Welcoming reception for fourteen women leaders from Benin, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Republic of South Sudan, Togo, and the United Kingdom.; participants in the Dept. of State International Visitor Leadership Program; focusing on ‘Promoting Peace and Security’
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Join us for an interfaith prayer service in honor of the Day of World Prayer. Prayer vigil from 3:30- 6:00, circle at 7:00. Let us be One in prayers for peace and compassion.
We want you to join our co-opetition to make New York City a compassionate city! We’re challenging New Yorkers to challenge their bias by taking compassionate action within their communities. We’re not just talking about creating change, we’re taking action to make changes!
From September 11th to September 21st, we will provide you with a daily challenge to do one random act of kindness. These acts will range from simple acts to more engaging acts of kindness. You decide how you want to play. You will also have the opportunity to post your act of kindness on our Compassion Map.
From September 11th to 12th, we want to honor veterans and first responders.
We encourage families to participate and get started on the road to compassion.
Our goal is to transform how we as New Yorkers think about ourselves, others and our communities.
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Change the World
Celebrating our 11th Anniversary in 2015!
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11DaysOfGlobalUnity.org 11 Campaigns For Change Promoted Globally Culminating on Sept. 21st the U.N. International Day of Peace 11 Days of Global Unity September 11-21 is a worldwide platform providing 11 Ways to Transform Our World. All agents of social change are invited to join in this global campaign for peace, justice, sustainability and transformation.Join the Extraordinary Partners and Allies of 11 Days of Global Unity! Register your group (it’s free) – Your Group’s Name, Link, Mission, Goals and Action Steps will automatically go up on our 11 Days Participation pages which we regularly promote to a global audience!
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Deep Dialogues on Each of the 11 Themes of Change Featuring some of the most Visionary Thinkers
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series. Speaker Schedule
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time: Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik) Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World) (Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.) Have a question you want to ask Deepak Chopra or one of the other Summit speakers? Click here! Click here to register – it’s FREE! To be a Co-Sponsor or an Affiliate of this 11 Days Summit reply to this message or click here! |
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Aspiring Hands, Inc., 7066 Sandy Springs Rd, Maumee, Ohio 43537 419-290-5788. Contact Bryon Schaefer
Collection of Food or Clothing, Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc., Making packets or items for distribution to those in need, Deliveries to Cancer patients, Spending time with senior citizens.
From 9/11 through 9/21, Terrazas Branch Library (Austin Public Libraries) will feature an ongoing display of relevant books as well as a community bulletin board and a suggestion table where people can post their own experiences of peace, their hopes for peace, their feelings on and how to better practice and share compassion to bring peace to the world. The library will be decorated with outdoor signs to publicize Peace Day.
This event is part of the Peace Day Austin activities.
Benefit Concert hosted by Fourth Street Live
-$5.00 cover charge to support Operation Helping Heroes
Boy Scouts of America, Erie Shores Council, 5600 W. Sylvania Ave., Toledo www.erieshorescouncil.org
Contact Andrew Curran andrew.curran@scouting.org
Fundraiser, Collection of Food or Clothing
Place of worship, businesses, and everywhere people are encourage to collect donate cans of food and non-perishable food items. We are asking everyone to place a box in your foyer or common area and let the food roll in. We will arrange for the local food pantries/banks to come pick up it and make sure it gets to the tummies of our children, our hungry, our military families and veterans.
Sharing of Happiness Government Center, Erie and Jackson Contact Bob “Mr. Happy” Moyers 419-533-4191 Center Of Unconditional Love Community Building Event
9/11 – 9/21 Christ the King Church Hub of Love – 4100 Harvest Ln, Toledo, OH 43623. Contact Brian Smith 419-475-4348 multiple projects in one space
The documentary, Kindness is Contagious, will be the kick-off for Circles of Peace 2015: Compassionate Communities and the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest. Kindness Is Contagious is a feel-good documentary, narrated by Catherine Ryan Hyde, bestselling author of the book and film Pay It Forward. Kindness is Contagious is about being nice and the benefits of being nice. The film profiles cutting-edge scientists and best-selling authors, from Berkeley to Harvard and everywhere in between, as well as everyday people from all walks of life whose lives illustrate their incredible discovery: NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST! Guests will also be treated to exclusive showing of the trailer for the landmark series Belief that will air October 18-24 on OWN.
Participants choose a five day period, or one day, between September 11 and September 21 on which they will only spend $3.96 a day on food. That is the amount a single person on welfare receives for food a day. Participants will be showing solidarity with people on welfare, while learning what it’s like to struggle to put adequate food on one’s table.
2. Participants are encouraged to calculate what they would normally spend per day on food and donate the difference – or more – to Winnipeg Harvest.
3. On Monday, September 21 at 11 a.m. at Winnipeg Harvest, all participants will be encouraged to attend a group discussion and share their experience. Following the discussion, all participants will be invited to tour Winnipeg Harvest facilities. Participants will be invited to share their experiences widely and continue working with Winnipeg Harvest to end the need for food banks. All participants will be advised of volunteering and donating opportunities.
4. Participants can email Janelle Duerksen at Janelle.duerksen@winnipegharvest.org for more information.
CommunityCare Clinics, 2150 South Byrne Road, Toledo, OH 43614. Contact Sally Itawi Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc., http://www.utcommunitycare.org/
Free Medical Clinic. The CommunityCare Clinic is a project of The University of Toledo College of Medicine
Fill the Bowl – have a PET FOOD drive to join your parish food pantry!
First Unitarian Church of Toledo Clothing / Hygiene Product Collection
Collection of gently used clothing and Hygiene Products will be donated to Tent City.
Knit Wits – knit & crochet hats, scarves & mittens for kids in need; monthly meeting and work at home
Food For Thought
316 Adams Street–Floor 2, Toledo, OH 43604 feedtoledo.org Contact Jill Bunge 419.972.0022
Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc., Making packets or items for distribution to those in need Friday Night Lunch Packing/Saturday Morning Distribution
Heroes Appreciation Week
Heroes in Action, Inc., 2429 S. Reynolds Road, Toledo, OH 43614, Contact Dawn Heisler 419 699 3439
Fundraiser, Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc., Military, Police & Military involved in educating 600 school children on doing right choices in life. Fun day as well with activities
Hindu Temple of Toledo Blood Drive, 4336 King Road, Sylvania, OH. 43560, Anant Dixit, anantadixit@yahoo.com, 419-843-4440 Blood donation for 9/11
United Way Winnipeg wishes to support the efforts of Doorways by collecting items for Home Starter Kits. Doorways works towards ending homelessness by using a ‘Housing First ‘approach to assist individuals to move from homelessness to independent/permanent housing. They coordinate an intake process for homeless individuals in partnership with five community organizations. The Home Starter Kits will help individuals with their transition out of homelessness.
Home Starter Kits will help support individuals as they transition into their first homes from homelessness. These kits will be comprised of various household items. We are requesting new and gently used donations of (but not limited to) the following:
– Toilet paper
– Dish soap
– Cleaning supplies
– Laundry baskets
– Tea towels
– Laundry detergent
– Brooms & dust pans
– Mops & mop pails
– Cutlery
– Alarm clock
– Pots
– Pans
– Shower curtain & rings
– Toilet cleaning brushes
– Garbage cans
– Garbage bags
– Toothbrushes & toothpaste
– Hand soap
– Can openers
– Spatulas
– Dryer sheets
– Kettles
– Toasters
– Cutting boards
Donations can be dropped off at United Way Winnipeg, 580 Main Street, Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Please keep items separate. The kits will be packaged at later date. If you have any questions, please contact Hillary Gair at United Way at 204-924-4273 or hgair@unitedwaywinnipeg.mb.ca
How were you affected by 9/11?…choose to respond in terms of:
-what are your memories and how were you affected that day?
-how has your life been changed/how have you been affected since that day?
-how has our country/the world been changed by that day?
Special focus on under-represented, minority, and special groups (e.g. muslims, fallen heroes)
SUBMIT TO: https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
Lutheran Social Services, 2149 Collingwood Blvd, Toledo
Contact Mark mhill@lssnwo.org
Collection of Food or Clothing, Volunteer Food Pantry
5-7am live TV coverage/early morning news, leaderboard info and upcoming dedications/ceremonies.
FREE donuts/coffee.
9-10am middle school-college volunteers remembrance walk down 4th street Live with Butler band.
10-11am students visit Metro Hall/Jefferson Square for 9/11 and Opening ceremonies, placement of remembrance flags.
12pm-1pm Memorial Event and LUNCH at Fourth Street Live!
Training for ChooseWell staff
4-6pm
Most Blessed Sacrament Parish, 2240 Castlewood Dr., Toledo, Contact Jill Fishman, Compassion Games,
Hub of Love – multiple projects in one space
Mustard Seed Outreach
5420 302nd Street, Toledo, OH 43611; Contact Lori Jarrell mustardseed302@hotmail.com
Collection of Food or Clothing
Principle Business Enterprises Associates Give Back 20189 Pine Lake Rd, Bowling Green, OH 43402 www.tranquilityproducts.com www.principlebusinessenterprises.com
contact Jane Curry 419.352.1551 ext. #223, Penny collection Shoe Collection for Save the Feet & Penny Collection for Cocoon Shelter
Quilts of Compassion PO Box 350296, Toledo, OH 43635, Janice Grimes Compassion In Action – Check out our Facebook Page!!! 419-708-9343 Making prayer quilts at multiple locations and delivering quilts to organizations and individuals throughout the community to “Bring Hope & Encouragement to the Hurting” to those we lovingly serve.
Rahab’s Heart, That Neighborhood Church, 1501 N. Ontario St. Toledo Ohio 43604. Contact Tina 419-344-6892 www.rahabsheart.com
Street Outreach; Hot Dinners; Drop-In Center Street Outreach;
Read for Literacy, Inc. 325 N. Michigan, Toledo, OH 43604, Contact Diana Bush, 419-242-7323
Literacy tutoring
9/11, 9/14-18, 9/21 The Claver House at St. Martin de Porres Parish 1119 W. Bancroft Street Toledo, OH 43606. Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc. Contact Gayle Vonderembse (419) 340-1738 A Hospitality Kitchen that serves food Monday-Friday every week of the year.
Toledo Community Outreach Days; Mobile Pantry The University Church, 4747 Hill Ave, Toledo, Megan Firestone-Bringe Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc., Community Garden Volunteering
Toledo Police Patrolman Association Canned Goods Drive Drop offs 1947 Franklin St, 525 N Erie St, 2301 Nebraska Ave, 2330 W. Sylvania
Contact Det. Mark Nelson 419-936-3831
Toledo Seagate Food Bank, 526 High Street, Toledo, OH 43609 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Toledo-Seagate-Food-Bank/106679977129 Contact Cheri Dennis 419-244-6996
Feed our neighbors in NorthWest Ohio Collection of Food or Clothing, Making packets or items for distribution to those in need
Tree Toledo Digs & Displays, 3156 Doyle Street & Various addresses around town, Toledo, OH 43608 Contact Bev Bingle urbanhermit@catholicweb.com, 419-360-1217
United Way of Greater Toledo, 424 Jackson St., Toledo, Oh 43604, Grace Martin, Various Group Volunteer Projects 419-254-4672
A food drive benefiting the Lorain County Community College (LCCC, LC3) food pantry will be held on the main campus. Boxes marked with bright blue Compassion Games Food Drive will be in every building by entrance ways.
For those of you who asked me to send this: We will be having a Freedom 101 4-day seminar for women in the Louisville Jail Sept 10-13 (Th & Fr nights, 6-10, Sat 9am-10pm with 2 meal breaks, and Sun 8am-noon-ish). You are all welcome to attend as students. I would need to get you screened beforehand, however. (You’d need to send a copy of State ID + SSN to our contact at the jail.) Let me know if interested! We have one “external student” so far and a max of 17 “internal” students, last I heard. It is an amazing experience and can be life-changing. (It was for me!) ================================================================================btw – please be sure you have THIS email for me in whatever lists you have.(Note the dash between “freedom” and “101” (dbulleit@freedom-101.org); some people have mistaken it for an underscore, as in freedom_101); I am missing too much important email from you!
Greater Toledo & NW Ohio are kicking off their games with action – cleanups in the Warehouse & Uptown Districts. Teams will use trash pickers, gloves, bags and compassionate elbow grease to spruce up two central city neighborhoods.
Mayor Greg Fischer, and the Flags4Vets Organization, cordially invite citizens of the Louisville area to participate in this solemn event to honor & remember those who lost their lives at The World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and those who were lost on Flight 93. Volunteers are needed to help place 2,977 U.S. Flags to honor those lost that day. Jefferson Street will be closed between 5th and 6th Streets, and 6th Street will be closed between Liberty and Jefferson and will be occupied by First Responder Vehicles.
Contact info: Fred Moore – Flags4Vets Moore@theusflag.com 502-931-0374
The Why:
This is Phase 1 of Post 2713’s building makeover. The focus will be on Painting the interior and exterior, cleanup around and inside the building, and brush removal around the parking area.
We will be doing this in partnership with the Hall’s current monthly occupants: Celtic Arts NW, Serenity Now AA, Fit4Mom and the Underground Theater.
The VFW is wishes to make the space more appealing to the community but they can’t do it without your help.
Come to work, meet new people and make a difference. It’s time to Report for Duty in your community!
In honor of National Service Day
The Mission:
To cleanup, paint, and landscape at Farewell-Roosevelt VFW Post 2713
The Why:
This is Phase 1 of Post 2713’s building makeover. The focus will be on Painting the interior and exterior, cleanup around and inside the building, and brush removal around the parking area.
We will be doing this in partnership with the Hall’s current monthly occupants: Celtic Arts NW, Serenity Now AA, Fit4Mom and the Underground Theater.
The VFW is wishes to make the space more appealing to the community but they can’t do it without your help.
Come to work, meet new people and make a difference. It’s time to Report for Duty in your community!
***We will also start preparing West Seattle Veterans Center for the 9/12 support event****
An Opening Ceremony for the Compassion Games honoring our first responders, reflecting on September 11th, and kicking off the Compassion Games on campus and in the community
Deepak Chopra Speaks on the Subject of UNITY
September 11, 2015 at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time
Participate by computer or phone from anywhere worldwide!
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series.
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time:
Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart
Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig
Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone
Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams
Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin
Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler
Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete
Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater
Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik)
Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World)
(Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.)
Have a question you want to ask Deepak Chopra or one of the other Summit speakers? Click here!
Click here to register – it’s FREE!
To be a Co-Sponsor or an Affiliate of this 11 Days Summit reply to this message or click here !
The Torch Relay is set to mark the beginning of the Compassion Games on September 11th.
Take turns carrying the Compassion Games ‘torch’ down Victoria Street from 6th Avenue to 1st Avenue tomorrow at noon.
The Healers of the Valley will be thanking our first responders for ALL they do for us!!
Fourth Street Live! is hosting a benefit concert for Operation Helping Heroes. Great live music performances. Come honor all of our First Responders and Military Heroes and have a great time!
Fourth Street Live! is hosting a benefit concert for Operation Helping Heroes. Great live music performances. Come honor all of our First Responders and Military Heroes and have a great time!
Help celebrate Mexico’s Independence with free games, prizes, music & food! Everyone is welcome!
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
To RSVP & Livestream from anywhere on the planet head to -Facebook Event Link-
2015 Annual Compassion Games Opening Ceremony
“Compassion Is Our Power-Source”
Friday, September 11th 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Livestream link to participate online:
At Seattle Center Armory Building
#911day #ServiceInAction #2015CompassionWins #SeattleCenterKickoff #Serving1Million #collectivepeaceinaction
We welcome you locally and globally to join us in our Opening Ceremony of The 2015 Annual Compassion Games, the largest compassion competition in the world!! Our intent is to move, inspire, and challenge you into conscious action in collective compassion during the 11 Days of Global Unity!
Intentions
What are the objectives?
- On the evening of 9/11, this event is the opening ceremonies for the 2015 annual Compassion Games.
- The evening event will honor the spirit of unity and compassion that arose in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
- The event will provide a positive, helpful way for people to remember and pay tribute to the 9/11 victims, and honor those that rose in service in response to the attacks.
- Compassion Games offer inspiring and creative ways to contribute to the community and will engage the community in playing in the games.
- We will experience and share on the report map compassionate actions taking place in the three dimensions of compassion for others, earth, and ourselves
- We will emphasize the King County Health Clinic and the campaign to eradicate veteran homelessness Operation: Welcome One Home
- We’re looking to sign up 10,000 new secret agents, recruit 150 new teams and serve 1 million people during the global games
We are also about to launch a new way to play that focuses on ending homelessness for veterans in partnership with the Mayor of Louisville and other cities around the country in support of the initiative called “Welcome One Home”. We will be introducing opportunities right here in the Salish Sea Region to play the games and shine your most compassionate self with various inspiring opportunities.
This Opening Ceremony will include a variety of vibrant compassion games activists icons, global activist, and performances that all share the secret ingredient of passion for The 2015 Annual Compassion Games!! Partner highlights of the night are KEXP, Seattle Center Free Clinic, LoveCityLove, Joel & Michelle Levey, Global Unity in Dance with Nia Seattle Teachers, Compassionate Action Network, Andy Smallman with Agents of Compassion, Compassionate Seattle, Seattle Stand Down, Rabbi Ted Falcon, Jamal Rahman, Grinning Yogi, Women of Wisdom, Operation One Home, Backbone Campaign, Honoring Beloved Community, and more!!
From the Voice of Lady Compassion:
There is a reality that is worth stepping into today. A sacred time and space that encourages you to rise and step forward into what matters inside you. A sacred world where all beings open their eyes to an inclusive sunlit new day. A container that knows your next move is precious…… your next breath is courageous……. the next hand you touch is held with gratitude….. the next words you speak do matter.
The morning sun reaches into every single heart on this planet reminding us that we are all members of the “International Kindness Team”.
Let’s honor this moment knowing this shared timeless truth: “Compassion is the antidote to the fear, disconnection, and isolation of our time.”
An inner genuine smile begins to blossom ripple waves of win-win -win-win- win over the planet’s suffering with this ancient door opening to remember a way of living where we all impact a better world.
In the silence of this day all eyes reach the sky discovering a vision written in the white clouds in all languages, “Compassion is our power source.” These words imprint an intention that moves us all into a unified action song of The Compassion Games. This invitation in the sky is what unites us in our hearts through The Annual Compassion Games for 11 days in Global Unity starting September 11th National Day of Service through September 21st International Day of Peace. The next hand you touch voice you hear tree you see is also playing with you. This day ignites a spark inside all hearts beating a common challenge to elevate caring actions. This participation starts within self into pure love and acceptance. This space invites you to celebrate the relationship with others around you and the connection to others across the globe in the next 11 days as your team. All 37 trillion cells in your body and 7.5 trillion people have the chance challenge this planet we call home with the largest compassion challenge ever. “When we play together everyone, everything, and the planet Earth wins.”
Join TRU to celebrate their 45th Anniversary with a jam packed night of fun, music and entertainment! This outdoor, family friendly event is FREE to attend and hosted by Steve Ayres from B100 Kamloops’ at Work Music Station!
Purchase dinner from one of the multiple food stations, or grab a beverage in the Beverage Garden.
Enjoy live music from Van Damsel, Anita Eccleston& Serious Dogs. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair to lounge in the grassy commons “music in the park” style!
Limited VIP seating available for Cariboo College, UCC, and Thompson Rivers University Alumni & Friends.
Children’s play area will have activities to make sure the kids are celebrating too, featuring a bouncy castle and face painter.
FREE parking on campus during the event.
Should you have any questions, feel free to contact AdvancementEvents@tru.ca.
Ripple Gatherings are taking place worldwide in select cities. These are a time when women gather to relax and receive gems of inspiration for them to Be, Create and Collaborate together in Harmony.
Wobeon Launches New 2015 Texas World Cultures Conference
2015 Sessions Explore Interplay of Music, Migration and Conflict
TICKETS: FREE ENTRY with rsvp at http://wobeonfest.com/tickets
AUSTIN, TX – WobeonFest, the Austin World Music and Jazz Fusion Festival, announced the addition of a new conference as a precursor to this year’s festival. The conference offers a new forum for the discussion of global cultural and economic issues. The conference will be held at Ironwood Hall, the same venue where the music festival will be held that weekend.
Ms Guneeta Singh Bhalla, Founder and Executive Director of the 1947 Partition Archive (http://1947PartitionArchive.org), will be a keynote speaker at the conference. The 1947 Partition Archive documents, preserves and shares eye witness accounts from all ethnic, religious and economic communities affected by the Partition of British India in 1947. Also presenting a keynote address is Ms Jenny Hoff (http://jennyhoff.com), Austin-based journalist and former KXAN Austin news anchor who has covered stories around the world. Ms Hoff recently returned to Austin after completing her MBA at the Berlin School of Creative Leadership.
The Conference also includes several panel discussions exploring the interplay of art and migration. Participants include Vieux Farka Toure and Herbert Kinobe (renowned musicians from Mali and Uganda, respectively, who will perform later that weekend at the World Music festival), Ms Mouna Hashem (Executive Director of Watan USA that focuses on Syrian humanitarian issues), and noted members of Austin’s global music, academic and humanitarian communities. The conference is free and open to the public courtesy of Wobeon (RSVP required at http://WobeonFest.com/tickets).
For more information, please see http://wobeonfest.com/TexasWorldCulturesConference
About WOBEON:
WOBEON is an Austin-based music promotion and events company dedicated to the curation and discovery of global music and musicians. WOBEON operates WorldBeatOnline, a global music curation website, and produces WobeonFest and select other live music performances in the Austin area.
Compelling stories of compassion, including Rev. Kris Christensen, director of West Central Episcopal Mission serving the homeless in Spokane, Omy K, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide who has created a non-profit to help Rwandan street kids, and Naima Quarles-Burnley, president of the Spokane NAACP. Vibrant music by Omy K and Pamela Benton. Group compassion pledge and more!
11 Days of Service and Compassion – Oakland CA
Sep 11 to Sep 21
Community Beautification Project
Councilman Noel Gallo and community members invite you to join the Weekly Community Beautification event in District 5, Oakland. Community clean-ups promote safer and cleaner neighborhood by encouraging community members to take direct action to beautify our communities one block-at-time!
Saturday, September 12th
9am to 12pm
Location: St Jarlath Catholic Church; 2620 Pleasanton St., Oakland, CA 94602
Saturday, September 19th
9am to 12pm
Locartion: Meet at the corner of Fruitvale Ave and Alameda Ave.
Sept 12-13 15th Annual International Festival, Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, 25877 Scheider Rd,
Perrysburg, OH 43551 contact Emmett Kadri 419-697-7969, https://www.facebook.com/events/1606984879567894/
Diversity Event: Culture, Food, Clothing, Tours, Rides
Baha’is of Lucas County 5121 Brinthaven Road Sylvania, Ohio 43560 Contact John Krochmalny
Fundraiser Walk for Sunshine Financial Generosity
Start time for this work is at 9:00am. Hildegard House is Kentucky’s first and only comfort care home. We need everybody’s help to cleanup drywall dust, donation sorting, do painting, and more! The start time on this day will be from 9:00am until (not sure yet).
JOIN OUR SEATTLE SWIM!
Join us for our annual Seattle swim on beautiful Lake Washington on September 12, 2015! Don’t miss out on this fun and impactful event!
Swimmers can choose from a 1/2 mile, 1 mile, or 2 mile swims, along with a kid’s splash for children and their families. You also have the option of captaining a team, or volunteering at the swim.
Since its founding in 1987, Swim Across America (SAA) has continued to lead the way in the fight against cancer, which affects countless people worldwide every year. Since its inception in 2009, SAA Seattle has been running a successful event on Lake Wahington. The fundraising minimum for this event is $300, but of course we encourage you to set your own higher goals if you like! All proceeds from your local fundraising go directly towards the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, UW Medicine, and Seattle Children’s Hospital. Because of past years’ successes, there is now even a lab named after Swim Across America at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance!
Joining this Facebook event does not register you for the swim! To become a part of our Seattle event in any way visit our website at www.swimacrossamerica.org/seattle2015
Register today to join our growing Swim Across America family of fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, Olympians, community members, and many more!
You don’t have to be a swimmer to volunteer at the Seattle, Lake Washington Swim or at the Moses Lake Swim. Volunteers are the backbone of Swim Across America Events and we need kayakers, boaters and lifeguards. Please register below to be a volunteer at the either of the swims, or contact either SAA, Seattle Event Director atdavid@swimacrossamerica.org
Register Today!: Click here to register as a volunteer for the Seattle Open Water Swim. Click here for the Moses Lake Swim. There you will have the option to select which kind of volunteer you would like to be. You are welcome to fundraise as well if you would like but you are not required to do so. We thank you for your help on event day!
Volunteer information at this link here
Toledo Botanical Garden/Toledo GROWs program, 900 Oneida Street, Toledo, OH 43608, Contact Yvonne Dubielak yvonne.dubielak@toledogarden.org, 419.720.8714, gardening volunteers Honey Harvest Dinner 9/12
Toledo Campus Ministry
www.toledocampusministry.org
2086 Brookdale Road, Toledo, OH 43606
Contact David Montgomery (419) 536-4865
Fundraiser, Neighborhood cleanup – Yard Work at the Ark, 9/12; Clean Your Streams, 9/19; CROP Walk, 9/20
We’ll walk from the National Guard Armory to Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium and participate in the Cards March with the UofL football team.
