Toward a World that Works for Everyone
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 […]
By Kathleen Dean Moore & Robin Wall Kimmerer, Yes Magazine, November 5th, 2016 https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2016/11/05/the-humvees-and-the-white-horse2014two-futures/ Right here, between the barricades on a North Dakota highway, is a pivotal confrontation between two world views, two futures. Two lines, facing each other on a North Dakota highway. On one side, concrete barriers protect a row of armored vehicles […]
Faith communities should be refuges for healthcare workers suffering moral distress amid COVID-19 By John Allen, Broadview, July 7th, 2020 https://broadview.org/healthcare-churches-moral-distress/ I work as a healthcare chaplain in Missouri and am good friends with a nurse I’ll call Bobbie who works at a neighbouring hospital. Four months ago, we talked and she was angry—due to shortages, […]
This town of 170,000 replaced some cops with medics and mental health workers. It’s worked for over 30 years By Scottie Andrew, CNN, July 5, 2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/cahoots-replace-police-mental-health-trnd/index.html Around 30 years ago, a town in Oregon retrofitted an old van, staffed it with young medics and mental health counselors and sent them out to respond to […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca The lotus, a symbol of rebirth, compassion and enlightenment, can be seen as a metaphor for our human journey. Its roots, found in the dirtiest water, produce a gorgeous flower. As we observe the chaos without, and continue to do our “clean up” within of the old belief systems, the bigotry, hatred, anxiety and […]
By Zi-Ann Lum, HuffPost, July 7, 2020 https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/basic-income-cerb-canada-budget_ca The parliamentary budget officer looked at the cost of a six-month basic income. OTTAWA — The federal budget watchdog estimates a six-month guaranteed basic income for all eligible Canadians could cost the government less than what has already been spent on Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) payments […]
From a Symbiosis of Humans and Technology: “Global Meditation: This simple practice of quieting the mind, and bringing presence to one’s breathing has a long list of documented benefits that include enhanced neural connections, deep feelings of connection and well-being, as well as a strengthened immune system. “When we compound this focused intention to include […]
By John Sudworth, China Correspondent, BBC, June 30th 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53238004 People in Hong Kong could face life in jail for breaking a controversial and sweeping new security law imposed by China. The legislation came into force on Tuesday but the full text was only revealed hours afterwards. It was brought in by Beijing following increasing […]
By Colin Dwyer, NPR, June 30th, 2020 https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/30/885178095/belgian-king-conveys-deepest-regrets-for-brutal-colonial-past-in-congo The policies of Belgian King Leopold II left millions of people dead more than a century ago in the region that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now, in a first for the Belgian monarchy, King Philippe has expressed his “deepest regrets” for a colonization […]
By Catherine Moore, Yes Magazine https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/just-transition/2017/10/12/the-hopeful-work-of-turning-appalachias-mountaintop-coal-mines-into-farms/ On a surface-mine-turned-farm in Mingo County, West Virginia, former coal miner Wilburn Jude plunks down three objects on the bed of his work truck: a piece of coal, a sponge, and a peach. He’s been tasked with bringing in items that represent his life’s past, present, and future. “This […]
