Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Grassroots organizations, like Leadnow in Canada, are helping move us in a direction that works for everyone, not just a few. Below is a recent email survey that Leadnow took. Leadnow 2021 Community Survey We asked you what Leadnow’s top campaign focuses should be — here are the top 5 issues: There was also clear […]
Galea of Neptune Returns ~ Celebrate Your Victories – They Are Many! “Celebrate your victories, celebrate what you know you have done well, individually, collectively, small group, big group, it matters not. When you are celebrating, when you are acknowledging, when you are reinforcing such positive, magnificent behaviours, patterns that are emerging, what you are […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Indigenous ways of being often include the wisdom of a matriarch. In the first post below, about peace and chocolate in Columbia, a matriarch paints the story of her people (see the documentary) and explains their peaceful actions as a community amidst extreme violence. From the simplicity of farming the land comes a way […]
Here we are in our ship, racing for shore with a storm chasing us. Kathleen pointed out to me, however, that all of it is simply a reflection of what we have going on within us at this moment. As within, so without. I did write about that. But she’s tutoring me on deeper and […]
In January, 2020, Bakersfield, California, had housed nearly everyone who had been homeless for more than a year. Then they sustained it during the pandemic. By Adele Peters, Fast Company, January 6th, 2021 https://www.fastcompany.com/90591154/this-california-city-just-ended-chronic-homelessness Bakersfield, California, struggled with extreme poverty and homelessness long before the pandemic, and when COVID hit, the challenges in fighting those […]
Sanat Kumara: It’s very simple, but it begins with you knowing you are already free. You always have been so let that illusion, that old illusion of control — because it is an exercise in control that you feel imprisoned — let it go. If all the people of Gaia. . . were beginning to […]
Charter for Compassion January 2021 Newsletter https://charterforcompassion.org/component/acymailing/mailid-417 The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!” ~Mehmet Murat ildan The Turkish […]
Michael Moore Goes to Norway and Visits Halden Prison Inside Halden Prison, the Most Humane Prison in the World Halden Prison opened early in 2010 with a capacity of 252 prisoners. The prisoner cells include flat-screen televisions, designer furniture, mini-fridges, and en suite bathrooms. Half of the guards are females, and guns are not […]
Excerpts from Jean Swanson’s December Newsletter As the single COPE, Coalition of Progressive Electors, councilor inside city hall, Jean Swanson is the person low-income, marginalized, and racialized folks turn to for support. Here is a link to 2020: A Year in Review, a list of motions passed at City Council, initiated by COPE’s Jean Swanson. […]
By Nicholas Kulish, The New York Times, December 20th, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/business/mackenzie-scott-philanthropy.html On a Monday evening in November, Dorri McWhorter, the chief executive of the Y.W.C.A. Metropolitan Chicago, got a phone call from a representative of the billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The news was almost too good to be true: Her group would be receiving a […]
I may need to share somewhat more than I do usually because of the transition I’m going though. Zen adept Paul Reps would have called it “writing down the bones.” I interpret “bones” to be the basics and the phrase to mean writing in order to get to the basics, to the heart of the […]
Writeup: Today, October 24, 2020, there are many rallies around the world. Activists in these countries are joining in a common voice: Argentina; Bolivia; Peru; Uruguay; Italy; Germany; Poland; Belgium; Netherlands; United Kingdom; Ireland; Sweden; Denmark; France; and Austria. Citizens of all countries are paying an enormous price for the epidemic. They have not only […]
By Tahmina Watson, YES, October 21, 2020 https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2020/10/21/immigration-policy-lawyers/ “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi’s famous words reverberated in my mind days after the November 2016 presidential election. I had been serving on the Immigration Working Group for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, preparing for her first 100 days in office. […]
On Oct. 5, 2017, President Trump held a gathering at the White House for his military generals and their spouses at which he spoke about that occasion being the calm before the storm. On this and later occasions, he refused to say more about what the storm was, except “you’ll find out.” We’re finding out. […]
By Kristin Toussaint, Fast Company, October 20th, 2020 https://www.fastcompany.com/90565846/800-compton-residents-will-get-a-guaranteed-income In the city of Compton, one in five residents lives in poverty, double the national average. Since the pandemic began, the unemployment rate has risen from about 7% to more than 20%. But a select group will have a chance to get help reversing those trends, […]
