We have to save ourselves and each other. We have to create things that work, like barter systems, home sharing, land sharing and back yard farming.

So – What do we do? Do we sit in the wreckage crying over the “stuff” we have lost or do we get busy and figure out how to live with what we already have. “Stuff” will not save us, the government will not save us and the big corporations will not save us.

We learned a very important lesson, starting with Hurricane Katrina and continuing to the present, where we are witnessing the train wreck of our economy. While our government is scrambling around in a panic trying to figure out what to do to save bankers and large corporations from their own bad management and greedy business practices, the message being sent out loud and clear is that we the people are on our own.

Liberty Village means being willing to let go of what no longer works and find new and creative ways to work with what you already have. Liberty Village means being willing to share your resources and allow others to share with you. Liberty Village is understanding we are all connected and that we all need each other to survive the current shift.

If you own a house you can barely afford to keep and you open that home up to share it with someone who can help you with the mortgage and bills, you are part of Liberty Village. If you are contemplating replacing your lawn with a vegetable garden, you are part of Liberty Village. If you are installing a rain collection system, a solar panel or anything else that will help you conserve resources, you are living in Liberty Village. If you are a small rancher or farmer struggling to maintain your way of life and you allow others to live on your land in return for their help, you have created Liberty Village.

Liberty Village is an online community with information, ideas, research and encouragement. We are reinventing our society right now, and Liberty Village will be with you, bringing ideas, plans and ways to connect with others as we create a new society on top of the ashes of the old one.

Liberty Village is not a place, not a collection of buildings located on a piece of land somewhere. Liberty Village exists everywhere and nowhere, it is a concept, a new paradigm, a way of surviving the global-level social and economic changes we are currently experiencing.

Despite changes in direction, Liberty Village exists. There may not be a physical location in a rural area, there may not be a group of people living on some land off the grid, but Liberty Village is still here, in a different form.

Well, the world changed in the blink of an eye. Now, money for investing in experimental communities, building structures, buying land has all dried up. Our country is reeling from bank failures, home foreclosures, staggering unemployment and governmental ineptitude. The house of cards collapsed, folks, there is no going back.

Liberty Village began as a concept for building a sustainable, self-supporting community in rural areas of this country. There was a plan, and a specified number of structures to be built a specified number of miles from the nearest town. These were good ideas that could have worked in a different economy or with more time to make it all happen.

Paul Majors and Lisa Alvarado-Majors have never built a house before but that's not stopping them from building an EARTHBAG home in Garfield, Arkansas. They expect to finish in only 3-4 months. They are determined to stick to the $5000 budget while showing others how they can do the same. Paul Majors is a mechanical contractor and services many commercial restaurants in the Northwest Arkansas area and Lisa Alvarado-Majors is an artist and independent filmmaker. The EARTHBAG home is made of old tires, sand bags, cans and bottles, adobe, and other recycled materials. It has no wood frame work, no attic, no shingles, no central air, no trim and can cost less than $5000 to build. It is the greenest form of modern living using recycled materials, recycled water systems, natural resources found on the land, and is more sound and sturdy than traditional box-shaped homes. The EARTHBAG home has better air flow due to it's shape, is fire-proof, termite-proof, and is more likely to withstand natural disasters

How she and her husband are building their home. How would you like to build one of your own next to Paul and Lisa in the FIRST LiBERTY VILLAGE?

AS THE PRICE OF GAS, FOOD, AND CRIME RISES IN THE CITIES LIBERTY VILLAGES ARE RISING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY here is a song that I believe captures the feel and spirit of the Liberty Village concept I would like to see spread across America as an alternative to the NWO Cities.

Revolution In Local Food Laws Sedgwick, Maine has done what no other town in the United States has done. The town unanimously passed an ordinance giving its citizens the right “to produce, process, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of their choosing.” This is WITHOUT government regulation. This includes raw milk, locally slaughtered meats, and just about anything else you can imagine. It means that farmer and patron agree to enter into private agreements with one another, and settle any disputes that arise personally and civilly. It is the way things used to be done before Americans sacrificed their freedoms to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other federal agencies that now tell the public what they can and cannot eat. Food sovereignty ordinances are what must be in place to enable an explosion of local food production. This video explains the main principles. The term was coined in 1996 by members of Via Campesina, a coalition of over 148 organizations, advocating family-farm-based sustainable agriculture. - See more at: http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/food-choices/food-sovereignty.html#sthash.Hm2vqWep.dpuf

There is new technology. new ideas and new products coming out and online that make Clay's vision of self-contained. self-sufficient family farms feasible and viable.

"When white man find our land, Indians running it. No taxes, No debt, Plenty buffalo, Plenty beaver, Clean Water. Women did all the work, Medicine Man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; All night having sex." Then the chief leaned back and smiled. "Only the white man is dumb enough to think he could improve on a system like that!"

The Indian Chief, 'Two Eagles,' was asked by a high ranking government official; "You have observed the white man for 90 years. You've seen his wars and his technological advances. You've seen his progress, and the damage he's done.' The Chief nodded in agreement. The official continued, 'Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?"

OK, SO WITH A LITTLE TASTE, FORESIGHT AND PREPARATION, LIVING IN LOW COST STRUCTURES IN PLANNED COMMUNITIES WHERE THE INHABITANTS GROW THEIR OWN FOOD, WORK TOGETHER AND DEFEND EACH OTHER IS NOT EXACTLY ROUGHING IT. IN ESSENCE THIS IS A GODLY ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES, ONES WHICH HAVE WORKED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS! EACH COMMUNITY WILL HAVE ITS OWN SKILLS, TRADE WITH OTHER COMMUNITIES LIKE IT AND SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE IT GAINS TO HELP TURN OUR COUNTRY BACK INTO ONE OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE AS ENVISIONED BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS AND PROVIDED FOR BY OUR CONSTITUTION.

Sounds simple, right? Perhaps, but it is the complex, deliberate, and beautiful work of community organizing that will transform vision into reality!

What's the alternative to the market system? Its seeds already exist. Though capitalist markets are constantly working to undermine, exploit, and co-opt elements of the solidarity economy, its power and potential as a space of creation and hope persists.

TIPIS AND YURTS CAN PROVIDE ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES, ARE MOVEABLE AND CAN BE SET UP ALMOST ANYWHERE, ANY PART OF THE COUNTRY ON SHARED LAND OR IN COMMUNITIES ON YOUR LAND!

EACH HOME OR UNIT WOULD HAVE ACCESS TO ALTERNATIVE ENERGY AND COULD SELL EXCESS ENERGY BACK TO THE LOCAL POWER COOP. WOULDN'T IT BE NICE TO GET A CHECK FROM THE POWER COMPANY INSTEAD OF SENDING THEM ONE OF YOURS?

Sounds simple, right? Perhaps, but it is the complex, deliberate, and beautiful work of community organizing that will transform vision into reality!

When faced with the question of alternatives, then, we can answer not with another Grand Economic Scheme, but with a vision for creative, diverse, and democratic economic organizing. We can build on existing cooperative economic practices, cultivating imagination and possibility. Linking together emerging alternatives in networks of mutual support and exchange, we can take them to the next level and generate new economic dynamics of solidarity and cooperation on local, regional, and global scales. A strategy begins to emerge: identify existing alternatives; bring them together to build shared identities and connections; and with new-found collective strength, generate powerful possibilities for social and economic change.

We already inhabit different kinds of economic relationships. We have our own forms of wealth and value that are not defined by money. Economies already exist that place human and ecological relationships at the center, rather than competition and profit-making. We do not need to start from scratch.