Toward a World that Works for Everyone
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 […]
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 […]
Note from Suzy Ward: Matthew said he didn’t speak completely about GMO foods and asked me to amend this part of the message about them: Genetically modified foods themselves are not harmful, but chemicals in the insecticide are, so thoroughly washing those foods and all other produce as well is important. Also, chemicals and sugar […]
“When the time for things comes, they happen by whatever means are available,” Werner Erhard said. (1) Three recent events illustrate that. The first is the recent commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. When the time came for freedom for East Germans, not even a concrete wall could prevent its advent and spread […]
Do today’s global protests have anything in common? BBC.com, Oct. 22, 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50123743 In recent weeks, mass protests have broken out in countries from Lebanon to Spain to Chile. All are different – with distinct causes, methods and goals – but there are some common themes that connect them. While thousands of miles apart, protests […]
