Toward a World that Works for Everyone
2 – 30 minute podcasts for novices, sceptics and enthusiasts to explore the wonders of Basic Income. How to overcome poverty and inequality one episode at a time. Some of the discussion points in the first podcast: the natural resources of this planet are for all the people but many have been excluded from that […]
Daphne Bramham: The solution to homelessness, DTES chaos and disorder has been known for years Opinion: It’s hard not to think that our governments are throwing good money after bad when policy-makers ignore both the evidence and the experts By Daphne Bramham, The Vancouver Sun, January 28, 2021 https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/daphne-bramham-the-solution-to-homelessness-dtes-chaos-and-disorder-has-been-known-for-years-just-not-acted-upon VANCOUVER, In 2008 — the same […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Quan Yin and Mary Magdalene, the Magdalena, through Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love, explain and expand the blessing and virtue of beauty for us. They say beauty is to be in harmony with All That Is, physical, emotional, spiritual — inner, outer, within, without — to become a perfect mirror for […]
By Scott Santens, Citizens Basic Income Trust, February 1, 2021 https://www.scottsantens.com/2020-revealed-that-universal-unconditional-basic-income-cannot-wait-any-longer-ubi Everything seemed to change in 2020, and yet in very important ways, what really needed to didn’t, which is what must change. It’s time to finally live up to our founding ideals as a nation with a monthly investment in the lifelong economic security […]
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 […]
