Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together. (Wikipedia)

Brothers and Sisters,

We were given this land to take care of it, help heal it when sick, enjoy its riches and glories. Live in the colors of nature. Eat when need to be fed of what is provided by the earth. Never taking to much! Always we are to replenish. We have destroyed this land and become consumed with materialism. We take and take. No one is listening to the cries of mother earth. We are killing ourselves, and not giving our children a future. I want to grow old. I want my great-grandchildren to have a future. We profit from local businesses, shop at local farms and support and replenish the trees, grow forests, walk the dirt roads and when we start thinking about what we cannot carry when die. We need to value and asses truth and how will we respond to our creator. We need to think about our creator, whoever you believe in, and think about the responsibility we were given and how much we are giving back. When being asked how have we taken care of the earth? How did we enjoy our journey? I fear what our answers will be. Taking care of nature is not our only concern, but how we have taken care of one another. How we respond to the natural crisis, are we feeding the poor? Why are children dying? Why do we murder one another? Why are pairs of sneakers more important than the home we live in? Why have we glorified one race and condemned another? You are my brother. You are my sister. Judgment must go. Hatred needs to cease. We need true love, authentic love; AGAPE love. We need to profit from one another. We need to support our dreams and goals. Education should be free! I could go on for days, but I’ll stop here. Ujamaa demands that we become our own entrepreneurs, spread money in the community and not for corporate businesses. We profit locally includes farming being organic. Never taking to much that we cannot give back. We have one earth and we are one race.

2019 let’s do better!