For those of you who asked me to send this: We will be having a Freedom 101 4-day seminar for women in the Louisville Jail Sept 10-13 (Th & Fr nights, 6-10, Sat 9am-10pm with 2 meal breaks, and Sun 8am-noon-ish). You are all welcome to attend as students. I would need to get you screened beforehand, however. (You’d need to send a copy of State ID + SSN to our contact at the jail.) Let me know if interested! We have one “external student” so far and a max of 17 “internal” students, last I heard. It is an amazing experience and can be life-changing. (It was for me!) ================================================================================btw – please be sure you have THIS email for me in whatever lists you have.(Note the dash between “freedom” and “101” (dbulleit@freedom-101.org); some people have mistaken it for an underscore, as in freedom_101); I am missing too much important email from you!
Louisville’s first and only comfort care home needs everybody’s help on September 9th from 9:00am-? There is lots of drywall dust, donation sorting, painting, and more that needs to get done!
Are you a registered non-profit organization who needs a team of hackers, designers or marketers to work on a special project for your organization?
Kamloops Innovation has an exciting opportunity that may help meet your needs!
United Way has partnered with Kamloops Innovation and RTOWN to host a creative hackfest. That means that a group of individuals will donate a day of their time to solve challenges that you are facing
Background:
The volunteers participating are young professionals within the creative field (e.g., writers, designers, illustrators, videographers, programmers, developers). During the event, one or more volunteers will donate 24 hours to completing the accepted ideas.
Even if you don’t have an idea for what you need, we encourage you to fill out the application and we will match you with an expert volunteer who will help you find a solution to your biggest challenge.
Details:
September 12, 2015 all-day
Kamloops Innovation – 348 Tranquille Road, Kamloops, BC V2B 3G6, Canada
Questions? Email amanda@kamloopsinnovation.ca
Team up with Austin Habitat for Humanity by participating in our All Faith Build! Austin Habitat welcomes the Interfaith Action of Central Texas (iACT) Hands on Housing members of any faith to join us in building a home, community, and hope. Faith communities are invited to a day of service on September 12 to kick off the build and celebrate the Austin faith network. 9AM – 4PM Magin Meadow Neighborhood. Contact for info: Becca Davis at bdavis@austinhabitat.org
Walk for Hope: “The Happiest Walk on Earth”
A compassion-themed 3-kilometer walk. Come visit the Tree of Forgiveness, the Garden of Kindness, paintings of inspiring quotes, and much more!
It’s transformative. It’s introspective. It’s Free! It’s our gift to you.
$7..00 for Parking
Grandmother Agnes PilgrIm and Carole Hart Speak on the Subject of INTERDEPENDENCE
September 12, 2015 at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time
Participate by computer or phone from anywhere worldwide!
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series.
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time:
Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart
Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig
Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone
Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams
Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin
Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler
Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete
Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater
Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik)
Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World)
(Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.)
Have a question you want to ask Deepak Chopra or one of the other Summit speakers? Click here!
Click here to register – it’s FREE!
To be a Co-Sponsor or an Affiliate of this 11 Days Summit reply to this message or click here !
Parkinson SuperWalk is the largest national fundraising event for Parkinson Society Canada (PSC) and its regional partners. Approximately 14,000 people from coast-to-coast organize and take part in Parkinson SuperWalk. This year marks the 25th anniversary of this nationwide event.
Parkinson SuperWalk will take place on September 12 and 13, 2015 in 115 communities throughout Canada. Last year, with participation from supporters like you, we raised $2.9 million across Canada. Since 1990, we have raised more than $31 million for support services, research, advocacy and education.
Objective is to provide free weekly community meals, free produce market and social and cultural activities to low income earners, the homeless, and people living with mental and physical disabilities, in Kamloops. Also to encourage volunteerism and capacity building within communities of mental health, disabilities, homelessness, and low income earners.
Every Saturday dinner will be served at their new location St Vincent De Paul doors open at 10:30 am (coffee, snacks, social time) and meal served at 3:30pm.
This year, we are partnering with our friends at the Downtown Women’s Center (http://www.downtownwomenscenter.org/) and advocate to end homelessness for women.
This Master Class is courtesy of the international music exchange program between Austin’s Classical Music for the World and the Robert Schumann Konservatorium, Zwickau, Germany. ((Sponsoring Organization: Classical Music for the World)
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
The September Concert features the music and dance of Austin’s sister cities:
Adelaide, Australia; Angers, France; Antalya, Turkey; Koblenz, Germany; Lima, Peru; Maseru, Lesotho; Oita, Japan; Old Orlu, Nigeria; Saltillo, Mexico; Taichung, Taiwan; Xishuangbanna, China. This 5th annual September Concert is a celebration of peace and humanity through music. The Austin Sister Cities Committees are “citizen diplomats” and volunteers, who foster friendly relations and understanding between the citizens of Austin and our sister cities around the world and promote Austin’s educational, cultural, and economic presence in the international community.This event is free and open to the public!
Born in 2002 as a small, local grassroots effort, the September Concert has grown to global proportion with a mission to promote global peace. There are now over 200 September Concerts across the world. (Sponsoring Organizations: The City of Austin, Austin Community College, Continuing Education-Global Learning Institute, Austin Sister Cities International and Sister Cities International).
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Share your ideas on how compassion is developed and nurtured. Discussion followed by art project to ground and sustain the ideas!
This solo piano concert is courtesy of the international music exchange program between Austin’s Classical Music for the World and the Robert Schumann Konservatorium, Zwickau, Germany. ((Sponsoring Organization: Classical Music for the World)
Wobeon Announces 3rd Annual Austin World Music Festival and Adds Jazz Fusion Festival!
Star Power Includes Billy Cobham Spectrum 40, Vieux Farka Toure and Scott Henderson Trio
TICKETS: http://wobeonfest.com/tickets2015
AUSTIN, TX – WOBEONFEST returns to Ironwood Hall in Downtown Austin this September, marking the third year of the homegrown festival with a global reach. In addition to the World Music Festival, the organizers have added a Jazz Fusion Festival to the 2-day gathering, which will feature drum legend Billy Cobham (of Mahavishnu Orchestra fame) and guitar great Scott Henderson on Sunday, September 13th. Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, who is fondly referred to as the “Jimi Hendrix of the Sahara,” will headline the World Music Festival on Saturday, September 12th. Festival attendees can also participate in the pre-festival conference comprised of panel discussions and individual presentations specifically designed for internationally-minded Texans. Billy Cobham brings his Spectrum 40 quartet with jazz greats Dean Brown and Ric Fierabracci to the inaugural Jazz Fusion Festival. The band celebrates the music of Cobham’s first album and performs in the spirit of the rich 1970s Fusion era. Scott Henderson and his new trio with Travis Carlton and Alan Hertz will also be featured. Henderson is best known for his innovative work with fusion band Tribal Tech, and for his role with Joe Zawinul and The Zawinul Syndicate. Festival Founder Jakes Srinivasan speaks on the event’s new extension: “We are always looking at breaking new ground with the kind of music we curate. If you see the many, many shows and artists we’ve promoted and presented over the last 3 years, you’ll see that you can’t necessarily put these bands in neat boxes.”He elaborates, “All music is world music, as they say, and there’s a huge pool of great artists – even right here in our own backyard that are incredibly exciting to watch and hear, but for whatever reason don’t get the same share of voice or airplay as we think they deserve. World Music falls in that category, so does Jazz Fusion.” Jazz fusion is a progressive amalgamation of Rock and Jazz that blossomed in the ’70s and ’80s, and continues to have a tremendous global, yet simultaneously niche, following. Fans of legendary artists like Chick Corea, Miles Davis, and Weather Report continue to harbor their passion for jazz fusion even today. Of late, bands like Grammy®-winning Snarky Puppy are bringing new fans to this exciting genre. In 2014, Wobeon introduced Dallas-based jazz fusion band Funky Knuckles to festival fans and received great feedback. Producing separately-programmed days with single-day ticketing for each of the two genres allows both audience bases to get a full sampling of music closest to their interest. Local jazz guitarist Glenn Rexach, rising fusion stars Curious Android, and local group Collin Shook Quintet round out the lineup. Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure and his quintet headline the 3rd annual World Music Festival, the most prominent festival of its kind in the capital city. The son of the legendary Ali Farka Toure, Vieux brings a fiery electric rock and blues edge to his melodic dexterity. Also confirmed are Ugandan global fusion multi-instrumentalist Kinobe and Global Junction, local Afrobeat favorite Hard Proof, Eastern Soul diva Naga Valli and Brazilian-influenced outfit Mente Clara. Austin-based Atlas Maior returns to the festival and Bollywood dance troupe Agni the Dance Company. The SunRay Project will provide tunes for the World Music Festival after party. Wobeon has featured renowned artists from all corners of the world, from Angola to Morocco to Brooklyn, and from right here in Austin. Afropop queen Angelique Kidjo, Bermuda reggae sensation Collie Buddz, Electro-cumbia party starters Bomba Estereo, and big beat bhangra juggernauts Red Baraat have all performed at the gathering, along with local favorites like Atash, Bramaya, and Maracatu Texas. This festival is made possible in part by the generosity and support of organizations such as KUTX Radio Austin, the City of Austin Cultural Affairs Division of the Economic Development Department, Texas Folklife, Ironwood Hall and others.
Oaxaca, Arte y Movimiento Dancers/Edgar Yapez: Guest Speakers include: Consul de Mexico, Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, Teatro Espacio Agua Viva “Se vende una mula”, Hispanic Alliance for the Performing Arts Youth Classical Orquestra performs: Huapango Arribeno MusicalQuartet and Mariachi Las Coronelas Mexican National Anthem. (Sponsoring Organization: Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center).
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
For those of you who asked me to send this: We will be having a Freedom 101 4-day seminar for women in the Louisville Jail Sept 10-13 (Th & Fr nights, 6-10, Sat 9am-10pm with 2 meal breaks, and Sun 8am-noon-ish). You are all welcome to attend as students. I would need to get you screened beforehand, however. (You’d need to send a copy of State ID + SSN to our contact at the jail.) Let me know if interested! We have one “external student” so far and a max of 17 “internal” students, last I heard. It is an amazing experience and can be life-changing. (It was for me!) ================================================================================btw – please be sure you have THIS email for me in whatever lists you have.(Note the dash between “freedom” and “101” (dbulleit@freedom-101.org); some people have mistaken it for an underscore, as in freedom_101); I am missing too much important email from you!
This will be both a 5k and a 1 mile fun run in honor of 9/11 and in order to raise funds for both veterans and first responders.
Rhea Landig Speaks on the Subject of ENVIRONMENT
September 13, 2015 at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time
Participate by computer or phone from anywhere worldwide!
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series.
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time:
Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart
Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig
Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone
Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams
Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin
Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler
Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete
Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater
Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik)
Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World)
(Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.)
Have a question you want to ask Deepak Chopra or one of the other Summit speakers? Click here!
Click here to register – it’s FREE!
To be a Co-Sponsor or an Affiliate of this 11 Days Summit reply to this message or click here !
Richardson Interfaith Alliance, Helping Agencies Serving Richardson, Feeding Children Everywhere, and CompassonateDFW are partnering to bring over 180 volunteers together to package over 20,000 meals that will be distributed to local food banks and pantries and to a location in Zambia which feeds thousands of children daily.
As we initiate our main event, packaging over 20,000 meals with Feeding Children Everywhere, the sponsors of the event want to recognize and honor our Richardson Texas First Responders – Police, Firemen, Emergency Medical Services, and local Veterans. Our hope is that the Mayor of Richardson will be present to initiate the entire afternoon event and recognize our first responders.
Short presentation and sharing of stories followed by small group dialogues exploring the relationship between compassion for self and compassion for others
This Concert is courtesy of the international music exchange program between Austin’s Classical Music for the World and the Robert Schumann Konservatorium, Zwickau, Germany. ((Sponsoring Organization: Classical Music for the World).
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Wobeon Announces 3rd Annual Austin World Music Festival and Adds Jazz Fusion Festival!
Star Power Includes Billy Cobham Spectrum 40, Vieux Farka Toure and Scott Henderson Trio
TICKETS: http://wobeonfest.com/tickets2015
AUSTIN, TX – WOBEONFEST returns to Ironwood Hall in Downtown Austin this September, marking the third year of the homegrown festival with a global reach. In addition to the World Music Festival, the organizers have added a Jazz Fusion Festival to the 2-day gathering, which will feature drum legend Billy Cobham (of Mahavishnu Orchestra fame) and guitar great Scott Henderson on Sunday, September 13th. Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, who is fondly referred to as the “Jimi Hendrix of the Sahara,” will headline the World Music Festival on Saturday, September 12th. Festival attendees can also participate in the pre-festival conference comprised of panel discussions and individual presentations specifically designed for internationally-minded Texans. Billy Cobham brings his Spectrum 40 quartet with jazz greats Dean Brown and Ric Fierabracci to the inaugural Jazz Fusion Festival. The band celebrates the music of Cobham’s first album and performs in the spirit of the rich 1970s Fusion era. Scott Henderson and his new trio with Travis Carlton and Alan Hertz will also be featured. Henderson is best known for his innovative work with fusion band Tribal Tech, and for his role with Joe Zawinul and The Zawinul Syndicate. Festival Founder Jakes Srinivasan speaks on the event’s new extension: “We are always looking at breaking new ground with the kind of music we curate. If you see the many, many shows and artists we’ve promoted and presented over the last 3 years, you’ll see that you can’t necessarily put these bands in neat boxes.”He elaborates, “All music is world music, as they say, and there’s a huge pool of great artists – even right here in our own backyard that are incredibly exciting to watch and hear, but for whatever reason don’t get the same share of voice or airplay as we think they deserve. World Music falls in that category, so does Jazz Fusion.” Jazz fusion is a progressive amalgamation of Rock and Jazz that blossomed in the ’70s and ’80s, and continues to have a tremendous global, yet simultaneously niche, following. Fans of legendary artists like Chick Corea, Miles Davis, and Weather Report continue to harbor their passion for jazz fusion even today. Of late, bands like Grammy®-winning Snarky Puppy are bringing new fans to this exciting genre. In 2014, Wobeon introduced Dallas-based jazz fusion band Funky Knuckles to festival fans and received great feedback. Producing separately-programmed days with single-day ticketing for each of the two genres allows both audience bases to get a full sampling of music closest to their interest. Local jazz guitarist Glenn Rexach, rising fusion stars Curious Android, and local group Collin Shook Quintet round out the lineup. Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure and his quintet headline the 3rd annual World Music Festival, the most prominent festival of its kind in the capital city. The son of the legendary Ali Farka Toure, Vieux brings a fiery electric rock and blues edge to his melodic dexterity. Also confirmed are Ugandan global fusion multi-instrumentalist Kinobe and Global Junction, local Afrobeat favorite Hard Proof, Eastern Soul diva Naga Valli and Brazilian-influenced outfit Mente Clara. Austin-based Atlas Maior returns to the festival and Bollywood dance troupe Agni the Dance Company. The SunRay Project will provide tunes for the World Music Festival after party. Wobeon has featured renowned artists from all corners of the world, from Angola to Morocco to Brooklyn, and from right here in Austin. Afropop queen Angelique Kidjo, Bermuda reggae sensation Collie Buddz, Electro-cumbia party starters Bomba Estereo, and big beat bhangra juggernauts Red Baraat have all performed at the gathering, along with local favorites like Atash, Bramaya, and Maracatu Texas. This festival is made possible in part by the generosity and support of organizations such as KUTX Radio Austin, the City of Austin Cultural Affairs Division of the Economic Development Department, Texas Folklife, Ironwood Hall and others.
This hot meal program serves a nutritious dinner at Kamloops United Church every Sunday afternoon year round and is mainly a volunteer driven program. The dinners are provided without charge
Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo 2250 N. Detroit Ave. Toledo, OH 43606 Contact Shawna Woody Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc., Neighborhood cleanup, Hub of Love – multiple projects in one space
Friendly Center Help give Voice – Community lunches
Friendly Center Anne Smith 419-243-1289 http://www.friendly-center.org/
Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc.
The F Word: Stories of Forgiveness Exhibition is a thought provoking collection of arresting images and personal narratives exploring forgiveness in the face of atrocity.
http://theforgivenessproject.com/programmes/exhibition/
The exhibition will be located at three locations around the city over the span of two weeks.
The Arthur V Mauro Centre at the University of Manitoba
Riddell Hall, at the University of Winnipeg (UW Link)
COST: Free
We will be making cards to honor our local veterans and currently serving members. Come say thanks by making a card or banner.
Andrew Mazzone Speaks on the Subject of ECONOMIC JUSTICE
September 14, 2015 at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time
Participate by computer or phone from anywhere worldwide!
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series.
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time:
Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart
Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig
Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone
Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams
Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin
Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler
Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete
Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater
Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik)
Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World)
(Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.)
Have a question you want to ask Deepak Chopra or one of the other Summit speakers? Click here!
Click here to register – it’s FREE!
To be a Co-Sponsor or an Affiliate of this 11 Days Summit reply to this message or click here !
Join Peace Through Commerce at the Khabele + Strong Incubator for a multi-age interactive experience on how radical thinking and innovative approaches to building prosperity can help communities sustain peace. Our discussion will include how you are, or can become, a peace builder in your community.
Join us as we hear from Aqeela Sherrils, peace advocate, mediator and spirit-centered activist and you why compassion is so critically needed at all levels of our community.
Special Guest
Award winning spoken word artist
Deon Lucas
Powerful Dialogue
Community Powered Solutions
In the spirit of compassion and as “Team Compassionate California” we hope you will join us in playing the 2015 Compassion Games and bring a love offering of
non-perishable food for the local food pantry
yarn or material that we will donate to the Ca Women’s Institute prison in Chino. They are playing in the Games and making caps, scarves, blankets for homeless veterans, hospitals, women’s shelters and nursing homes.
In celebration of the International Day of Peace and Austin’s Poems for Peace Initiative, Usha Akella will read from her new book ‘The Rosary of Latitudes.’ In THE ROSARY OF LATITUDES, poet, author and playwright Usha Akella investigates her Indian identity with place and travel through poems, prose and photographs. While the beads on her rosary come from different latitudes in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia, she has found a way to combine them in a harmonious collection that flows like water and sings in many voices. As she travels from country to country, Akella explores a wide range of cultural and spiritual matters, including the paradoxical nature of identity and the many-layered process one must face to reconcile the splintered parts of one’s self. Just as Pablo Neruda and Walt Whitman explored travel and place, THE ROSARY OF LATITUDES shows readers how travel has shaped and informed Akella’s literary outlook on life through language, rhythm and landscape. This reading is part of the Peace Day Austin activities. (Presented by the Austin Community College Arts and Humanities Division and Co-sponsored by the Austin Community College Peace and Conflict Studies Center).
The film is about one of the biggest water restoration projects in North America, and the themes of the film are at the intersection of, and dilemmas arising from the following topics: natural resources management, specifically issues around water, development discourse, environment and sustainability, human rights, relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous communities, inter-generational conflict, and community activism.
You are invited to find out more about mediation available locally by talking to one of the mediators from Mediation Services during the lunch break. They would love to have a conversation with you about the mediation process, their services, or a conflict you have in your life.
www.ariverbetweenus.com
COST: Free. Seating is limited.
RSVP: Please confirm your particpation to alkakr436@gmail.com
Celebremos! Hispanic Heritage Month Opening Event. Free fair with booths, displays and informational tables.
Come de-stress with snacks, marble art, cornhole, hula hoops. other arts and crafts plus fun games.
Patch Adams Speaks on the Subject of HEALTH
September 15, 2015 at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time
Participate by computer or phone from anywhere worldwide!
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series.
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time:
Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart
Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig
Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone
Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams
Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin
Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler
Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete
Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater
Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik)
Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World)
(Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.)
Have a question you want to ask Deepak Chopra or one of the other Summit speakers? Click here!
Click here to register – it’s FREE!
To be a Co-Sponsor or an Affiliate of this 11 Days Summit reply to this message or click here !
UofL’s Get Healthy Now partnered w/KORU Institute
Ralph White is one of those rare men who has said yes to life far more than he has retreated into safety.”
—Thomas Moore’
Tonight, Open Center co-founder and pioneer of the consciousness movement Ralph White will discuss his new memoir, The Jeweled Highway: On the Quest for a Life of Meaning. He will offer us a rare glimpse into how he embarked on a spiritual quest into a new worldview, the experience of opening to the mystical, and the contours of a life dedicated to the creation of a more sacred and ecological culture.
Ralph will share with us his early years in the Celtic world and gritty Northern England, his travels down Route 66, hitchhiking to Machu Picchu, and hiking across the Eastern Himalayas into Tibet. He will also speak on the resurgence of the Western Esoteric Tradition and on the global network of holistic centers and why they serve as focal points for the emergence of a saner and wiser world.
AN EVENING LECTURE & BOOK SIGNING
Tuesday, September 15, 8–10pm
15FSI25M
Members: $20 / Nonmembers: $24
The Jeweled Highway by Ralph White
Also, for those who can’t attend, a second reading, the following night, admission free:
http://news.astoriapost.com/events/an-evening-with-lic-author-ralph-white/
This facilitate event will focus on mindulfness exercises followed by some compassionate based dialogue in attempt to relate to the suffering of others in the world.
7 PM Start
Seating is limited
COST: Free
Starts at 7:00pm (The time frame above is frozen and not allowing us to make any changes. We are so sorry for the confusion)
Legal, human rights & media experts explore workplace equality for women and discuss needed change.
Panelists will include Marilou McPhedran, Director of the Institute for International Women’s Rights; Isha Khan, Legal Counsel, Manitoba Human Rights Commission; Shannon Sampert, Politics & Perspectives Editor, Winnipeg Free Press; and Kate Kehler, Executive Director, Social Planning Council. Host: Alka Kumar, Moderator: Judy Slivinski
COST: Pay as you can
Fiesta del Grito de Independencia takes place each year in Austin on the South Steps of the State Capitol. (Sponsoring Organizations: Fiesta de Independencia Foundation, the Consul General of Mexico, the City of Austin, Univision, the State Preservation Board, and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus).
This family oriented celebration is alcohol free and features Mexican and Tejano music, Folklorico Dancers, and food vendor booths. The highlight of the evening is the re-enactment of “El Grito”, by the Consul General of Mexico.
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Native – nonNative Talking Circle, focusing on building understanding between diverse peoples. We will share a potluck dinner and share perspectives on topics relevant to Native American.
Join us for a special Red Bench conversation as a part of Peace Day Austin! Topic: Peace
9/16, 9/17 FOCUS 2283 Ashland Ave, Toledo OH 43620, Contact Cindy Zawojski 419-244-2175 ext 119
Collection of Food or Clothing, Making packets or items for distribution to those in need – “Come and Get it!”
UofL Belknap Campus College of Business, Texas Roadhouse Conference Room (5 Wednesdays, week 2), presented by UofL’s Get Healthy Now
Anytime throughout the day post, Thank you to my neighbor(s)! Submit to https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
Submit to https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
Open all day
Meditation, 7-8 pm
9/16 Monroe Street Neighborhood Center Donation Wednesday, 3613 Monroe Street Toledo Ohio 43606. Contact Clara Petty
Collection of Food or Clothing
breakfast 7:30-9 am… at Downtown Marriott (address included). Seats at the ChooseWell table are still available. email Stephanie Barnett!
7:30-9am breakfast…seats at the ChooseWell table are still available!
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Compassionate Louisville Coordinating Circle Meeting
8th floor Art Space building!
UofL Belknap Campus College of Business, Texas Roadhouse Conference Room (5 Wednesdays, week 2), presented by UofL’s Get Healthy Now.
Meditation at the Interfaith center
Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin Speak on the Subject of CHILDREN & YOUTH
September 16, 2015 at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time
Participate by computer or phone from anywhere worldwide!
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series.
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time:
Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart
Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig
Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone
Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams
Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin
Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler
Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete
Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater
Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik)
Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World)
(Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.)
Have a question you want to ask Deepak Chopra or one of the other Summit speakers? Click here!
Click here to register – it’s FREE!
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Coffee Mornings are an American tradition. Friends get together for a cup of coffee — or tea or juice — and tasty snacks. They share resources they have found, offer each other support, make new friendships
GlobalAustin Coffee Mornings always include a program. The topic for the 9/16/15 International Coffee Morning is “The Diversity that is Austin.” (Host and Sponsor: Global Austin).
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
PRIVATE EVENT
For Rotarians and their guests
Nafiya Naso, a member and spokesperson for the Winnipeg Yazidis community, will speak about efforts to bring Yazadi refugees to Winnipeg. This religious and cultural group has been persecuted for their beliefs for hundreds of years and recently became prime targets of ISIS. Her topic will be “Save the Yazidis by Compassionate Action”.
Interns, Bonner Leaders, Volunteers and RFP Alumni meet weekly to plan upcoming RFP 3-part Thursday night programs for families experiencing homelessness.
Wai Wai Nu, human rights activist, peace advocate, lawyer, former political prisoner in Burma, and founder of two organizations fighting for justice and equality for women in Burma will speak on the issues facing the Rohingyan people, the current refugee crisis, and the future of democracy in Burma.
Wai Wai Nu, human rights activist, peace advocate, lawyer, former political prisoner in Burma, and founder of two organizations fighting for justice and equality for women in Burma will speak on the issues facing the Rohingyan people, the current refugee crisis, and the future of democracy in Burma.
