We've begun identifying resources that might be helpful in getting support for the Global Marshall Plan. www.belovedcommunity.info/issues/gmp.htm My beginning thoughts are these (I've not talked with Bill or anyone else about these thoughts):

1. we should not assume that people know what the original Marshall Plan was.
2. headlines like : "War is not working, let's try generousity" "How we made friends with Germany & Japan"
3. we should reference Al Gore as the person who thought up the GMP in "Earth in the Balance" in 1992.
4. we should assume that most people accept the dominational/prevail by force worldview.
5. people whose support we are seeking will be surprised/pleased that there is a serious option like this.
6. putting out these ideas is our purpose -- regardless of whether or not HR 1078 passes.
7. a friend told me today "Our nation is broke. China needs to be generous. We can't afford to be.".

• Bill Bode's papers.
• The Methodist Resolution (Jana, how can we get it and the materials that supported it)
• What a Trillion Dollars Will Buy from New York Times.
• The Worst Intentional Man-Created Atrocities since WW II (Matthew White)
• Wikipedia on Global Marshall Plan (Al Gore's book)
• our Global Marshall Plan Brochure by Kathy.
• www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php?story=2008020819394578
• www.nsppbc.org/
• www.discoveringgod.net/page/page/4178211.htm

Other Links:(for Episcopal initiative): I think an Episcopal initiative could be taken from selected American churches & dioceses, formulated from an international (Anglican) perspective. I think this is the right spirit in view of how isolated America has become in the international community (Iraq) and in view of the fact that the Iraq ($3 trillion war) has put America in a serious budget problem.

• http://www.globalmarshallplan.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Radermacher
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Marshall_Plan
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD
• http://www.diosef.org/Rabbi_Lerner_at_Trinity.pdf
• St. Gregory's Episcopal Church in San Francisco; Trinity Episcopal in Miami; Christ Episcopal Church in Washington DC led by Michael Battle & Noah Baker Merrill; Episcopal Diocese National Capital; St. John's Episcopal of Georgetown; St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Penn Yan, NY; Episcopal Diocese of Maryland; St. David's Episcopal Church of San Diego.
• http://files.globalmarshallplan.org/pr/ben_702.pdf -- Global Marshall Plan, Balance the world with an eco-social market economy, A Project of Hope