Economics of a Community Alliance

Neighbors can maximize their political economic capabilities by forming buying clubs and building responsive relationships with local businesses where community alliance members get those businesses to support the community and refrain from lobbying or supporting policies that violate individual and property rights in return for their patronage. Basically the idea is that the community alliance would support a local business or a franchise store that supports freedom, that doesn't support increasing taxes or taxing the Internet and that doesn't lobby local politicians to steal people's property through eminent domain or invasive zoning codes. There are reports about corporations who have bought local politicians and gotten them to condemn whole neighborhoods to build another chain store. Businesses that resort to thievery and support violating individual rights are enemies that should be boycotted and protested.  Conversely, businesses that respect individual and property rights should get our support.  Once communities start networking with each other throughout the world they can form a powerful economic movement that would influence local businesses and major corporations to support freedom and abandon their lobbying for tyrannical and anti-competitive regulations.  That is the main purpose of the economic networks, though saving money should be emphasized because that's what mainly motivates most people.  There are many community associations today that have such networking agreements to reduce the cost of certain products and services.  The American Homeowners Association is a club that provides discounts to its members on just about everything they might purchase.  I'm not sure what are the politics of the AHA, that's where there is a difference between a community alliance and other associations.  The alliance of which I speak is most of all committed to political liberation, to supporting freedom, which other associations may or may not support.   Once we organize enough alliances, homeowners can then join groups like the AHA and influence their policies toward supporting freedom.
   The community can benefit from a local training in appropriate areas, they can also use some encouragement to help them reveal and use those hidden resources. As the community begins to function as a problem solving organization it will become attuned to the talents and resources it has and will draw on them like a well.

Bill Collier

There are many resources you can access regarding sustainability, permaculture, autonomous homes, and even things like cooperative buying clubs and local currency. The best approach is to find members of your group who have an interest in these things and assign each a specialty to research and try to learn as much as possible. Regarding permaculture, you can even pool your money to send a member of your group to learn all about permaculture and then come back to teach a core group. This costs around $400 but it is very worth it! This same approach can apply to building with cobb or strawbales, using solar energy, greywater recycling systems, and on and on.

I suggest you take the following steps:

1) I do believe you would benefit by joining The Libertocracy Association and forming your own community association. I believe you would do well to assign one person as the point person to learn about this and basically lead that effort (to forge your community association). This will give you access to a support system of others and also allow you to be a help to others.

2) Make a list of things you want for your community: permaculture, greenhouses, solar/wind energy systems, greywater recycling, cobb or strawbale construction of buildings, buying cooperatives, local currency, and the like. Keep it as simple as you can but make it as comprehensive as you will need it to be.

3) Once you have this list, ask members to volunteer to work as specialists in one or more of these categories. Let these specialists then do the research, take courses, and etc. so that they can teach others and advise the whole group.

4) Figure out what you CAN do RIGHT NOW to build your community. For instance, you most certainly can create a buying cooperative, local currency, and self-help groups for your members. This is the beginning of community. Perhaps you can build a communal type building for all, or at least a core of, members to live in until you can build individual houses. This building could then become a "center" which would house guests who would actually pay for the chance to come to your community and learn about, say, "sustainable living".

5) Consider some enterprise that will use the talents, and a very small amount of cash (like $10-$20 per month) of each member to bring revenue to the group to at least pay for the main building, the land, and the training. This enterprise should provide a service/product of value to people in your area (neighboring towns and cities), it should use your talents, and it should use resources which are self-sustaining and locally obtainable.

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