Starts at 6:30pm (Sorry for the 4:30 time above. The event is frozen on that time. Sorry for the confusion)
“A River Between Us” depicts how 42 adversarial organizations came together to conserve the longest, most controversial river in America.
A brief talk on forgiveness, followed by a 20 minute meditation. All are invited to stay for tea after the meditation.
Doors open at 7 PM, the event will begin at 7:30 PM
(the incorrect time of 5pm above is frozen and can not be changed. The system is not working correctly. We are so sorry for the confusion)
Adrian Farrell was appointed as Ireland’s first Consul General in Texas in September 2014. Ireland’s new Consulate is only the second foreign diplomatic representation in Austin.
In his remarks Farrell will discuss Ireland’s strong historic ties with the United States, and how the establishment of the new Irish Consulate in Austin will further strengthen Ireland’s future relations with Texas. As Ireland celebrates the 60th anniversary of its membership of the United Nations, Farrell will also highlight Ireland’s key foreign policy priorities and its global diaspora. Event attendees will also hear about Ireland’s EU membership, current social and political developments in Ireland and why the Irish economy continues to grow at a faster rate than in any other EU state.
The event will take place at the new Ireland House Austin which was opened by Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny last March. (Host Organization Contact & Organizer: Ben Ramirez, VP, World Affairs Council of Austin).
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Ethics Café Presents: The Ethics of Sex
The Manitoba Association for Right & Liberties (MARL) presents the the Ethics Café: The Ethics of Sex. Join the discussion on difficult questions about sex and relationships. Hosted by Dr. Neil McArthur of the University of Manitoba and facilitated by MARL’s Human Rights Experts.
Doors at 6PM, Discussion begins at 7PM
Limited Seating
COST: The discussion is open to everyone by donation to MARL
6 pm, compassion conversation
UofL HSC Campus 400 block of E.Gray Street
Farmer’s Market partner, UofL’s Get Healthy Now. 10:30-2:00pm
+ 12:30 – 12:50pm Take 20 Cook Once, Eat Twice w/Paula Kommor.
We will be distributing donuts to Lorain County Police and Fire Departs to thank them for all that they do for the county.
A 10 week community-engaged healing experience for Veterans (i will send our more info).
A Volunteers Expo will be held at the Byron Community Centre. Volunteer organisations will be showcased, and new volunteers matched to their needs. There are over 80 volunteer organisations in the area.
Farmers Market will partner with UofL’s Get Healthy Now to provide the community with fresh fruits and vegetables!
Support the annual United Way campaign kickoff breakfast!
Eve Ensler Speaks on the Subject of WOMEN
September 17, 2015 at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time
Participate by computer or phone from anywhere worldwide!
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series.
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time:
Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart
Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig
Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone
Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams
Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin
Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler
Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete
Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater
Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik)
Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World)
(Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.)
Have a question you want to ask Deepak Chopra or one of the other Summit speakers? Click here!
Click here to register – it’s FREE!
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Hotel Louisville, Resilient Families Project Offices, 2nd Floor.
– campus collection of non-perishables for Dare To Care
Supporting Paws w Purpose VA Pet Assist Program
Free, noon-day concert by an in-demand Austin classical guitarist.
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Campus Collection of non-perishables for Dare To Care
PROCLAMATION HONORING WELCOMING WEEK AND PEACE DAY AUSTIN
City Council Meeting, Austin City Hall
Having conversations of different ways we can be more compassionate towards our peers and our community.
Hotel Louisville Chapel, main floor
The Resilient Families Project provides educational experiences to strengthen families and promote resilience and wellness for children and parents experiencing homelessness. This project and its programs serve the residents of Wayside Christian Mission’s Hotel Louisville and Wayside Christian Mission’s Emergency Homeless Shelter. The Resilient Families Project (RFP) was established as a partnership of faculty from the University of Louisville’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and staff at Wayside Christian Mission. We gratefully acknowledge support from the University of Louisville’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the University of Louisville’s Ideas to Action (i2A) Program and the Office of Community Engagement.
Our three programs take place from 6-8:30pm every Thursday at Hotel Louisville, and serve more than 100 family members. These programs aim to promote: (1) healthy attachment relations, (2) a sense of community / belonging, (3) interactive reading, and (4) school readiness (and readiness for the world!) in children and families.
(1) The Resilient Family Program (developed and led by Dr. Lora Haynes) is offered from 6-7pm on Thursdays, and provides a structured learning forum for children and parents to strengthen interactive reading, and engage in shared learning activities. The evidence-based practice of dialogic reading is employed, and carefully selected children’s storybooks are read aloud as a platform for promoting literacy and motivation toward reading, as well as sensitive, healthy interactions and positive attachment between caregivers and children. It is, furthermore, our mission to promote a strong sense of family (family matters!) and community caring (Compassionate Louisville! http://www.louisvilleky.gov/CompassionateCity/). It is our ultimate goal to improve school readiness (and readiness for the world) in these children and their families. Positive messages of resilience, mindfulness and compassion are conveyed in this community/family hour through a steady schedule of reading, music/singing, and dance/movement. We often have guest speakers from the Louisville community and from non-profit agencies who present their mission and needs to our families so that those in attendance are routinely asked to consider “how can I help?” and give back to the community. More than 100 parents and children attend and more than 18 University of Louisville students and 4 Hotel Louisville staff assist in the program.
(2) The Resilient Child/Adolescent Program (developed and led by Dr. Lora Haynes) is offered from 7-8:30pm on Thursdays, provides age-appropriate learning and enrichment activities including art, reading, homework and tutoring, music and dance, aimed at further promoting school-readiness and social/emotional skills. Typically more than 50 children attend. About 60% of children are under the age of five. More than 35 University of Louisville students and 3 Hotel Louisville staff assist in the program.
(3) The Resilient Parent Program (led by Dr. Lora Haynes and Valerie Mansfield, developed by Dr. Barbara Burns) is offered from 7-8:30pm on Thursdays and provides an empirically-validated strengths-based program focused on resilience and compassion, communication skills, and child management skills. Didactic material, discussion and reflection are enhanced by games, and crafts that underscore parenting strengths to promote strong and healthy parent-child relationships, child health and wellness. Interactive discussions on such topics as self-care and handling stress, discipline, self-esteem, building support networks, child development, compassionate listening, and communicating effectively. Typically 40-50 parents participate, and 7 University of Louisville students and 2 Hotel Louisville staff assist in the program.
You are invited to our traditional “Turkish Coffee Night”
Come and enjoy authentic Turkish coffee, refreshments and friendly conversation.
The Correct start time is 7:00pm (The system is not allowing us to change to correct time. We are sorry for the confusion)
You are invited to join the South Sudanese women, hear their story and respond to it. We hope that you will leave with renewed confidence that a culture of peace is possible – and a necessity for life on earth.
Where we gather to discuss the resilient families project and different ways it benefits the community
The Women of Compassion Collaborative invites you to connect!
We leverage the power of women in compassionate action to address our state’s most pressing social needs for women, families and our communities. We do this by aligning and supporting social good projects that preserve and foster the fundamental principles of universal justice,respect, and well being
And every other Friday… Chop-n-chat (5:30-7 pm)
Volunteers needed!
Time is to be announced.
Be kind day also known as Pay it Forward day/random acts of kindness. Hold open a door for someone, smile at people, say hello, say thank you and you’re welcome. If you can afford to, pay for someone’s lunch, dinner, or coffee. Start a chain reaction! Do a random act of kindness. We are doing it on our campus and hoping the community will too. We will have a board to post these acts on hearts in the College Center and it can be weather you did it, saw, it, or was the recipient of it. Be kind!
Elementary school children will be bringing their peace messages to the CMHR followed by a peace walk.
UpTown PARK(ing) Day, UpTown Association 1501-1201 Adams Street Toledo, OH 43604 http://www.uptowntoledo.org/#!parking-day/c1dgc Contact Jessica
Community Building Event
Dann and Joji Pantoja, International Partnership Witness Workers with Mennonite Church Canada, will discuss the role of Christian churches in the peace negotiations between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Government of the Philippines.
http://www.cmu.ca/
Jacqueline Murekatete Speaks on the Subject of HUMAN RIGHTS
September 18, 2015 at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time
Participate by computer or phone from anywhere worldwide!
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series.
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time:
Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart
Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig
Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone
Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams
Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin
Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler
Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete
Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater
Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik)
Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World)
(Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.)
Have a question you want to ask Deepak Chopra or one of the other Summit speakers? Click here!
Click here to register – it’s FREE!
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Cates Ford Oien Epp, Barristers & Solicitors will team up with the United Way for a Day of Caring at a local community garden.
MultiFaith Council Women’s Group will help make sandwiches for Food for Thought, 316 Adams St., Toledo, OH 43604 Contact Barb Krochmalny 419-583-7553 Sandwiches are distributed to the needy
You are invited to a FREE Block Party at Brock Park on September 18!
We will be having:
DUNK TANK
JOUSTING
BUNGEE RUN
INFLATABLE OBSTACLE COURSE
BARBECUE
COTTON CANDY
HENNA
BALLOON ANIMALS
FACE PAINTING
and more!
Also, don’t forget to join us for an OUTDOOR MOVIE at 8pm.
For more information, contact office@gcchurch.ca.
Viva Mexico!
Celebrating Mexican Independence – featuring dances from the states of Sinaloa, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Veracruz and Jalisco (Sponsor: Austin High School’s Ballet Folklorico).
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Get set for a magical evening of music and poetry as award-winning Austin poets and performers take to the stage to share their poems for peace. Featuring Janelle Buchanan, Katherine Catmull, Robert Faires, Carrie Fountain and Kurt Heinzelman — and directed by Robert Faires.
Then come into the Gallery for an Open Mic, Open Minds reception hosted by Laura Esparza and featuring YOU! Bring your poems to share. Just in case you forget, we’ll have some poems on hand for you to select.
Enjoy music, lovely libations and finger foods — along with your poems — at the reception. (Sponsor: SICA (Subud International Cultural Association) SICA is an international nonprofit organization headquartered in Austin, Texas. Its mission is to advance and celebrate activities that emerge from the development and expression of one’s inner gifts or talents. SICA envisions a vibrant human culture that enriches and enlivens the human spirit and broadens our understanding of others.)
This event is part of the Peace Day Austin activities.
Ellen Jackson Ovarian Cancer Walk presented by Buckeye CableSystem http://ovarianconnection.org
Contact Gini Steinke 419.866.6622 Fundraiser: Eleanor N. Dana Cancer Center 1325 Dana Drive, Toledo, OH 43614
Registration begins at 8:00am; Opening Ceremonies start at 9:30am; Walk begins at 10:00am
Submit to https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
9/19 NWO Apraxia Support Family fun Day / Awareness Walk Toledo Zoo located at 2 Hippo Way Toledo Ohio 43609 www.nwoapraxiasupport.org Contact Marisa DeLancey, 419-376-8736
This One People, One Earth Medicine Walk is a two day walk beginning on Saturday, Sept 19th, starting at Inwood State Park, ending the next day Sunday, Sept 20th in Central Park to join the the 14th annual Vigil For International Peace and Ecology at BandShell stage.(www.vigil4internationalpeace.org)
Exact Location to meet for the Walk is:
Indian Road Cafe, 600 West 218th Street, near Indian road where the entrance to Inwood State Park is nearby. Meet at 7AM for the start of the walk.
Please note that the meeting location at Indian Road Cafe is only the starting route for the walk, if you want to meet Brother Northstar later, along the route over the two day walk, contact him directly by calling him at 617 614-7231.
Information and background about the walk:
The One People, One Earth Medicine Walk and the International Day of Peace Vigil.
On each equinox and solstice we do a One People, One Earth Medicine Walk through Manhattan to the sacred locations of this island.This walk is a vigil to release the blocks from within ourselves, humanity and our planet. And in doing so, we seek to re-activate the original purpose of this island, which is held captive and buried under tons of concrete and capitol gain. Also, we are simultaneously paying homage to the ancestors of this land known as Lenape, who by historical accounts were a giving and loving people living in harmony with the land. Even in a city as dense as New York, we leap through the veil of the urban energy to go back and align ourselves with the original purpose of this island, which the Lenape people called, “Mannahatta” (meaning: “land of many hills”) Mannahatta was a natural wonder – a paradise of peace, love, health and harmonious living. See photos ofLenape here.
The walking route:
This One People, One Earth Medicine Walk is a two day walk beginning on Saturday, Sept 19th, at Inwood State Park. We will start with morning sunrise prayer at the highest point in Inwood Park. We will walk from the park to the top of Broadway at 231st. We will walk down Broadway (Broadway is the Mohican Trail) We walk to 178 st. to get onto Riverside Park and carry our vigil through nature – down by the river, with trees and grass and plenty of places for bathroom stops. “The Lenape called the Hudson River Shatemuc, meaning “the river that flows both ways,” because the river alternates its flow from north to south along with the Atlantic tides. Shatemuc was an important water route for the Lenape who traded with other Native people living in villages along its banks.” If you click on the link, the photos will show just how beautiful a walk through what is closest to what it was when Manhattan was a paradise. Support vehicles, are welcome to follow along with food and water can follow along riverside drive and meet us at rest points which is every 60 blocks (3 miles). We will stop for 1 hour to eat lunch and walk until we reach the 66 st.
On Sunday,September 20th, the designated day of International Day of Peace, will continue walking along the bike trail down to Battery Park and then over the the National Museum for Native Americans and have closing ceremony in Bowling Green Park. From there we will shuttle over to Central Park to another sacred location known asSeneca Village, “the Black community that died so that Central Park can live.”
From there, we will carry all the higher frequencies we gathered from the walk of the island and pour them into the higher frequencies of the “Vigil for International Peace and Ecology” being held at Band Shell stage in Central Park. This is an event where people from all over the world will be gathered on this day to invoke a new planetary direction into our collective consciousness. Click on all links to learn more about this glorious quarterly walk. If spirit moves you to join the walk or participate as support vehicle contact me for further information.
In The Name of Liberation for Humanity and the Planet Earth, my Earth-Walk is in deep gratitude to you all.
19th Annual Clean Your Streams Contact Ava Slotnick 419-874-0727; register http://www.partnersforcleanstreams.org/2015-cys/register; You MUST register by Sept 9
Neighborhood cleanup, 7 kickoff locations for 50 river side cleanups around the Toledo area.
Sylvania United Church of Christ Clean Your Streams Contact Kathy Tashima kathy@sylvaniaucc.org
cleaning Sylvania streams. Register by Sept. 9
-8:30a Registration
-9am Opening Ceremonies
-9am – 10am Walk/Run 1 or 3 miles
-9am – 12pm Wellness Fair and Family-Friendly Activities
9/19, 9a – noon Compassion Games: Land Restoration Project Metroparks of the Toledo Area , Wildwood Preserve Metropark 5100 West Central Avenue , Toledo, OH 43615 Contact Trish Hausknecht to register for this event., 419-407-9703
Citizenship Day ABLE Offices in Downtown Toledo, 525 Jefferson Ave Toledo OH 43604. information session on becoming a U.S. citizen Citizenship Day information session. Contact Brittany Ford, 419.213.4539
Partners: Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE), Welcome Toledo-Lucas County, Adelante, Water for Ishmael
Come explore, experience and BE with how compassion for others and for self is the springboard to peace…to BEing the peace that you seek. Facilitated by San Antonio peaceCENTER co-founders Rosalyn Falcon Collier and Rev. Ann Helmke.
Come out and help restore the Bolsa Chica Mesa. Wear long pants, closed toed shoes, and be prepared to get dirty. You may be weeding, watering, picking up trash or planting. What ever you do you will be helping the Bolsa Chica Ecosystem.
Volunteer for the Kamloops Rotary Food Drive and make sure you leave your food donations in a visible spot for the drivers on September 19th.
Come explore, experience and BE with how compassion for others and for self is the springboard to peace…to being the peace that you seek.
Facilitated by two wise women, the founders of the San Antonio Peace Center, Rosalyn Falcon Collier and Rev. Ann Helmke.
Now in its 16th year, the Kamloops Children’s Arts Festival is a fun-filled, creative day of artistic, musical and theatrical activities and performances for children ages 2 to 12. The entire day is FREE for children and their families.
How does it work?
Children and their families may drop in at any time from 11am to 4pm to take part in the day-long festivities. The Kamloops Arts Council enlists artists and non-profit groups to facilitate interactive workshops in visual art, dance, music, theatre and more. Musicians, storytellers, actors and dancers – both professional headliners and local groups – take to the stage. Workshops include “rock school,” henna art, hip hop dance, printmaking, clay sculpture, theatre games, button-making, magic wand-making, and much more.
Associated with the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association we offer youth between the ages of 8-17 yrs an opportunity to experience flight in a typical general aviation aircraft.
Rabbi Michael Lerner Speaks on the Subject of FREEDOM
September 19, 2015 at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time
Participate by computer or phone from anywhere worldwide!
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series.
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time:
Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart
Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig
Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone
Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams
Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin
Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler
Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete
Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater
Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik)
Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World)
(Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.)
Have a question you want to ask Deepak Chopra or one of the other Summit speakers? Click here!
Click here to register – it’s FREE!
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Objective is to provide free weekly community meals, free produce market and social and cultural activities to low income earners, the homeless, and people living with mental and physical disabilities, in Kamloops. Also to encourage volunteerism and capacity building within communities of mental health, disabilities, homelessness, and low income earners.
Every Saturday dinner will be served at their new location, St. Vincent De Paul, doors open at 10:30am (coffee, snacks, social time) and meal served at 3:30pm.
Friends of MAN UP and Compassion Games: Here is the flyer for the Compassion Games Street Summit 4 to be held at Cole’s Place on Saturday, Sept 19th 5-7 pm.
2:00 PM – Peace Potluck Picnic: Bring the family, make origami cranes and be part of the global (Peace Crane Project). Write a poem/prose/song and perform it at 4pm.
6:30 PM – Open Mic night at the Ground Floor on the subject of peace and inclusion
7:30 PM – Concert by The Therapy Sisters
This hot meal program serves a nutritious dinner at Kamloops United Church every Sunday afternoon year round and is mainly a volunteer driven program. The dinners are provided without charge
9/20 Toledo-Area Ministries CROP Hunger Walk, 2801 W. Bancroft St., UT Lot 13 Toledo, OH 43606 Kathy Tashima 419-882-0048 Hunger Walk
Thank you to my significant other or favorite peeps! Submit to https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
Can submit during this day at ANY time.
Join us for the 20th anniversary of the Scotiabank MS Bike- Thompson River Ride on September 20th, 2015. Celebrate the legacy of this event with us- as we reminisce with Alumni participants, celebrate the advances made in MS research, and welcome newcomers – that we may soon see an end to MS.
Start your day with a tasty continental breakfast, and gear up for gorgeous views as you ride alongside the North Thompson River. Relax at our Point of Interest stops as you soak in beauty, serenity, and excellent company. We are proud to have Privato Vineyard and Winery join us again as a Point of Interest. This year we are happy to be able to offer a 91km “Ultra” ride to the McLure Ferry turn-around for experienced riders. After your ride, enjoy a delicious lunch while the Top Team Spirit, Top Fundraiser, and more prizes are awarded…. It could be you!
This ride is fully supported with meals, snacks, and beverages provided, rider emergency support, and more. Become a fundraising VIP and be treated to exclusive perks!
The only thing that can make this event any better is doing it with friends. Click Start a Team or Join a Team to ride with your friends, family, or coworkers for an exponentially more exciting experience.
The Scotiabank MS Bike -Thompson River Ride raises crucial funds for the MS Society of Canada, Kamloops and Area Chapter. All funds raised go towards finding the cause and a cure for multiple sclerosis, as well as funding community-based programs that help local people affected by MS to have a better quality of life.
What are you waiting for? Sign up NOW!
2015 Registration Fees:
Early Bird Until February 20th – $20 Regular Cyclist, $40 Ultra Cyclist
February 21st-July 19th – $30 Regular Cyclist, $50 Ultra Cyclist
July 20th – September 20th – $40 Regular Cyclist, $60 Ultra Cyclist
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Unity-and-Diversity World Council (UDC) and the 70th anniversary of the United Nations. UDC was born during International Cooperation Year 1965, which was the highlight of the United Nations 70th anniversary. Peace Sunday Festival is being convened by the Unity-and-Diversity World Council in cooperation with Agape International Spiritual Center. In addition, there are numerous sponsors and co-sponsors.
This year’s events find much of our world in turmoil and unease. We hope that this Festival will provide inspiration, courage, and valuable tools for us to aid in the building of a sustainable peace on earth.
The theme of this year’s event is: “BUILDING A PEACEFUL WORLD”
The 14th Annual Volkswagon Turtle River Race is on Sunday September 20, 2015
Races start at the Yacht Club and finish at Pioneer Park
Terry Lowe and staff at Volkswagen of Kamloops are proud to announce that this year’s VW Turtle River Race proceeds will go to Western Canada Theatre of Kamloops.
Tickets will be on sale until 12:00 Noon, September 20th and are only $10 each!
The vigil for international peace is a transformational grassroots effort dedicated to promoting peace through participation in music, art, poetry, dance and prayer. Our vision is to heal and bridge our lives and communities, to achieve alignment, and recognize the oneness in all.
The Vigil for International Peace and Ecology was inspired by the United Nations’ Resolution 55/282 designating September 21st of each year as an “International Day of Peace”. a full day dedicated to global ceasefire and non- violence. The original International resolution was passed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981 in resolution 36/67.
Riverside Park – Meet at Bandshell
Registration: 9am, Run Start: 10am, Event Close: 12:30pm
Only 3.5km, 7km & 10.5km (3 x 3.5km); Suitable for bikes, wheelchairs/strollers, NOT suitable for rollerblades. NO dogs allowed.
Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater Speak on the Subject of DISARMAMENT
September 20, 2015 at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time
Participate by computer or phone from anywhere worldwide!
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series.
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time:
Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart
Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig
Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone
Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams
Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin
Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler
Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete
Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater
Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik)
Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World)
(Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.)
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Join us as we do our part to help plant 50,000 trees nationwide during TD Tree Days. Locally, volunteers will plant 300 trees at Tournament Capital Park (5375 Yellowhead Highway, Kamloops) on Sunday, September 20. The event will run from 10:00AM – 1:00PM. Volunteers should bring a refillable water bottle, and wear weather-appropriate attire and closed-toed shoes. To register for TD Tree Days in Kamloops, or to learn more, visit tdtreedays.com. #TDTreeDays
9th ANNUAL PEACE WALK – ONE VILLAGE PROJECT
Hosted by Amala Foundation
In celebration of the International Day of Peace. we will are inviting various peoples and communities in Austin to unite, connect and walk in solidarity from the Capitol Building to Huston-Tillotson College, Schedule:
10:30am: Meet at the Texas State Capitol WEST LAWN (1110 Congress Ave.) gate on Colorado St. (between 12th & 13th St.)
10:30am-12 pm: Village Talking Circle
12-1 pm: Art making and lunch
1-3pm: Peace Walk starting at the Texas State Capitol, ending at Huston-Tillotson and Closing Circle.
Come out a walk in Peace to Honor The International Day of Peace 9-21 & 911 Day of Service. This is a non political or religious event. The idea is to have community walk together in community and friendship. All are welcome. The event is presented by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics.
Location Link Is here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2645575,-118.5231514,3a,75y,280.92h,72.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syH4MP3_7oao5tj3IgwFLWQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
(THIS IS A PRIVATE EVENT)
From The Golden Rule to the Golden Reality Comes A Family Day Filled With Opportunities To Show and Experience Kindness!
2:00PM GAMES AND INSPIRATION STATIONS
3:30PM CLOSING CEREMONY
Children’s Compassion Procession and Torch Lighting
Featuring, Special Musical Guest, Nimo Patel, Sharing Stories and Song
International Peace Day and / MultiFaith Annual Harvest Festival,
Park Church, 1456 Harvard Blvd, Toledo, OH 43614. Prayers for Peace at the Peace Pole. Displays and music in the gym. Shared potluck harvest themed food. Bring mug for soup. We provide beverages, tableware, and hearty soups. Festival concludes Compassion Games.
Join us for a panel discussion of homelessness in our community and the solutions we can work toward together. Panelists will make brief presentations and then field questions from the audience.
PANELISTS:
- Mark Putnam – Director, Committee to End Homelessness/King County
- Tim Harris – Founding Director of Real Change
- Rick Reynolds – Executive Director of Night Watch
- Sharon Lee – Executive Director of the Low Income Housing Institute
- Lisa Gustaveson – Seattle University- Faith & Family Homelessness Project
The moderator will be David Bloom, Director Emeritus of the Interfaith Task Force on Homelessness.
We will affirm our commitment to continuing our compassionate efforts beyond the Compassion Games by gathering to celebrate our efforts over the 11 days. We will assemble care kits for the homeless which will be distributed locally to the homeless, including homeless vets. We’ll follow the service project with a celebratory potluck dinner.
Collective Global Meditation & Silent Disco Squad & Social Action
ABOUT THE WORLD PEACE WEEKEND
Please join us September 19th-21st for the World Peace Weekend. Hundreds of organizations are hosting marches, musical celebrations, & meditations around the world.
There will be a Global Synchronized Inner-Peace Broadcast at 5:00 pm PST / 12:00 Midnight GMT on September 19th hosted by BeThePeace. Then, on Sunday September 20th, there will be a wave of live events at 12:00 Noon in your time zone. We invite you to organize a meditation, prayer, or ceremony in your native tradition. Millions of us around the world will focus on creating a foundation of inner peace as the first step towards World Peace.
