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Greetings All.

This is a detailed explanation of how PADU (website under construction  http://paduinternational.com/about.htm) is inviting OUR people to use
Collective Consumption and Cooperative Economics. I first heard the term and the
explanation from President General Senghor Baye of the UNIA-ACL at a roundtable
at the PADU Retreat in February. He then began explain how the UNIA-ACL have
been and will be using Collective Consumption. Group Shopping and Food Co-Ops
where you are saving money buying in bulk are examples of Collective
Consumption. But as I began researching to gain a better understanding, I
learned it is much more than that and can be much more powerful. Especially when
being online.

PADU collectively and myself individually have no emotional allegiance to
PeopleString nor Facebook accept that they are tools that can help US help more
African/People of African Descent/Black People. But OUR preference is to use any
tool that will do the most good for the majority of OUR people. WE can practice
Collective Consumption to gain influence and leverage on almost anything once WE
organize properly.

Remember to stay connect to PADU  http://www.peoplestring.com/?f=padu_partners_international and
help US raise funds for yourself while raising funds for PADU simultaneously

PADU International the first and only international Black/African/People of
African Descent who are working as a team on PeopleString to help one another
for the last 2 months. WE are combining Collective Consumption with Cooperative
Economics internationally in multiple languages. This post will focus on the
Collective Consumption piece. Using Facebook, Twitter, this Ning site, YouTube
and all Social Networking/Social Media makes you a consumer. Even using your
Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and AOL accounts are acts of consumption.  
OUR consumption of any one of these tools individually provides no Unified
influence or leverage. Collective Consumption allows US to gain influence and
leverage. Group Shopping and Co-Ops are examples of Collective Consumption but
when being online it means much more than that. WE have no Unified influence or
leverage by doing three things with PeopleString that WE can't do on
Facebook.

First Facebook does not pay you when you sign up, click an
Ad/Advertisement, play games, nor when someone becomes your friend. PeopleString
pays you for doing all those things plus a few other things like shopping.

Second Facebook does not share any of it's advertisement
revenue (which totals in the Billions) with US the members who are responsible
for generating the revenue. PeopleString has been sharing 70% (millions and
growing) of their advertising revenue before they became a public company with
it's members that join PeopleString.

Third Facebook is not a publicly traded company so WE can
not be shareholders in owning a part of OUR own Social Networking/Social Media
experience. OUR jokes, comments, likes, game playing and discussions all
contribute to making Facebook profitable. PeopleString is a
publicly traded company that WE can acutally purchase stock (PPLE stock
symbol on the OTCBB currently at $.78 a share)  We can actually
own piece of an up and coming company that WE would use as a one stop Social
Portal Homepage to connect to Facebook, Twitter your existing email accounts as
well as other features. WE would be shareholders in owning a part of OUR won
Social Networking/Social Media experience.

This is not an anti-Facebook campaign. PeopleString and Facebook are actually
partners. You can not only post to Facebook while you are on your PeopleString
Homepage/Social Portal, Facebook allows PeopleString members to invite their
friends to joing PeopleString. I was just expressing the advantages of
PeopleString over Facebook in regards to Collective Consumption.

This is one example of how People of African Descent/African/Black People can
use Collective Consumption any where in the world in different languages to
collectively began to use influence and leverage to save and maximize OUR money.
Part 2 will talk about actually generating money.

Yao Khepra Felix Wilson

SRDC/PADU New York Facilitator

Proud and Humble servant serving with Sincerity, Integrity and Accountability
(SIA) since childhood