Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored Announces
The Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage Award
Nominations are being accepted for the Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage
Award. These submissions can be published or unpublished articles, or works in
progress that express the ideas behind the original economic and social
theories of Alfred Frederick Andersen. Andersen believed that every sentient
being human and non-human has a right to the fair share of the material and
economic benefits of the Common Heritage Wealth. Included in this Common
Heritage are all earths natural resources: such as land surfaces, sub-surface
minerals and fuels; water and air, as well as cyberspace; indeed the entire
physical environment.
The Common Heritage Award articles should propose and describe ways in which
such sharing could be accomplished. Andersens work is recognized by the Media
Freedom Foundation and Project Censored as an annual award to be given to the
person that best reflects how the Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage can work
in our culture. An example of such sharing would be the promotion of an idea
that natural resource extractors would be required to pay the value of the
resources into a Common Heritage fund for all living things.
First place winner will receive $3,500 award
Second place winner will receive $1,500 award
Winners will receive their award at the annual Media Freedom Foundation/
Project Censored Awards Ceremony in Berkeley, California, February 5, 2011.
Transportation costs to Berkeley will be available to the winners.
To submit a nomination send no more than a one-page summary of completed
articles and specific URL to the original article to:
commonheritageaw...@gmail.com. For unpublished articles, submit full copies to:
MEDIA FREEDOM FOUNDATION
The Common Heritage Award
P.O. BOX 571
COTATI, CA 94931
All nominations must be received by January 5, 2011. Winners will be announced
and notified by January 10, 2011. Winning articles will be linked to the
Project Censored website and published online. Dorothy N. Andersen and family
have provided funding for this award. Judges are comprised of family members
and board directors of Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored
(www.projectcensored.org). The decision of the judges is final and appeals
will not be accepted. No late entries will be considered.
We look forward to the process of honoring the values of Alfred and Dorothy
Andersen. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Alfred Frederick Andersen: 19192010
Biography
Alfred Frederick Andersen dedicated his life to the philosophical pursuit of
ideas that became manifest as the Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage which is
a principle, which states that income from land, resources and the inventions
of past and current generations be fairly shared. His overall concern was the
creation of sustained justice for all sentient beings. His ideas are as
compelling and revolutionary as when Alfred first began developing them.
Alfred was born on June 27, 1919 in Bridgeport Connecticut. Als studies in
nuclear physics ignited a profound passion to study philosophy and holistic
thinking regarding community and global challenges. He received a degree in
civil engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and studied philosophy at
Harvard, Columbia, Ohio State and Lincoln University. He is the author of,
Liberating the Early American Dream and Challenging Newt Gingrich Chapter by
Chapter. He taught math at the junior and senior high school levels and
philosophy of science at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and philosophy of
education Simon Fraser University in Canada. And he believed with a great
passion that everyone should have a fair share of the Common Heritage.
He was convicted of refusing induction into military service during WWII. He
was sentenced to two years in prison and released after eight months for good
behavior. After his release from prison, he began attending meetings with the
Yellow Spring Ohio Friends and other subsequent Friends Meetings. He and his
family joined a community of thirty other families at the Tanguy Homesteads in
Pennsylvania. He was an avid supporter and participant of intentional community
living. He did not pay federal income tax on the basis of his deeply felt
philosophical values.
Alfred demonstrated unusual creativity, resourcefulness and inventiness in his
approach towards supporting himself and his family. He was a professor,
teacher, salesman, inventor, and philosopher. He managed his fathers machine
shop, worked as a groundskeeper, ran a bakery, was a lecturer, and Dean at
Oakwood Friends School. He invented and patented a ratchet wrench the rapid
grip. Alfred also designed, manufactured and sold a kitchen flourmill. He was
a man of vision who created wealth for his family but whose conscience was also
invested in ideas which would create wealth for all sentient beings.
Alfred authored two books and several pamplets. Howard Zinn commented on his
work, Challenging Newt Gingrich Chapter by Chapter stating, Alfred Andersen
has performed a valuable task for all of us. In this timely, thoughtful
dissection of the right wing agenda, he not only takes on Newt Gingrich with
painstaking clarity, but suggests an alternative agenda for achieving justice
in America. This alternative agenda for justice was not only addressed in
books but in the public forum as well.
In 1976 Alfred traveled to Vancouver, Canada to participate in a forum of
non-governmental organizations associated with the United Nations Special
Sessions on Habitat and Human Settlements. He helped compose a concluding
statement proclaiming that housing, basic services, energy, land use,
participation, and financing problems can only be solved by a global and
integral approach which has to go to the heart of the matter and transform the
economic, social and political structures which cause them.
Als life was a reflection of his values. A friend said, I have never seen
(or imagined) such devotion as his to the principles of justice and community.
They were woven into the fabric of his soul; he spoke of them with the upmost
depth and centrality of feeling, I know he lived by them and it was always
touching to hear him voice how vital and seriously urgent they were for him.
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