On Monday, September 21st, we invite you to take peace into the world. Forgive someone in your life, bring peace into your workplace, or organize a peace project. You choose how you want to create peace into the world.
We’re here to support you. Sign up to our mailing list and you will receive guidance and resources for organizing an event in your city or individual action steps you can take to create more peace in your life and on our planet.
Together, as one human family, we will accomplish peace on earth. It may take a generation but we now have the tools, the knowledge, and the will to make it happen. One step at a time. We will accomplish our goal.
We appreciate you joining us on this mission. Please let us know how we can support you.
– The Unify Team
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During these turbulent times we are coming together as one through conscious motion to celebrate and embody the Peace we have and the Peace we are striving towards.
As part of Unify.org’s World Peace Weekend, we are co-creating a Global Peace Dance Party in streets around the world on September 21st, the International Day of Peace!
Distribute recommended readings on PEACE
• 5 – 7am Live TV coverage / early morning news, announcements RE Pot Luck DINNER @NEChristian, leaderboard info and dedications / ceremonies
• FREE Donuts and Coffee (TBA)
10am PRESS CONFERENCE plus announcements RE Pot Luck DINNER @NEChristian, leaderboard info and dedications / ceremonies
Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury Speak on the Subject of PEACE
September 21, 2015 at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time
Participate by computer or phone from anywhere worldwide!
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series.
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time:
Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart
Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig
Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone
Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams
Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin
Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler
Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete
Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater
Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik)
Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World)
(Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.)
Have a question you want to ask Deepak Chopra or one of the other Summit speakers? Click here!
Click here to register – it’s FREE!
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Music, Food, Interactive Art, Compassion Games, Prizes, Exhibitors and the documentary screening “Beyond The Divide, War, Peace and the Courage To Find Common Ground”
Step in for Peace by making a commitment to tell people you won’t tolerate violence and you’ll 3:00 do your part to make this the safest campus around.
Bring a bagged lunch to the downtown library to learn about “Raising Financially Fit Kids”. Lisa Rogers from the Credit Counselling Society will be presenting a free workshop where parents will learn some easy to implement techniques to teach their kids about savings, giving, and spending. 12-1pm.
Earth Day was originally conceived by Senator Gaylord Nelson at an Airlie event in 1969. In honor of this, and in recognition of the unusual needs precipitated by climate change, we will meet to initiate local creative responses. Peace and environment are inextricably related.
Peace Day Austin and Global Austin Welcoming Week
Press Conference and Reception
Austin City Hall
4 PM
Mayor Adler, City of Austin dignitaries as well as Conusul General of Mexico, Consul General of Ireland will recognize and honor both the value of International Peace Day as well as the value of our international visitors and immigrant communities and what they bring to the City . The different participating organizations will also be acknowledged and thanked. Music by Conspirare Children’s Choir, Akins HS Choir. Reception follows.
LaMont Johnson and experts on the backlog of rape kits in Kentucky and renewed efforts to bring justice and healing to survivors.
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The Journey of Global Peace in dance and celebrate “Global Compassion in Action” as we take the global peace dance on the rainbow streets of Broadway!!
7:30 – The Global Dance Party comes back to Cal Anderson Park!! Where we will find a sacred circle of embodied community in connection to peace & joy together!
8:00 Candle reflection ceremony to honor closing ceremony of The Annual Compassion Games September 11 – 21st, reflection on global silent disco for peace.
8:30 – Future collective actions of peace for self, others, and the Earth!!
Let’s celebrate the International Day of Peace + Closing Ceremony of 11 Days of Global Unity Annual Compassion Games together!!
More questions, more help, more co creation, more bright colorful ways to show up and be more of you please feel free to contact coordinator,
Compassion Games International Unicorn,
Sommer Joy Albertsen sommer@compassiongames.org
www.compassiongames.org
www.silentdiscosquad.com
www.unify.org
www.thecravecompany.com
The keynote speaker will be Pardeep Kaleka, speaker, activist, and founder of Serve2Unite. Kaleka is the eldest son of Satwant Singh Kaleka-the president of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, who was gunned down during the attacks on the Sikh Temple on August 5, 012. Kaleka grew up in Milwaukee and graduated from Marquette University. He is a certified teacher and a former police officer for the city of Milwaukee. In addition, Rev. Tony Larsen, pastor of Olympia Brown Unitarian Universalist Church will speak. Larsen is the catalyst for the candlelight vigils following acts of violence in our community. Included will be inspiring music by local artists and Compassion Stories from several Vietnam Veterans.
Center for Non-Profit Excellence
11:30 AM
Step in for Peace by making a commitment to tell people you won’t tolerate violence and you’ll 6:00 do your part to make this the safest campus around.
Students will share experiences from the 50th anniversary of the Selma Civil Rights March, a “Truth Telling Project” in Ferguson, and the annual White Privilege Conference in Louisville.
@UofL’s Get Healthy Now, 601 Presidents Blvd, Louisville 40217
UofL Health Science Campus, Nursing School / K-Wing Room 2017 (Weekly Sept 9-25th)
UofL’s Get Healthy Now
Kirtan, Yoga, Breathing, Relaxation and Meditation for Peace!
The 2015 Celebrating First Ladies Summits and Dinner came as a platform to bring women and others in governance, leadership position, peace initiatives and religion to discussion on sustainable roles of women in governance and leadership to global peace. The Summits is proven to recognize the principles of integrative peace building initiatives and explore roles of women to world peace.
Reflecting on this, the summit will generate answers to the question:” Can there be world peace without women in a Post 2015 Sustainable Development Agenda” through discussion on the theme: “Women and the Search for Global Peace and Development”.
The outcome will result in clear-cut, time-bound demands for implementation to the office of First Ladies of UN member States, world leaders, religious leaders, commitments by civil societies in integrating “Women Council Peace Rethinking Model Initiative” for Global Peace
Community treasure Eileen Blanton of Louisville’s Peace Education program is conducting the peacemaking processes workshop for student engagement.
www.SowersOfJusticeNetwork.org
Save-the-date for our Building the Beloved Community Gala on Saturday, September 26th from 5-9 PM at The Westin Seattle! Save-the-date cards hit mailboxes this week. You can purchase tickets at the Early Bird Price of $120 here or find out more information at www.belovedcommunitygala.org.
EVERYONE WILL HAVE AN EXPERIENCE- either with an Ascended Master, an Arch Angel, a past life experience, an out of body experience in the inner light, or you will have some other experience special for you…
David Young is a twice Grammy Nominated musician who plays two renaissance flutes at one time in harmony. He has recorded 57 albums and sold over 1,000,000 copies. He is a healer, channel, writer of three books, artist and it is said that more people have had out of body experiences while listening to his music than other musician alive today.
Link to 1:00 event video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdL6Zk5FgUY
Whether people have been meditating a short time or for thirty years, attendees consistantly say they’ve had the most profound, spiritual experience of their entire life.
Marie Diamond, Fung Shui Master and speaker in the movie, “The Secret” came on stage after one of David’s performances and told the audience she just had “the most profound spiritual experience of her life.”
Barbara Hardie, writer of the book, “Creating Heaven on Earth”, well respected medium and angel channel from MA. who has been meditating for 25 years had a healing at her first event and shared that she had “the most high vibrational, spiritual experience of her life” at her second event. She has been to four events now and each one brought her to a higher level than she ever thought possible.
David has done over 100 Soul Activation workshops this year, traveling to three or four cities each week.
For the past two months, AT EVERY EVENT, people have consistently shared their experiences with either Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Quan Yin, or Mother Mary.
David’s wife Dawn has had nine experiences with Kali, the Goddess seen with six arms. Others have had experiences with Edgar Cayce, Gandhi, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ravi Shankar, and the Egyptian Goddess Isis. Although each experience is unique, many share that these great teachers have told them we are all One and we are equal and there is no need for the pedestals that mankind has put them on.
Three people at one event saw Jesus standing in the exact same place in the room and he gave each of them the same inner symbols.
Two women sitting next to each other at one event both described experiencing Quan Yin standing between them.
On separate evenings two people had the exact same experience with Buddha who brought them to this gigantic tree (The Tree of Life) that was so tremendous it was beyond their description of words.
At every one of these events at least ten people have shared reconnecting with their loved ones in Spirit.
A shy, introverted woman came to an event and shared that her entire family in Heaven lined up to greet her, over 20 souls.
Violetta, who has cancer has been visited six times by Jesus, George Harrison and John Lennon at events as they are helping her to heal. After living with 10 out of 10 horrible pain from her treatments the week before the last event she was pain free for 48 hours afterwards.
A woman with a son with Down Syndrome had a Soul to Soul experience where he was syndrome free on the inner and he explained why he had that disease in his current life.
David was given nine words to give to a woman, “I am Strong, I am Protected, I am Confident.” Afterwards she shared that Arch Angel Michael had come to her the previous week and gave her the same nine words and told her to write them down.
It is a privilege and sheer pleasure for David to share his music and this energy with the New York City and Jivamukti Yoga community.
Extended compassion talk. 11:00 am
UofL Health Science Campus, Nursing School / K-Wing Room 2017 (Weekly Sept 9-25th)
UofL’s Get Healthy Now
12:00-12:30pm
Global problems demand global solutions. However, the present international system is incapable of coping effectively with problems such as climate change, the North-South economic gap, civil wars, terrorism and pandemic diseases, among many others. Fortunately, creative thinkers have put forward numerous workable proposals for dealing with the major threats now facing humanity. Many of these will be addressed by a stellar group of experts at the “Creating a Workable World” conference.
Big four bridge waterfront park
from 11:00am – 5:00 pm
Third Stanza Poets of Ames IA. 8th annual 11Days Poetry Reading held in conjunction with the 11 Days of Global Unity international celebration. Though Ames IA has not participated continuously all of these past 8 years, our community is participating again in 2015.
**Come join Wednesday “Big Magic” Nights at Compassion Games Heart Quarters**
This class has been inspired deeply from Elizabeth Gilbert’s recent book Big Magic. Every word has been jumping off the page nourishing my heart. The lovely field of this book has guidied me to curating creative spaces and teach Nia again!
I desire to bring sacred circle together to embody “Big Magic” in incisive dance and authentic conversation!
7:00 The Nia Dance Begins (Mix of Dance, Healing, Martial Arts inspired class)
8:00 Big Magic Sacred Circle Sharing Begins
9:00 Reflection and Closing
What do you need?
*To be through the first chapter of the EPIC book
Big Magic: Link here to find it on Elizabeth Gilberts Site:
http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/
(Nothing is mandatory just suggested )
*Wear clothes that make you feel wonderful (stretchy fun yoga like clothes)
*Bring $20 for self or $30 for 2 (if you bring a friend)
I look forward to sharing this magical conscious community journey with you and yes Elizabeth Gilbert is invited too!
Love & Divine Light,
Sommer Albertsen
Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest Unicorn
Brown Belt Nia Teacher
Energy Brilliance Now Center Healer
Any questions please feel free to contact me:
sommer@compassiongames.org
425-891-7264
1:00pm- 4:00pm
UofL Health Science Campus, Nursing School / K-Wing Room 2017 (Weekly Sept 9-25th)
UofL’s Get Healthy Now
(Paula)
Wednesday November 11 from 12:00-12:30pm
With over 120 practitioners we provide a great variety of: natural health, alternative medicine, energy-field, nutritional information and many more.
UofL Health Science Campus, Nursing School / K-Wing Room 2017 (Weekly Sept 9-25th)
UofL’s Get Healthy Now
(Paula)
Wednesday, November 25- 12:00pm-12:30 pm
All Players & Teams of The Giving Games are invited to participate in this event!
An amazing opportunity to be in high purpose! This is exciting!
REGISTER AT
amplifield.com
For the last several days there have been conversations with colleagues around the world about how to utilize the coherence capabilities of a new mobile and web app called “The Amplifield” to generate a global field of resonance, compassion and support for the upcoming COP21 climate change conference starting in Paris next week.
This incredible group of people (including a French government official) are very interested in how to support the global delegates who will make some very important decisions regarding how we deal with climate change on Planet Earth over the coming decades.
You are invited; Starting at exactly 8am PST this coming Sunday (11/29) Nicolas Beriot, France’s minister on the effects of climate change, will set a vibrational tone, and collective intention, for how this conference will go.
You heard that CORRECTLY— a government official is very much involved in making this all happen! Nicolas truly sees the benefit of using “The Amplifield” as a frequency support mechanism to aid this climate conference.
Our beloved visionary Barbara Marx Hubbard will guide participants around the world in a synchronized meditation to support the opening of the climate conference.
This is an unprecedented event and opportunity!
Please join us at The Amplifield this coming Sunday at 8am PST / 4 pm GMT
TIME ZONE CONVERTER
Our plan is to empower a global audience for the entire 2 weeks of the COP21 conference. We will register our support and intentions into the app throughout the climate conference so please know that this Sunday event is just the inaugural ‘kick off’.
There will also be amazing guest facilitators at The Amplifield during these two weeks to support the effort.
Let’s do this together!!!
REGISTER AT:
Amplifield.com
and stay tuned for more details!
A PLANETARY AWAKENING IN LOVE IS HAPPENING NOW.
Play With Generosity and Celebrate Giving!
The Giving Games: Youth and Schools Play it Forward are an 11 day global challenge to inspire, develop, and celebrate our shared humanity through acts of generosity and compassion. Beginning on December 1st – a day known as Giving Tuesday – and going through December 11th, the Giving Games are played globally between youth, educators, and mentors to foster safe and fulfilling places of learning, helping the next generation develop into happy, compassionate, creative, and resilient members of our world!
The Giving Games start the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. The Giving Games are a way to explore new ways to be generous with others, ourselves, and the Earth. Let’s play the Compassion Games with generosity and celebrate giving!
Wednesday December 2nd | 11:00am – 11:45am PST
Compassion Games International is honored to present the first DAILY BLAB LIVE with the world. We will be bringing the latest Giving Games news, highlighted stories of the day, team points on scoreboard, and just in EPIC reports. The Giving Games Coordinator Sommer Albertsen and Team Organizer Marie Roker- Jones will be co hosting daily Blabs available to share between all the organizers around the world about reporting, playing, and sharing your experience of The Giving Games Dec. 1st-11th 11am PST!! This is a wonderful face to face LIVE conversation tool to deepen relationships, support others live, and bring meaning to the collective experience shared with the world. This platform is another example of how we will be amplifying your actions and Team to Team celebrating. We hope to see there sharing your Giving Games journey with us! Youth and schools across the planet playing together and bringing giving in action alive!!
“The more people play the more people win”
– Quoted by Founder of Compassion Games International & Compassionate Cities Movement, Jon Ramer
This is for #ListenParis2015 Team and Individuals playing The Giving Games can also play by giving to the planet from Dec
4. When sharing pictures and vides use #ListenParis2015 and#EarthToParis to join the global conversation.
5. Enjoy the event!
How it Works:
LISTEN is a 24-hour global silent disco – the music starts at 5pm (Paris time) December 5th and goes until 5pm (Paris time) December 6th. No matter where you are in the world you’ll be hearing the same music at the same time!
Why LISTEN?
Paris COP21 Climate Talks are quickly approaching. We are unifying around the world showing global unity so that the leaders negotiating at the Paris COP21 event will see our movement and LISTEN to our voice of readiness to move towards a 100% a renewable future.
We cannot wait to celebrate our sustainable future by dancing around the world!
Saturday December 5th | 11:00AM PST – 11:45AM PST
Compassion Games International is honored to present the first DAILY BLAB LIVE with the world. We will be bringing the latest Giving Games news, highlighted stories of the day, team points on scoreboard, and just in EPIC reports. The Giving Games Coordinator Sommer Albertsen and Team Organizer Marie Roker- Jones will be co hosting daily Blabs available to share between all the organizers around the world about reporting, playing, and sharing your experience of The Giving Games Dec. 1st-11th 11am PST!! This is a wonderful face to face LIVE conversation tool to deepen relationships, support others live, and bring meaning to the collective experience shared with the world. This platform is another example of how we will be amplifying your actions and Team to Team celebrating. We hope to see there sharing your Giving Games journey with us! Youth and schools across the planet playing together and bringing giving in action alive!!
Saturday December 6th 11:00AM PST – Monday December 7th 11:00AM PST
All agents of compassion join us on a 24 Hour activated conversation on a journey around the world – Blab Marathon
We already have a powerful lineup of Giving Activist to Co Host sharing from all over the world who are also playing The Giving Games! This face to face live conversation will be shared with the world on Blab. We are excited to be supported by Blab headquarters as well with this special global event for voices of giving to shine even brighter.
This is a way to play The Giving Games – Giving your time. Giving your voice, Giving listening, Giving together!!
Lineup Includes:
Marie Roker-Jones – from Raising Great Men
Ilya Lyashevsky – from WeShelter
Sommer Albertsen – from Compassion Games International
Jon Ramer – Founder of Compassion Games International & Compassionate City Movement
We still have room in the 24 hours for YOU to co host with us to help travel around the world sharing GIVING, COMPASSION, GENEROSITY, PEACE, LOVE!! Please share your actions your doing with The Giving Games and ideas for 2016 too!!
Tuesday December 8th | 10:00AM PST – 10:45 PST
Compassion Games International is honored to present the first DAILY BLAB LIVE with the world. We will be bringing the latest Giving Games news, highlighted stories of the day, team points on scoreboard, and just in EPIC reports. The Giving Games Coordinator Sommer Albertsen and Team Organizer Marie Roker- Jones will be co hosting daily Blabs available to share between all the organizers around the world about reporting, playing, and sharing your experience of The Giving Games Dec. 1st-11th 11am PST!! This is a wonderful face to face LIVE conversation tool to deepen relationships, support others live, and bring meaning to the collective experience shared with the world. This platform is another example of how we will be amplifying your actions and Team to Team celebrating. We hope to see there sharing your Giving Games journey with us! Youth and schools across the planet playing together and bringing giving in action alive!!
JAPAN, STOP THE DOLPHIN HUNTS!
Friday, Dec. 11, 2015 fr/ 2:00 PM outside
Consulate General of Japan 299 Park Ave. btwn E 48th St. & E 49th St.,
nr. #6, E, M, 4, 5, B, D, F, 7, N, Q, R, 1 or C train, cross town bus lines via 50th or via 49th or 42nd;
map: http://goo.gl/maps/zUoU4 bus map: goo.gl/9cQpB
Friends Of Animals United NJ/NY (FAUN) information@faunnj.org
(732)693-9044 ny4whales@optonline.net information@caafgroup.com
**Please join us as we enlighten the public about the dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. We will honor the dolphins which have been, and will be killed in the annual slaughter that takes place from Sept. to March…..we honor, as well, all the dolphins…
please check online for any changes; look up event title, contacts, FAUN meetup page & issue background. be well. -t.
Students will thank teachers in a variety of ways over the four-day period.
Vigil to raise awareness about the current violence in Burundi.
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MLK Day of Service 2016 Fruitvale – At Lazear Elementary, EPIC Middle School and Oakland Animal Shelter
Coordinator: Victoria Herrera
Date of Project: January 16 and 18, 9:00AM to 1:00PM
Location: – Lazear Elementary School – 824 29th Ave, Oakland
Project: At Lazear Elementary, EPIC Middle School and Oakland Animal Shelter
Join us to beautify 3 community sites with planter boxes, graffiti abatement through mural painting, and making our community welcoming. Planter boxes will help the schools provide outdoor activities for their students, while murals will beautify the area and deter graffiti. We are excited to give Oakland Animal Shelter a makeover with pet friendly art, as well as any other improvements to the facility
Great event for adults, students and families (Kids need to be accompanied by parents)
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves.
For information: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
Peralta Hacienda Historic Park – Beautifying the Park
Coordinator: Itzel Diaz
Date of Project: January 18, 9:00AM to 1:00PM
Location: 2465 34th Ave., Oakland, CA, 94601
Project: park and school beautification,
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves. And a rain coat if needed! Go to mlk.gov to sign up
For information: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
Madison Park Academy & Sobrante Park Project – Serving the School and Community
Coordinator: Bill Richie 510-472-8911
Date of Project: January 18, 8:30AM to 2:00PM
Location: 400 Capistrano Dr. , Oakland CA 94603
Project: park and school beautification, helping seniors home, planting and beautifying Edes Ave,
Arroyo Viejo Park – Park restoration project
Coordinator: Dwayne Aikens Jr.
Date of Project: January 18, 8:00AM to 12:00PM
Location: – 7701 Krause Ave Oakland, CA 94605
Project: Litter pick up, Creek restoration and clean up, Painting and graffiti abatement, Laying of mulch
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves. And a rain coat if needed! Go to mlk.gov to sign up
For information: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
MLK Day of Service Oakland 2016
Chinatown – Clean up the Neighborhood
Coordinator: Jessica Chen
Date of Project: January 18, 9:00AM to 12:00PM
Location: – Chinatown TBA, Oakland
Project: Neighborhood clean up
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves. And a rain coat if needed! Go to mlk.gov to sign up
For information: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
Life Academy of Health and Bio Science – Serving the School and Community
Coordinator: Sabaa Shoraka
Date of Project: January 18, 9:00AM to 1:00PM
Location: – Meet at Peralta Hacienda Park (2465 34th Avenue – Oakland, CA, 94601)
Project: park and school beautification,
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves. And a rain coat if needed! Go to mlk.gov to sign up
For information: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR REGIONAL SHORELINE – On January 18, 2016, the Park District will be celebrating its 8th Annual Day of Service that continues Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s vision to improve lives, bridge social barriers and move our nation closer together to the beloved community. Volunteers will assist staff in restoration work and invasive plant removal in order to support and care for wildlife and their natural habitats. Volunteers will also be participating in the restoration of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Grove and Damon Marsh.
We welcome children to participate, but ask that those under 16 are accompanied by one chaperone for every 20 kids.
Day of Program:
— 8:30am – Check In / Registration Opens
— 9:00am – Program Begins
— Noon – Program Ends
Wear comfortable, weather-appropriate clothes and closed-toed shores. To cut down on the use of plastic, please bring a refillable water bottle and bucket to pick up litter. For more information, email volunteers@ebparks.org. Heavy rain cancels the event.
Registration Required: you may register groups up to 100 people online or by calling Reservations at 1-888-327-2757, Option 2.
Driving Directions from I-880 in Oakland
MLK, Jr. Damon Marsh
Take the 66th Avenue exit. At 66th Avenue, turn west towards the bay. 66th Avenue ends at Oakport Street. Turn right onto Oakport Street and drive about a quarter mile following the MLK Day Cleanup directional signs. The signs will direct you to turn left onto a dirt road to reach the parking area.
MLK, Jr. Memorial Grove: From I-880 in Oakland, take the Hegenberger Rd. exit and drive on Hegenberger Rd. toward the airport (west). Turn right on Doolittle Dr. (.75 miles) and right on Swan Way (next light). Drive 200ft and on the left side is the entrance to Arrowhead Marsh and MLK Grove is the first parking lot on your left.
Morcom Rose Garden – Beautifying the Garden
Coordinator: Jane Bicek
Date of Project: January 18, 9:00AM to 12:00PM
Location: 700 Jean Street. Oakland
Project: Beautifying the Gardens, weeding, mulching, pruning, composting
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves. And a rain coat if needed! Go to mlk.gov to sign up
For information: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
Peralta Hacienda Historic Park – Beautifying the Park
Coordinator: Itzel Diaz
Date of Project: January 18, 9:00AM to 1:00PM
Location: 2465 34th Avenue – Oakland, CA, 94601
Project: park and school beautification,
The Lakeside Park at Lake Merritt – Beautifying the Lake and Gardens
Coordinator: Tora Rocha
Date of Project: January 18, 8:30AM to 3:00PM
Location: 666 Bellevue Ave. Oakland
Project: Beautifying Lakeside Park and the Gardens, path remediation, weeding, mulching
FIRST historic case before ITNJ : Respondents : SA Government & Constitutional Court of South Africa for breach of fiduciary trust with fraudulent intent : {THIS IS HISTORIC}
: Case documents & annexures to investigation at: http://www.giftoftruth.wordpress.com/annexures.
For further information: info@lightwarrior.co.za
February 1st is the beginning of World Interfaith Harmony Week: Febraury 1st – February 7th
http://compassiongames.org/world-interfaith-harmony-week/ Individuals and Teams are participating in reporting actions of peace, interfaith, compassion, and pure love in action together. You as well can still sign up to be an Agent of Compassion as well Individually or leading a Team.
The Opening Ceremonies will be joining into this global collective action of meditation and peaceful prayer with friends in Syria. There will be a live Syria Prayer Vigil happening this day gathering with people from around the world together with Unify & James Twyman.
“We will be holding the Isness of peace. This is the time to be fully empowered. Only love is real!” – James Twyman
James will be risking his life to witness to the reality of peace. Will you commit to join him and many others from around the world for fifteen minutes when he is in Syria? YOU ARE SO VERY NEEDED!
To Listen to this guided meditation with the world 8AM PST here at this link: https://jt208.infusionsoft.com/app/form/default-campaign-form15
HELP US SPREAD THE WORD. This wave of prayer will only be effective if it is supported by massive numbers of people. Please send this email to EVERYONE YOU KNOW. The more people who forward this to their own email lists, the quicker we will have the momentum we need. With Unify and James Twyman we gather with all on planet Earth Interfaith Harmony in action!
