to someone else to
fight or kill.

Those who do the killing are
told it is necessary to fight and kill
those who demonstrate for peace in
their lives. They will kill those who
stand up against oppression to
protect the social order. To main-
tain the social order of the super
rich, the rich and middle income
families and poor and those with
absolutely nothing and no future.
That is their social order. That is
their peace. They call peace an ac-
ceptance of their social order. And
it is for our own good, we are told.
The end of the social order is near.
All people will soon live in peace,
when the only true way has been
seen. I really hope that a peaceful
transition can be achieved. No one
should die for the way we have
behaved and are behaving. Because
it is not our fault that the world was
set up this way. We were born into
this mess. Instinctively, we know
that this is all wrong. This is not
peace that we live in today.

Peace will only be attained
when all around the world, we free-

ly choose to continue our
lives without ever again
making money, the most
important object on the
face of the earth. If you
can give it all away, you
can truly have it all
forever. When we as
human beings have
eliminated all forms of
money and credit, we
will be rid of it all and we
will then be able to have
anything that we will need. When