What are 10 of the most exciting collaboration projects which the 2010s continuously needs Muhammad Yunus to help with rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv to vote for or nominate 50 races to web towards the worldwide goal of poverty museums
1 Peoples summits on sustaining
communities out of every place: The History of Economics and Politics shows that today’s global crises (eg climate,
financial meltdown) cannot be resolved by politicians in the middle of glaring publicity. Microcreditsummit in 1997 started the other way round summit process in which community networks replicated sustainability solutions. Dare
we help the net generation to continue to celebrating Yes You Can.
2 Forty five universities across the state of Georgia proved that it is possible in under a month’s planning to swarm 1200 students and a panel
of influential judges around job creation competitions. Why not start up every university year in every place with a regional
collaboration competition on job creation?
3 A corporation, Danone, proved that it is possible to ask shareholders to start up an investment fund that invests in the next generation’s
productivity.Back in 1972, The Economist forecast complete meltdown of the global financial system in
the 2010s unless such type 2 stockmarkets – that take people’s intergenerational savings- and invest in the next
generation’s productivity evolve and are celebrated with more media than is used to promote your number footballer or
your number 1 pop star.
4 A young Bangladeshi-Russian-American musician had worked night and day to become an emerging opera
star. Then 9/11 happened in her city of New York. She asked herself so what difference can arts make in the world? Her peers
and she decided helping youth interact an artists peace corps was worthy of every celebrity’s power to empower. Why
wouldn’t every future capital want to replicate New York and Monica Yunus’ example of www.singforhope.org
5 Can friends of micro empower President Obama to work some miracles in Kenya? In 2008 he committed at
Clinton Global Summit to end death by mosquito by 2015. If he was ever to have started on that mission impossible he could
have linked in all the goodwill Kenya had for him with a country that also demonstrated youth’s mobile microcredit,
bottom-up ecovillage, Nobel Prize for green movements, the first successful crowdmapping tools that helped peoples solve riots
that top politicians’ arguments had caused. Why doesn’t American Congress support innovating extreme good where
USA already has goodwill relations with “we the peoples” instead of taxing Americans to be the world’s largest
employer (US Armed Forces)
6 Why not credit the brave youth movements of Arab Spring with microcredit banking models worthy of their
microentrepreneurial demands? History shows that the freedom and happiness of Declarations of Independence need to be supported
by banking systems that are community transparent. In countries where more than half of the workforce is under 30 it is particularly
important to stage national conflict resolutions dialogues between youth and elders free of other cultural and geo-political
disputes
7 If ever a nation’s DNA and geology needed a green social business stockmarket instead of nuclear
power it is Japan. This country is a poster case for being bullied into disinvesting in youths futures by global financial
communities who punished Japan for having the 20th Century’s largest property bubble. Today all the West’s
richest nations are facing a decade of slump unless we changeover from macroeconomics to microeconomics.
8 Over the last several
decades , industry innovations that would have called for open replication and community ownership have been blocked. Solar
energy is a prime case. Isn’t it time to stop top-down institutions from destroying youths futures just because it suits
dirty big industries to pretend that man knows better than nature.
9 All kinds of microsummit networks are now needed because
we have discovered from the 15 years of microcreditsummit that whenever the poorest identify a different purpose of a life
critical market its worth youth’s while to action learning from. The more heroic the purpose the greater the opportunity
to take economics way above zero-sum. Note credit’s use for investing in income generation not trapping you in consumption
debt; or mobile’s use in village to bring down degrees of separation on vital information flow not city slickers chatroom
lifestyle
10
Have you heard of millennium 3’s most affordable innovations emerging from triad partnerships of China, Yunus and radical
global corporates? – eg GE’s $2000 mammogram or Danone’s Ying Yang Bao. Never has R&D been so joyful.
Never has the potential of the knowledge networking economy been so entrepreneurially exciting.
If economists supporting Dr Yunus are converging information
on this at some other bookmark - or via some other mode of communications - please inform
so I can make links as complete as possible
The Banking Division has already prepared a draft
of the law and sent letters to 48 organisations, asking them to provide the division with relevant documents.
Banking
Secretary Shafiqur Rahman Patwary told daily sun last week that the government is formulating a social business law to control
NGOs in social business.
The Banking Division has already asked 48 subsidiary companies of Grameen Bank, including
Grameenphone, Grameen Udyog, Grameen Dannon Food Limited, Grameen Kalyan, Grameen Telecom Trust and Grameen Shakti, to provide
information about registration and amount of foreign investment since inception.
Information on these aspects may
help prepare the law on operation of these social businesses, said a senior official of the Banking Division.
In 2005, 40 londoners started hubbing a survey who is the most trusted collaboration entrepreneur of the net generation?
By early 2006 votes were in : YUNUS; we have reached out to 20000 people with free books, or dvds or journals or leaflets
- come blog with us if you wish to help yunus help youth make 2010s most exciting decade. Topics : Freedom .. East-West .. Africa's Decade .. NetGen's Hub Economics
Since the honour of co-hosting the 69th birthday dialogue of Dr Yunus in Dhaka, we've become fascinated by worldwide views of which parts of his diary are having most impact on his 7th decade of wishes for 2010s as most exciting decade - let's hub 7 billion people with collaborative maps and replicable economic solutions -rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv with your capital's greatest diary actions
helping to map species of Social Business Models; DC 301 881 1655 info @worldcitizen.tv - love connecting open source inventions for humanity - our SB group at EMENTOR celebrating presidential summits on (youth) entrepreneurship Dr Yunus comes to Washington DC - video of book1 talk 4 Feb 2009
DC -96 books: Results to members and congressmen; Ronald
Regan Centre May 14 world premier of Yunus book talk: students - RHS 100. Georgetown 200, GWU 10; also offer to mficonnect when they have youth passing through DC to carry books
London - 60 London Leaders - also affer 60 books to Royal Society of Arts Yunus booktalk may 26; and other royal societies - eg royal geo -microenergy;
royal architecture - bristish council; and link through Gcal london office
May 10 - Glasgow Yunus number 1 collaboration city 10 books may 11; another 64 by July
4 for world microeconomic summit and launch of journal of social business
My 25 - paris
64 books : micious and de quelen, and offered to danone communities and hec SB track alumni
Youth
& Technology Can Change the World - Dr Yunus launches his entrepreneurs' fieldbook on social business with Dean Anand,
Robert H Smith Business School, Founder of Social Value Creation Centre Uni of Maryland and the Washington DC World Trade
Center
•End carbon in our waters, air, food and machine's energies
•End hunger & poor distribution structures
•End premature death and ever higher cost of health
•End wars and govs that spend 20% of the peoples
on arms
•End borders as barriers to webs of people mobilising productivity
•End college-less children and universities without job creating
microentrepreneurs
Please help us spot where Yunus Global
Grameen partners are most Interactive.in building social business
Dhaka
Paris
US (Health & CA Youth)
Berlin-Wiesbaden
India
Glasgow
Japan
Bangkok
Please join us in making world citizens brilliant
networkers in the races towards sustainability goals connected by SB systems
Dhaka
Paris
London
Spain-Kenya
Glasgow
DC
LA
India
Italy
S.Africa
Sweden-Norway
Particularly out of DC, NY, Boston, Dhaka, London, Paris & Glasgow, the
hosts of worldcitizen.tv also host ongoing networks such as Yunus 1000 bookclubs on Dr Yunus series of books on Social Business, Yunus10000 dvd club, as well as historical events like Yunus 69th birthday wish dialogue in Dhaka, and help with sustainability's future prep such as YunusOlympics . Since 2005, we are trying to bring down degrees of separation around people helping Dr Yunus and all social business system designers. My mapping of futures began in 1984: so if you would like to send me chris macrae a mail to chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk on what you are looking for I will try and relay it to the most relevant of the 10000 people I know concerned with the
sustainability goals of SBworld.
