Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Reposted from 1995. (Continued from Part 1.) (5) The Resolution of Dissonance Creates Paradigmatic Breakthroughs In the course of creating a largescale employment project, dissonance will arise. Disagreement may ensue. A scheme may be abandoned. But history shows numerous examples where dissonance has been the occasion, not for abandoning a scheme, but for creating a […]
Coronavirus Is a Historic Trigger Event. Now Is the Time for a Social Movement to Rise Paul Engler, Yes! Magazine, April 6, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/torolhg We can build a powerful people’s response to provide care in our communities and reshape the limits of what is politically possible. There are times in history when sudden events — […]
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/connect/togetherathome/ Take the Pledge to Stay at Home In the face of lockdowns and losses, it’s easy to feel helpless — but there are things we can all do to beat coronavirus. From taking care to wash our hands, to staying at home, to calling on governments, big business and billionaires to step up, it’s […]
By Sean Gregory, TIME, March 26, 2020 https://time.com/collection-post/5809169/jose-andres-coronavirus-food/?utm_source=pocket-newtab Not many people were getting on airplanes in the U.S. on March 12, and even fewer were heading for the Grand Princess cruise ship. COVID-19 was discovered among the ship’s 2,400 passengers after it set sail from Hawaii, making the vessel about as popular as the Flying […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Thomas is masterful in this video. I felt sticky old energy being pulled off me as he spoke. We’ve been “thrown in the river,” as he says. Let’s swim together! Thank you so much, Thomas, for all your work.
Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression “We are freezing the economy.” Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, March 21, 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/denmark-freezing-its-economy-should-us/608533/ While the White House and lawmakers haggle over the terms of an emergency economic-stabilization package, Denmark has gone big—very, very big—to defeat the unprecedented challenge of the coronavirus. This week, the Danish […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Thank you to all the wonderful enlightened beings, masters among us, sending out messages of hope. Tara, Marianne, Eckhart and even Pluto, the dog, are lifting spirits around the world. And for the rainbows! Thank you to the children painting rainbows on windows. Yay for our Gaian community! Tara Brach Marianne Williamson […]
U.K. government will pay 80% of workers’ wages to keep them employed during the coronavirus shutdown Can the U.S. come up with anything nearly as generous? Talib Visram, Fast Company, March 20, 2020 https://www.fastcompany.com/90480396/the-u-k-government-will-pay-80-workers-wages-to-keep-them-employed-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown It’s a remarkable and peculiar day in Britain when it’s announced that all pubs are closing, but that ends up not […]
Excerpted from Peta Kelly Inspires Readers to Redefine Success in “Earth is Hiring” Peta Kelly revels in the joys of being messily, gloriously human, and her personal mission is to mobilize the next generation of conscious change-makers. Originally from Fremantle, Western Australia, it wasn’t long ago that Peta was working on her PhD in Science […]
Humanity has an opportunity here, in this time of cocooning, to create a true Nova Earth, truly a world that works for everyone. Below are some examples of how people and companies everywhere are looking at our society with new eyes. They are shining examples of building a new way of living. Some of the […]
OK, OK, a little chest thumping going on here…. But this does show (1) that it can be done and (2) how quickly it can be done in this age of social media. I hope the practice of caremongering grows. Compassion by any name is what society needs right now. Coronavirus: Kind Canadians start ‘caremongering’ […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca On planet, through the media, we’re seeing much chaos. A friend on Facebook is sending me photos of starving children in Yemen. We hear of unconscionable femicides in Mexico. I found and shared this young boy: What is happening? Where are the leaders to put a stop to the mayhem? Oh right, we are […]
Rude jokes, hate mail and violent threats—for climate experts, it’s all part of the job. That’s especially true for the women. By Chris Turner, Chatelaine, March 5, 2020 https://www.chatelaine.com/news/women-climate-change-attacks/ Just months after the Alberta NDP’s surprise 2015 election win, Shannon Phillips, the province’s new environment minister, travelled to Paris for what would turn out to […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Witnessing daily life on Earth can be disturbing — from femicides to war and mayhem. What’s going on? And why on Earth would anyone in their right mind act in such violent ways? As our heart consciousness expands and the frequency surrounding our planet increases due to energy sent from the Divine Mother, the […]
Twelve thousand affordable homes, 60 acres of new public open space, 10 to 12 new schools, two or three libraries, more than 30 childcare and healthcare centers, a new bus rapid transit line. Now they just need a few billion to build it. Image: courtesy Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) BY ADELE PETERS 3 […]
