Toward a World that Works for Everyone
How this Queens community built $1,000 college savings accounts for all its kids Kristin Toussaint, Fast Company, Feb. 25, 2021 (https://www.fastcompany.com/90606164/how-this-queens-community-built-1000-college-savings-accounts-for-all-its-kids) It’s part of a new program to build wealth for low-income kids across New York City—with a little help from their communities. In 1949, when she was 14 years old, Claudia Coger dropped out […]
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 […]
City of Vancouver website: https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/rezoning-for-new-indigenous-led-housing-project-approved-by-council.aspx Proposal addresses urgent need for urban Indigenous-led and managed new permanent social and supportive housing, and shelter beds in the Downtown Eastside. We are pleased to be working alongside the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society and BC Housing to put reconciliation into action. ~ Mayor Kennedy Stewart, February 17 2021 […]
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 […]
By Good News Network, January 16, 2021 https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/amazon-launches-2bil-housing-fund-in-3-cities/ Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund will help preserve existing housing and help create housing developments through below-market loans and grants to housing partners, public agencies, and minority-led organizations. The Fund seeks to “ensure that moderate- to low-income families can afford housing in resource-rich communities with easy access to […]
The following is an excerpt from Thomas’ book, “Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Inter-generational & Cultural Wounds,” chapter, “A Group Process for Integration” https://thomashuebl.com/neural-web-bridge-time-healing-collective-trauma/ “Do not waste your suffering.” – Eduardo Duran, “Native, Indigenous Cultures and Healing Trauma” (podcast) When most of us envision the nervous system, we may call to mind […]
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 […]
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. […]
Tips for Creating the New Earth Oct. 25, 2020 (https://awakeningspark.com/blog/tips-for-creating-the-new-earth) It comes as no surprise that the building of the New Earth was one of the topics that the Nine touched upon in Magenta Pixie’s latest channel (previous post). Building the New Earth is a grassroots, community-driven affair. It starts firstly in the hearts of […]
Social scientists have the concept of “social capital.” What does it refer to? Business journalist Will Kenton defines it: “The term social capital refers to a positive product of human interaction. The positive outcome may be tangible or intangible and may include useful information, innovative ideas, and future opportunities. It can be used to describe […]
THRIVE II will be released online in 15 languages on 09.26.2020 Pre-Order discount available now: https://www.ThriveOn.com THRIVE II: This is What it Takes brings viewers behind the scenes with the people and innovations that have the power to transform life for everyone. Follow a journey across the globe investigating the most promising solutions in […]
CBS Sunday Morning, July 12, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/ybqrwtb8 September 1988, Shreveport, Louisiana: 20-year-old William David McKinney had been fatally shot by a white teenager. Racial tensions, already simmering, boiled over. In the aftermath, anger, frustration and pleas for change. The city was described as a “powder keg.” Thirty-two years later, that powder keg is exploding with […]
I listened to another lightworker give a rousing talk. Seeing how much her wisdom had deepened recently was like a good benchmark to measure how we’re all growing – and how fast we’re all growing. I’m not an activist lightworker. I’m more of a philosopher. I’m an introspective, an urban monk, a hermit. You won’t […]
I find myself repeatedly disappointed reading articles in the alternative press. No, not the mainstream media, which I don’t read except when necessary. The straw that broke the camel’s back was one from the alternative press that started out well. And then before long it descended into name-calling and meme wars. And I just couldn’t […]
Events are happening faster than we can write articles on, so we’re switching to a summary format for some articles. Some subjects may be too uncomfortable to read. We ask you to use discernment in your choice. Skirting the meme war does not affect the subjects we cover; only the sources we use to cover […]
