Think of no one as "them" ● Don't confuse your comfort with your safety ● Talk to strangers ● Imagine other cultures through their art, poetry and novels ● Listen to music you don't understand ● Dance to it ● Act locally ● Notice the workings of power and privilege in your culture ● Question consumption ● Know how your lettuce and coffee are grown: wake up and smell the exploitation ● Look for fair trade and union labels ● Help build economies from the bottom up ● Acquire few needs ● Learn a second (or third) language ● Visit people, places and cultures - not tourist attractions ● Learn people's history ● Redefine progress ● Know physical & political geography ● Play games from other cultures ● Watch films with subtitles ● Know your heritage ● Honor everyone's holidays ● Look at the moon and imagine someone else, somewhere else, looking at it too ● Read the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights ● Understand the global economy in terms of people, land and water ● Know where your bank banks ● Never believe you have a right to anyone else's resources ● Refuse to wear corporate logos; defy corporate domination ● Question military/corporate connections ● Don't confuse money with wealth, or time with money ● Have a pen/email pal ● Honor indigenous cultures ● Judge governance by how well it meets all people's needs ● Be skeptical about what you read ● Eat adventurously ● Enjoy vegetables, beans, and grains in your diet ● Choose curiosity over certainty ● Know where your water comes from and where your wastes go ● Pledge allegiance to the earth: question nationalism ● Think South, Central and North - there are many Americans ● Assume that many others share your dreams ● Know that no one is silent though many are not heard - Work to change this
- A special thanks to Jonathan who gave this postcard to me.
