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Global Marshall Plan Along Lines That You Have Developed on Your Website - Alprogressives.Org Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) THEGLOBAL MARSHALLPLAN MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR ON THE WEAKNESS OF VIOLENCE: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.... ...Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Dear Network of Spiritual Progressives: I’m proud to be working with you to build a cam - paign for a Global Marshall Plan along lines that you have developed on your website www.spiritu - alprogressives.org. Rabbi Michael Lerner and I have great respect for each other, and frankly I’m happy that this initiative comes from cooperation between me, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and a rabbi well known for his commitment to peace, social justice and ecological sanity for our planet. I have introduced into the House of Representa - tives House Resolution 1078 endorsing the Global Marshall Plan. I’m also glad to have been joined in this effort by those Members of Congress who have signed on as co-sponsors in the House (see sidebar). With your help, many other members of the House and Senate may join as co-sponsors as well. Sixty-three years ago, the United States emerged from world war determined to rebuild a devastated continent and to sow the seeds of lasting peace and prosperity, even for people whose governments had been our enemies. The Marshall Plan was a great success: it helped Europe recover and dramatically increased the goodwill of the world toward the United States, generating in - creased U.S. influence for two generations. The Marshall Plan demonstrated the transcendent power of America’s political and financial generosity. Today we face challenges at home and abroad that rival the scale of that time, and I believe the circumstances call us now to meet moral obligations beyond what our current system of public diplomacy and foreign aid are designed to handle. Foreign aid to poor countries in Africa, Asia and South/Central America, whether considered as a proportion of the Federal budget or as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP), has never reached close to the amount of money that we used in the first years of the Marshall Plan. Meanwhile, more than 1 billion people on our planet struggle to survive on less than $1 per day, and another 1.6 billion people on less than $2 per day. House Resolution 1078 recognizes that lasting security for America will be best achieved through policies of generosity and caring toward the rest of the world. It points out that the way to achieve these goals is through a new Global Marshall Plan in which the U.S. dedicates 1%-2% of the GDP each year for the next 20 years toward once and for all eliminating domestic and global poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education, inadequate health care, and repairing the environment of the planet. The resolution also calls for creating international non-governmental mech - anisms for receiving and distributing such funds in ways that ensure that the money is safeguarded from corruption and protected from manipulation to serve elite interests, but instead is distributed in ways that are respectful of na - tive cultures, are environmentally sensitive, and reach the people who need it. It calls for the revising of existing trade agreements in ways that would im - prove the lives of the poor of the world, providing training in environmental sustainability, family and parental support, emergency health techniques, and non-violent communication. The campaign for a Global Marshall Plan will require years of work to help change the dominant way people think about homeland security. That cam - paign is being led by Rabbi Michael Lerner and the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP). I hope you will join with him and the NSP in this badly needed effort, and I, for my part, will do what I can to bring this way of think - ing into the conversation in the U.S. Congress. Hon. Keith Ellison (D, MN) House of Representatives Washington, D.C. CO-SPONSORS OF HOUSE RESOLUTION 1078 Rep. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI] Rep. Carolyn C. Kilpatrick [D-MI] Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO] Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich [D-OH] Rep. John Conyers [D-MI] Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA] Rep. Susan A. Davis [D-CA] Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA] Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA] Rep. James P. Moran [D-VA] Rep. Barney Frank [D-MA] Rep. John W. Olver [D-MA] Rep. Raul M. Grijalva [D-AZ] Rep. Donald M. Payne [D-NJ} Rep. Maurice D. Hinchley [D-NY] Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky [D-IL] Rep. Michael M. Honda [D-CA] Rep. Fortney Pete Stark [D-CA] Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson [D-TX} Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey [D-CA] Congressman Ellison and the others who have endorsed House Res. 1078 (the NSP version of the Global Marshall Plan) have not seen and do not necessarily endorse the specific arguments and analyses put forward in this booklet, which go further than HR 1078 in explaining the intellectual and spiritual foundations of the NSP approach. Which works better, a global martial plan… Security Through Domination: The Current Paradigm Most people on this planet want to live in a loving and compassionate way. The problem is, we’ve been taught by our culture that to live that way would put us in danger of being taken advantage of by everyone else. The domi - nant assumption of our culture is that we live in a world filled with hurt - ful people who care only about themselves, people who are likely to take advantage of us unless we protect ourselves by getting power over them before they get power over us. For thousands of years much of the human race has been living with the notion that the only way to achieve personal and collective security is through domination of others. That notion is dra - matically reinforced by our daily experience in the competitive market - place and the world of work where we frequently experience ourselves as surrounded by people who seem to be only “looking out for number one.” Many people develop a cynical and fearful attitude about others that car - ries over, and often influences, our personal lives. Though the levels of fear in the West were dramatically escalated post 9/11, these dynamics have been growing steadily for hundreds of years, with pro - found psychological and spiritual consequences for our daily lives. People have increasingly withdrawn from loving contact and emotional openness to each other into cocoons of imagined safety. We assume social roles that keep us trapped in isolation and loneliness while yearning for real contact and yet denying to ourselves and others that yearning for genuine recog - nition and loving community for fear of being humiliated and rejected. Y E L The desire to transcend these crippling dynamics is omnipresent, and the K L A need for recognition and deep connection to each other and to a larger H C M O T framework of meaning and purpose for our lives beyond “making it” in terms of money or power or sexual conquest or fame is ever-present and ready to break through to a world of genuine connection to other people, to our own deepest feelings, and to joyous celebration of the universe. Yet simultaneously our fear of being humiliated by expressing these needs openly and then finding ourselves made vulnerable while others fail to re - spond often leads us to repress our own deepest desires or to deny them as “utopian.” In that state of mind we may respond to calls for community that only extend to the people of our own race, religion or nationality, while assuming that “the others” do not share our desires and would, if given the chance, frustrate our needs. Nurtured by the media, by nationalist or fundamentalist dominated edu - cation, and by politicians who constantly adopt that “us vs. them” rhetoric in order to show that they themselves are “responsible” and “realistic,” many Americans accept the notion that the world is fundamentally unsafe and that the goal of American policy should be to advance “American in - terests” by dominating the world, either militarily, or, through one-sided global economic arrangements and diplomacy. Democrats and Republicans differ on the relative balance between military and diplomatic power, but many in both parties share the mistaken assumption that the only way to achieve security for America is to build a world in which we get “our way.” And “our way” usually ends up being defined in terms of the well- being of the most powerful corporations and their allies. National security is frequently defined in terms of their interests, so we end up spending vastly more on the military than on social programs. Y E L K L A H C M … or a Global Marshall Plan? O T These next two decades are likely to be the last in which US economic and military power decisively shape the world. As China, India and other coun - tries become more powerful, they will likely draw upon the precedents we've set as a world power. If we could dedicate our next two decades to showing how a world power could transcend "Us" vs "Them" thinking, we could be proud of the American legacy. To do that, we have to stop talking about keeping America "number one" and stop ignoring the suffering of billions on this planet. We should show that world power can act in ways that seek the advantage of al people on the planet.
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