How To Build a Global Community

--Think of no one as "Them"
--Don't confuse your comfort with your safety
--Talk to strangers
--Imagine other cultures through their 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 the progress
--Know physical and political geography
--Play games from other cultures
--Watch films with subtitles
--Know your heritage
--Honour everyone's holidays
--Look at the moon and image 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 the 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
--Honour indigenous culures
--Judge governance by how well it meets its people's needs
--Be skeptical about what you read
--Eat adventurously --Enjoy vegetables, beans and grains in your diet
--Choose curiousity over certainty
--Know where your water comes from and where your waste goes
-- Pledge allegiance to the earth: question nationalism
--Think South, Central, and Northern... 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