Report your interfaith, peace, and compassion in action for 7 days with us on the Global Compassion Report Map: https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
What is the World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition?
The World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition is a 7 day global challenge to promote acts of peace, collaboration and tolerancebetween people of all faith, spiritual, and humanistic traditions. Beginning on February 1st and going through February 7th, individuals and teams will use the spirit of coopetition to inspire acts collaborative acts of service to give back to their communities and strengthen mutual respect, understanding, and harmony between people of all backgrounds.
The Harmony Week Coopetition is an incredible opportunity for any organization, group, congregation, place of worship or interfaith community to play in the Games in the spirit of a growing global unity and respect for all members of the human family. By using the innate desire of playfulness that exists within us all, the competitive altruism of the Games inspire and catalyze people to strive together for the greater good of compassion and service for others, ourselves, and the world.
The World Interfaith Harmony Week was first proposed at the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2010 by H.M. King Abdullah II of Jordan. Just under a month later, on October 20, 2010, it was unanimously adopted by the UN and henceforth the first week of February will be observed as a World Interfaith Harmony Week. Compassion Games is proud to present the World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition.
We invite Individual Players and Team Organizers to Sign Up for the World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition to bring the reality of peace to our world!
You can sign up to play here as an individual and also a team!
Love Wins!
Mon., Feb. 1, 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT: Karin Miller,
Karin is Vice President and General Counsel of a major entertainment industry consortium. Active in the mind, body and spirit communities for over ten years, Miller served as pro bono counsel to Marianne Williamson for the formation of the Peace Alliance and as an Advisory Board Member to the Alliance for a New Humanity, chaired by Deepak Chopra.
Karin founded Our New Evolution (ONE) to connect and empower people and projects that are aligned with Global Values—the heart of Karin’s new book, “Global Values: A New Paradigm for a New World.” Read the introduction to Karen’s book and visit www.OurNewEvolution.org to learn more.
[REGISTER HERE] For this Charter For Compassion Second Speaker Series Talk
On the First Monday of Every Month
(except holidays)
With a Certified NYCNVC Introduction Leader
By Donation NVC Introduction and Workshop in NYC
This informative, inspiring evening workshop introduces a revolutionary way of thinking and speaking that is being used around the world to bring peace and connection to personal, professional and international relationships.
Learn about this new generation of human connection and peacemaking skills, known as “NVC” that’s changing the way we think about conflict, compassion and our future. Get some personal growth, hope and profound fun. The evening starts with an interactive introduction followed by exercises and more.
Tue., Feb. 2, 12 p.m. ET/ 9 a.m. PT: Imam Jamal Rahman, Rev. Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon, “The Interfaith Amigos.”
The Interfaith Amigos started working together after 9/11. Since then, they have brought their unique blend of spiritual wisdom and humor to audiences in the US, Canada, Israel-Palestine and Japan. Their first book, Getting to the Heart of Interfaith (Skylight Paths, 2009), brought the Interfaith Amigos international attention with coverage from the New York Times, CBS News, the BBC and various NPR programs. Karen Armstrong calls their “exuberant and courageous” second book, Religion Gone Astray: What We Found at the Heart of Interfaith (Skylight Paths, 2011), “an inspiration and example for all of us in these sadly polarized times.”
Charter For Compassion Speaker Series Presents
Wed., Feb. 3, 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT: Marie Roker-Jones, Louisa Hext, Aleasa Word
Marie Roker-Jones and Louisa Hext are cofounders of #CompassionConvos: a compassion movement challenging our own bias. It’s a call to action bringing people together to create individual and systemic change. Roker-Jones is also the founder of http://raisinggreatmen.com/, an effort to raise boys to be men of character. Hext is the North American representative of The Forgiveness Project, and can be reached though http://consultantshext.com/
Aleasa Word is an internationally certified professional life coach, editor at the Good Men Project, small business consultant and author specializing in helping people develop the second chapter of their lives professionally and personally. Details on her site Chapter 2 Living.
Thur., Feb. 4, 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT: John Esposito
John Esposito is American professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Esposito is Founding Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Walsh School of Foreign Service.Previously, he was Loyola Professor of Middle East Studies, College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of over 45 books. Esposito’s interviews and articles with newspapers, magazines, and the media in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the Middle East: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Guardian, The Times of London, CNN, ABC Nightline, CBS, NBC, and the BBC. John is a major contributor to the Charter’s Islamophobia Guide Book.
[Last December 12 Hour Blab Recording with many luminaries from all over the world recording here]
What does World Interfaith Harmony in action look like? What choices could we make today that empower the golden rule? How could we be harmonious with compassion and love with the world?? How does collective impact happen?
This Conversation on BLAB LIVE is about World Interfaith Harmony Week happening right now Feb 1-7th. There are Agents of Compassion focusing on this around the world sharing on Global Report Map.
We have a few feature speakers Jon Ramer from Team Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest, Edwina Cowell from Team Spiritual Playdate, Amanda Cook from Play For Peace and more surprise champions of compassion!
Blab is the latest social media platform with face to face, chat box, Twiiter + Facebook connection, and support hearts a click away on what moves you on the screen. Let us celebrate and amplify together the vibration of compassion.
You can reserve your spot and join the converation at this link:https://blab.im/compassiongames-compassioninaction-world-interfaith-harmony-week-in-action
Friday, Feb 5, 7 am PT; Desperate Times Call for Compassionate Action.
Join Reham Hamoui and others who are working with refugees arriving in Europe and America. Rehab is Syrian-born American currently residing in Seattle, WA. She has worked on humanitarian issues for 5 years in several capacities including the coordination of medical missions, political advocacy, and community outreach. She is now the Director of Communications for Salaam Cultural Museum, a NGO focused on providing humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees within the MENA region and Greece.
Please help us spread the word!
RSVP on Heart Sisters Facebook Event
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In the U.S. and possibly global climate where hostility toward Muslims and contagious backlash against Sikhs and others in religious attire is on the increase, we Seattle area women of faith sought compassionate responses to implement.
This is a message on a card one of the women in the circle sent to Seattle area mosques on a particularly meaningful day for Muslims this December. Others have visited mosques armed with notes of support and gifts.
In solidarity with Muslims around the world and to some extent, the generous givers who will show their support, we invite you to a concerted moment of solidarity on
February 5, 2016, Friday, at 1 PM PST
to send a prayer, an email, a note, or a gift to one or more mosques in your area. The moment of simultaneous show of support certainly would be indicative of our message of solidarity and perhaps can serve as a bond among all who send such message of fellowship around the globe.
Please let Guo Cheen (TheCompassionNetwork@gmail.com) know if any mosque or Muslim association you reach out to is open for several local women from different religious communities to be in dialogue with interested Muslim women. So that together, we learn to build bridges for times of needed solidarity among us.
Then report your action on the Compassion Report Map
Local WE Change Agent Network meeting.
For further information: info@lightwarrior.co.za
We are very pleased to invite you to this a unique presentation on Human Evolutionary Change with Author, Philosopher and Evolutionary Leader, Richard A. Bowell (Thursday, 3 March at 1pm). This work shows the way each one of us can ‘Transform Ourselves to Transform the World’, as a complement to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Come experience the shift in thinking, feeling and perception – for yourself!
Compassion 4 Anaphylaxis is a virtual event supporting Love Remembers Day a global effort to raise awareness about the life threatening aspect of food allergies, insect bites and medication allergies. Each year many lives are lost and LRD’s founder coordinates support for families from the food allergic community as well as personal support when needed. This event also speaks to the legacy left with families who continue work to raise awareness after the loss of their loved one and the inspiration they provide to others to continue the fight for a cure.
Starting March 19th 4AM PST – 10PM PST
Join us for this FREE online event as we celebrate a full day of innovation, inspiration and synergistic co-creation with United Earth Festival 2016!
This festival is designed to catalyse a chain of events that United Earth will be hosting throughout 2016 to synergise global change agents and empower greater levels of co-creation and collaboration. United Earth intends to act as a planetary meeting ground and ‘universal docking station’ where individuals and groups can share their diverse wealth of knowledge, ideas, visions, skills, tools and resources on one common platform.
Due to the unprecedented duration of this Global Solutions Festival you are invited to choose which 6-hour period suits your schedule – and we hope you will choose all 3!!
The entire event will be recorded for future viewing and dissemination.
Part One Registration: 4AM PST – 10AM PST:
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/38QY5OPA3G4KAN3
Part Two Registration: 10AM PST – 4PM PST
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/3JBING1A1V9WXT6I
Part Three Registration: 4PM PST – 10PM PST
(Includes Compassion Games Founder Jon Ramer and Phil Lane Jr will be speaking. Plus including Uplift Connect/ UnifyWater Global Meditation)
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/MS27M4K5Z7SBXWA
The three 6 hour Maestro conference calls is kindly being made available by our partner Charter for Compassion.
Amplify this Earth Festival with the next stepts of action for our precious Earth by signing up for Love This Place! Serve The Earth Week Coopetition April 16-24th is a 9 day global challenge to inspire acts of love, service, and compassion toward our Mother Earth and all life!
http://compassiongames.org/serve-the-earth-week/
Partners for this Earth Festival Weekend:
Noomap, The Hague Center, Gaia Education, Charter for Compassion, SOSA, Tamera, Hello, I Am Awake, Escola da Natureza Piracanga, The Four Worlds International Institute
Local WE Change Agent Network meeting.
This informative, inspiring evening workshop introduces a revolutionary way of thinking and speaking that is being used around the world to bring peace and connection to personal, professional and international relationships.
Learn about this new generation of human connection and peacemaking skills, known as “NVC” that’s changing the way we think about conflict, compassion and our future. Get some personal growth, hope and profound fun. The evening starts with an interactive introduction followed by an exercise to practice NVC.
On April 13-15, 2016, nearly 1,000 top innovators from more than 60 countries will come together for the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England for three days of debate, discussion, networking, and design to accelerate entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
Will be available LIVE Streaming : http://skoll.org/live/
Join the Conversation Online. Check out the Forum Live page at skoll.org/live for videos, photos, and conversations as they happen in real time. The live-streamed coverage begins at 10:00am GMT +1 on April 13, 2016.
Use the conference hashtag #skollwf to share what you’re seeing and hearing on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Follow @skollfoundation on Twitter for year-round conversations and news.
We have just learned that Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, is now unable to join us in person at the 2016 Skoll World Forum. This year, we recognize His Holiness, who will receive the Skoll Global Treasure Award for his efforts as an advocate for peace, universal responsibility, and compassion.
We send good wishes to His Holiness and hope to welcome him to a future Skoll World Forum.
Introduction of the event: https://youtu.be/pVTOJN9tKmY
Join the conversation on social media #skollwf
Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week! is a 9 day global challenge to inspire acts of love, service, and compassion toward our Mother Earth and all life. Beginning on April 16th and continuing through April 24th, Serve the Earth Week includes Earth Day, an annual event to support environmental protection as well as Give-A-Day: Mayor’s Week of Service started by Mayor Greg Fischer of Louisville. Serve the Earth Week is played globally between youth, educators, cities, neighborhoods, interfaith groups, environmental organizations and Indigenous communities to develop regenerative social and environmental practices that cultivate an awareness of life’s interconnectivity, and the human responsibility to protect and restore the Earth for untold generations of life to come.
Love This Place! is grounded in appreciation and respect of one’s local bioregion, honoring Indigenous leadership and practices in how best to care for Mother Earth while acknowledging our human place in the web of life. Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week is a way to explore how we can be compassionate toward the Earth, and act in way to discover compassion for ourselves, each other, and all members of the Earth Community.
Why Play in Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week?
Mother Earth needs our love! And we need Mother Earth!
Since it is the Earth’s land, water, and clean air that we totally depend upon for our sustenance, well-being, and future, the decision to act compassionately toward our Mother Earth is as natural as breathing. This “Green Compassion” is calling us to live in unprecedented, unified action to change the narrative of our current story to one of justice, sustainability, and love for one another, all beings, and this place we call home.
Mobilized compassionate action to Protect and Restore the Sacredness of Mother Earth is the ultimate act of compassion, for its benefits reach far beyond our individual selves to all living beings. The youngest among us, and our future generations, are looking to us – their ancestors! – to care for the Earth lovingly so that it can support and sustain their lives as well.
Let’s play together and bring compassion to life for Mother Earth!
Saturday, April 16, 9 am – 10 am PST: Screening of “How Do Humans Heal a World?” with Barbara Kaufmann, Walking Moon Studios, and Sommer Albertsen, Compassion Games Internation.
Sommer and Barbara will discuss grief and how we can process our feelings about what is happening to our planet in ways that are healthy, motivating and inspirational so we can move past it and go about the work of stewardship for the Earth.
On Earth Day last year artist and writer Barbara’s Art Brainchild, Walking Moon Studios, released the film “How Do Human’s Heal a World?” produced for the Charter for Compassion International. Now in its second and HD edition.
This film came out of conversations with people that began in Barbara’s Charter for Compassion booth at the Midwest Renewable Energy Association Fair and has continued in subsequent gatherings. Her medical arts background alerted her to a pattern that emerged when she initiated conversation about the stewardship of Planet Earth. Every person she spoke to was exhibiting some stage of grief which accompanies the process of dying; many were frozen and feeling helpless in their inhabited melancholy. The film is designed to embrace that all-too-human sadness, validate it, thaw the energy frozen in its helplessness or hopelessness, discover the love that actually fuels it, and transform it into fierce compassion and inspiration.
Sommer Albertsen teaches healing through movement and dance as a wellness coach and teacher of Nia. A member of the Leadership Team for Compassion Games International, she is passionate about creating connections and partnerships that allow for people to find their highest human expression through movement and cooperative games that highlight human brilliance through cooperation in movement with survival of the kindest, not the fittest. Sommer sees movement as medicine and has put together some exercises that will help us move through our grief and reach for that inner brilliance so that we can employ it in healing our planet.
Sommer’s video of 3 tools to remedy stress: HERE
”One Wordsmith” Barbara Kaufmann “writes to simply change the world.” www.onewordsmith.com Writer, author, artist, filmmaker, impresario, minister, healer, and spiritual advisor—trained conventionally with a Business Degree in Management, Nursing Diploma, and in seminary as an ordained minister while training unconventionally with gurus, Sufis and shaman in alternative healing, Spiritual Emergency, Interspecies Communication and Shamanism, she dreams out loud of “a more humane narrative on the planet.”
Barbara’s Film about the Earth: HERE
Lifelong global and local activist, leader and citizen diplomat, she believes fiercely in the power of “Story,” communication, connection and agency—especially through the arts. An award winning author she’s written for the Huffington Post, magazines, organizations and is the founder and steward of “Words and Violence” Project compendium on bullying (including the planet) now in its 4th edition. An original member and officer with Sister Cities’ Russian-American partnerships that begun during the cold war and nuclear arms race, she wrote and administrated the grant that built the infrastructure for the decommissioning of weapons of mass destruction in her sister city region in Russia. She is a staffer, writer and contributor to the Charter for Compassion International.
Sommer Joy Albertsen is a member of the Leadership Team as Compassion Games International Relations Coach & Artistic Outreach Director. She is passionate about bringing together complementary partnerships, creating connections between people and organizations who are committed to a kinder, more just and sustainable world. She has a Bachelors Degree from Western Washington University in Therapeutic Recreation which she continues to amplify with new programming skills and working with individuals’ plans for quality of life and well being. She is a natural leader in advocating for women and girl’s empowerment, people with various disabilities, elders, social justice and environmental issues. Her business, Island Joy Wellness, includes her work with Compassion Games, as an Energy Brilliance Healer, and Brown Belt Nia Teacher, where she employs her knowledge and experience to support both individuals, and communities around the world in aligning with their highest calling.www.compassiongames.org www.islandjoywellness.com
Earth Week Speaker Series is April 16th – 22nd presented by: The Charter for Compassion & Compassion Games International: http://www.charterforcompassion.org/index.php/environment-reports-and-documents/earth-day-speaker-series-and-presentations-2016
Sunday, April 17, 9am – 10am PDT: Climate, Compassion and Community Building: Sustainability with Justice with Paloma Pavel and Carl Anthony.
Climate, Compassion and Community Building: Sustainability with Justice with Paloma Pavel and Carl Anthony
Climate change is a critical moment within our lifetime. Yet, the global breakdown of economy, environment and equity is also an unparalleled opportunity for a reimagining of our purpose on the planet and a comprehensive coming home to our place in the Universe. The Breakthrough Communities team offers this interactive dialogue and workshop to better understand how to approach climate justice from a place of compassion to transform ourselves, our communities, and the planet.
Carl Anthony’s upcoming book and accompanying short film, The Earth, the City and the Hidden Narrative of Race places an African American narrative in the context of deep time and climate crisis- from the Big Bang to Hurricane Katrina. Carl illustrates how this Big History framework is key to transforming the dominant narrative of race and providing new pathways for the Great Work of our time.
Dr. Paloma Pavel provides case studies from Breakthrough Communities’ work with coalitions, documented in the forthcoming publication Climate Justice: Frontline Stories from Groundbreaking Coalitions in California. These stories of social innovation apply tools for regional coalition-building in vulnerable communities across lines of race, place, and class, in response to global warming.
You can find Paloma and Carl at: www.earthhousecenter.org.
Earth Week Speaker Series is April 16th – 22nd presented by: The Charter for Compassion & Compassion Games International: http://www.charterforcompassion.org/index.php/environment-reports-and-documents/earth-day-speaker-series-and-presentations-2016
Monday, April 18, 9 am – 10 am PDT: Love this Place, Serve the Earth: Collaboration is Necessary for the Earth with Jon Ramer and Joey Crotty
Jon Ramer, First first follower, Compassion Games International, will be showcasing LIVE a new song for Mother Earth. Jon says that “since it is the Earth’s land, water, and clean air that we totally depend upon for our sustenance, well-being, and future, the decision to act compassionately toward our Mother Earth is as natural as breathing.” He adds that “‘Green Compassion’ is calling us to live in unprecedented, unified action to change the narrative of our current story to one of justice, sustainability, and love for one another, all beings, and this place we call home.”
Joining Jon is Joey Crotty, a storyteller, writer and rogue techy supporting the Compassion Games. Joey utilizes his talents as a hopeless storyteller and writer, creative strategist, and rogue techy to elevate the evolutionary capacity of consciousness and compassion in the world. Joey is an undergraduate researcher and co-founder of the Consciousness Club at the University of Washington – Bothell. He is a major organizer toward the creation of the Center for Education and Research in Consciousness (CERC), the first consciousness program of its kind at a public university. Joey enjoys spontaneous song-making, belly laughter, all of nature, and learning from the wisdom of little ones to get out there and play like his life depended on it.
Love This Place! Serve The Earth Week Sign up HERE
A brief inspiring video about why Compassion Games began HERE
Information about all 7 Earth Week Speaker Series April 16th – 22nd:
Tuesday, April 19, 9 am – 10 am PDT: Practicing Green Compassion: Can We Re-Green the World in One Generation? with Marc Barasch
“A compassionate civilization is not a utopian fantasy; it’s an evolutionary imperative.” Marc Barasch, Green World’s founder says that environmental activism and sustainability is not enough; we have to implement holistic solutions for regeneration that aren’t competitive but include everybody and treat people and planet as an inseparable unity. From here on, it’s going to mean survival not of the fittest but of the kindest. Come and explore with Marc, how to re-green the world.
Marc Barasch is the author of the acclaimed bestseller, The Compassionate Life which was the inspiration for the film “I Am,” in which he co-starred with Nobel Prize-winner Reverend Desmond Tutu, biologist David Suzuki, and poet Coleman Barks. Marc founded Green World Campaign www.greenworld.org which calls for a global movement to “re-green the world in one generation.” The campaign: plants millions of trees on degraded land on three continents; regenerates degraded land, creates rural employment and food security, and helps communities on the front lines of climate change to thrive. Marc’s newly founded Green World Ventures is mobilizing hundreds of thousands of farmers in Nigeria to farm superfood moringa trees using eco-agriculture to restore the economy and ecology of some of the world’s poorest places. His Green World Charterwww.greenworldcharter.org engages with faith traditions to renew the Tree of Life; Former editor of culture-shifting national magazines like Psychology Today, Natural Health, and New Age Journal; Marc created TV specials for TBS and the Discovery Channel seen by billions. Author of landmark books on healing and wholeness (The Healing Path; Remarkable Recovery; Healing Dreams,) Marc is a long-time Buddhist meditator and persistent catalyst for change. http://ow.ly/vwT7T. You can reach Marc at Green World Ventures Ltd: www.greenworld.org; Green World Charter: email: marc@greenworld.org.
Details about all Earth Week Speaker Series HERE presented by Compassion Games International & Charter For Compassion
Wednesday, April 20, 9 am PDT: “The Science of Climate Change” with Dr. David Poister.
Although the techniques used by scientists to measure and predict the effects of climate change are complex, the fundamental physical and chemical processes that cause these changes are quite understandable. This presentation will explain these processes to give participants without a scientific background a basic understanding of climate change science.
David Poister is a Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science at St. Norbert College in Green Bay, Wisconsin where he has taught since 1995. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from St. Francis College in Loretto, Pennsylvania and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Water Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. An environmental chemist with research interests in biogeochemistry and the chemical ecology of aquatic systems, his current research focuses on chemical interactions between algae growing in Wisconsin’s Fox River. In addition to his scientific work, David is interested in exploring how the dialogue between science and religion can be used to understand and advance the human condition. David and his wife Sara have four children and live in De Pere, Wisconsin. http://www.snc.edu/academics/faculty/david.poister.html.
Earth Week Speaker Series April 16th -22nd Details HERE presented by Compassion Games International & Charter For Compassion
Webinar Thursday, April 21, 9 am – 10 am PDT: Shifts in the Culture around Climate with Sarah van Gelder of Yes! Magazine and George Price of the University of Montana.
Sarah has studied communities and individuals who are exploring ways to build bridges to a future based on hope and unified action—and is writing a book based on a recent project called the Edge of Change Road Trip http://edgeofchange.yesmagazine.org/about/. As part of discussion, we’ll learn about key places where the debate over climate change has shifted into resilient action, and explore how people are helping to move themselves and their communities toward collective action.
George Price, a professor at the University of Montana, teaches African American and Native American Studies, runs a permaculture farm on the Flathead Reservation outside Missoula. George has been very active in climate change resistance and fossil fuel resistance.
Earth Week Speaker Series April 16th – 22nd details HERE Presented by Compassion Games International and Charter for Compassion
Jane Goodall, British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues.
Chief Phil Lane Jr., Ihanktowan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations, and Chairman of the Four Worlds International Institute. During the past 45 years, he has worked with Indigenous peoples from North, Central and South America, Micronesia, South East Asia, India, Hawaii and Africa.
Rex Weyler was a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation and a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979. Weyler was a photographer and reporter on the early Greenpeace whale and seal campaigns, and has written one of the best and most comprehensive histories of the organization.
Xiuhtezcatl, Youth Director of Earth Guardians is a young Indigenous change agent, environmental activist, public speaker, and eco-hip hop artist. youth around the world. He received the 2013 United States Community Service Award from President Obama and was the youngest of 24 national changemakers chosen to serve on the President’s youth council.
Earth Week Speaker Series April 16th – 22nd details HERE presented by Compassion Games International & Charter for Compassion
Looking for a way to play Love This Place Serve The Earth Week in your community?
Why don’t you get involved with this Flashmob raising awareness of Climate Change & Compassion for Planet Earth action is needed now around the world! Compassion Games and Seattle, Washington 350.org Chapter is teaming up to bring this wonderful way to share you care for Planet Earth through DANCE!
Right now, people read the news and get depressed or wonder if they can really make a difference in global issues like climate change. If no action is taken, what’s predictable is people feeling guilty then too busy to do anything about it, and they do nothing. What’s possible with a flash mob for climate change is to engage citizens in a fun, light way that not only brings awareness but inspires a call to action.
Here are the simple steps to organize this flashmob with your community:
1. To sign up to play Love This Place Serve The Earth Week Coopetition with a Team (suggestion to make the name of your team the location you are on the planet) [HERE] this gets you signed up as an individual, then a screen pops up with red box to “Sign up You Team”, click on the box and you will need to fill out a brief form about your team, then the form will ask to confirm your email, go to your email and click confirm when you get an email from Compassion Games.
2. You will then in the next 24 hours receive a welcome email that looks like this: http://bit.ly/1LRUWZC With all sorts of great resources to get a Team rallying up for Earth Week.
3. Begin to gather a group of like minded caring individuals that want to be apart of this Flashmob with you. You can invite them to play Love This Place with you. You can send them the videos below to practice the dance routine alone or gather group together for a practice or two. Then your ready!
4. It could be helpful to also make a Facebook event for a practice and also for performance to get people interested to join. The bigger the group the more fun and powerful it will be for you and your audience. You will still surprise the audience. Here is an example of Seattle, WA Team Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/172298319809319/ Your welcome to also use the picture too:)
5. When picking a public location it is always best to ask the location owners for permission first. Have a loud music speaker system so all can hear the music. Another suggestion is to contact your local already happening Earth Day Events to see if you could do the flashmob there. Public Parks and City Centers where there lots of people are great spaces!
6. After you have completed your incredible flashmob or Flashmobs report your expereince on the Global Compassion Report Map: https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report The deadline for all reports will be April 28th! You can add videos and pictures in your reports and share with the world!