Size
of micromarket and job creating community = 60 households
Size of network of
job creating communities =3600 households prior to introduction of digital technology 1997
Size of network of job creating communities since introduction of digital tech in 1997:
8 million in one country!
Free market true replication across world estimated to be 40 million –potential to double as fast as moore’s if
non free global banking systems were kept out of the way of peoples everywhere
Features
of system design
Bank that invests in the productivity, health, knowledge
multiplication of the most underemployed who want to be their communities’ and next generation’s greatest sustainability
investors;
Bank that designs ownership and relationship transparency
of supply and demand around free mrkets of the locally poorest
Banking system that sustains value multipliers of microentreprenurial
expoentials rising at level of 1 (person), 5 (peer learning team). 60 (village community market), 3600 (local network of markets
within walking distance of each other) , 8 million members ( servant leadership team of world’s number 1 social business
entrepreneurs)
Safest banking design the worldwide can celebrate wherever sustainability
of communities is the greatest goals for 2010s generation to celebrate
This Map signed by Nobel Laureate
Muhammad Yunus to start Yes WE Can's new year of 2009 unites journeys of microeconomists since 1976 and entrepreneurs whose hi-trust system
purpose designa productive & demanding relationship exchanges to be exponentially sustainable
On 25 December 1976,
The Economist's Survey Entrpreneurial Revolution by Norman Macrae (my father) reminded us that as the next generation went
global we'd sustain untold human achieviments if microeconomic system designs integrated the worldwide but exponentially crsh
towards Big Brother endings of our human race if macroeconomics powered over peoples. Meanwhile Dr Yunus' team of four
strated the Grameen Project which in 1983 was cnstituted by Bangladeshi law as Grameen Bank : the world's ans banking's
first social business - job creation's greatest system design being owned by the porest to invest in thsir income generation,
communal ownership of market centres and knowledge hubs so that progress on their goals for developing their
next generation could be accelerted exponentially
MicroEconomics*Collaboration Net
Economics
Help our Ning catalogue cases of how Bangladesh's first third century has proved that MicroSB cases can be 10 times more economical for communities and
life-empowering sustainability goals. Anything less grounded such as national governing over
or global ruling down cannot compound pursposeful value multiplying exchanges -that re free in Adam Smth's sense
of no hidden conflicts and no unproductive blocks to knowledge co-working
1Program Global Grameen MeetingNoon to 2 p.m. Get-together, Social Networking & Lunch2 p.m. Official Opening & WelcomeProfessor Muhammad
Yunus "Strategy 2015"Motivational Speech Danone by Emmanuel Faber (Co-Chief Operating Officer): Grameen Danone –The
Pioneer of Social BusinessMotivational Speech Veolia by Eric Lesueur (Project Director):Grameen Veolia –The first ten
thousand litres of waterQuestion Lab I4 p.m.Networking Break
4.30 p.m. Motivational Speech
BASF by Dr. Ulrich von Deessen (Head of the BASF Competence Center Environment, Health and Safety) :
Sustainability
and Social Business is teamwork
Motivational speech adidas by Frank Dassler (Member of Executive Board)
Motivational
Speech Fondazione San Patrignano by Andrea Gremoli (Director): A question of identity
Motivational Speech Kyushu University
by Prof. Masaharu Okada:Grameen Creative Lab at Kyushu University together with California State University Channel Island:
Presenting
the California Institute of Social Business
Motivational Speech Grameen Creative Lab by Hans Reitz (Founder GCL)
Motivational
Speech Region Caldas, Colombia by Aristizábal Muñoz (Governor): Grameen Project of Caldas –A New Kind
of Public Private Partnership
Motivational Speech Otto GmbH & Co. KG by Dr. Michael Otto (CEO): Creative Responsibility
Today
Question Lab II
Summary by Professor Muhammad Yunus and Hans Reitz
3Participants first Global Grameen MeetingCompany
Attendant
adidas
AG
Jan Runau (Chief Corporate Communications Officer)
adidas
AG
Frank Dassler (Member of Executive Board)
adidas AG
Sven
Pastowski (Project Manager Group Services)
Autostadt GmbH
Otto
Ferdinand Wachs (CEO)
Autostadt GmbH
Dr. Maria Schneider
(Creative Director / CCO)
BASF SE
Dr. Hans-Ulrich
Engel (Member of Executive Board)
BASF SE
Dr.
