Proposals, within the framework of the Constitution, to restructure flawed economic and political systems, to unleash full productive capabiltity of the nation, and to achieve equitable, non-violent society for all. The author was born of Scandinavian parents on August 1, 1916 on the Canadian border of Minnesota. His father was a follower of Eugene Debs and was an ardent supporter of Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, father of the "Lone Eagle", in his battle against the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 which gave the private banks absolute and arbitrary control of the nation's money and credit. He graduated out of Baudette High School in Minnesota in 1934 during the Great Depression when one third of the population was ill-fed, ill-clothed and ill-housed. He forwent further formal education to help his widowed mother in maintaining a family for himself, a sister and two brothers. It was his first insight into poverty foreclosures and pervasive suffering in a land where there existed the potential to provide for all human needs. His searching questions at an early age were to be ones he was to ask during a whole lifetime. The author was principally a product of the "School of Hardknox," working in logging camps, on farms, on construction and a three-year span on a survey crew for the State of Minnesota. However, his real blessing was an insatiable drive to selectively read and do research. During the 1960's he, along with his wife and brother, incorporated Aquila Press for the express purpose of documenting the concentration of abnormal corporate power and how that power was exercised in the economic and political life of the society. As editor of the monthly magazine "The Eagle's Eye" he assertively proposed the idea of a "National Cooperative Commonwealth." Out of a ten-year span of research the author wrote his book, Challenge to Crisis. It portrayed the three Americas that had to be considered. There was the America we thought we lived in. There was the America we did live in. There was the America we could live in. Along with wife, Adelaide, he tried to be active in the community. He was president of the Noblesville Commission on Human Rights under three mayors and was head of the County Chapter of the Indiana Mental Health Association for three years. In both cases he acted on the State level. He was part of a fact-finding group that traveled to El Salvador during the 1980's to record pictorially and on tape the voices of the ordinary people who were struggling to free themselves of the tyranny of a military rule in collaboration with an oligarchy of 12 families that brutally controlled the country. Sadly, the United States supported that regime with four billion dollars and trained its death squads a the "School of the Americas." When Robert White, ambassador to El Salvador, stated publicly that we should more rightfully be on the side of the revolutionary FMLN, he was summarily asked to resign. In 1995, the author wrote his second book There is a Way! with emphasis on the legal steps that could be taken by the sovereign people to bring about a National Cooperative Commonwealth and a surcease to the nation's quandaries. The current book A Blueprint for Survival was prompted by a further breakdown in the economy and an increased concern that unless the nation puts its own house in order and develops an international policy that recognizes the human rights of the less fortunate throughout the world, violence and terrorism cannot be permanently subdued and uprooted. The author and his wife saw their three children go on to get undergraduate degrees and two achieve graduate degrees. As parents they were pleased to see them go into diverse careers, one choosing politics, another theology and the third the legal profession. At the present time the author continues as the president of Aqulia Press, Inc., a small family printing and publishing corporation, and is a participant in a number of activist organizations seeking peace with economic justice in both our own nation and the world. He and his wife of 58 years live in Noblesville, Indiana.