If you have any questions you can email me at sommer@compassiongames.org
7. See Below for all the Flashmob resources you need:
How to engage: Learn the Dance!! Share the youtube link with the first dance rehearsal to practice with friends–it’s a great workout for a cause! Then just come and join us day of:
There are already Flashmobs scheduled in Seattle, Bellingham, Tacoma Washington. There are a few more happening
Whole dance with all dancers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbf0ZiqZ5jU
Choreography facing choreographer to Uptown Funk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9FlIXWqMfU
Recording Video of “Big Oil Funk” Singers Aji & Adonis from Shellno Rally also includes another song & inspirational words: https://youtu.be/5N_UYMl5HSU
Flash mob vision explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT_pWcwV25Y
First Flash Mob Performance at Greenlake!!
https://youtu.be/aslbfQHkzQI
Thank you 350Seattle.org Artful Activism workgroup for partnering on this global vision for Earth Week Climate Change Flashmobs happening around the world!! May it be so!!
An online summit of compassionate, authentic healers, speakers, authors, & teachers that share how they found their power, claimed their place on this earth and create lives of intention, inspiration, love and service.
Local WE Change Agent Network meeting.
Dear Friends,
Our longtime friend and ally Andrew Vidich, known for his meditation classes , highly recommends the upcoming series of talks featuring world renowned meditation teacher and spiritual Master Sant Rajinder Sing Ji Maharaj.
They are taking place in Edison New Jersey and then in Amityville New York from Wednesday April 27th through Sunday May 1st. Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj is internationally recognized for his work promoting inner and outer peace.and transforming lives through meditation.
For more information and registration see the flyer below or you can go to http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
If you live in the New York area, or you have friends there, this unique and free mini-series promises to be both inspiring and enlightening!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
For more information and free registration:
http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
Dear Friends,
Our longtime friend and ally Andrew Vidich, known for his meditation classes , highly recommends the upcoming series of talks featuring world renowned meditation teacher and spiritual Master Sant Rajinder Sing Ji Maharaj.
They are taking place in Edison New Jersey and then in Amityville New York from Wednesday April 27th through Sunday May 1st. Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj is internationally recognized for his work promoting inner and outer peace.and transforming lives through meditation.
For more information and registration see the flyer below or you can go to http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
If you live in the New York area, or you have friends there, this unique and free mini-series promises to be both inspiring and enlightening!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
For more information and free registration:
http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
www.abetterworld.tv has been promoting the Pachamama Alliance for the past few years as its values & mission are parallel with ours. This is a Free Event. To register:
The Symposium in NY Sat., April 30, 1-5pm. It’s a powerful education across a broad spectrum of social, economic and environmental, indigenous issues and justice.
See you soon–
Mitchell J. Rabin, M.A., L.AC.
Creative Consulting, Stress Management
Host & Producer, A Better World Radio & TV
212 420-0800
www.abetterworld.tv
www.mitchellrabin.com
http://www.youtube.com/abetterworldtvshow
www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-j-rabin
www.naturalnews.com/Author_Mitchell_Rabin.html
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” –Margaret Mead
Dear Friends,
Our longtime friend and ally Andrew Vidich, known for his meditation classes , highly recommends the upcoming series of talks featuring world renowned meditation teacher and spiritual Master Sant Rajinder Sing Ji Maharaj.
They are taking place in Edison New Jersey and then in Amityville New York from Wednesday April 27th through Sunday May 1st. Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj is internationally recognized for his work promoting inner and outer peace.and transforming lives through meditation.
For more information and registration see the flyer below or you can go to http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
If you live in the New York area, or you have friends there, this unique and free mini-series promises to be both inspiring and enlightening!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
For more information and free registration:
http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
A civil movement which has evolved out of a demonstration against the proposed employment law in France. Similar to the ‘Occupy’ movement, it has become a forum for people to discuss and propose new ways of organizing society. It has spread to many cities now and is moving beyond French borders. The 15th May should see an international movement.
Please join us as we attempt to
– create safe(r) spaces for women
– discuss relationships and sexuality in a nonjudgmental way
– empower one another by sharing our personal experiences
Here’s your chance to help keep Madison County safe!
The Madison County Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing on May 17th, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in the Madison County Fiscal Court Room of the Madison County Courthouse, 101 W. Main St. Richmond, KY 40475
The purpose of this meeting will be to discuss proposed changes to the Madison County Land Use Regulations. Specifically, the regulation of Natural Gas Pipelines, Hazardous Liquid Pipelines, and Compressor Stations, located in Madison County, including the repurposing of the Tennessee Gas/Kinder Morgan Pipeline and the Compressor Station on Hackett Pike.
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT EVENT! Please come and show your support of the work Madison County officials are doing to keep Madison Countians safe from dangerous NGL pipelines.
An annual three day event with stalls and workshops promoting local and national associations concerned with organic agriculture and protection of the environment.
Many vendors and individuals participating with booth rent donated to Hope’s Wings.
Please mark your calendars!!! Prime Cut Band will be performing-you do not want too miss it!
Live music and dance party with Krysta and DJ Rob Ticho
Featured artist exhibit by Natasha Bogar
Fireside trance & extatic dance drum circle
Fire, dance and hoop performances
Catering by Healin’ Irie
Vending by Firebird Art House, Tao-I Designs, Soul Food & Confections, The-Gypsy Trove, Dreadfully Gorgeous, Lotus Gift Shop & More!
$5-$25 sliding scale donation at the door
Local WE Change Agent Network meeting.
In a world filled with negativity, even the most positive person can begin to feel a vibrational low. Dr. Melissa Carver will guide you through dealing with negativity in the workplace, home, family and society in general. Dr. Carver will also discuss the benefits of your manifestations/creations in life through positivity. Conversation, questions and concerns are encouraged during this class. Discussion is the gateway to learning. This class will also include group activities as well as a print out of Dr. Carver’s publications with the Chopra Center, Daily Affirmations: Hour – by – Hour Positivity Plan and 7 Ways to Raise Your Positivity IQ.
Join 30 justice advocates and creative change-makers for an exploration of love and power.
Inauguration of the new ‘Cité du Vin’ (wine centre) by the President of France, which will be the scene of a die-in demonstration – a lie-in with a slight difference – in protest at the excessive use of pesticides on the vines in the Bordeaux region. This is one of the worst affected areas of France in terms of pesticide pollution. It’s to raise awareness of the issue in the lead-up to the EU debate and decision on the use of glyphosates on June 6th.
Our Sister Circle is aligned with Unify’s #GlobalSisterhood for International Women’s Day, on the new moon with the intention of transforming ourselves, and transforming the
world.
Thousands of women will be gathering locally in circles around the world to connect, uplift, and transform together. Sisters, daughters, grandmothers lifting each other to blanket the world in love and connection.
Together, we will be igniting the Divine Feminine, Global Sisterhood, and Inner Peace.
“A circle of women may be the most powerful force known to humanity. If you have one, embrace it. If you need one, seek it. If you find one, for the love of all that is good and holy, dive in…
The UN has dedicated the 2016 International Day of Peace to “The Sustainable Development Goals–Building Blocks for Peace.” The Summer of Peace on the Shift Network leading up to September 21st gives us the opportunity to shift from concern about the great challenges facing our nation and our world to taking a stand on Peace Day as one human community united in hope. We will discuss plans at the United Nations and hear guests around the world highlighting the actions of people serving a wide range of causes yet building together a new culture of peace. Each international guest will partner with a young person from their region, some of whom will recite a poem or play music. join us!
An evening of story-telling with young climate change leaders in Australia for two weeks of talks.
Open-ended and unscripted gathering of about 30 diverse and multigenerational changemakers who spend a week reflecting, sharing, building community, and creating new possibilities.
The Compassion Course Online Evolves |
2016 Compassion Course Online
www.Compassion Course.org
To Register CLICK HERE When asked “How did you find out about |
This year’s Compassion Course Online has been redesigned to be responsive and easy to use on any device (Smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops). This brings an unprecedented opportunity for the compassion course community to become more connected and inclusive than ever before. What will the course look like? Click Here to read a sample lesson on empathy. |
Dear Friends,
We, The World is excited to tell you about this one year online NVC Compassion Course starting June 22nd. See www.compassioncourse.org and Register Here. You can participate no matter where you are in the world.
In fact, the course has had participants from over 90 countries. Couples, friends, families, entire congregations and even entire organizations are registering together, sometimes setting up weekly gatherings to practice the course material.
Thousands of people have used Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to learn and practice new ways of thinking and speaking that can transform their relationships with loved ones, co-workers and friends. By helping to resolve and prevent conflict, many believe practicing NVC is a key strategy for bringing peace to our world.
This course is being offered by Internationally Certified and acclaimed Nonviolent Communication Trainer Thom Bond who studied with, and was a close associate of, the creator of NVC Marshall Rosenberg.
The course has a sliding scale cost that will suit everyone‘s budget. (Totally free is one of the options!) I encourage you and your friends to read below or check it out online and Register Here. When you register, you will be asked “How did you find out about The Compassion Course?” Please select We, The World. Thank you!
Note: Registration ends June 21st at 11AM (USA Eastern Time) .
Thank you for helping to create a more peaceful, compassionate world!
Rick Ulfik, Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
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The Vigil 4 Peace & Ecology
Pre-Party
Cordially invite you to attend our Summer Festival
WHAT: VIGIL-pre-PARTY CELEBRATION
WHEN: Wednesday the 22nd of June 2016 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm
WHERE: EL BARRIO’S ART SPACE PS109 215 East 99 Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues NYC
WHY: Meet and greet the many in your community who celebrate Peace and share important information on how to become involved in our Central Park PEACE VIGIL event on September 18 at the Bandshell to commemorate the UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PACE celebrated each year WorldWide The Vigil for Peace & Ecology is a transformational, grassroots effort dedicated to promulgate peace through participation in art, song, dance, music, community, prayer and ceremony. The purpose of this Vigil is to awaken humanity to harmony and peace through the power of intent and celebration. Our vision is to heal and bridge our lives and communities to achieve divinity alignment and recognize the oneness in all.
CONTACT US:
LIVE ENTERTAINMENT
Featuring WENZL McGOWEN OF MOON HOOCH
INMA HEREDIA Flamenco
LOU WAVE AND SHAUNA
GURU DILEEPJI
IMOV ADAM AHUJA
ROLAND AND MINDY
SHIANG CHEN
SWEET MARIE
Poetry by Harry Lichtenstein & Natalia Tomassini
VISUAL ART by ETHAN MELAZZO
Live art Painting by Niazja Blessed and Shiang Chen and many many more
Dancing music
Raffle and Refreshments
Followed by Meet and Greet Reception
Crystal Tones by Karisma
ANGEL ART by ANGELO ROMANO
GENERAL ADMISSION $ 10 at the door
A fund-raising fishing tournament for a child and an adult
Fishing bait, t-shirt, and lunch will be provided!
Cost: $50 for adult and child ($20 per one additional child)
Age Divisions: 6 and under; 7-8; 9-10; 11-13; 14-18
Largest Fish, Smallest Fish, and Heaviest Stringer
Bonus: Each fishing pair can keep up to 7 fish that will be cleaned, filleted, and bagged to take home!
Trophies awarded in each age division for LIMIT : 7 FISH
Purchase Tickets at: Cane Pole : 623-8651
Hope’s Wings: 623-4095
Disclaimer: Likely to catch VERY BIG catfish! Plan accordingly!
For more information please Click Here
A celebration to commend the President of Botswana on their working democratic system.
For more information please Click Here
Presentations on all aspects of growing nut crops, including organic chestnut cultivation, environmentally efficient irrigation, carbon sequestration using cover crops, and improving soil health. Tours to orchards, University of Nebraska experimental farm, and processing plants, Social and networking events.
Intergenerational and dynamic change-makers in the field of education come together to (re)weave an oft-divided education transformation fabric. This year, the Ed Jam will be held in partnership with the 13th annual AERO conference! Co-organizing partners: AERO, The Field Academy and Schools without Borders.
Global Prayer Calling for Nuclear Abolition on August 6
July, 2016 – Welcoming our Newest Global Council Multiregion Trustees
Global Prayer Calling for Nuclear Abolition on August 6
Join us on August 6th, 2016 as we recite The Nuclear Prayer to commemorate the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and call for the abolition of all nuclear weapons on Earth. Join influencers such as Sec. George Schultz, Sec. William Perry, and Dr. Sidney Drell at noon, wherever you are in the world, to pray that the world will never see the death and destruction that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki on those fateful mornings. It is our moral duty to eliminate all nuclear weapons before more life is lost.
Here is the prayer that we will recite:
View video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzoPw4pZFOk
The Beginning and the End are in your hands, O Creator of the Universe. And in our hands you have placed the fate of this planet. We, who are tested by having both creative and destructive power in our free will, turn to you in sober fear and in intoxicating hope. We ask for your guidance and to share in your imagination in our deliberations about the use of nuclear force. Help us to lift the fog of atomic darkness that hovers so pervasively over our Earth, Your Earth, so that soon all eyes may see life magnified by your pure light.
Bless all of us who wait today for your Presence and who dedicate ourselves to achieve your intended peace and rightful equilibrium on Earth. In the Name of all that is holy and all that is hoped. Amen.
Download a .PDF of the prayer here.
The prominent figures featured in the video are:
- The Honorable William J. Perry, former Secretary of Defense under President Clinton
- The Honorable George P. Shultz, former Secretary of State under President Reagan
- Dr. Sidney Drell, Professor Emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator
- Ambassador James E. Goodby, former Strategic Nuclear Arms Negotiator with the U.S.S.R.
- Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., former Senior U.S. Diplomat
- Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute
- Monica Willard, United Religions Initiative Representative to the United Nations
- The Right Rev. William E. Swing, former Episcopal Bishop of California, and President and Founder of the United Religions Initiative
View the whole video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=XTYkQzZRZkw
Starting July 29th, take a photo or video of yourself, friends, congregation, etc. reciting the prayer and email it to voices@uri.org or post it on Facebook or Twitter using the hashtag #TheNuclearPrayer.
The louder our voices ring, the sooner we can see change.
Want to stay in the loop for upcoming events or just show that you care? ADD YOUR VOICE HERE
Download a .PDF of the Resource and Action Packet to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons here.
It’s Pow Wow time again! After eleven years of celebratory dance, song, and drumming, this year’s 11h Annual Rock, Rattle & Drum Pow Wow will explode in another weekend of American Indian music, dance, education, entertainment, arts and crafts vendors and cultural festivities fun for the whole family!
For two exiting days, Bennington, Vermont will be the center of Native American art and culture where American Indians will gather and share the richness, diversity and beauty of their Indigenous culture.
On the day of the Z Ranch Restoration party, volunteering begins as early as 7am for set-up and will go to little after 12pm (noon) follow by a Z Ranch style lunch. Volunteering is a great way to deepen your connections with the Zorthian Ranch community, create new friendships, & be the good you seek in the world. All while having fun and supporting a historical landmark and a cultural community event that promotes authenticity and sustainability in the arts, agriculture, in addition to health and wellness. Space is limited, so please sign up quick, you can be apart of this rare opportunity to submerse yourself in the Zorthian Ranch Community.
Diverse and intergenerational changemakers from the US South gather for this 4th annual Jam to co-create a safe space for truth telling, healing, compassion, and understanding. They will envision the New Normal and how to get there from the current context of erosion of voter rights, discrimination, and unjust policies facing the US South today. Core partners: Jayanni Webster, Fight for $15; Ekua Adisa and Ashley Cooper, Mycelium; Jovan Julien, Project South; Hannah Sadtler; Malika Sanders-Fortier, Grassroots Democracy; Ainka Sanders Jackson, Selma Center for Beloved Community, Truth and Reconciliation; Jessica Norwood, Emerging Changemakers Network.
Join the Zoom Call here: Wednesday at 11am PST
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/2069727356
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,2069727356# or +16465588656,2069727356#
Or Telephone: Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 206 972 7356
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=KfhKFY8qFI10Jdhq6IJMA1yqCBsIn6DF
If you have any questions please contact Sommer Joy Albertsen Compassion Games International Relations Coach
sommer@compassiongames.org
We together are creating compassionate global unity on Twitter at 11:11AM PST/3:11PM EST
Compassion Games invites you, partners, organizations to join us on Twitter and ripple out to all our channels compassion together. We will be tweeting meaningful questions and challenges every 5 minutes during this hour and building a powerful collective heart beat together. A Pre Global Unity Games Celebration for us all to spread and be in! Game On!!
The best way to see and be with all the tweets coming through during this hour is this twitter chat room:
Go Here and tweet with us!
http://tweetchat.com/room/CompassionUnites
We will be numbering the questions that will be coming through every 5 minutes. It is best to tweet your answers and reflections with number so we can track your answers clearly.
Example Tweet questions:
#1Q What inspires you in your community? #CompassionUnites
Example Tweet Answer:
#1A How my community gathers around tragedy support! #CompassionUnites #ServiceAboveSelf
We hope that helps how the flow unfolds. We would love to have you join us.
We are in this together!
Join the Zoom Call here: Wednesday at 11am PST
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/2069727356
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,2069727356# or +16465588656,2069727356#
Or Telephone: Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 206 972 7356
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=KfhKFY8qFI10Jdhq6IJMA1yqCBsIn6DF
If you have any questions please contact Sommer Joy Albertsen Compassion Games International Relations Coach
sommer@compassiongames.org
“Lost in the Violence? A Moment of Reflection ”
Our first Interreligious Forum for the 2016-2017 series will feature guest speaker the Rev. Jethroe “Jeff” Moore, President of the local chapter of the NAACP.
Launch of Global Unity Games 2016 – Stand For Compassion Campaign
Please join the Sobrante Park Resident Action Council, The School of Urban Mission, Madison Park Academy, Lionel Wilson and Service for Peace at this National Day of Service event.
Small communities working together making a better world!
Date: Saturday, September 10
Time: 9am to 12pm
Where: Sobrante Mini Park on Bergedo and Pueblo
9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance – Fruitvale Oakland CA
Please join us at this National Day of Service
DATE: Saturday, September 10
TIME: 9 am to 12pm
WHERE: 1001 Fruitvale Ave., Oakland (corner of E. 10th St.) – walking distance from BART
PROJECT: Beautifying International Blvd. (cleaning up trash from the sidewalk and gutters)
Join Councilman Noel Gallo and many other volunteers making a positive difference in the community!
We will have coffee and refreshments too!
PEACEJAM BELGIUM CONFERENCE WITH JODY WILLIAMS AND SPECIAL TALK BY THE DALAI LAMA
September 10-11
What: PeaceJam Belgium Student Conference with Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams and a Special Talk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
PeaceJam will launch in Belgium with this inspiring two-day event with two Nobel Peace Laureates and engaged students from across the region. The keynote address on Saturday will be given by Jody Williams – who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for creating an international treaty to ban landmines and clearing landmine fields worldwide. On Sunday, young people will have the opportunity to hear a talk by The Dalai Lama – who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his efforts to resolve the Tibetan conflict peacefully and for being a global man of peace and advocate for the environment. Young people ages 14-18, as well as their teachers and adult advisers, have the opportunity to spend two days interacting with these amazing world leaders for peace and participating in workshops around current issues, service projects, and family groups led by university mentors!
Cost: €50 per person (SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE)
Points of Light with project management support from Volunteer Fairfax will commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11 with a Volunteer Service Fair. Volunteers of all ages will participate in eight mini-service projects and a moment of reflection to create a better, kinder, and more peaceful word. The activities are family-friendly and will provide service-learning opportunities for all who attend.
Through the 9/11 Day of Service, we will demonstrate the power of intergenerational service, honor those who lost their lives on 9/11 and in the conflicts that ensued, and engage youth to envision the changes they want to see in the world.
Event sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton and the Corporation for National and Community Service.
WHEN
Saturday, September 10, 2016 from 12:45 PM to 3:30 PM (EDT) – Add to Calendar
Event sponsors:
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This is a featured event for Team Silicon Valley’s Global Unity Games Kick off!!
Mountain View Celebrates 45th Annual Art & Wine Festival
Colossal Crowds Expected For Silicon Valley’s World-Class Art & Music Festival
Soak in the Cool Castro Street Vibe at “A Festival Like No Other”
New Hours, Signature Cocktails, Saturday Sunset Concert Debut!
The vibrant, magnificent city of Mountain View has evolved in a big way over the last 45 years. A population boom. The arrival of Shoreline Amphitheater as a major concert venue. The amazing growth of Silicon Valley and Mountain View’s emergence as its epicenter. The transformation of a vibrant downtown district with restaurants, shops, cafes, bookstores and performing arts center. And, last but not least, the Art & Wine Festival’s rise to become one of America’s premier art festivals. And it’s that time of year: it’s Mountain View’s time to get festive and this year we celebrate #45!
Check out this incredible FREE tele summit happening during the Global Unity Games September 11-21. We are honored to support our partnersWE and The Shift Network share this incredible line up of change maker speakers that will inspire you into compassion filled action during the world largest compassion competition.
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World is a worldwide platform for the promotion of peace, justice, sustainability and transformation. The key note speakers include: Dr. Jane Goodall with Roots and Shoots , Monica Willard Co Chair of International Day of Peace, Ocean Robbins CEO Food Revolution Network, Joumana Rizk with Peace Lights, Steve Farrell with Humanity’s Team, Zoe Weil with Institute for Humane Education, Aji Piper Founder of Earth Guardians Seattle, and others! This is all hosted and possible by Rick Ulfik the Founder of We, The World!
Register and Learn more here: http://bit.ly/2bAhEcW
#11Days #GlobalUnity #CompassionUnites #ServiceAboveSelf
“Tomorrow Together” is a new five-year initiative, supported by a diverse community of national service, youth, faith and education organizations, to actively promote the ideals of unity, empathy and service among young people throughout the United States. “Tomorrow Together” officially launches on September 11, 2016, in observance of the 15th anniversary of 9/11.
Those who join “Tomorrow Together” are expressing their support for the mission of unity, and are committed to individually incorporating into their programs, however they see fit, activities and teachings that help young people understand and develop the skills necessary for empathy, peace and togetherness, with charitable service as an important program element.
While many “Tomorrow Together” programs may launch or be timed annually to coincide with the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, “Tomorrow Together” is meant to be an on-going, long term program to instill the values of unity and cultivate a new generation of empathetic change makers.
To add your organization’s name to the coalition, and access our free toolkits and resources, email us at info@911day.org.
Co-founders of Tomorrow Together include (partial list):
9/11 Day
9/11 Memorial and Museum
AARP Foundation
After School Alliance
Alliance for Peacebuilding
America’s Promise
Ashoka
Be The Change, Inc.
Get involved in 9/11 Day activities with your Global Unity Games Teams! Ideas here:
911 Day Twitter Page
The United Arab Emirates is the true model United Nations. We have over 200 nationalities that live and work together in peace. Let’s share the rich diversity of the UAE to the global community, promoting peace through understanding.
A culture gram would allow people to:
1. upload a photo or video
2. include their nationality
3. share something positive about their culture
4. include the #WeAretheUAE
DONATE THROUGH THE SIMPLE ACT OF SMILING! Yas Island will contribute one brick towards building schools every time you donate your smile and use the hashtag #YasJoyofEid. All funds will go towards building a brighter future for children in Pakistan and Mauritania. Spread the spirit of joy further through education! www.yasjoyofeid.ae
Forgiving you is my gift to you. Moving on is my gift to myself.
By Mayo Clinic Staff
Nearly everyone has been hurt by the actions or words of another. Perhaps your mother criticized your parenting skills, your colleague sabotaged a project or your partner had an affair. These wounds can leave you with lasting feelings of anger, bitterness or even vengeance.
But if you don’t practice forgiveness, you might be the one who pays most dearly. By embracing forgiveness, you can also embrace peace, hope, gratitude and joy. Consider how forgiveness can lead you down the path of physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.
What is forgiveness?
Generally, forgiveness is a decision to let go of resentment and thoughts of revenge. The act that hurt or offended you might always remain a part of your life, but forgiveness can lessen its grip on you and help you focus on other, more positive parts of your life. Forgiveness can even lead to feelings of understanding, empathy and compassion for the one who hurt you.
Forgiveness doesn’t mean that you deny the other person’s responsibility for hurting you, and it doesn’t minimize or justify the wrong. You can forgive the person without excusing the act. Forgiveness brings a kind of peace that helps you go on with life.
What are the benefits of forgiving someone?
Letting go of grudges and bitterness can make way for happiness, health and peace. Forgiveness can lead to:
Healthier relationships
Greater spiritual and psychological well-being
Less anxiety, stress and hostility
Lower blood pressure
Fewer symptoms of depression
Stronger immune system
Improved heart health
Higher self-esteem
Why is it so easy to hold a grudge?
When you’re hurt by someone you love and trust, you might become angry, sad or confused. If you dwell on hurtful events or situations, grudges filled with resentment, vengeance and hostility can take root. If you allow negative feelings to crowd out positive feelings, you might find yourself swallowed up by your own bitterness or sense of injustice.
What are the effects of holding a grudge?
If you’re unforgiving, you might:
Bring anger and bitterness into every relationship and new experience
Become so wrapped up in the wrong that you can’t enjoy the present
Become depressed or anxious
Feel that your life lacks meaning or purpose, or that you’re at odds with your spiritual beliefs
Lose valuable and enriching connectedness with others
How do I reach a state of forgiveness?