Ulrich von Deessen (Head of the BASF Competence CenterEnvironment, Health and Safety)
BASF
SE
Anke Schmidt (Director Corporate Communications)
bauMaxAG
Martin
Essl (CEO)
bauMaxAG
Michael Fembek
Boehringer
Ingelheim
Philipp Baum (Head of International Communications)
Bernard
Giraud (VP sustainability and shared value creation)
Deutsche Telekom AG
Martina
Schwebe-Eckstein (Senior Expert CR)
Deutsche Telekom AG
Luis
Neves(Head of CR)
Deutsche Telekom AG
Clemens Brandstetter
(Manager one! Programme Office)
Deutsche Telekom AG
Tanja
Gipp
Company
Attendant
FreshfieldsBruckhausDeringer
Christian
Duve (Partner)
FreshfieldsBruckhausDeringer
Dr.
Konstantin Mettenheimer(Senior Partner Worldwide)
Otto GmbH & Co. KG
Dr.
Michael Otto (CEO)
Otto GmbH & Co. KG
Dr. JohhanesMerck
(Head of CR)
Otto GmbH & Co. KG
Diethard Gagelmann
SAP
AG
Daniel Schmid(Head of Sustainability Operations)
SAP
AG
Peter Graf (Chief Sustainability Officer)
SAP AG
Isabel
Schmitt (Fellow Social Business)
Scout 24 Holding GmbH
Martin
Enderle(CEO)
Scout 24 Holding GmbH
Jasmin Borhan
Swedbank
Thomas
Backteman(Executive Vice President Corporate Affairs)
SystainConsulting GmbH
Dr.
Michael Arretz(General Manager)
UnideaUnicreditFoundation
Giuliana
Porta
VeoliaWaterSTI
Antoine Frérot(CEO)
VeoliaWaterSTI
Eric
Lesueur(Projects Director)
VeoliaWaterSTI
DinahLouda(Vice
PresidentCommunications)
Universities
Attendant
Asian Institute
ofTechnology
BorjeWallberg(Interim Director of YunusCentre at Asian Institute of Technology)
CaliforniaState
University
AsishVaidya(Dean of the Faculty)
CaliforniaState
University
Julia Wilson (VP of Advancement)
CaliforniaState
University
Dr. Richard Rush (PresidentCSU Channel Island)
CaliforniaState
University
Larry Janss(Board Member / Supporter of the CISB)
European
Business School (EBS)
Dr. María Teresa Quirós Fernández (Consultant to Executive
Board)
Freie Universität Berlin
Kurt Hammer (formerchancellor)
Glasgow
CaledonianUniversity
Prof. Pamela Gillies(Principal& ViceChancellor)
Glasgow
CaledonianUniversity
Prof. Mike Smith (Pro-Vice Chancellor Research)
Glasgow
CaledonianUniversity
Prof. Sue Scott (Pro-ViceChancellorLearning Innovation)
Glasgow
CaledonianUniversity
Prof. Francine Cheater (Institute of Health and Wellbeing)
Glasgow
CaledonianUniversity
Dr. ZasheemAhmed (Development Economist)
HEC
Paris
Prof. FrédéricDalsace(DanoneChair Social Business, Firm & Poverty Associate
Professor)
HEC Paris
BénédicteFaivre-Tavignot/Direcorof
Social Business Chair)
HEC Paris
Prof. David Menascé(AffiliateProfessor)
HokkaidoUniversity
Prof. Masahiro Kan (Professor)
KyushuUniversity
Prof.
HirotoYasuura(ViceChancellor)
KyushuUniversity
Prof.
MasaharuOkada ( Intellectual Property Management Center, General Counsel)
KyushuUniversity
Prof. Makoto Maeda (AssociateProfessor)
KyushuUniversity
Dr. Ahmed Ashir(Project Dirctorof Global Communication Center)
Universities
L -ZUniversities
Attendant
London MetropolitanUniversity
MostofaZaman(Youth
Ambassador Programms)
McGill University
Dr.
Laurette Dubé(ChairandScientific Director)
RikkyoUniversity
Kenichi
Miyama(AssociateProfessor)
Grameen
GrameenKnitwear
Hassan Ashraful(Managing
Director)
GrameenSolutions / Phone
Kazi Islam (CEO)
GrameenTrust (BGD)
Professor
H. I. Latifee(Managing Director)
Yunus Centre(BGD)
Prof. Muhammad Yunus(Founder & Chairman)
Yunus Centre(BGD)
Lamiya Morshed (Executive Director)
Yunus
Centre(BGD)
Brandon McReynolds
Yunus Centre(BGD)
Nazir Ali Mamun(Personal FotographerofProf. Yunus)
GrameenAmerica
Stephan A. Vogel (CEO)
GrameenAmerica
VidarJorgensen(President)
GrameenCaptialIndia
RoystonBraganza (CEO)
GrameenCreative
Lab
Hans Reitz (Founder, director)
GrameenCreditAgricole
Jean-Luc Perron(Head of Microfinance)
GrameenCreditAgricole
JürgenHammer (Head of Finance)
GrameenCreditAgricole
Fatima ElMoukhtafi(PartnershipSenior Manager)
GrameenFoundation
Alex Counts (President&
CEO)
GrameenFoundation
Dave Stephens (Member GrameenTechnology Council)
GrameenFoundation
Camilla Nestor (VP, Microfinance)
GrameenFoundation
David Edelstein (Director of Information and Communication Technology)
GrameenHealthcareServices
Sultan Imamus(Managing Director)
GrameenJameelPan-ArabMicrofinance
Zaher
Al-Munajjed(Chairman)
GrameenJameelPan-ArabMicrofinance
FadiM. Jameel(Board Member)
GrameenJameelPan-ArabMicrofinance
Julia Assaad(General Manager)
Other
Attendant
BDI
Werner Schnappauf (Director General
and Member of the Presidential Board)
Business Journalist
Alan
Mitchell
Canna Ltd.
