A Way Out of a Dark Past By Stacey McKenna, YES Magazine, November 3, 2020 https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/what-the-rest-of-the-world-knows/2020/11/03/canada-truth-reconciliation In the summer of 2011, Simon Hogaluk of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada, sat at a microphone and began telling a story. He spoke through tears of being torn from his parents as a child and forced onto an airplane, where he […]
Positive Money UK: Re-imagining Money, Banks, the Economy for the Well-being of the People
From Wikipedia: Positive Money is a not-for-profit advocacy group based in London and Brussels. Positive Money’s mission is to promote a fair, democratic and sustainable economy through reforms of central banks and alternative monetary policy tools. Its current Executive Director is geophysicist, Fran Boait. Click on the meme above to read their full new strategy. […]
New NZ Social-Media Site a Voice for Freedom
New social-media site a-building in New Zealand. They say of themselves: Voices for Freedom, at https://voicesforfreedom.co.nz/#takeaction Voices for Freedom launched in December 2020. We are a non political grassroots organisation which has generated a strong network of supporters and volunteers across NZ. We provide a platform for relevant and important questions to be raised. We […]
Backgrounder: Will Rape Allegations Change Australia’s ‘Toxic’ Politics?
Accountabilty Will rape allegations change Australia’s ‘toxic’ politics? Shaimaa Khalil, BBC, 10 March 2021 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56342255) “In my time working in this area and particularly looking in workplaces over the [past] 30 years, I’ve never seen any moment like this,” said Kate Jenkins, Australia’s sex discrimination commissioner. Ms Jenkins was describing the extraordinary moment Australian politics […]
Pandemic Highlighting Violence Against Women: Time for Change
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Facts and Figures: Ending Violence Against Women https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/facts-and-figures Availability of data on violence against women and girls has increased significantly in recent years, and data on the prevalence of intimate partner violence is now available for at least 106 countries. Visit our research and data page for more information on why data is critical […]
Richard Branson, Peter Gabriel & the Elders: Reminding Us Why We Need Peace
The article below is excerpted from a Virgin blog post by Richard Branson, March 16, 2021. In it he describes how he and musician, Peter Gabriel, were instrumental in the forming of the group called, The Elders, made up of independent global leaders working together for peace and human rights. A Reminder of Why We […]
Indigenous Women Standing for Love, Freedom and Equality in Community
November 29th, 2011, Archangel Michael through Linda Dillon, talked to me about “the construction of what we think of as New Earth, a new and different, conscious reality” and in the same breath, “the breaking down of illusions. . . such as lack, limitation, death, destruction, disease, greed, lust, control, power.” He went on to […]
Ideas to Help our Homeless. . .
How One Interior Designer is Helping — with Her Invoices Interior designers typically serve the 1%. Jessica Helgerson wants to turn that on its head. By Aimee Rawlins, Fast Company, February 10th, 2021 https://www.fastcompany.com/90602613/how-one-interior-designer-is-fighting-homelessness-with-her-invoices “The one percent” is most often used as a pejorative, shorthand for elite, out-of-touch vultures who prey on the working class. […]
What’s Going On? – Part 1/2
What’s going on? In the world? In my nation? Let me pretend I’m talking to a newcomer. Where do I start? It depends on how far back we want to go from what we see around us. Sort of like adjusting the microscope. Why don’t we focus out a bit and ask ourselves, to start […]
No Looking Back Then
Move and countermove is happening in the outside world. Now the President is impeached. And tomorrow…? Our only reliable channels of information on the political scene seem to be intel people and our own galactic and celestial sources. That’s what we have to draw on to put the pieces of the puzzle together. If we […]
It’s a Matter of Behavior, not People
Two questions arise that seem to determine peace or war, an end to the cycle or one more turn of the wheel of human suffering: (1) How far do we wish to go? (2) Under what conditions would we stop? (1) People who want to control the world – or the better part of it […]
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: International Message for Freedom and Hope
Writeup: Today, October 24, 2020, there are many rallies around the world. Activists in these countries are joining in a common voice: Argentina; Bolivia; Peru; Uruguay; Italy; Germany; Poland; Belgium; Netherlands; United Kingdom; Ireland; Sweden; Denmark; France; and Austria. Citizens of all countries are paying an enormous price for the epidemic. They have not only […]
Pope Calls for Civil Unions for Same-Sex Couples
Pope calls for civil unions for same-sex couples, in major departure from Vatican doctrine “Homosexuals have a right to be part of the family,” the pontiff said in “Francesco,” a documentary about his life. Henry Austin, NBC News, Oct. 21, 2020 (https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/pope-calls-civil-unions-same-sex-couples-major-departure-vatican-n1244137) Pope Francis called for the passage of civil union laws for same-sex couples […]
NPR: Princeton University Agrees to Nearly $1 Million in Back Pay to Female Professors
By Brakkton Booker, NPR, October 13th, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/10/13/923233877/princeton-university-agrees-to-nearly-1-million-in-back-pay-to-female-professors One of the nation’s most prestigious universities has agreed to pay nearly $1 million in back pay to female professors following allegations of pay discrimination. The Ivy League university will pay $925,000 in back pay and at least $250,000 in future wages, as part of an agreement […]
20-20, Oct. 2, 2020
Good day to ponder the state of the world: Oct. 2, 2020 = 1 11 22 or, if you like, 1 11 11 11. New beginnings in truth. Too many articles to post individually. One of the reasons I posted the article “CNN Claims Society Will Never Go ‘Back to Normal’” is not to raise […]
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