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Bill McKibben: What Winning the Climate Change Battle Looks Like | Bioneers 2016

23 March 2017 Leave a Comment

"The most influential climate activist of our era, Bill McKibben, a founder of the extraordinarily effective 350.org grassroots campaign, describes the immense groundswell of global citizen engagement rising to challenge the "dirty" energy industry. Find out where we are scientifically and politically in the transformation to end our reliance on fossil fuels, while lighting the pathways toward a clean-energy future." Introduction by Clayton Thoma-Muller, 350.org Bill will be one of the keynote … Watch video

Victory for Standing Rock ~ Lyla June

24 February 2017 Leave a Comment

A crucial reminder from prayer activist Lyla June countering the narrative that the movement is over. "We won this movement in so many profound ways. We have planted seeds all across the world and inspried and awakened people to see water in a new way, to see water as life. We have united peoples of all races in this country behind a common dream. And that's a win! We're going to continue to keep protecting the water... we need to send a clear message to our descendents that we stood up, and … Watch video

The secret to effective nonviolent resistance | Jamila Raqib

23 February 2017 2 Comments

"Jamila Raqib grew up with the sound of tanks rolling around her Afghanistan home. From a young age, she felt the suffering and horror conflict brings. "We're not going to end violence by telling people that it's morally wrong, says Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution. Instead, we must find alternative ways to conduct conflict that are equally powerful and effective. Raqib promotes nonviolent resistance to people living under tyranny - and there's a lot more to … Watch video

Love Takes Action: The Power of Peaceful Protest

18 February 2017 Leave a Comment

As part of its #LoveTakesAction series, the Huffington Post recently interviewed a nun and a monk at Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village monastery in France, to ask what advice they would give to activists. "Sister Peace, who previously worked in the office of the mayor of Washington, says action must be inspired by a deep-rooted sense of love. “If we can be strong in ourselves, then we could offer a resistance that is nonviolent,” she said. “But that means that we ourselves are at a place where we … Watch video

Love Will Change the World ~ March On by Fire Mane

7 February 2017 Leave a Comment

This song is an anthem for the Lovers, for those of us that are here to make change and create a NEW WAY. It is a pledge to Hope and Encouragement, a reminder that both our strength and softness of Love is needed now. We need not raise arms in war. We need not fight AGAINST, but stand FOR. At this time in human history, when the shadow is being brought to light, may we MARCH ON in solidarity of a harmonious world, may we MARCH ON in Love. For it is our LOVE that is changing the game, it is … Watch video

The Higher Dream: Keep It Safe. Speak Its Voice. By Thanissara

30 January 2017 Leave a Comment

Timely wisdom from former Buddhist nun, Thanissara, author of Time To Stand Up, A Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth. With thanks to Cynthia Jurs for sharing this compellling message.... The reclamation of the lost feminine within us all is vital. She is the instinctive knowing of the sacred interconnection of all things. She is the power of the imaginative that births the creative. She relates through participation, bounteousness, and collaboration rather than dominance, withholding, and … Continue reading

Brushes with the Mainstream | Charles Eisenstein

28 January 2017 Leave a Comment

Charles Eisenstein reflects on his recent brushes with the mainstream of American culture and politics: an appearance on the Tavis Smiley show, Occupy the Inauguration, and the global Women's Marches .... "Despite the fiery, militant rhetoric, despite the military metaphors, love, peace, empathy, and compassion are ascendant in all these “marches.” The women aren’t going to tear down the patriarchy using its own devices. They aren’t going to turn patriarchy’s violence, degradation, … Continue reading

Calling All Pioneers of the New Paradigm! The Time for Activating Coherent Planetary Cocreation is Now | United Earth

26 January 2017 19 Comments

From our fellow change agents at United Earth.... The Time for Activating Coherent Planetary Co-creation is Now. The Time for Collectively Inviting in Resource Abundance is Now. The Time to Make “The Blessed Unrest” Visible to the World is Now. The Time to Show All Humankind HOW We Can All Live in Abundance is Now. The Time for Effectively Inviting All of Humanity into a New Paradigm is Now. The Time to Celebrate Our Global Renaissance is Now. Please share your resonance with the intentions … Watch video

Activism in the New Climate | Kosmos Live Panel Event

17 January 2017 Leave a Comment

History-making activists from three countries and wide experience join to discuss the outlook for activism in 2017. How will the new political climate, as well as the increasing pressures of climate chaos and exploitative and extractive practices, impact the attitudes and tactics of changemakers in the times ahead? Enjoy the full recorded event with panelists Martin Kirk, Jodie Evans, Valerie Brown, Leslie Davenport, Shaun Chamberlin, Juan Orozco and our terrific moderator, Lina Blount. From … Watch video

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