Karl Mikael Cakste(Owner, entrpreneur)
Cure2Children
Eugenio
La Mesa (CEO)
FondazioneSan Patrignano
Andrea Muccioli(Director)
FuturenetAB
Helene
Hellsten-Carendi(Owner, entrepreneur)
GovernorofCaldas, Columbia
Mario
Aristizábal Muñoz (Governor of Caldas)
IFAH (Investment Fund for Health
in Africa)
Barend van der Vorm (Investment Committee)
Impact
International
Andy Dickson (Director of GloablSales)
IslamicDevelopment
Bank
RabihF. Mattar( Senior Project Officer)
Karl Weber Literary
Karl
Weber (President), Mary-Jo Weber (Vice President)
Kyoto Forum / Felissimo
YazakiKatsuhiko
(General Director)
Kyoto Forum / Felissimo
FumihikoNishioka(Professor
/ PlanningCommittee)
La Grande-Duchesse de Luxembourg
HisHighnessPrince Guillaume
La Grande-Duchesse de Luxembourg
Alexandre Hippert(Conseiller)
London
Creative Labs
Sofia Bustamante (Founder)
Menschen für Menschen
Axel Haasis(Director)
RepublicofAlbania
GencRuli(Minister of
Agriculture)
RepublicofAlbania
ArianaCela(Regional Development Advisor to Prime Minister)
Social Innovation Scholarship
Hiroumi Yokoi(Senior Manager)
UNHCR HQ Geneva
Sajjad Malik (Chief OSTS)
Vivaldi Partners
Erich Joachimsthaler (CEO)
Vivaldi
Partners
Markus Pfeiffer (Managing Partner)
World Class Brands TV
Chris Macrae(Founder)
We are Global Grameen
BASF Grameen
California State UniversityGrameen Employment
GCL@FU BerlinGCL@Milan
Grameen Healthcare
GCL@Glasgow
University
Grameen Knitwear
Grameen Phone
GCL @Kyushu University
Grameen Otto
GCL@Rikkyo University
Grameen
Veolia
Grameen Shikka
Grameen Shakti
Grameen Krishi
Global Grameen Is Anything That is Called Grameen
Vision: We Want to Create a World Without Poverty by 2030
Mission: Enable People to Lift Themselves
out of Poverty Through Grameen Social Business
Global Grameenwill…
serve the
essential needs
of the world’s 300 million poorest of the poor
transform all Grameen businesses into Grameen social businesses
design,
innovate + implement new social business models
reach the "Tipping Point" for social business
Create
a Global Grameen organisational structureestablish Global Grameen brand
be an inclusive societal leader and navigatorchannel
the power of millions of individuals, companies, investors, NGOs and universities in social business action
Goals of Global Grameenfor 2015
Internal Global Grameen Strategy
Preserve Yunus’ Legacy
Define
What Grameen Stands For
Create Functioning Global Corporate Governance
Develop Global Branding/Logo, Corporate
Identity
Develop Internal and External Communication Strategy
What’s your idea??ExternalGlobal GrameenStrategy
Set Aside Preconceived Notions and
Encourage to Think Outside the Box
Create Broad Awareness about GrameenSocial Business and Spread the Model
Establish
Cross-Societal GrameenSocial Business Movement
Develop and Prove Blueprints for GrameenSocial
Business Models across Sectors, Industries and Regions (Lead by Example)
Encourage Roll-Out and Scale Up of GrameenSocial
Business Worldwide
Connect People and Ideas through Global GrameenPlatform
Measure GrameenSocial Business Impact
Establish
GrameenSocial Business CertificateBroad Awareness About GrameenSocial Business Will Be Created
EXPO Milan
Yunus’ Birthday Wishes
Global GrameenMeetingNovemberWeek
2.
GCL Klassen-treffen
London Olympics
Eastern Europe SB TourYY
Joy ofLife Festival
Education
Companies
NGOs
Individuals
EntrepreneursandSocialEntrepreneurs
Public
Sector
Social
Business
Media
Sports
Art
andPerformance
InvestorsFamily-OwnedBusinesses
Touch Points of the Social Business Movement
Pilot Projects Across Regions and Industries Established
Muhammad Yunus is coming to Glasgow for 48 hours between July 3-5
we are arranging: microcreditsummit with
300 adam smith alumni and other microeconomists - basically since keynes professionals have known
that only economics rules the world's
systems - SO as these 2008 debates of yunus first social business book show, the $64 trillion dollar question
is: will globalisation be ruled by
macroeconomics of the wall street kind that will ultimately
pauper and big brother us peoples everywhere or
microeconomics that integrates communities by co-creating
7 billion good jobs that lead to a knowledge networking age of humanly extraordinary productivity and sustain an order of magnitude more health and wealth - provided we unite round ending poverty and solving other potentially
worldwide system failures
70th birthday wiishmaking sessions for Muhammad Yunus
Launches
of platforms aimed at making Glasgow one of the best twin cities with Dhaka (the city en route to all sustainability capiyals)
THE TIME IS NOW (Last chapter yunus new book Building Social
Businenss) help charter key dates in the 2010s which yunus calls humanity's most exciting decade - the one where we race to regain sustainabilioty
of peoples, communities and planet - compare that with the 1960s which only had a race to the moon - rumor has it that dr
yunus sees london olympics 2012 http://2012sustainability.com as the greatest stage ever mediated where a fringe expo of social businesses on how our interactions
can sustain the earth may be of far more enduring significance and exciting momentum than the spectator sports.
Come on BBC discover that you are the peoples world service- potentially the most exciting social business in broadcasting , the jewel
in the crown of UK and global sustainability economies. We need you to be proactive before Euro tsunami reigns over
us all http://yunusforum.net/?p=80
more info chris.macrae @yahoo.co.uk skype isabellawm - isabellawm.com association of family foundations
gladius when are you flying off to claremont-
is it possible to see any of the content you have been preparing on connections between drucker and yunus social business?
you
mentioned drucker originally hails from vienna; yunus dropped by jonathans hub there -perhps we need a big picture poster
something sofia's frind tom ball is expert at amd which I left my copy with zasheem!
