Tagged with 'social justice'

Obama compared Occupy Wall Street with the Tea Party, and then called
one right and the other left. He doesn't get it. Noami Klein said the Occupy
Wall Street is not a place - that it is a state of mind. She gets it.

MoveOn made a fundraising offer to OWS, and was turned down by the
downward wiggling fingers. Jesse Jackson stood in front of the new

Dispelling Horrible Thoughts
I had a horrible thought while trying to bend my mind around the disturbing "Insights on Divine Darkness" aside from what's this? One of the former leaders of love and light posting as Darth Vader, trying to convince us how benign and useful the dark side really is ? Strange enough and I still don't get it and maybe I should be glad not to.

Here in Britain it’s the morning after the night before, and as widely expected we are well into hung parliament territory, with the distribution of seats making it very unclear as to who will form the next government. The opposition Conservatives are the largest party, but well short of having an overall majority.

After tonight's conference call, where we discussed the future of Evolver Social Movement, I find it important to speak up on the importance of inclusiveness and argue that we find creative ways to involve diverse communities in our efforts to evolve consciousness.

Many of us have wonderful skills, I see it all the time on youtube... I'd like to see us more and more, valuing those skills and the people who have them, and learning from one another, whether or not we are credentialed by some third party.

In this blog, I intend to play around with ideas for developing the Evolver Social Movement into a large-scale membership organization. I hope to learn from your comments and direct engagement in this process, as we seek to launch the first phase of this project within the next month.

“Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy

Please join me as I take a trek out to the Pine Ridge reservation to earn my Permaculture Design Certificate and help create self-sufficiency for members of the most impoverished community in America.

The Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota is in inhumanely deplorable condition.
A brief summary of the challenges faced are:

http://www.up.edu/commencement/default.aspx?cid=9456&pid=3144

I really recommend his latest book Blessed Unrest to Evolvers as well. Its like 200 pages of this speech.

Today I witnessed a trauma. A trauma that happens everyday in the land of Bayview/ Hunters point. I’m not talking about Uganda, but 94124, Bayview/ Hunters Point, San Francisco, one of the liberal hubs of the universe.