Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Cultural burning is proactive, while Western-style controlled burning, also called hazard reduction burning, is reactive. To Help Australia, Look to Aboriginal Fire Management By Abaki Beck, Common Dreams, January 15, 2020 https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/15/help-australia-look-aboriginal-fire-management Since September 2019, Australia has been ravaged by bushfires. You know the statistics: about 18 million acres burned, around 2,000 homes destroyed, and […]
By Erica Sanchez, Leah Rodriguez, Global Citizen, January 13, 2020 https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/mexico-city-femicide-protest-red-shoes/ A series of performance demonstrations in Mexico City are bringing attention to the growing gender-based violence rates throughout the country. Activists placed hundreds of painted-red women’s shoes on the main square in Zocalo, Mexico City’s cultural and religious hub, on Saturday, according to the […]
‘We as Men Need to Take a Stand:’ Milwaukee Campaign Against Human Trafficking Goes Global By Derica Williams, Fox6 News, January 11, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/sj6ho5b MILWAUKEE — Saturday, Jan. 11 marked National Human Trafficking Awareness Day — and people in Milwaukee spoke out about the “silent epidemic,” with Milwaukee considered a major hub. An event at […]
By Tara Brach, January 14, 2020 Tara Brach helps break a trail through the dense forest of anxiety with the practice of RAIN, how to exercise deep compassion for self, and therefore others. Here’s one of Tara’s RAIN Meditations. It’s one of the most profound meditations I’ve ever done. Tara Brach is also hosting a […]
Thank you to Linda in Canberra for this post. The Golden Age of Gaia does not believe that the major cause of the bushfires is climate-related, but manmade. (1) By Marianna Gonzalez, January 8, 2020 Ecovegan Spirit I was moved to tears by this video and still am every time I remember it. It shows […]
Linda wrote in to “Contact Us” saying the numbers in my January 13th post, “National Geographic: How Many Animals are Affected by Australia’s Disaster? are much greater now. She said that she lives in Canberra, Australia, where “the air pollution from the bushfires has been at 26 times the hazardous level.” Thank you, Linda, for […]
The uplifting post about wildlife sanctuaries below is from 2015 so I went looking to see if there was more information and found an article written in February 2019 saying that, because Germany has done this, the wolves have come back! The topic of trophic cascades, balance in nature, is interesting. I wrote about it […]
The post (below) on homeless women in Australia was written on October 10th, 2019, World Homeless Day. With the bushfires, what might the situation be like now? I was walking down the street where I live yesterday and an older woman was begging for money. Usually I see men, occasionally a woman with a man. […]
Monsanto Emails: ‘Let’s Beat the S*** Out of Moms Worried about Cancer-Linked Weedkiller’ By Arjun Walia, Conscious Evolution, January 13, 2020 https://www.collective-evolution.com/2020/01/13/monsanto-emails-lets-beat-the-s-out-of-moms-worried-about-cancer-linked-weedkiller/ How is it that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide is still on North American shelves being sold in a number of places? The answer is simple. I believe it’s deceit and corruption. Corporations like Monsanto […]
Marianne Williamson dropped out of the race for President for the United States on January 10 of this year, but gave a very enthusiastically received speech at a book store in Exeter, New Hampshire, January 13th. See below. Recently, in a message to supporters, she said that she’d back the Democratic nominee, no matter who […]
National Geographic: How Many Animals are Affected by Australia’s Disaster? By Rachael Bale, National Geographic Newsletter, January 9, 2020 500 million animals? If you’ve been keeping up with the news of the Australia fires, you may have seen this statistic going around. It comes from University of Sydney professor Chris Dickman, and he explained that […]
The Ancient Indigenous Art of Rainmaking Azriel ReShel, UPLIFT, December 6th, 2019 https://upliftconnect.com/ancient-indigenous-rainmaking/ Can We All be Rainmakers? The Zulu say: “He who brings rain, brings life.” The ancient art of rainmaking was once practiced all around the world. It represented the sacred relationship between humans and the Divine. The deep connection between Earth and […]
Jakarta is flooding and its governor is sinking Erin Cook, The Interpreter, Jan. 10, 2020 https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/jakarta-flooding-and-its-governor-sinking Despite promising new policies, the city’s new leader faces the same problems as the last, and few options. Jakarta welcomed the new year with a new record — the heaviest rains in decades. The deluge left parts of the […]
Amid US-Iran tensions, UN chief Antonio Guterres says world cannot afford another war, asks all parties to exercise maximum restraint First Post, Jan. 12, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/sbhzf2j In wake of Iran-US tussle, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said he would continue active engagement to de-escalate tensions, avert full-scale war UN chief’s four-point message to world leaders, […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca The Universal Law of Karmic Dispensation is a gift of new beginnings — freely given by the Mother — the opportunity to forgive those who have harmed us, but even more important, for us to forgive ourselves. As Karmic Dispensation is freely given, it is up to us to freely receive. Thank you, Blossom […]