gladius- have you got yunus
new book yet? ; I will be in london my 25 for several days; if you are leaving before that sofia has copies
michael- are
there a few lines you would like gladius to hand out on type of contributions the new journal values from acdemics; equally
I am thinking more about cases and literature review styles ceos can read;
I also wonder what examples there
are of journal styles in revolutionry and interdiscoplinary fields - wonder if action learning friends at bath have some
samples
gladius' campus is near the olympics stadium - so a superb place to run yunus fringe festival out of -hopefully
with london-glasgow being the main hosts- want to go and ask tmeout if they would do special edition like liberation
did in paris on the min day youth came from all over france to convene in two by 3500 person entrepreneur summits (main one
hsoted by olivier at www.danonecommunities.com) ; will paul's bbc green networks, and elkington's sustainability networks and british councils and royal society networkers
begining to join on the same map london is the make or break citizens platform if biggest badwill capitals nd public broadcsting
www.notimeleft.org (eg london NY dc) are ever going to be turned round to value freedom of speech for social business
Dr Yunus personal mission for the rest of his life is to meet up with the biggest orgnsitions in the world (or more
precisely those that own the most technology or knowledge -please note of these are networks to be formed- eg unite all of a city’s universities caring faculties and students around eg
job camps)
however macrogoverned systems' past has been Yunus wnts to invite them to try to do
one good expeiment with their technology in bangaldesh;his idea is then to give them so much publicity of the value
of doing good (with technology whose marginal cost to them is next nothing) that we start to turn the 1000
least sustainable orgnisatoins to some of the collaborative (abe zero sum) and most sustainable
I assume that you do understand that the history of poverty and the
battle of the sexes are completely intwined. Anyone ( my faimly
and I trust) with the slightest understanding of how to change media for the greater good starts there
the
is no point coming to our next Yunus open space unless you can happily contribute to that wish of his;I can see
it clashes with what many of his peoples networks have done in the past -and my god have my
facourite community building peers and I had difficulty in adjusting to this living script of global grameen (or
I have anyway though it plays to most of my 30 years of professional relationship building having worke directly on and
with leaders of 50 of the world's 100 largest brands) www.worldclassbrands.tvwww.worldcitizen.tv
Here
is the most important stage in your part of the world – what can you tell us about connecting with it that you will
allow me to circulate widely (in trying to promote the most open source dynamics around yunus ,I get immensely tired of being
told mil re confidential when I cant see what the confidential bit is – we lose the sustainability of the world by getting
so boxed in – dont try to censor me with such a culture on me without extremely sensitive and timely reasoning)
On 10 July 2010 – the first annual Social Business Day – there will be another large scale event promoted by Hans to celebrate the accomplishment of social business. Sponsored
by the city of Milan , it will be held in the city centre where some 20000 people are expected to assemble to enjoy the music
and festivities that will launch the event; Milan ’s Mayor Letizzia Moratti has become a major ally of social business.
She is helping to work with Unicredit to launch Grameen Italia, and will highlight social business to Expo 2015 in Milan
(If you most want to help – why not printout dad’s attached bio- post it to
Romano Prodi and ask whether he wants to join yunus 70th birthday wishes and join in the
34th year of the entrepreneurial revolution which he was in at the start of when he was translater of my
dad’s 1976 storylines on how we needed to embed micro systems into the world’s biggest ones before going irreversibly
global) Perhaps you could also get in touch with Monica Yunus to see if she is helping and needs help with Milan –since
she is one of the most grounded of ladies I have met in 4 years of this yunus merry go round. I absolutely agree that we need
a most grounded womens capitals of yunus network ...
Thank you for hosting this fantastic start to the only book
I know of whose readers' social value interactions can change the world's sustainability. By staging an event at the Ronald
Reagan World Trade Centre a few hundred yards from the centre of superpower, University of Maryland has raised the bar for
all future booktalks, and your two years of getting social value creation and finance to face off with each other is the best
world series DC is ever likely to see.
As with dr yunus' first social business book, my family and media friends
are hosting 1000 yunus bookclub with the intent of open sourcing an optimal sets of maps of where people can connect with
yunus on what project
Would it be appropriate if I brought over to Melissa a stock of 50 books? One idea would
be to selectively hand these out to students and faculty -and then after summer - you could extend your weekly Dingman entrepreneur
pitch to a parallel social business surgery. If relevant I could attend early surgeries until our mapping databank and its
relationship permissions is fully internalised at RHS. My father worked for 40 years at The Economist and believes networks
round Yunus are the only way we now have to restore microeconomics before macroeconomics serial crashes (wall street, greek
economy ... ) irreversibly harm our childrens futures.
other 50 + book centres are Yunus Centre Glasgow where
cam is the 2nd social business professor in the world - he is charged with statistics of how how microhealth and microcredit
impact each other; see more at page 160-163 of Yunus book ; also at glasgow is zasheem a friend of dr yunus since youth who
has been working for 20 years to unite students and faculty in re-examining how adam smith and dr yunus are on the same microeconomics
track; there will be an extraordinary microeconomics summit on 4th July in Glasgow, which my family is co-sponsoring, where
there will also be a 5 days late opportunity to pledge 70th birthday wishes to dr yunus- it would be fantastic on maryland
could join this party
london leader -and yunus 69th birthday host in Dhaka - sofia whose job creation social business
and coming "popularised" business models handout melissa knows about
there is sam's results and microcredit
network who have been sampling congressmen and have followed yunus booktalk down to Houston where there will be a particular
focus on job creation; sam's microcreditsummit network have been asked by Queen Sofia of Spain to try and spot 100 microcredits
in over 50 countries ready to replicate the youth mobile microcredit of www.jamiibora.org which started in kenya. Queen Sofia will personally be chief host of the world microcreditsummit in spain in november
2011; and in parallel President "Son of Microcredit" Obama and Hilary Clinton have started hosting 60 country entrepreneurship
summits (see footnote)
there is jonathan's 25 intercapital entrepreneur hubs http://www.the-hub.net ; there is alex at GWU who started schools microcredit networks in the boston area at age of 15 with support of his
dad's friends at the young presidents network; there is caitlin who as senior at swarthnmore is a yunus youth ambassador
and the first student to sustain a year long social business students club; there is the Royal Society of Arts that picks
up your baton as first booktalk in Europe
win-win-win multipliers of the social value interaction map extend round
the world with paris my main field visit space this semester thanks to the extraordinary 3000 youth and 1500 social business
training formats coordinated by www.danonecommunities.com but I better stop...!
sincerely
chris macrae http://www.worldcitizen.tv feedback from first 50 book readers http://www.state.gov/entrepreneurshipsummit/140878.htm President Obama Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center; Washington, DC; April 26, 2010, Inuagiual
President Summit on Entrepreneurship Look at the professor who came up with an idea -- micro-credit -- that empowered
the rural poor across his country, especially women and children. That’s the powerful example of Dr. Yunus.
Look what happened when Muhammad shared his idea with a woman from Pakistan, who has since lifted hundreds of thousands
of families and children out of poverty through a foundation whose name literally means “miracle.” That’s
the example of Roshaneh Zafar. (Applause.)
