Maybe you’ve already heard about this.. Maybe you don’t think it’s that important, or people are exaggerating. But it is true. The access to the Internet that we love and take for granted is threatened in ways absolutely unprecedented. Your urgent action is needed. PROTECT-IP is yet another bill whose name makes it sound like … Read more
Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below. ~ Roger Nash Baldwin Today we celebrate International Human Rights Day, marking the 63rd anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This is a time to be truly inspired on behalf of people … Read more
A thousand thanks to blog friend Susannah Azzaro for sending me this video. She has shared it on her beautiful blog today, also. In view of the shameful, violent crack-downs on peaceful citizens exercising their First Amendment rights, and which are going largely unreported, at this pivotal moment of transformation, I offer this. It is … Read more
I love The Young Turks videos. This spells out new details of exactly how the banking bailout was the biggest swindle in American history. We have been robbed blind, you and me, and no one is doing anything about it, except all those people in the streets.
How better to honor our war Veterans than to resolve to end the millennia of wars and violence? Here is another powerful, beautiful post from Riyana, who is at Occupy Oakland. (Remember the Occupy movement? Despite mainstream media having mostly moved on to other things (as we knew they would!), Occupy is still growing and … Read more
As you know, on the weekends, I usually share art, poetry, or views from other visionaries. Today’s post is certainly that, and more. You see, Jen Louden is one of my real SHE-roes. She wrote The Woman’s Comfort Book back in 1992, which at times was my own hanging-on-by-my-fingernails survival manual through much of that … Read more
This is so important, folks. We are in the midst of the best opportunity for real transformation that I have seen in decades. And it comes at such a pivotal time.. we can’t afford to wait, we mustn’t turn away from this. It might be our last best hope. David Korten adds his illuminating perspective … Read more
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From the blog of a young woman who has studied under Joanna Macy, who is a part of the Pagan cluster and is on the front lines in Occupy DC, which is a part of the greater transformational energy moving and growing before our eyes. Thank you, beautiful Riyana, for standing for us. I am … Read more
History has been made. While they still can’t drive, or leave the country unaccompanied, and many other demeaning restrictions remain for now, the women of Saudi Arabia will at last be given the right to vote and hold public office. You can read more about it here. Let us welcome and bless our hard-pressed sisters. … Read more