Forgiveness is a commitment to a process of change. To begin, you might:
Consider the value of forgiveness and its importance in your life at a given time
Reflect on the facts of the situation, how you’ve reacted, and how this combination has affected your life, health and well-being
Actively choose to forgive the person who’s offended you, when you’re ready
Move away from your role as victim and release the control and power the offending person and situation have had in your life
As you let go of grudges, you’ll no longer define your life by how you’ve been hurt. You might even find compassion and understanding.
Freerice is an online trivia game that donates 10 grains of rice to feed the world’s hungry for every correct answer you choose. So far, it’s raised enough to feed almost 5 million people – it’s not your average trivia game! And, all of those grains of rice go to feed someone who is hungry – a person that is only six degrees away from you and me.
You probably know the 6 Degrees of Separation theory – you and I are connected to every other person on earth through at most six other people.
Just imagine: if I recruit you, and five other people, and you do the same – the online movement to fight hunger with exponentially explode! Let’s use our collective impact during the Global Unity Games September 11th – 21st to feed the world’s hungry.
Are you in? Then sign up on Freerice.com and join our group http://freerice.com/content-group/compassionate-uae.
Don’t forget after joining, you need to recruit 6 other people. You may never meet the people you help, but you can have a direct impact on their lives!
• Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
What‘s a gratitude gram? A shareable custom message of thanks that you create and post to Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Pinterest or send via email. (You can save to Instagram too!)
CREATING A GRATITUDE GRAM IS EASY:
• Upload a photo or video
• Add a gratitude filter to your photo
• Write your message
• Share it!
CHOOSE ONE:
UPLOAD A PHOTO or
UPLOAD A VIDEO
We Invite you to join other NYC area companies, leading nonprofits, colleges, anf faith-based organizations. 911 Day, the respected non profit, is leading an extraordinary coalition of interfaith, service, youth, and educational organizations that are joining together to mark the 15th anniversary of 9/11 by packing up to one million healthy meals for disadvantaged NYC area families.
911 Day NYC Signature Event Fact Sheet
Join the UNHCR #WithRefugees Campaign
As you know, the world is currently witnessing the highest levels of displacement ever recorded. More than 65 million people have been forced to flee their homes to escape violence and persecution. UNHCR believes that all refugees deserve to live in safety. Ahead of World Refugee Day, we therefore launched the #WithRefugees campaign and petition. The petition calls on world leaders to show solidarity and find solutions for people forcibly displaced, including in the areas of education, shelter and livelihoods.
The petition is to be delivered to the UN Secretary-General and the co-chairs of the UN General Assembly on September 16th, ahead of the General Assembly high-level summit on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
We would be very grateful for your support in helping make this campaign and petition a success. The petition is available in English and Arabic on www.withrefugees.org and can be posted directly on your website or social media channels.
Join our #WithRefugees campaign. Sign the petition today!
Please join us at this National Day of Service
DATE: Saturday, September 11
TIME: 9 am to 12pm
WHERE: 2410 E. 15th Street, Oakland (corner of E. 10th St.)
PROJECT: Beautifying International Blvd. (cleaning up trash from the sidewalk and gutters)
Join Councilman Noel Gallo and many other volunteers making a positive difference in the community!
We will have coffee and refreshments too!
National Day of Service and Remembrance
The September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance is the culmination of efforts originally launched in 2002 by the 9/11 nonprofit MyGoodDeed with wide support by the 9/11 community and leading national service organizations. This effort first established the inspiring tradition of engaging in charitable service on 9/11 as an annual and forward-looking tribute to the 9/11 victims, survivors, and those who rose up in service in response to the attacks.
Paying Tribute
On the anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Americans will unite in service in the same remarkable way that so many came together following the attacks. As in years past, we anticipate service and remembrance activities in all 50 states, at which there will be opportunities for hundreds of thousands of volunteers to paint and refurbish homes, run food drives, spruce up schools, reclaim neighborhoods, and support and honor veterans, soldiers, military families, and first responders.
Pass a virtual soft copy of the Compassion Torch through social media to challenge others to acts of kindness throughout the UAE and the globe.
The 6 Degrees of Separation theory suggests that you and I are connected to every other person on the planet via a maximum of six other people.
Sign Up Today! Once you complete your individual sign-up, please send this message to 6 of your friends and challenge them to play.
Just imagine: if I pass the torch to you, and five other people, and challenge you to perform one act of kindness today and you pass the torch to six other people and ask them each to do the same. The entire country would be drowning in acts of compassion! Let’s use our collective impact during the Global Unity Games September 11-21 and prove that the UAE has the kindness edge.
Petition to County Board of Supervisors & City Mayors to Affirm the Charter and become Compassionate Silicon Valley. Please sign the petition here:
https://docs.google.com/a/sivicouncil.org/forms/d/1ouKFC_Z9uInthD49fVOx851A_Dp3Gj8e4ZDpdBgh-zI/
Compassionate Indy has partnered with Mid-North Food Pantry. Sign up to volunteer or send a donation.
10:00am: Mass at St. Edward’s University Queen of Peace Chapel
11:00am: Unveiling of Plaque at Ragsdale Student Center St. Edward’s
Noon: Program on the Quad at St. Edward’s
1:00pm.: Start of 4 mile march to the Capitol
4:00pm: Arrive at Capitol for a Rally
50 years ago on June 1, 1966, 400 farm workers in Starr County, Texas began a strike against 6 growers asking for an increase in pay from the pittance of 40 cents an hour they were earning then. They were also asking for the right to form their own union.
As the strike continued the next year, they were beaten and jailed by the Texas Rangers and mistreated by the Judges, Sheriff’s deputies, and prosecutors of Starr County. To make their issues known in Texas, they began a march to Austin. Just north of New Braunfels, Governor John Connally met them on the side of the road to try to turn them back. He told them he would not support their demand to increase the Texas Minimum Wage Law to $1.25.
On Labor Day, 1966, 10,000 people in Austin joined the farm workers on the last 4 miles of the march to the Capitol. Though the law was not passed until 1970, and no union contracts were signed, this Strike was the spark that started the Chicano movement in Texas.
Let us unite to honor the victims of 9/11, their families and first responders as we strive to transform this tragic day into one of peace & community building.An Honor Walk.
Open the Compassion Games with inspiration, dialogue and service. Explore the question “What does a Compassionate Spokane look like?” through breakout sessions on restorative justice, interfaith compassion and self-compassion. Experience community, live music, service opportunities and the Peace Wave!
The ability to make our country safe, secure, peaceful and harmonious lies in our hands. Let us unite to honor the victims of 9/11, their families and first responders as we strive to transform this tragic day into one of peace & community building
Global Game Changers will host morning assembles in a course of 8 days and 8 schools to help students to know that using their superpower to serve others and the world can make the world a better place. In addition, students will learn more about the 9/11 Day of Remembrance, The Global Unity Games, and The International Day of Peace. Following the assembles, students will then participate with their classes to write letters first responders.
AGENDA:
6:30pm: Sign in + Network
7:00pm: Welcome, introductions, and chapter business
7:15pm: Brief overview of upcoming events.
7:20pm: The Film Maker, Holly Mosher will introduce the film
7:30pm: Bonsai People – The Vision of Muhammad Yunus Film Screening
8:20pm: Discussion and Q/A with the film maker
9:00pm: Wrap
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SYNOPSIS:
Bonsai People – The Vision of Muhammad Yunus is a feature length documentary that follows Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus’ pioneering work of microcredit and social business. Bonsai People follows six impoverished rural women through their trials and tribulations with microcredit loans and how they succeed to varying degrees. The film shows how microcredit is really a tool to unleash human potential and empower millions of women. As we follow these women, we also see the other difficulties they face – they not only lack access to financial services, but to so many other services we take for granted. And that is exactly why Yunus says “Whenever I see a problem, I create a company.” He is doing what many say is the government’s job by providing access to healthcare, education, energy, nutrition and even cell phones. Even though he is best know for as the father of microcredit, microcredit is just the tip of the iceberg as we see his vision in action.
In honor of 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 International Day of Peace, Global Game Changers (GGC) & the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) are collaborating to implement a youth-based education and service project for JCPS elementary school children to enhance civic engagement, promote global peace and tackle barriers to positive community relationships and dialogue. Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Fire Department, Global Unity Compassion Games, and Compassionate Louisville Education Constellation will collaborate with Global Game Changers and Muhammad Ali Center on
this project. This unique project will reach over 4,000 JCPS students in eight days between 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 UN International Day of Peace.
In honor of 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 International Day of Peace, Global Game Changers (GGC) & the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) are collaborating to implement a youth-based education and service project for JCPS elementary school children to enhance civic engagement, promote global peace and tackle barriers to positive community relationships and dialogue. Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Fire Department, Global Unity Compassion Games, and Compassionate Louisville Education Constellation will collaborate with Global Game Changers and Muhammad Ali Center on
this project. This unique project will reach over 4,000 JCPS students in eight days between 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 UN International Day of Peace.
The Red Bench is a dialogue program that encourages people with different
world-views to engage in respectful and civil discourse and meaningful
conversations to discover shared common values.
It is centered on moderated small group discussions that are genuinely respectful
and safe. No one has to be an expert on the topic of the month – individual
participants are invited to share from their personal experiences and listen with
their hearts. Join us for a conversation on the topic of Reconciliation.
Tickets $10.00
S.A.R.A.H. Is proud to present this critically important film.
Based on the internationally bestselling novel and inspired by true accounts, SOLD gives the voice to the millions of children around the world who disappear every year.
Kristina from the Orange County Human Trafficking Coalition will speak to us about this critical problem in our own backyard.
Come prepared to be inspired to take compassionate action.
In honor of 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 International Day of Peace, Global Game Changers (GGC) & the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) are collaborating to implement a youth-based education and service project for JCPS elementary school children to enhance civic engagement, promote global peace and tackle barriers to positive community relationships and dialogue. Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Fire Department, Global Unity Compassion Games, and Compassionate Louisville Education Constellation will collaborate with Global Game Changers and Muhammad Ali Center on
this project. This unique project will reach over 4,000 JCPS students in eight days between 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 UN International Day of Peace.
Help us sanitize and organize the toys our Mental Health team uses in counseling sessions with the kiddos! It’s important that the toys are cleaned regularly and we need your help!
What to bring: an old towel (to dry the toys), a bucket (if you have one), and antibacterial wipes (if you have some to spare)
The Charter for Compassion Women and Girls is collaborating with a Charter for Compassion International Partner We The World who is hosting 11 Days of Global Unity, which the Compassion Games are founded on. Each day of their 11 days is themed to an important global topic with a corresponding global call. “Women” is the theme for Sept 17th, where the CCI Women and Girls will be driving all members to attend the call and afterwards, head to the Compassion Map and reflect on their impressions and commitment to do one thing to make their world more compassionate.
1. Sign up for the Global Call Below for the Sept 17th call.
2. After the call, return to the Compassion Games Report Map with an image that describes your overall thoughts and impression (search on Google Images) and reflect with a commitment to do one thing to make a difference in your community.
On the day of the Zorthian Restoration party, volunteering begins as early as 7am and will go after 12pm noon followed by a Z Ranch Style lunch. Volunteering is a great way to deepen your connections with the Zorthian Ranch community, create new friendships, & be the good you seek in the world. All while having fun and supporting a historical landmark and a cultural community event that promotes authenticity and sustainability in the arts, agriculture, in addition to health and wellness. Space is limited, so please sign up quick, you can be apart of this rare opportunity to submerse yourself in the Zorthian Ranch Community.
Celebrating wek of fasting & universal forgiveness and Promote Compassion.
PEACE IN THE PARK – San Francisco
Held on September 17th at Golden Gate Park, Peace in the Park festival brings together the San Francisco and surrounding communities for a rejuvenating day of peaceful activities for all ages and backgrounds. The festival was created in response to the growing levels of stress which can manifest in ways that are damaging to our communities. The event will feature world music and visual artists, tai chi, hatha yoga, life-enhancing seminars, kids activities, exhibits by local non-profits, and meditation experiences where individuals can explore a variety of ways to unplug and unwind.
The festival’s impact is having a positive effect towards actively contributing to peace and social conscious initiatives in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. Since 2013, the festival’s attendance has doubled in size each year and has spread to three other cities of New York NY, Oxford UK, Miami FL and Trinidad.
SPEAKERS: Dan Siegel MD, Jim Doty MD, Gopi Kallayil, Sister Denise Lawrence, Diane Tillman, Supervisor London Breed, Indian Ambassador Venkatesan Ashok, Shunya Pratichi Mathur.
MUSICIANS: Freddy Clarke and Wobbly World, Christine Tulis Christine, ALIA, and Ron Quesada
YOGA: Darren Main, Gopi Kallayil, Laxman Panthi Laxman, John Rettger. More to come
CREATIVE WORKSHOPS: Diane Ferlatte
TAICHI: Fern Jeffcoat, Master Cathy Mu, and Master Philip Yang
CHILDREN’S THEATER: To be announced
FOOD: Amma’s Kitchen, Charlie’s Brownies, and Alicia’s Tamales
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FREE EVENT @ The Golden Gate Park Music Concourse (in between the Museums)
Bring the entire family!
www.peaceintheparksf.org
https://www.facebook.com/events/620095384832701
Gathering items and will be packing 300 paper lunch-sized bags for people to keep in their cars to hand out to the homeless. – Join us (free)
Go Kind is putting on a one day FREE pop-up store for the homeless to shop with dignity.
Bubbles galore for stress relief and FUN! Handing out 1000 bottles of bubbles to promote fun, kindness, and unity.
Bubbles GALORE for stress relief and FUN! Handing out 1000 bottles of bubbles to promote fun, kindness, and unity.
Bubbles GALORE for stress relief and FUN! Handing out 1000 bottles of bubbles to promote fun, kindness, and unity.
Join other compassionate, peace-loving people for Peace Sunday 2016 … stand in solidarity, honor the U.N. International Day of Peace, and gain inspiration and valuable tools for us to aid in the building of a sustainable peace on earth. Our 2016 Theme — Sustainability: Positive Local-to-Global Transformations at Every Level. * 10am-6pm – Indoor Student Exhibition & Table Displays * 10am-Noon – Interfaith Service * Noon-1pm – Persian Lunch (avail. $6/person) * 1-3pm – Workshops pertaining to various aspects of Peacebuilding * 3:30-5:30pm – Main Program with speakers and performers.
Established in 1982 at the Rose Bowl, Peace Sunday has continued annually since 1999 through the efforts of Unity-and-Diversity World Council (UDC). This year UDC is pleased to present its 18th Annual Peace Sunday, in cooperation with the IMAN Cultural Center, located in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles.
In honor of 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 International Day of Peace, Global Game Changers (GGC) & the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) are collaborating to implement a youth-based education and service project for JCPS elementary school children to enhance civic engagement, promote global peace and tackle barriers to positive community relationships and dialogue. Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Fire Department, Global Unity Compassion Games, and Compassionate Louisville Education Constellation will collaborate with Global Game Changers and Muhammad Ali Center on
this project. This unique project will reach over 4,000 JCPS students in eight days between 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 UN International Day of Peace.
The Green Sheikh, H.H. Sheikh Dr. Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al Nuaimi presents One World One People: Leadership in Energy Sustainability and Transition during the 11 Days of Global Unity.
In honor of 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 International Day of Peace, Global Game Changers (GGC) & the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) are collaborating to implement a youth-based education and service project for JCPS elementary school children to enhance civic engagement, promote global peace and tackle barriers to positive community relationships and dialogue. Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Fire Department, Global Unity Compassion Games, and Compassionate Louisville Education Constellation will collaborate with Global Game Changers and Muhammad Ali Center on
this project. This unique project will reach over 4,000 JCPS students in eight days between 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 UN International Day of Peace.
What is compassion to you? How can you navigate daily life as a compassionate activist? David H. Breaux, author of Compassion: Davis, CA, and founder of the Compassion Bench will explore these important questions as part of his seven year and ongoing tour established to engage communities towards greater understanding.
The Red Bench is a dialogue program that encourages people with different
world-views to engage in respectful and civil discourse and meaningful
conversations to discover shared common values.
It is centered on moderated small group discussions that are genuinely respectful
and safe. No one has to be an expert on the topic of the month – individual
participants are invited to share from their personal experiences and listen with
their hearts. Join us for a courageous conversation on the topic of Privilege.
Come meet the Mother Theresa of our times: Sister Lucy is in Seattle this week along with the amazing Gaus Sayyad and Mangesh Pol who grew up at Maher. Join Global Citizen Journey for an inspiring evening filled with stories, music, Bollywood dancing, photos, and information with a hands-on taste of the GCJ Journey experience.Do you dream of India? Would you like to be a citizen diplomat? Come learn about our upcoming delegation! Consider becoming a delegate to India in January 2017 – or volunteer to support the journey.
In honor of 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 International Day of Peace, Global Game Changers (GGC) & the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) are collaborating to implement a youth-based education and service project for JCPS elementary school children to enhance civic engagement, promote global peace and tackle barriers to positive community relationships and dialogue. Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Fire Department, Global Unity Compassion Games, and Compassionate Louisville Education Constellation will collaborate with Global Game Changers and Muhammad Ali Center on
this project. This unique project will reach over 4,000 JCPS students in eight days between 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 UN International Day of Peace.
Zayed University Abu Dhabi and Dubai campuses will plant peace poles in solidarity with the global community in the national language of Arabic and 7 other commonly spoken languages in the diverse population of 200 nationalities that live and work together cooperatively in the United Arab Emirates.
The Green Sheikh, H.H. Sheikh Dr. Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al Nuaimi presents One World One People: Leadership in Energy Sustainability and Transition during the 11 Days of Global Unity.
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The United Nations General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples. Join with others around the world for a time of meditation and inspiration as we reflect upon the rising tide of hope for peace that this day represents and the necessary transformation of our hearts and minds to bring it forth in our world.
Peace Walk around Lake Elizabeth; bring a sign with the word “peace” in your native language. Concludes with interfaith prayers for peace.
Sr. Annette Burkart BurkartMA@SNDdeN.org
Canice McLaughlin canice@comcast.net
Visit the Website at: http://www.UnifyFest.com/
Like the Facebook Page at: https://www.facebook.com/unifyfestsantafe
Over 170 Performances, Workshops, Yoga Classes, and Ceremonies across 5 epic stages, UNIFY FEST is a next-level paradigm shifting transformational festival dedicated to unifying humanity, celebrating life, and leaving the land better than we found it! Headliners include; Trevor Hall, Mike Love, Desert Dwellers, Kaminanda, Lily Fangz, Bluetech, Peia, Tina Malia, Jaya Lakshmi and Ananda, Dustin Thomas, Supaman, Ayla Nereo, Earth Guardians, Tubby Love and many more.
For 4-inspiring days thousands of people are invited to experience a fun and conscious music and health festival that unites, inspires, and educates each of us to live in more harmony with the planet, increase our health through high-vibrational products and education, and connect deeper to our life’s purpose while learning to live sustainably on the land and honoring the planet and all living beings.
We are taking a step back in time to help revive and bring forth native, localized, communal practices and understandings while bridging new scientific discoveries and empowering skillsets of permaculture, biodynamics, and sustainable living to co-create living community, vibrant health, and meaningful relationships and experiences all while learning to live and experience borderless Unification of Humanity. All of this takes place at the beautifully preserved and naturally designed sacred 200-acre grounds of Las Golondrinas in Santa Fe, NM.
The land of enchantment, Santa Fe is highly regarded as the 2nd largest art center in the country and is revered as a spiritual city where indigenous culture and sustainable living still permeates the lives of many locals. Unify Fest is designed as a charity-based event helping raise proceeds to build a non-profit sustainable-school and eco-community – and you are invited to be uplifted and empowered with thousands of people during UnifyFest 2016.
Visit the Website at: http://www.UnifyFest.com/
Like the Facebook Page at: https://www.facebook.com/unifyfestsantafe
The big day! I’ll be running my first ever marathon which is scary but also exciting
The big day! I’ll be running my first ever marathon which is scary but also exiciting. The whole point is to raise 240 Random Acts of Kindness, one for every minute of the run. Please visit the facebook page and make a pledge – together we can spread a little kindness 🙂
https://www.facebook.com/runningforkindness/
Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell is chair of the Board of Trustees and the Global Compassion Council. She is an ordained minister with standing in two Christian denominations, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the American Baptist Church. She was ordained at age 50 and has given national and international leadership to both ecumenical and interfaith work.Dr. Campbell is truly a woman of “firsts.” She was the first woman to be Associate Executive Director of the Greater Cleveland Council of Churches; the first woman to be Executive Director of the U.S. office of the World Council of Churches; the first ordained woman to be General Secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA; and the first woman Director of Religion at the historic Chautauqua Institution, a center for religion, education, the arts, and recreation. More …
Mallika Chopra is Founder & CEO of Intent.com, “My intent is to connect with others by sharing and listening to each other’s stories.” Maliki learned about the power of intention at a young age from her father, Deepak Chopra. He then taught them to ask for love, hope, purpose, passion, inspiration and so many other positive qualities in their lives every day. Starting every day with an intent proved to be an anchoring device that led to connection, happiness and personal fulfillment. Mallika is mom to Tara and Leela and has written two books inspired by them — 100 Promises To My Baby and 100 Questions From My Child. Both books represent her intention to be a conscious parent. Mallika is amazed and honored to host dozens of writers on www.intentblog.com and a thriving community of people sharing their dreams and supporting one another on www.intent.com. More…
The Reverend Dr. Barbara Lewis King, affectionately called “Dr. Barbara,” is the Founder-Spiritual Leader and CEO of the Hillside International Truth Center, Inc., in Atlanta, Georgia. She began this nondenominational, ecumenical ministry in 1971 with twelve members in her living room. Since then the ministry has grown to more than 10,000 members and supporters around the world. Through her leadership The Barbara King School of Ministry, The Barbara Lewis King Scholarship Foundation, The Hillside Learning Center and over 30 ministries and auxiliaries have been created. Her ministry extends beyond Atlanta and the Unites States to outreach efforts abroad including: building a secondary school in Ghana named in her honor, helping nuns at Sisters of the Boa Morte rebuild their a community in Brazil, and teaching Truth Principles and focusing on life coaching to women and children in the Soweto Township in South Africa. More…
Grandmother Floredemayo, a wise woman of the earth, Flordemayo has been a Curandera Espiritu, a healer of divine spirit, her entire life. And through her keen vision she is able to sense other realms of light, sound and color. As a seer, she is able to see the effects of existing imbalances on the physical, emotional and spiritual levels within a person’s energy system. Flordemayo is a founding member and President of the Institute of Natural and Traditional Knowledge, based in Estancia, New Mexico. She has been widely recognized for her healing ability and wisdom, including being the recipient of the Martin de la Cruz Award for Alternative Healing. This prestigious honor is given by the International Congress of Traditional Medicine. Working with respected spiritual leader, Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, who is head of the Quiche Maya Council of Elders, Flordemayo has been recognized as a ‘Priestess’ by the Maya. Flordemayo was born and grew up in the big highlands of Central America in a family of traditional healers. She now travels around the globe to share her healing abilities and to foster more spiritual understanding among people. Since 2004, Flordemayo has been a founding member of the Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, a group of traditional female elders drawn from around the world. More…
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. Marianne has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose & Bill Maher. Seven of her twelve published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1. The mega best seller A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers. Marianne’s other books include The Law of Divine Compensation, The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, A Course in Weight Loss, The Gift of Change, A Year of Miracles, and her newest book, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment, available now. More…
Join us for the first 2016 Giving Games LIVE call for Team Organizers! If you are new at the games and want to learn more this call is also for you! Play With Generosity and Celebrate Giving together through#CompassionGives actions!
The Giving Games: Youth and Schools Play it Forward are a 12 day global challenge to inspire, develop, and celebrate our shared humanity through acts of generosity and compassion. The Giving Games began on November 29th – GivingTuesday– and go through December 10th, Human Rights Day. The Giving Games are being played globally between youth, educators, and mentors to foster safe and fulfilling places of learning, helping the next generation develop into happy, compassionate, creative, and resilient members of our world!
Join the LIVE call with Compassion Games International Heart Quarters Team with #CompassionGives Torch lit High! Join the zoom call here:
Topic: Weekly Giving Games Team Organizers
Time: this is a recurring meeting
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/2069727356
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,2069727356# or +16465588656,2069727356#
Or Telephone:
Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 206 972 7356
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=KfhKFY8qFI10Jdhq6IJMA1yqCBsIn6DF
You can learn more and sign up to play The 2016 Giving Games here:http://compassiongames.org/thegivinggames/
If you have questions about participation, sponsorship opportunites, starting a team, and any other questions please contact Sommer Joy ALbertsen; Compassion Games International Relations Coach! Sommer@compassiongames.org
Join us for the 2016 Giving Games LIVE call for Team Organizers! Come and learn more about this exciting new addition on this call. If you are new at the games and want to learn more this call is also for you! Play With Generosity and Celebrate Giving together through #CompassionGives actions! Questions are always welcome on the call!
The Giving Games: Youth and Schools Play it Forward are a 12 day global challenge to inspire, develop, and celebrate our shared humanity through acts of generosity and compassion. The Giving Games began on November 29th – GivingTuesday– and go through December 10th, Human Rights Day. The Giving Games are being played globally between youth, educators, and mentors to foster safe and fulfilling places of learning, helping the next generation develop into happy, compassionate, creative, and resilient members of our world!