Look what happened when that idea spread across the world -- including
to people like my own mother, who worked with the rural poor from Pakistan to Indonesia. That simple idea, began with a single
person, has now transformed the lives of millions. That’s the spirit of entrepreneurship.
So, yes, the new
beginning we seek is not only possible, it has already begun. It exists within each of you, and millions around the world
who believe, like we do, that the future belongs not to those who would divide us, but to those who come together; not to
those who would destroy, but those who would build; not those trapped in the past, but those who, like us, believe with confidence
and conviction in a future of justice and progress and the dignity of all human beings regardless of their race, regardless
of their religion.
That’s the enormous potential that we’re hoping to unlock during this conference and
hoping to continue not only this week but in the months and years ahead- starting with Turkey 2011
thanks sam - a wonderful jorney you have kindly taken most of us on
Formal
Embargo Ynus 70th Birthday + 4days
its a little bit jumping the gun but we are starting to collect papers
out of glasgow on connections between adam smith and yunus and everything in between that is micro up, community
regenerating, ending poverty and job creating
ever since the wrong sort of alpha males worked
out that economics rules the world to quote Keynes (democracy etc is subservient to it) there has always been a
war between
***micro whose heroes started with adam smith (scotland lost ints nationhood to an interntional banking
scam in 1700! making scots very impudent when it cmes to whose a prticlar economic model actually spinning for) and
collaboratively goes on today with people like yourself yunus ingrid munro fazle abed and queen sofia
*** and
macro which tends to be faceless but is sponsoired by the big gets bigger, the speculative get more speculative, the imagemker
and lobbyists spend on media however much is needed to drown out goodwill, common sense, free speech and free market ;
terrifyingly the battle between micro and macro becomes much more intense whenever new media technology
comes along; if micro loses out on this worldwide decade we wont ever get back to community common sense - no wonder yunus
new book says 2010s is the most exciting decade to be - the 60s only had the moon to race; the 2010s has our whole planet
at stake
which is all to say a case history of results would in my view be a core read in a first issue
of glasgow's journal
chris
www.worldcitizen.tv chatup lines from first 50 people who have read yunus new book
Purpose, Poverty, Pitfalls and Redemption
I
want to talk with you today about purpose, poverty, pitfalls and redemption—how committing my life to the end of poverty
has given my life purpose, the pitfalls I have faced along the way, especially now, and how seeing redemption in the work
I support has returned me to my original vision and commitment.
Let
me begin with two quotes that have guided my life and point to the “purpose and poverty” dimension of my talk.
The first is from retired Republican Senator Mark Hatfield who said:
We stand by as children starve by the millions because
we lack the will to eliminate hunger.Yet we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying
over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target.This is not innovation it is
a profound distortion of humanity’s purpose on earth. Please let that sink in.Hatfield
said: (repeat quote) It’s time for us to consider
the question, ‘What is humanity’s purpose on earth?’ Inventor and futurist Buckminster Fuller said:
The things to do are the things that need doing.That you see need to be done and that no one else seems to see need to be done.You’ll see Fuller’s words at work when I tell my story and that of one of my heroes
Muhammad Yunus. Here’s my story.I
went from having degrees in music and playing percussion instruments in the Miami Philharmonic orchestra for 12 years to devoting
my life to ending poverty first through founding RESULTS, the citizens
lobby on ending global poverty and then founding the Microcredit Summit Campaign. That’s quite a shift and I’ve
been asked what motivates me.When I look back through my life, two of the events that stand out are the
following. In 1964, I played tympani in the orchestra at my high school graduation. Before the ceremony started, one of the flute
players came back to the percussion section and told me that a high school fraternity brother of mine, one year younger than
I, had died the day before in a tractor-trailer accident in Georgia. I was 17 at the time.When I
was 17 I thought I had forever. But as I went through my friend’s funeral, the days of mourning, and went with
his younger brother after the funeral to pick up his report card from his homeroom teacher, I realized that maybe I had 17
more minutes, or 17 more months, or 17 more years. It was then, at the age of 17, that I began asking myself, “Why am
I here?What am I here to do? What is my purpose?”No answers, just the questions.
Four years later, on college graduation day in 1968, Robert Kennedy died.There were more
questions about purpose.Why am I here, what am I here to do? No real answers, just the questions, more
and more clearly.
Ten years later I went to a presentation on The Hunger Project focused on ending world hunger.
Up until that point I hadn’t thought about world hunger much.Actually I was oblivious.But if you lifted up the oblivious--right underneath I felt hopeless.I was quite sure that hunger
was inevitable, mostly because there were no solutions. It had to be that way, because if there were solutions, somebody
would have done something about it by then.
But at the presentation it became clear that there was no mystery to growing food, or becoming literate or
gaining access to clean water or basic health. When I looked at it honestly, I realized that I wasn’t hopeless
about the perceived lack of solutions. What I felt hopeless about was human nature! People would just never get
around to doing the things that could be done to end hunger. I also realized that there was one human nature that I
had control over - my own—and of course I had these pent-up questions: why am I here—what is my purpose?
So I got involved. Between 1978 and 1979 I spoke to 7,000 high school students about ending world hunger—in
Miami where I lived and Los Angeles where I moved. Before I went into the first classroom I read statements from the
US National Academy of Sciences and others calling for the “political will” to end hunger. So I asked 7,000 high school students for the name of their
member of Congress. I didn’t want to know if they had written them or met them, just the name. Do you want to
guess the number of students out of 7,000 who knew the name of their member of Congress?
200 knew the name of their
member of Congress (fewer than 3 percent) and 6,800 didn’t know the name.RESULTS was started out
of that gap—the calls for the political will to end hunger on the one hand and the lack of basic information on who
represented us in Washington on the other. I moved to Washington, DC in 1985 as the first staff member of RESULTS and we lobbied on behalf of
the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) a small UN agency based in Rome.IFAD sent us
videos of three groups they had invested in. One was a Dutch documentary of a little bank inBangladesh
with 42,000 borrowers called the Grameen Bank.Usually I would say that as we learned more, it took our
breath away.But now I would say that we were touched by the unleashing of the human spirit, by redemption,
people’s honor and worth being restored. During 1985
the 50 RESULTS chapters in 27 states would watch the video on Grameen Bank and then write their member of Congress.In 1986 we had legislation introduced supporting microenterprise as it was known then.Over a one-year
period the volunteers in RESULTS generated 100 editorials on the microenterprise legislation.In 1987 Muhammad
Yunus came to our office and spoke by conference phone to editorial writers in 28 cities.In 1988 Muhammad
Yunus joined the RESULTS Board.Eighteen years later he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Meeting
Muhammad Yunus, who has become a dear friend, has been a critical part my life and my work for the last 23 years.Let me tell you the story of how he started Grameen Bank, but in a way I’ve never told it.Let
me tell you with the spiritual transformation at the center.
