Toward a World that Works for Everyone
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Since 1970, there have been many murders and disappearances on the “Highway of Tears” in British Columbia, Canada, a 725 kilometre (450 mi) corridor of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert. According to Wikipedia: “The phrase, ‘Highway of Tears’ was coined in 1998, by Florence Naziel, during a vigil held in Terrace, […]
10-Day Collective Trauma Summit Starts September 22 Registration is now open for the second annual Collective Trauma Summit, organized by Thomas Hübl. Last year this summit attracted over 50,000 participants and featured more than 30 talks with trauma experts, activists, and cultural visionaries. This year’s Summit is a 10-day event (September 22 – October 1) […]
What Women’s Suffrage Owes to Indigenous Culture Bridget Quinn, Yes! Magazine, Aug 19, 2020 (https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2020/08/19/womens-suffrage-indigenous-culture/) The example of gender equality in Haudenosaunee society gave 19th-century White women some big ideas. It’s been 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment secured voting rights for women—sort of. In She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, […]
What do we want the legal system to look like in Nova Earth? Do we want legislative bills with loads of self-serving, pork-barrel amendments? Do we want judges elected or appointed politically – Democrat and Republican judges? Do we want prisons to be for profit? Incarceration has been shown to have become an industry in […]
By Bill Chappell and Ruth Sherlock, NPR, August 5th, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/08/05/899282146/no-words-after-enormous-explosion-rips-beirut-a-search-for-answers Updated at 4:51 a.m. ET Thursday, August 6th, 2020 Beirut is reeling and Lebanon is in grief after a powerful explosion tore through the capital’s port area on Tuesday. The enormous blast, which officials said was driven by thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate, […]
Temporary Basic Income to protect the world’s poorest people could slow the surge in COVID-19 cases, says UNDP United Nations Development Programme, July 23, 2020 https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/news-centre/news/2020 New York – The immediate introduction of a Temporary Basic Income for the world’s poorest people could slow the current surge in COVID-19 cases by enabling nearly three billion […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca From Sally in Illinois: I wanted to share a video link with you. Please share it if you feel guided to do so. It has had a profound impact on me and I’m thinking others may benefit as well…. I’ve always been interested in healing and using sound as a tool for healing. In […]
By Stephanie O’Neill, NPR, July 30, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/896245305/why-forgiving-someone-else-is-really-about-you Forgiveness has a P.R. problem. Think about all those useless idioms used to describe it. Stuff like: ‘forgive and forget,’ ‘turn a blind eye,’ ‘let bygones be bygones.’ With that kind of cheesy advice, no wonder so many people travel through life dragging a steamer trunk full […]
Vancouver City Council just voted unanimously in favour of Decriminalizing Poverty and Supporting Community-led Safety Initiatives, led by COPE’S [The Coalition of Progressive Electors] motion! This means it’s the City’s position that police shouldn’t be used for matters of mental health, substance use, sex work, homelessness, and poverty, and that instead funds should be used […]
By Alex Gray, Fast Company, July 29, 2020 https://www.fastcompany.com/90533626/mackenzie-scott-just-showed-what-billionaires-can-really-do-with-their-money MacKenzie Scott is reminding us how the 1% should be spending their money. Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, announced that she donated about $1.7 billion to multiple organizations related to racial inequality, LGBTQ+ rights, and climate change, among other issues. She posted the […]
By Adele Peters, Fast Company, July 29, 2020 https://www.fastcompany.com/90533448/how-to-create-25-million-jobs-by-decarbonizing-the-economy As of early July, more than 30 million Americans were collecting unemployment. At some point, when the virus is defeated, they’ll need to return to work — but their old employer might no longer be in business to hire them back. What if we made new, […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Much gratitude to Sally in Illinois — so amazing! Here are Sally’s observations: When I saw it my first thought was “Nova Earth, I knew you were here, I’ve been feeling you and catching glimpses and now you are really showing yourself big time, and WOW just look at you!” It is so very […]
Suzanne Maresca: On our last show, I understood you to say that the human collective was almost at a vibration high enough for disease to be unable to proliferate. So when we reach a certain point then in our Ascension process, pretty much any and all human ailments will become extinct because we have chosen […]
By Megan Wildhood & Ruth Terry, Yes Magazine, July 15, 2020 https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2020/07/15/hawaii-covid-recovery/ It may be too soon to reopen, but it’s not too early to plan for a recovery. The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to spike in many U.S. states, especially those that lifted lockdown restrictions early, but as of July 6, Hawai‘i had only […]
Editor’s note: This story was reported and photographed in January, before the global pandemic. The text has been updated to reflect the activities of the nuns aimed at COVID-19 prevention. By Windsor Johnson, July 5th, 2020, Goats and Soda https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/07/05/886043783/the-kung-fu-nuns-of-kathmandu Jigme Yeshe Lhamo squats in a powerful kung fu stance. As she raises her 18-inch […]
