Toward a World that Works for Everyone
‘We’re working apart but together in solidarity for the Wet’suwet’en land defenders,’ organizer says By Desmond Brown, CBC News, February 15, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gta-protesters-ontario-rail-blockade-1.5465525 Protesters gathered at a rail yard in Vaughan, Ontario, on Saturday, vowing to continue the pop-up protests in solidarity with the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en who oppose a natural gas pipeline […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca If we look to the Universal Law of Balance – As Within So Without – what do “the pipeline” issues in Canada represent metaphorically? In the bigger picture without, the pipeline can – and often does – represent the control and greed of the elite furthering their agenda, indiscriminately extracting Gaia’s natural resources. So […]
Canadians are protesting, and it’s about a lot more than a pipeline, as the post below says. A fire is lit on the legislature steps in Victoria, BC, the Granville Street Bridge in Vancouver was shut down, the intersection at Cambie and Broadway was blocked, and a sacred fire lit there, as well. Broadview Wet’suwet’en […]
Move follows efforts to reduce carbon footprint and increase reporting on climate crisis Why the Guardian will no longer accept fossil fuel advertising By Jim Waterson, The Guardian, Jan. 29, 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/29/guardian-to-ban-advertising-from-fossil-fuel-firms-climate-crisis#show-draft-epics The Guardian will no longer accept advertising from oil and gas companies, becoming the first major global news organisation to institute an outright […]
A formal request for judicial review submitted with the B.C. Supreme Court argues B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office extended the permit for Coastal GasLink pipeline without considering the findings of the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. [Allegations are being made that the construction camps promote sexual violence and may be linked to the […]
Steve: At my request, Kathleen has kindly reposted her autobiographical article – referred to in her widget – from Voice of Freedom. Hi, I’m Kathleen, owner of the website, Voice of Freedom, and also one of the editors of the Golden Age of Gaia. I wanted to share a little, in the video below, about […]
Susan O’Mara, chair of Emergency Medicine at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, recently took a compassion training. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post) In an Angry America, a New Remedy Emerges: Compassion Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, Jan. 30, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/sf358h2 As the head of a big-city hospital’s emergency department, Susan O’Mara has always focused on providing quick […]
By Shefali Anand, February 6, 2020, USNews https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-02-06/women-take-prominent-role-in-indias-nationwide-protests?src=usn_thereport NEW DELHI – Women have been at the forefront of protests in India against a new law, with some women literally sitting on the streets day in and day out for more than a month. The scenes across the country are part of a broader wave of […]
I didn’t watch the Super Bowl. To be honest I don’t think I’ve ever watched the Super Bowl. But this morning looking at the GoodNewsNetwork Morning Jolt of Good News, giggling my way through a post called, “13 of the Best Super Bowl Ads, In Case You Missed Them,” I came across this: Katie […]
https://tinyurl.com/uab4r2q In Denver, Colorado, the price of housing continues to rise, but opportunities to create low-income housing are expensive and, take years to build. So when the Quality Inn and Suites on Quebec St. went up for sale, the president of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) saw a golden opportunity. John Parvensky snapped […]
Katelynn Hardee, a 5-year-old kindergartner at Breeze Hill Elementary School, paid off the negative lunch balances of over 100 students at her school. By Alaa Elassar, CNN Katelynn Hardee, a kindergartner at Breeze Hill Elementary School, overheard a parent say she was having difficulty paying for an after school program. “She started asking me a […]
From 2019. Family Farms Use ‘Crop Mobsters’ to Prevent More Than 1 Million Servings Of Food From Going To Waste Michael Goonan, Good News Network, Jul 15, 2019 https://tinyurl.com/wfrs5ob Although 96% of the 2 million farms in the United States are family-owned, the top 5% of farms, mostly run by large corporations, make 75% of […]
Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating homelessness CBC.ca, Jan. 24, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/uv4mhas There are more than a million empty homes in Canada and on any given night at least 35,000 Canadians are homeless. They pack into overflowing, often dangerous, shelters or they hunker down outside, hoping the elements will be kinder to […]
By Alanna Ketler, January 22, 2020, Conscious Evolution https://www.collective-evolution.com/2020/01/22/finlands-prime-minister-calls-for-a-4-day-workweek-to-increase-productivity-allow-for-more-family-time/ Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin has recently proposed the idea of creating a more flexible working schedule for the citizens of her country. Marin is the second youngest country leader in the world and her views couldn’t be more refreshing. She shared her ideas on […]
As so-called intentional communities proliferate across the country, a subset of Americans is discovering the value of opting out of contemporary society. https://tinyurl.com/r7bdefn THE EAST WIND COMMUNITY is hidden deep in the Ozarks of southern Missouri, less than 10 miles from the Arkansas border, surrounded by jagged hills and tawny fields. Getting there requires traversing country roads […]