After getting a PhD in economics at Vanderbilt in Tennessee, Muhammad Yunus
returned to his newly independent country Bangladesh and taught at a university.There was a famine in
the country and here is what I usually stress, ‘Prof. Yunus said the economic theories in my text book are very elegant,
but they aren’t working in the village next to my campus.I am going to go into the village and learn
economics from the villagers.
The piece that I usually leave out is the fact that this young professor of economics
was having a spiritual crisis.With starving people virtually at the doorstep of his university he
wondered about the value of all the fancy theories he was teaching.He said he started to dread his own
lectures and their elegant theories.
So in 1976 he went into the village next to his campus to see if he could be of use to even one person
for one day. In the village of Jobra, Prof. Yunus met Sofia Khartum who made bamboo stools. She became his new teacher. He asked her how much profit
she made each day.
"Two cents" she replied.
He
was shocked and asked why she only made two pennies profit for such a beautiful stool. She told him that she didn't
have the money to buy the bamboo so she borrowed the money from a trader, a money lender on the condition that she sell the
finished product back to him at a price he set. The moneylender's price barely covered the cost of the bamboo, leaving
her with a two-penny return on her hard work.
"If you could sell the stools to anyone, could you make more?" Prof. Yunus asked.
"I could," she replied, "but I don't have the money to buy the bamboo so I have to keep borrowing it from
the money lender."
Prof. Yunus had a student go around the village to see who else borrowed from the
moneylender. The student found 42 people who needed a grand total of $27 to free themselves from this debt trap, less than
$1 each.
He lent the 42 people $27 from his pocket allowing them to pay off the money-lender, buy their
raw materials, make their products and sell them to the highest bidder.Sofia Khartum’s profits soared
from two cents a day to $1.25 a day. Those 42 people were the first borrowers of what became Grameen Bank, which means
village bank.It now has more than 8 million borrowers, 97 percent of whom are women and it affects the
lives of more than 40 million family members.Another glimpse of the revolution he promulgated came years later when he would be asked what his
strategy was in forming Grameen Bank.Here’s how he would reply: “I didn’t have a strategy,
I just kept doing what was next.But when I look back, my strategy was, whatever banks did, I did the opposite.If banks lent to the rich, I lent to the poor.If banks lent to men, I lent to women.If banks made large loans, I made small ones.If banks required collateral, my loans were collateral
free.If banks required a lot of paperwork, my loans were illiterate friendly.If you
had to go to the bank, my bank went to the village.Yes, that was my strategy.Whatever
banks did, I did the opposite.” [End of quote.]Do you see the revolution here—the rule breaking? This should have been warning of what was to come when microfinance
institutions began to run more like commercial banks and what that might do to the soul of microfinance. I am fortunate to have been one of the leading advocates for microfinance over
the last 25 years.We have been so successful in our advocacy that the field is out of control and now
the profit-maximizers, those who want to make big money from the poor are rushing in.This leads me from
the poverty and purpose part of my talk to the pitfalls and redemption portion. What are the problems that have become pitfalls?There are profit maximizers who charge
the poor 85% interest, 100% interest, or more.As Prof. Yunus says, we started microcredit to free people
from the money-lenders, not to become the new money lenders. There
are some whose very high interest rates lead to very high profits but the profits are not used for the benefit of the clients.They are not used to lower interest rates, they are not used to bring new products to the clients, they are not used
to provide dividends to the clients. The
largest initial public stock offering (IPO) of the last few years generated tens of millions of dollars in profits for senior
managers.Institutions that invested $1 million walked away with more than $100 million profit each from
the IPO.What did the clients receive from the IPO?Zilch!Nada!Nothing! I had an epiphany at the Africa-Middle East
Regional Microcredit Summit that I coordinated in Nairobi, Kenya last month.I now see that the spiritual dimension of microfinance, the redemptive dimension of microfinance
is central to my vision for the field. The technical issues are important, but only if they serve the transformational
dimension.
Here’s an example of what I mean by microfinance for
redemption told to me by another of my heroes, Ingrid Munro of Jamii Bora, a microfinance institution in Kenya.
After the post election violence in Kenya, Jamii Bora received
funds to rebuild one of the markets that had been destroyed in the rioting.They decided they had to find
the rioters who burned down the market and engage them in rebuilding it.
I don’t know of any microfinance organization in the world that, if given funds to rebuild
a market destroyed in rioting, would say “We have to find the rioters and engage them in rebuilding it.”And if they said it, I don’t think they could find them.And if they found them, I don’t
think they could convince the rioters to help rebuild what they had destroyed.
But Jamii Bora’s staff are all former members of the program, people who were former slum-dwellers,
some of them former beggars, prostitutes, and thieves before they joined the program, so they are close to the ground.
The leader of the gang that destroyed the market was known
as “The General.”Jamii Bora staff talked with him about helping rebuild what they had destroyed.When the General first met Ingrid he told her he was very upset at her staff when they first talked with him because
they didn’t realize how dangerous he was.
But
they convinced the General and his gang to help rebuild the market.They paid the gang to guard the materials
at night and paid them to help rebuild with others during the day.
After the market was rebuilt they engaged the General and some of the gang in microfinance.The general created a business that uses sheet metal to build cases that children use to keep their things in when
they go to simple boarding schools.
He came to Ingrid last year and told her that he hadn’t gone to his home village for 13 years because his mother
was so ashamed of him.But he had just gone home and his mother cried for three days because she was so
happy about how he had turned his life around.
There
are many visions for microfinance including this one: using microfinance for redemption.The dictionary
defines redemption as restoring one’s honor or worth, setting one free.
The world’s poor need this kind of redemption—redemption that restores their honor and
worth and sets them free.Redemption that Prof. Yunus saw with the $27 he lent to 42 people 34 years ago—redemption
he and other microfinance leaders around the world have seen over the years.And here is another kind of transformation the world needs—that we look at people whom we had previously seen
as the problem instead as the solution.The world needs us to change our own thinking rather than writing
people off as incapable of transforming their own lives.
