Toward a World that Works for Everyone
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 […]
From the publisher’s summary: A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment As the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration harm historically-marginalized communities and tear families apart, how do we define safety? Community leader and lawyer Zach Norris lays out a radical way […]
CBS News, January 6, 2021 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inmates-fundraise-to-pay-for-student/ For the past seven years, students from the Palma School in Salinas, California have been part of a book club at an unlikely place—Soledad State Prison. Mia Mirassou and Jim Micheletti founded the book club called “Exercises In Empathy.” Micheletti told CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca that students would […]
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 […]
Native communities share heritage ways to live and care for each other during this latest pandemic. (Especially interesting are their peacemaking circles.) The political and social cacophony of recent years has drowned out expressions of compassion and unity. If we listen carefully, we can hear the rational, gracious, intensely determined voices of the nation’s First […]
From An Hour with an Angel in 2013, Serenia discusses how the galactics are filling the atmosphere with air that is cleaner than any we’ve been used to, not only for our sakes but for the sake of the ground forces that are here. The science fleet is putting “programs” in the air that are […]
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. […]
In Rise Up!, a game focused on winning a people’s movement, social capital is key. Forget Monopoly. There are new games that challenge us to turn our competitive drive toward solving social problems. The familiar catch: We risk losing to “The System” if the relationship between players breaks down and someone thinks that the movement’s […]
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 […]
