Occupy World Street

A Global Roadmap for Radical Economic and Political Reform Ross Jackson
$19.95 US Paperback Original ISBN 9781603583886 6 x 9 336 pages Pub Date: March 2012

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Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders. Maurice Strong, Secretary-General of the UN Earth Summit, Rio 1992 Ross Jacksons proposal for post-collapse strategy is the first plausible, constructive scenario I have seen; an excellent text, even amazing. It is comprehensive, original, and very well written. Dennis Meadows, coauthor, The Limits to Growth

A Bold Master Plan for A New Global Financial System

People the world over are starting to rise up against a global financial cabal that has essentially bought governments and left economies in tatters. In the United States, occupiers gather in an ever-growing list of cities. In Greece, angry citizens march outside their parliament crying out Thieves! and Traitors! as their economy crumbles and pundits discuss how just long it will take for Portugal, Spain, and other nations to follow suit. Not all the demonstrators clearly understand the roots of these problems; not all can articulate solutions. But they know one thing: their lives have been radically changed, for the worse, by an unsustainable financial paradigm. In Occupy World Street, Ross Jackson delivers one of the most incisive, clear descriptions of the global financial practices that have driven economiesand resourcesto the brink of collapse. He also puts forth a compelling, detailed plan to let sovereign nations regain control of their economies reorganize global trade alliances on more human scale gradually phase out global institutions that have wreaked havoc

and replace them with institutions that support sustainable economies, uphold human rights, and respect environmental standards In sum, he has done what few others have dared to: constructed a specific, implementable plan to reorganize the way world economies work. Its a plan that, according to sustainable economics pioneer Hazel Henderson, has the potential to unite hundreds of NGOs and millions of ordinary citizens in the streets behind a single simple proposal that could change the current dysfunctional game.

[Occupy World Street] breaks through the barriers that have shackled us. It is a monumental and inspirational call to action and a long-awaited blueprint for how the actions should be implemented. Ross Jacksons insights empower us to dream a new dream. . . John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman

Ross Jackson, an expert in international finance and operations research, has long been an innovative leader in both the business and NGO worlds. He is chairman of Gaia Trust, a Danish-based foundation that supports the Global Ecovillage Network and Gaia Education, as well as hundreds of sustainability projects in forty countries. He is also director and owner of Urtekram, Scandinavias largest wholesale organic-food company, and former chairman of Gaiacorp, foreign-exchange consultants and hedge fund managers. Jackson is the coeditor of When No Means Yes: Danish Visions of a Different Europe and Gaian Economics: Living Well Within Planetary Limits, and has also authored other books. He lives in Denmark.

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