Let
me close with this quote from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman:
[quote] “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself
as a mighty one, the being a force of nature, instead of a selfish, feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining
that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community,
and it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the
more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I've
got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
Let us work together to ensure that we use our lives for
a purpose recognized by ourselves as a mighty one, that we use our lives to bring us closer to the end of poverty or a resolution
to any of the problems that confront us.
thanks Cath - Caroline is a great inspiration for communiuties and sustainablity of main street families wherever she
connects
Up until London 2005's dismal year of make poverty history, I worked very closely (networks connecting
adviser) with john bunzl of simpol party for 2 years who Caroline knows; there is very hot opportunity to
get involved with yunus at Royal Society of Arts may 26 if we could find way to explain mutual interests in time; after that
july 4 glasgow which is actually yunus strategy centre for whole of europe on sorts of community gorunded and sustaining things
I understand carloline to want to move forward; sofia , zasheem, paul rose (who works with prince charles and Lord Sainsbury's eldest dughter on green prizes at www.ashdenawards.org all know a lot more about whos' yunus who in london and uk green mircoeconomics than I do; yunus intends to bring an
expo of everything he's ever done on green and sustainbility to london olympics- sofia is london peoples leader collecting action info on linking back from that future in ways to communally action now; yunus
expects to bring at lest 100 global organisational partners to that event in the inuagural briefing he gave to global grameen
alumni (including zasheem, sofia and me) in germany nov 2009 which his new book now celebrates
helen
worked on research of microcredit for cameron 2 years ago - and may well know which political subgroups understand how
this is the microeconomics key to door to green and job cretion agenda;
president obmaa's and hilary clinton's and 100+ congressmens apprecition of yunus has helped
erstore yes we can is towards the end of this transcript; sam daley-harris knows worldwide conectiosn
ofthis of which queen sofi in spain is the number 1 opinion leader across Europe, and I would say worldwide
I am
absolutely hopeless at politics but can map sustainability economics of networks of systems if that ever becomes relevant
Yunus 70-th birthday wish party - well 5 days late also 235th entrepreneurs celebration of DoI
Hi 69th birhday trekkers, global grameen alumni and recent friends of making yunus biggest wishes become collaboration
true, and cirizens worldwide joining sustainability's greatest races
This year's 70th birthday collaboration wish
party for dr yunus is being coordinated by Sofia's and my good friend Sasheem out of glasgow July 4 which intends to be yunus best collaboration city. Zasheem is -a
personal friend of dr yunus since youth and who for 20 years has been connecting glasgow's universities in demanding micro-entrepreneurial
revolution; glasgow has the 2nd social business professor in the world and may soon have more sb profs than anywhere; after
yunus firsl talk here (Glasgow 1 dec 2008) the grameen nursing institute was born with glasgowcal supplying its nursing
teachers; 2 floors of grameenhq have already started teaching 40 village girls while nike's 5 million dollars builds a proper
teaching hospital centre in dhaka
if you can promise you can make a SB happen for dr yunus or journalise
a world leading case connecting your region or life's pplication area, please write to zasheem who is coordinating
invites (cc me if you wish); my family's current social busienss loans include journal of social business and Sofia's london
creative labs are in effect minor co-sponsors of this event
The summit is also more formally called
microeconomics summit partly to celebrate the scottish microeconomics track which began with adam smith and ended with my
dad (unless we can find ways of continuing it through yunus, dhaka, and twinned capitsl of sustainability economics)
could I ask - do your views of sustainability system designs and community building linkin
with Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus; my friend Zasheem at Glasgow University is 90% likely to be putting on a summit with him
on july 4 at Glasgow Caledonian University which will re-examine what Scot Adam Smith actually said about advantages of nations,
one of Yunus' 5 partnering universities around the world.
During 2005's unsuccessful year of make poverty history,
I had volunteer role of connecting John's simultaneous policy networks and researching peoples biggest sustainability wishes sans frontieres- I have been mapping networks as what will
sustain or break the world since 1984 and dad and my future history on net generation
Paul Rose BBC broadcaster
on polar and solar attended dr yunus 69th birthday wishes dilaogue hosted by London Leader Sofia who is dedicated to experimenting with Yunus inspired community building methods on Job Creation. Next month Yunus
is 70 and his 7th decade wishes on making 2010s the most exciting decade have just been published. As he says our generation's
race has the earth and peoples to save with extraordinary technology capabilities, whereas the 60s only had the moon
race. Yunus aims to swarm all his sustainability project leaders on the London Olympics. Paris has already scaled up at least 50000 youth microentrepreneur networkers of Yunus thanks to such actors as the
minister of employent/youth Martin Hirsch, Sarkozi's public celebrations of DR Yunus book ordering the main business school
HEC to make curricula around it and extraordinary new media www.danonecommunities.com
by coincidence Yunus youtubed from number`10 in April 2008 on one of the worst days for British banklng
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klUu03EMeRs ; Glasgow's main research with Yunus is on healthcare, wellbeing and going beyond welfare systems, and on restoring
knowledge of Adam Smith's purpose- though zasheem could explain better than I ; also peter challen friend of John's www.simpol.org was at 2008 lunch in Saint James my father hosted with dr yunus on need for community economics to sustain
us all,
Not everyone knows that in 1843 The Economist (where dad worked for 40 years advocating microeconomic
system design http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html )was founded to make the biggest transformation of parliament history; its founder wanted it closed once corn laws and
capital piunishment were repealed
a couple of weeks ago Obama hosted Presidents Summit on Entrepreneurship - one
of his best chances of getting back to yes we can community building agnedas including his pledge to 5 million green jobs;
a quarter of his speech was on Muhammad Yunus
In Bangladesh Yunus' bank for the poor installs more solar units than
the whole of the USA.
Yunus new book on sustainability system design may get an early read by dozens of members
of Congress whom Sam has built relationships with over last 20 years. In Europe his main ally is Queen Sofia of Spain
- probably the greatest VIP of End Poverty and sustainable communities. In the event that you know anyone who might want
a copy, sofia in Brixton has the UK stock of the 1000 my friends and I are distributing around the world. (Or I could deliver
copies this weekend to anywhere drivable from london)