LDS Cooperative "one heart and one mind...with no poor among us"

Gaza is the largest man made prison in the world. People are bombarded daily, water is shut off, and houses are bulldozed with no justice or recompense. Please pray for the region and that peace prevails. I don't know much about this 6 month old child named Muhammad but I know from following the news that deaths like this in Gaza are frequent occurrences.

I'll just throw up 3 photos here of John Dehlin's first ever vegetable patch. I must commend him for his move to sustainability.

LETTUCE

Yellow Peppers

Garden

Hey everyone. Here I am with some of the first vegetables from my garden. Just the basic carrots and lettuce. I have some sweetcorn coming. But everything has really blossomed the last few days. I am doing my small part in my path to self-sustainability and peaceful gradualism.

The Palestinian boy's death in the West Bank town of Jenin, tragically, was not unusual.

Children are commonly victims of fighting in the Middle East.

But what happened after his death in November 2005 was exceptional.

Ahmed's grieving parents donated the boy's organs to "the enemy" - an Israeli hospital.

His heart now beats in the chest of an Israeli Druze Arab girl.

His liver kept a Jewish girl and an Israeli mother alive.

His lungs were transplanted into a teenage Jewish girl and his kidneys divided between a five-year-old Bedouin and a three-year-old Jewish girl.

The parents, Ismail and Abla Khatib, decided that some good could come of his death.

Tom Webb of St. Mary's University (and the Masters in Management program) presented a workshop on how cooperative managers need to manage differently from other enterprises.

He began by commenting that cooperators share, in addition to the values and principles, a common view that people are basically good. Corporations are managed by people and so corporations will act as good citizens. However, unlike cooperatives, corporations must deliver a return on investment and the search for profits may cause good people to make bad decisions. However, cooperatives can also make bad decisions.

Guest Post from Doc at http://mormonmd.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/daring-to-take-jesus-at-his-word/

44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Matt: 5:43-44

What would the world be like if Christianity as a whole really took this seriously?

Wellinton is a selfless father and a loving husband who sacrifices himself daily in order to ensure his small daughter and dear wife’s well-being. With the aim of acquiring the medicine necessary for the well-being of Delia – he toils daily in his fields, and even more so when the time for harvesting arrives as the swift gathering of his crops guarantees their immediate sale. He has ambitions to improve his work and produce with better tools, manures and fertilizers.

Wellington is looking for about $400 and has raised about 75% of the money he needs. I chose to lend the money to Wellington because I found his story endearing, I wanted to help him...and he has a killer name! :-)

"When there is injustice to one people and there is no way of receiving justice and when several generations live under the poverty line and there is no hope for the improvement of their lives, they may forget their sanity because of hopelessness. And thus they may resort to violence.” - Shirin Ebadi

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I love Participatory Economics and believe it to be something we are aiming for as an ideal democratic economic system.