Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Oakland Residents Transform Abandoned Lot Into Sanctuary For Camping Homeless Women https://tinyurl.com/rljbpep California’s housing crisis is hitting especially lower-income communities harder than ever, as rent prices continue to rise stemming from the endless injections of big-tech money into areas like San Francisco and Oakland. According to The Guardian, the number of homeless encampments within the city […]
Elton John Pledges $1 Million to Australia Bushfire Relief Rolling Stone, Jan. 8, 2020 https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elton-john-donate-australian-bushfires-934693/ “There are people out there who have lost their lives trying to save homes,” artist said during a concert in Sydney Elton John has pledged to donate $1 million to the relief fund for those affected by the Australian bushfire […]
About Inequality Worldwide Confronting inequalities is not about merely bridging gaps, it requires confronting entrenched interests. Mona Fawaz, Common Dreams, Jan. 2, 2020 https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/02/what-protests-lebanon-can-tell-us-about-inequality-worldwide Lebanon is more than two months into the wave of protests rocking the country. Chief among the grievances driving people onto the streets are entrenched inequalities and compromised human dignity. Even […]
If not me, who? If not now, when? Every project, even a mega-project like Building Nova Earth, requires a commencement ceremony. Will you permit me, on this New Year’s Day, 20/20, to host ours? [Music please.] Ladies and gentlemen, on my own divine authority and as a servant of the Divine Mother and Archangel […]
We have a custom at New Year’s of making resolutions. That process now has increased significance. As the vibrations rise, our resolutions have an ever greater chance of manifesting. SaLuSa said long ago: “A quantum leap in your consciousness … is what is happening now, and the more your individual levels increase, the more your […]
As I continue to research the value of a positive outlook – which I pooh-poohed for decades – I came across a very interesting analysis from Saul of the disappearance of the deep state without the need to punish them. I reproduce that here: Saul, Feb. 22, 2011, at http://johnsmallman.wordpress.com As you wait expectantly for […]
Pots-and-Pans Protests Raise a Racket for Justice Non-Violence News, December 8, 2019 http://www.nonviolencenews.org/2019/12/08/pots-and-pans-protests/ Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Nonviolence comes in thousands of shapes and sizes. It’s a force, a field of potential, a method of making change, even a way of life. While this week’s headline celebrates the Latin America-wide cacerolazo (pots-and-pans protest), I’m also uplifting […]
Remarkable synopsis from Oct. 2019. But first a note from Matthew Ward: “It is immensely heartening that most of you are seeing the positive perspective of situations that the media are reporting with bleak overtones, such as the potential economic meltdown in the ‘Eurozone’ and the global boomerang effect, upheaval in several governments creating national […]
The forces that oppose global peace, unity, and harmony fall into three types. The first type is the deep state, which chose decades ago to precipitate World War III, reduce the population to a docile 500 million slaves, and assume full-spectrum dominance over the planet. (1) The second is the authoritarian culture which enforces a […]
What is the background against which the Reval is unfolding? What is the view from the vantage point of the Company of Heaven? Blossom’s sources in the Galactic Federation of Light assured us in mid-summer 2019 that rapid change will begin happening soon. It has already begun. “Things will not be proceeding as normal, Blossom. […]
What I’ve been saying so far is that, as we go about considering how we’ll build a new global society – Nova Earth – we may find that the only sure and workable foundation to build on is (1) love and (2) the divine qualities which are the various forms and permutations of love, such […]
Colombia protests resume after talks flounder BBC.com, Dec. 4, 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50664018 Trade unions, student and indigenous groups are marching in Colombia’s major cities to increase the pressure on the government of President Iván Duque. The protests started almost two weeks ago with hundreds of thousands of people taking part in rallies. The demands of those […]
Alabama unveils statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks Seattle Times/Associated Press, Dec. 1, 2019 https://tinyurl.com/rt67h4s MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A new statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was dedicated in Alabama’s capital city on Sunday, the 64th anniversary of her historic refusal to give up her seat on a public bus to a […]
The countries hit by major protests in 2019 Gabriel Power, The Week, Nov 19, 2019 https://www.theweek.co.uk/104416/the-countries-hit-by-major-protests-in-2019 Millions have taken to the streets across the globe this year demanding change From the students occupying university buildings in Hong Kong to activists overthrowing a 30-year dictatorship in Sudan, 2019 has seen a resurgence in the use of […]
Police fire tear gas & water cannons as mass anti-govt protests in Colombia’s capital turn violent (PHOTOS, VIDEOS) Russia Today, 22 Nov, 2019 https://www.rt.com/news/474042-colombia-protests-tear-gas/ Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in cities across Colombia in a mass strike against the government of President Ivan Duque. While largely peaceful, clashes with riot police broke out […]
