Toward a World that Works for Everyone
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/connect/togetherathome/ Take the Pledge to Stay at Home In the face of lockdowns and losses, it’s easy to feel helpless — but there are things we can all do to beat coronavirus. From taking care to wash our hands, to staying at home, to calling on governments, big business and billionaires to step up, it’s […]
Covid-19 shines a light on our common humanity and shared vulnerabilities Gro Harlem Brundtland, The Elders, Apr. 2, 2020 https://www.theelders.org/news/covid-19-shines-light-our-common-humanity-and-shared-vulnerabilities These are unprecedented times for the health and wellbeing of the world. Dear Friends, These are unprecedented times for the health and wellbeing of the world. Millions of people around the world have been ordered […]
This is a long but stimulating article. It’s a reflection on what we can achieve when humanity is united. The Coronation Charles Eisenstein, March 20, 2020 https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/?_page=3 For years, normality has been stretched nearly to its breaking point, a rope pulled tighter and tighter, waiting for a nip of the black swan’s beak to snap […]
A roundup of articles on the status of the Coronavirus and ways we can help…. Women are using code words at pharmacies to escape domestic violence during lockdown By Ivana Kottasová and Valentina Di Donato, CNN, April 2, 2020 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/02/europe/domestic-violence-coronavirus-lockdown-intl/index.html blockquo (CNN)On Sunday, a woman walked into a pharmacy in the French city of […]
The rumors are flying – Coronavirus will be short-lived; no, it won’t – There’ll be three days of darkness; no, there won’t – 5G lowers immunity and promotes susceptibility to a virus; no, it’s perfectly safe. If I could hold everything else constant and just run one variable and look at it (which of course […]
A roundup of articles on the status of the Coronavirus and ways we can help…. Coronavirus: Transforming London’s ExCeL centre into Nightingale hospital BBC.com, April 1, 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-52112652/coronavirus-transforming-london-s-excel-centre-into-nightingale-hospital Timelapse footage has captured the transformation of London’s ExCeL centre into a temporary hospital for coronavirus patients. The Nightingale Hospital is expected to be operational by […]
Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression “We are freezing the economy.” Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, March 21, 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/denmark-freezing-its-economy-should-us/608533/ While the White House and lawmakers haggle over the terms of an emergency economic-stabilization package, Denmark has gone big—very, very big—to defeat the unprecedented challenge of the coronavirus. This week, the Danish […]
What a unique situation we’re in. We’re losing people, whether or not it was in their soul agreement, and at the same time, this is a valuable occasion for human unity to emerge. Think of it: Every single person on the planet faces the same situation. Everyone has a common fear. They fear catching Coronavirus […]
The fear of dying or of causing the death of another – and this fear facing us and every human being around us – has galvanized the world. It has gotten the world’s attention in a way that previous chaos did not. Not the whole world’s attention. Coronavirus is happening everywhere. Everyone is facing the […]
The Associated Press, March 8, 2020 Gender study finds nearly 90% of both men and women hold some kind of bias against women A woman in a gas mask attends a protest demanding equality on International Women’s Day in Paris on Sunday. The placard reads ‘Patriarchy virus. We are the antidote.’ (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters) Calling himself […]
Writer’s Corner by Ed Love https://www.edlovecoaching.com/2020/02/12/harmony-with-other-cultures-cultural-intelligence-cq/ To many, it’s obvious that different countries have different cultures. After all, look at all that strange food, curious clothing, and interesting tourist attractions! However, after spending many years living and working overseas, I’ve noticed that it goes so much deeper than that. It’s very easy to think that […]
From 2019. Family Farms Use ‘Crop Mobsters’ to Prevent More Than 1 Million Servings Of Food From Going To Waste Michael Goonan, Good News Network, Jul 15, 2019 https://tinyurl.com/wfrs5ob Although 96% of the 2 million farms in the United States are family-owned, the top 5% of farms, mostly run by large corporations, make 75% of […]
Retrospective from early 2019 Séverine Autesserre: Why the way we make peace needs to change Safiya Songhai and Kate Roff, January 22, 2019, Peace News Network https://tinyurl.com/ucjmro8 In places like South Sudan, Syria and Congo failed peace pacts have devastating consequences. Now, renowned author Séverine Autesserre is writing a new book that focuses on different […]
What’s the Secret to Success for Nonviolent Movements? Try Solidarity Rivera Sun, Non-Violence News, Dec. 5, 2019 https://wagingnonviolence.org/metta/2019/12/whats-the-secret-to-success-for-nonviolent-movements-try-solidarity/ There’s a secret to success for nonviolent movements for change: solidarity. Instead of “going it alone,” movements can amplify their message, leverage collective power, and build strength by seeking solidarity from aligned organizations and groups. Movements can […]
Surgeon Fights Medical Debt by Allowing Patients and Families to Pay for Surgeries With Volunteer Work McKinley Corbley, Good News Network, Dec 19, 2019 https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/surgeon-allows-patients-to-pay-for-surgeries-with-volunteering/ Rather than allow his patients to go bankrupt from medical debt, a Nebraska surgeon has partnered with several local charities so his patients can pay for their operations with community […]