Join the LIVE call with Compassion Games International Heart Quarters Team with #CompassionGives Torch lit High! Join the zoom call here:
Topic: Weekly Giving Games Team Organizers
Time: this is a recurring meeting
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/2069727356
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,2069727356# or +16465588656,2069727356#
Or Telephone:
Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 206 972 7356
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=KfhKFY8qFI10Jdhq6IJMA1yqCBsIn6DF
You can learn more and sign up to play The 2016 Giving Games here:http://compassiongames.org/thegivinggames/
If you have questions about participation, sponsorship opportunites, starting a team, and any other questions please contact Sommer Joy ALbertsen; Compassion Games International Relations Coach! Sommer@compassiongames.org
– November 7, 2016 Opening day at the 22nd COP United Nations Climate Change Conferences held in Marrakech, Morocco
– MOMENTUM FOR CHANGE LIGHTHOUSE ACTIVITY by Unfccc. Submit your activity untill april 25th: http://momentum.unfccc.int/
07 Nov – 18 Nov 2016 |
Marrakech Climate Change Conference – November 2016
Twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) and the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 12) to be held in Marrakech, Morocco |
Marrakech, Morocco | UNFCCC |
Dear Relatives,
Thank you for your interest in attending the Completion Ceremony of the Peace and Dignity Journeys 2016. On May 1, 2016, two groups of Spiritual Runners began this prayer from opposite sides of Abya Yala– one group from Chickaloon, Alaska and the other from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. With a few weeks to go both groups are physically exhausted but are spiritually strong. The Runners are carrying the prayers and intentions of several hundred communities’ and thousands of people that they have met along their path. The purpose of the closing ceremony is to tie those prayers together, honor the runners, organizers, elders, and community members that have made this Journey a reality.
The purpose of this page is to manage the travel, lodging, food and other needs for those who will be traveling to Panama for the 2016 Peace and Dignity Journeys closing ceremonies. We anticipate that there will be approximately 100 people who will be traveling to Panama from throughout North, Central, and South to attend this event.
Peace and Dignity Journeys was started in 1992 to continue in the spirit of the traditions of our ancestors. Every four years Indigenous communities all over North, Central and South America witness and partake in the tradition of receiving runners with ceremonies unique to their community, sharing stories, song, dance, and the wisdom that comes from community elders and ceremony. Peace and Dignity Journeys runners start simultaneously from both ends of the continent in Chickaloon, Alaska and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina traversing the entire continent by foot from community to community and joining together for a final gathering in Central America, Panama. The 2016 Journey is dedicated to the Seeds of our Future, the Seeds we plant in the ground and the Seeds that are the future of our communities.
In 1990, over 200 representatives of Indigenous nations from throughout the western hemisphere met for the first time in Quito, Ecuador. There, they witnessed the unfolding prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor. The inspiration of spiritual running to re-unite the nations of Turtle Island surfaced from the elders. Elders from North, Central and South America remember and talk about a prophecy that foretold how we will come together and reunite as one… “we are like a body that was broken up into pieces and this body will come back together to be whole again.”. Peace & Dignity Journeys became part of the realization. Through Peace & Dignity Journeys, numerous and diverse indigenous nations reunite and reclaim dignity for their families and communities.
Our native communities are scattered, having been pushed to the remote corners of this great land. In spite of this, we remain connected through the core traditions our ancestors have given us which have passed the test of time and space. These traditions not only serve as a binding connection to our communities, but provide us with the medium to solve our common problems.
Peace and Dignity Journeys was started in 1992 to continue in the spirit of one such tradition. Every four years Indigenous communities all over North, Central, and South America witness and partake in the tradition of receiving runners with ceremonies unique to their community. Through this process runners and participants share stories, song, dance, and the wisdom that comes from community elders and ceremony. At the same time Peace and Dignity Journeys runners take on the spiritual task and honor of running from community to community starting simultaneously from both ends of the continent in Chickaloon, Alaska and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina traversing the entire continent by foot and joining together for a final gathering in Central America, Panama.
Each journey is dedicated to a specific theme:
1992 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance/Dedicated to the Children
1996 Dedicated to the Elders
2000 Dedicated to the Families
2004 Dedicated to honor Women and the feminine spirit, particularly Mother Earth
2008 Dedicated to the honoring of and preservation and protection of Sacred Sites
2012 Dedicated to Water, the source of life for all.
2016 Dedicated to the Seeds of our Future, the Seeds we plant in the ground and the Seeds that are the future of our communities.
Peace and Dignity Journeys is a grassroots organization supported by host communities, coordinated by a dedicated network of volunteers, and manifested through our strong runners. “Peace and Dignity Journeys” is an Indigenous organization that invites the participation of native and non-native individuals who are strongly committed to the preservation of Native American culture. We wish to extend a special invitation to all Elders and Spiritual Leaders in hope of making this run a strong prayer.
#GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration, that helping us kick off a 10 day coopetition The Giving Games with the world!
Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving.
One of the best ways to get involved is in your own community. We’ve created a directory to help you find organizations, charities, events and more in your own community.
Created by the team at the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at the 92nd Street Y—a cultural center in New York City that, since 1874, has been bringing people together around the values of service and giving back—#GivingTuesday connects diverse groups of individuals, communities and organizations around the world for one common purpose: to celebrate and encourage giving. A team of influencers and founding partners joined forces, collaborating across sectors, offering expertise and working tirelessly, to launch #GivingTuesday and have continued to shape, grow and strengthen the movement.
Join us at the California Native Plant Workshop! Learn the importance of planting plants native to the local California soil, how they improve soil quality and nutrient levels, as well as mitigate the need for watering in our drought laden society.
At 8:30am, TEDx ticket holders and local volunteers are invited to join We Plant Peace and local organization Theodore Payne Foundation (www.theodorepayne.org) to help plant a native garden at San Fernando Gardens Public Housing Project in conjunction with the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles. Volunteers will learn about how native plants are adapted to local conditions and how they enhance the environment for all. This workshop will offer a hands-on approach to successful techniques for establishing sustainable native plant landscapes.
The event takes place Friday December 2 at 8:30am at the San Fernando Gardens Public Housing Project in Pacoima, CA as part of the Pre-TEDxLA City Experiment Series. See you there!
Stand up for someone’s rights today!
Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1950, the Assembly passed resolution 423 (V), inviting all States and interested organizations to observe 10 December of each year as Human Rights Day.
This year, Human Rights Day calls on everyone to stand up for someone’s rights! It is everyone’s responsibility to uphold human rights. Every one of us should take a stand. Step forward and defend the rights of a refugee or migrant, a person with disabilities, an LGBT person, a woman, an indigenous person, a child, a person of African descent, or anyone else at risk of discrimination or violence.
Follow #HumanRightsDay
You are invited to the kick off of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Muhammad Ali Games, Five Days of Courageous Service January 13th through January 17th. Join players and teams around the world by celebrating the birthdays of MLK and ALI by igniting their legacies of courageous service in action. During this call we will be introducing all of you to Muhammad Ali Center and a few new featured ways to play the games and the exciting new partnership honoring Muhammad Ali along with MLK.
This call will be offered for help and support of all players and teams around the world Jan 4th, Jan. 11, and Jan. 18th 10AM – 11AM PST
Topic: MLK & ALI Games Launch Call
Time: Jan 4, 2017 10:00 AM (GMT-8:00) Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/501101491
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,501101491# or +16465588656,501101491#
Or Telephone:
Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 501 101 491
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=oahT4osMbnlw2WJRDScYgJM151Lwg6Bd
Learn more and sign up to play The MLK & ALI Games at this link.
http://compassiongames.org/mlk-ali-coopetition/
If you have any questions please contact Sommer Joy, the Compassion Games International Relations Coach.
sommer@compassiongames.org
A Mind-Body workshop. Beginning with Qi-Gong for harmonizing and balancing, then moving into subjects of the day facing the students. Mitchell works with them to facilitate favorable outcomes, sometimes using Therapeutic Theater or direct dialogue engaging the quantum field and understandings from neuro-psychology, expanding the mind & heart.
If you had one question for the man who stood next to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., organizing the Selma Voters Rights movement and developing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, what would it be? Here’s your chance to ask him directly. Dr. Bernard LaFayette will present on our Wednesday call speaking about the power of Dr. King’s legacy and what it means to our world today.
Also speaking and addressing your questions are modern day civil rights activists Rev. Gerald Durley and Kathy Kelly. Send your questions to one or all of them to sande@CharterforCompassion.org Register today!
We come together in our own time zones at 1:11 pm on January 11th, 2017 to collectively intention ‘Children across the planet in love, care and respect.” Unifying our hearts and minds in love, peace, and compassion for all. And igniting these intentions. Do yoga, meditate, dance ,sing, however you are uniquely called to contribute, host a meditation flashmob, gather at a favorite body of water. We come together for the children.
MLK & Ali: Five Days of Courageous Service!
Join here: http://compassiongames.org/mlk-ali-coopetition/
The Five Days of Courageous Service Coopetition (1/13 – 1/17) honors the magnificent lives of two of our most beloved Heavyweight Champions of Compassion, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) and Muhammad Ali. Join players and teams around the world by celebrating the birthdays of MLK and Ali by igniting their legacies of courageous service into action.
It is impossible to imagine what our world may look like had MLK and Muhammed Ali never been born. Dr. King gave voice and movement to both the pain and the dreams of billions of people around the planet, helping us understand that it is in our power to change ideas and unjust laws when we act together with compassion. Muhammad Ali is one of the most celebrated athletes of all time. He was “The Greatest” not simply because of his skill in the ring, but because of what his boxing matches stood for on behalf of the progress of human rights when doing so was not only unpopular, but dangerous. Muhammed Ali passed away in 2016, yet January 17th would have marked his 75th birthday.
Each of these men spoke to the importance of service above all else, and they lived that message with courage. Dr. King said: “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.” Muhammad Ali said: “Service is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”
In that spirit, we warmly invite you and your community to join us in these Five Days of Courageous Service to make our world a more just, safe, and equitable place to live for all members of the Human Family!
Join here: http://compassiongames.org/mlk-ali-coopetition/
It has become a tradition for the Ali Center to show Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech to the community in recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. This year is no different.
This panel discussion will be LIVE on FB for agents of compassion around the world to tune into. The Ali Center & Compassion Games will share the panel event. Join the Ali Center as it shows this historic speech every hour on the hour beginning at 10:00 a.m. A panel discussion, “Continuing the Dream, Living the Legacy” will follow the 11:00 a.m. showing. Members of the Muhammad Ali Center Council of Students will discuss how young people are continuing the work of Dr. King and Muhammad Ali in our community.
Join ing this event is an example of way to play the games! Sign up to play the MLK & ALI Games, Five Days of Courageous Service Jan. 13 -Jan. 15th
MLK Day of Service 2017 – Morcom Rose Garden – Beautifying the Garden
Date of Project: January 16, 9:00AM to 12:30PM
Location: 700 Jean Street. Oakland
Project: Beautifying the Gardens, weeding, mulching, pruning, composting and more
Great event for adults, students and families (Kids need to be accompanied by parents)
Rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves. Rain jacket if needed!
For information and registration: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
MLK Day of Service 2017 at Shepherd Canyon Park- Transforming a Former Dump into a Place of Natural Beauty
Coordinator: Mike Petouhoff
Date of Project: January 16, 9:00AM to 12:30PM
Location: Meet at the Escher Gate, 5881 Escher Drive, (In Meadows above Soccer Field in Shepherd Canyon Park)
Project: planting and sowing seeds for CA Native bunch grasses and wildflowers, trail improvements, Creating Monarch Butterfly Habitat! Great event for adults, students and families (Kids need to be accompanied by parents)
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle, gloves and a shovel or hand trowel if you have one. Dress warmly in layers
For information or to sign up e-mail: sfpbayarea@gmail.com
To see our first Monarch Butterfly visitors to the Shepherd Canyon Habitat in 2012 check this link:
To see some of our progress over the years at the Shepherd Canyon Upper Meadow see this link:
When: Jan 16, 2017 09:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Who: Service for Peace – Bay Area / Oakland
Virtual: No
Where: Shepherd Canyon Park – Oakland Oakland CA US 94611
Contact: Markus – sfpbayarea@gmail.com – 510-427-1605
In honor of Muhammad Ali’s famous quote, “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth”, the Ali Center’s staff and Council of Students will partner with Together We Rise for a service project. The staff’s goal is to donate 75 hours of service in recognition of what would have been Ali’s 75th birthday. The staff and team members will build over 20 new bikes for foster care children in Louisville, a nod to Ali’s stolen red Schwinn bike that became the catalyst for his boxing career.
This event is also a catalyst for the MLK & ALI Games! Compassion Games International is partnering with Muhammad Ali Center inspiring a global courageous race of thousands of hours of service honoring the legacy of Muhammad Ali’s Birthday! Players and Groups around the world will be teaming up with Ali Center and reporting all hours of courageous service on the Global Compassion Report Map.
Check out the Compassion Report Map here:
https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
You can join this global Muhammad Ali & Dr. King Birthday Celebration of courageous service with others around the world! Sign up to play and invite your team to the MLK & ALI Games Jan. 13 through Jan. 17th here:
Thurs, Jan 19th 6pm, Rally
60th Street and Broadway in Manhattan
with Mayor de Blasio, Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, Mark Ruffalo
https://www.facebook.com/events/1628974860741148/
Friday Jan 20th at 11 AM – 4 PM
Black, Brown & Indigenous Mobilize Against White Nationalism #J20
Harriet Tubman Memorial
235 St Nicholas Ave in Manhattan
https://www.facebook.com/events/569161393281686/
Friday Jan 20th at 5 PM – 11 PM
NYC Inauguration Day Rally & March
Foley Square in Manhattan
https://www.facebook.com/events/1683256988651205/
Friday Jan 20th at 7 PM – 1 AM
TheUnGovernables: TefPoe, SaRoc, Loaf Muzik
176 St Nicholas Ave, in Brooklyn
https://www.facebook.com/events/1825433731067188/
Saturday Jan 21st at 10:45 AM – 5:00 PM
Women’s March on NYC
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations
Thurs, Jan 19th 6pm, Rally
60th Street and Broadway in Manhattan
with Mayor de Blasio, Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, Mark Ruffalo
https://www.facebook.com/events/1628974860741148/
Friday Jan 20th at 11 AM – 4 PM
Black, Brown & Indigenous Mobilize Against White Nationalism #J20
Harriet Tubman Memorial
235 St Nicholas Ave in Manhattan
https://www.facebook.com/events/569161393281686/
Friday Jan 20th at 5 PM – 11 PM
NYC Inauguration Day Rally & March
Foley Square in Manhattan
https://www.facebook.com/events/1683256988651205/
Friday Jan 20th at 7 PM – 1 AM
TheUnGovernables: TefPoe, SaRoc, Loaf Muzik
176 St Nicholas Ave, in Brooklyn
https://www.facebook.com/events/1825433731067188/
Saturday Jan 21st at 10:45 AM – 5:00 PM
Women’s March on NYC
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations
Thurs, Jan 19th 6pm, Rally
60th Street and Broadway in Manhattan
with Mayor de Blasio, Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, Mark Ruffalo
https://www.facebook.com/events/1628974860741148/
Friday Jan 20th at 11 AM – 4 PM
Black, Brown & Indigenous Mobilize Against White Nationalism #J20
Harriet Tubman Memorial
235 St Nicholas Ave in Manhattan
https://www.facebook.com/events/569161393281686/
Friday Jan 20th at 5 PM – 11 PM
NYC Inauguration Day Rally & March
Foley Square in Manhattan
https://www.facebook.com/events/1683256988651205/
Friday Jan 20th at 7 PM – 1 AM
TheUnGovernables: TefPoe, SaRoc, Loaf Muzik
176 St Nicholas Ave, in Brooklyn
https://www.facebook.com/events/1825433731067188/
Saturday Jan 21st at 10:45 AM – 5:00 PM
Women’s March on NYC
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations
Co-founded in 1998 by Arun Gandhi and the Association for Global New Thought, the Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence is a national 64-day educational, media, and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that non-violence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. This 20th anniversary celebration features task forces active worldwide that have produced lasting change in 900 cities and 67 countries since inception.
What is the World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition?
The World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition is a 7 day global challenge to promote acts of peace, collaboration and tolerance between people of all faith, spiritual, and humanistic traditions. Beginning on February 1st and going through February 7th, individuals and teams will use the spirit of coopetition to inspire acts collaborative acts of service to give back to their communities and strengthen mutual respect, understanding, and harmony between people of all backgrounds.
Why Play in World Interfaith Harmony Week?
The purpose of the World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition is:
- 1. To celebrate and make known the strong undercurrent of interfaith work already happening in the world, and to bring attention to this remarkable work so its positive momentum can continue to inspire and grow;
- 2. To amplify existing efforts and create new initiatives to further the reach of the interfaith movement, and to raise a broader awareness in the world’s communities that interfaith unity is possible. In addition, we want to ignite a sense of urgency for the need of this movement more now than ever;
- 3. To encourage faith communities around the world to reach out to their neighbors of different faiths in order to create new relationships of respect, understanding, and collaboration to expand the reach of the interfaith movement throughout the world.
By playing in the World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition you join a global movement to bring the reality of interfaith peace to communities around the world!
The Inaugural 7th Generation Global Wopida Run: Sharing the Spirit of Standing Rock, Protecting and Restoring Mother Earth and Building a Global Fire of Compassion.
A coalition of partners are hosting the Inaugural Global Wopida Run of Indigenous Youth Runners across the Golden Gate Bridge, delivering a Compassion Torch of solidarity and hope from Standing Rock to the Great Meadow at Fort Mason on Sunday, February 5th at 12:00PM.
The 7th Generation Prophecy promised that this generation of Indigenous young people would rise up and inspire other young people of the Human Family to join them in unprecedented, unified, and prayerful action.
The Dakota people have a special ceremony used for times of difficulty;Wopida. Wopida is a sacred sharing of gratitude, a connecting with all beings through giving thanks. The purpose of the Global Wopida Inaugural Run is to be grateful for whatever Life bestows on us, knowing that every test and challenge comes into our lives for our spiritual growth and development to protect and restore Mother Earth. This spiritual understanding of Wopida requires each of us to live with honor, compassion, love, respect and harmony with all life. The coalition is hosting the 7th Generation Runners in San Francisco during World Interfaith Harmony Week.
Ms. Bobbi Jean Three Legs, Hunkpapa Lakota, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Chris Walton and other youth runners from the Oceti Sakowin, the Seven Council Fires of the Great Sioux Nation, will be joined by local 7th Generation Runners. The Runners will share their enthusiasm, vision, and words to co-create a just, sustainable and harmonious world by building a global fire of compassionate action to unite the Human Family. We will pass the Global Compassion Torch as part of the Wopida Ceremony taking place on the Great Meadow.
The inspiration for the Inaugural 7th Generation Run began in August of 2016 when the Standing Rock Youth Runners, led by the Ms. Three Legs, ran 2,000 miles to Washington DC and brought national and international attention to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters. Their run broadened the impact of those protecting the waters of the Missouri River against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), and raised a global cry: “Mni Wiconi – Water is Life.”
Traditionally, Indigenous Peoples across the Americas ran on foot to carry important messages. The Inaugural Global Wopida Run shares the news that at this time of great global change, the promised time has come for the 7th Generation to arise and inspire all generations to heal and resolve “Standing Rocks” everywhere on Mother Earth. Guided by their elders, the Runners carry the message that we are one Human Family, interrelated with all Life, and share a common destiny. The Hurt of One is the Hurt of All, the Honor of One is the Honor of All.
We request that attendees bring a favorite dish to share and their own plate and silverware to “keep it green.”
The coalition of partners include (alphabetical): Compassion Games International, Cultural Conservancy, E2K, Fetzer Institute, Four Worlds International, Pachamama Alliance, Seat of the Soul Institute, Seeding Sovereignty, The Shift Network, Unify, and the United Religions Initiative.
The Goals-Inaugural 7th Generation Global Wopida Run:
* To share the Spirit of Standing Rock and intent of the Global Wopida.
* To share the enthusiasm, the prophecy, vision, and words of the 7th Generation to ignite unprecedented, unified, prayerful, and enduring compassionate action to Protect and Restore Mother Earth.
* To unite the members of the human family to co-create a just, sustainable and harmonious world.
* To ignite a global fire of gratitude, love, and thanksgiving everywhere all at once.
Take action now here:
www.globalfire.earth
Email sommer@compassiongames.org and or jon@compassiongames.org for more information please.
Monday, February 6, 2017
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
777 UN Plaza
(@ the Southwest corner of 1st Ave. & 44th Street in Manhattan, New York City)
that are deeply rooted in the world’s major religions
Dear Friends,
At this time when millions of people are frightened seeing intolerance and disunity reflected in our society, I hope you or your New York based friends will join us for this inspiring and unifying event. The program includes readings from sacred scripture from a variety of faith traditions, arts, and reflections from guest speakers. And there will be live music including me at the piano!
Thank you for what you are doing to create more peace and unity in our world. I hope to see you there!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Change Your World
Highlights of 11 Days of Global Unity 2016 including Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Neale Donald Walsch and many others!
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change events and announcements worldwide!
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
Facebook – Twitter
See trailer at www.futurewave.org
In the wake of the controversy over the immigration ban, the story of World Citizen #1 Garry Davis is the perfect antidote. It goes to the heart of healing to the sense of fear and powerlessness that leads to trying to close in, restrict freedoms and build walls.
Now is the perfect time for “The World is My Country” to inspire us all to realize that greatness comes not by separation and fear of those who are different, but by we, the people, celebrating our diversity and forming a more perfect union – at the global level.
RSVP to Futurewavefilms@gmail.com
Your local resistance. United, we’re fierce. #StandIndivisible
Join us. Bring together our causes. Help each other. Strategize. Plan. Act. Contact us with any suggestions for representatives from local activist / non-profit groups who can participate and lend insights: IndivisibleBerea@gmail.com
*Activism needs food! This is a potluck and a meeting 🙂
Change happens fast in this Administration (federal and state). We will benefit greatly from meeting each other as humans, in person, at least once 🙂 We will also need to leverage the speed of social media.
Doctors w/o Borders Fundraiser for Syria
Wednesday, February 15 at 7:30 PM
Montgomery College, Rockville Campus
Science Center West Room 301.
100% of proceeds go to Doctors w/o Borders working in Syria.
Get Tickets Here!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/all-for-aleppo-comedy-show-benefitting-doctors-without-borders-tickets-31454422023
A comedy show series to benefit the suffering in Syria
STUDENT SUGGESTED DONATION $5
ALL OTHERS SUGGESTED DONATION $20
FEATURING SOME OF DC’S BEST COMEDIANS:
KANDYCE AUGUST
MARK JOYNER
MATTY LITWACK
CHRIS MILNER
EDDIE MORRISON
RAHMEIN MOSTAFAVI
VIJAY NATHAN
MAX ROSENBLUM
JARED STERN
KASAUN WILSON
Co-sponsored by:
MC Lifesavers
The Integrative Learning & High Impact Practices Committee
Student Life’s Service-Learning Program
The Peace & Justice Studies Program
The MC Global Nexus Program
Bring stuff or just come and take what you need! There is so much more than enough for all.
In Honor of Int’l Women’s Day, The Charter for Compassion International Women and Girls Sector, along with partner organizations, recognizes the need for a greater inclusion of voices and involvement of women in leadership in the global healing and transformation that is occurring. For that purpose, we have put together the Reaction to Response Webinar Series.
Global Sisterhood is a movement of soulful women around the world unifying by gathering in Sister Circles every new moon focused on a transformational theme. Together we are creating a global Sacred Sisterhood, virtual and in-person, of women devoted to transforming ourselves and the world.
One thing that is different about the March 8th event from our new moon gatherings is that we are offering a special live audio broadcast from our main circle in Austin at 7:30pm CST led by Lauren Walsh, Emma Juniper, and a special guest, Mona Palocca, a Hopi elder of the International Council of The 13 Indigenous grandmothers.
Support Native American rights and protect the water supply.
This initiative, backed by several environmental and health groups, is a petition to raise at least a million signatures before the end of 2017, to influence the EU’s decision on whether or not to ban glyphosate completely. The extension has been temporarily halted and the aim is to have it banned altogether – by making the decision makers listen to the people!
A week to raise awareness of pesticide usage and educate people about the alternatives.
WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts of people, organizations and movements working for the common good www.WE.net |
Celebrating Earth Month Worldwide
March 20th (Equinox Earth Day ) through April 22nd and Beyond See and Post Events Worldwide on GlobalUnityCalendar.org See also Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing http://WE.net/trends
Details below!
This year a variety of organizations, (including those above), with people around the world, are celebrating Earth Month . Earth Month is a convergence of events, broadcasts and other activities starting with the Original Earth Day on the Equinox March 20th (World Happiness Day), including World Water Day March 22nd, World Meteorological Day March 23rd, and continuing through April 22nd (Earth Day celebrated), and culminating with the Peoples Climate March on March 29th. Here are selected event details:
The Earth Society Foundation
www.earthsocietyfoundation.orgcordially invites you to participate in the celebration of the 47th Annual UN Peace Bell Ceremony The Ceremony will begin at 6:00 AM EDT at the Peace Bell
in the renovated Japanese Garden at UN Headquarters The Earth Society Foundation invites you to ring a bell for peace March 20th on the Equinox wherever you are. The Peace Bell at the United Nations in New York City will ring at 6:29AM Eastern Daylight Time – the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Fall in the Southern Hemisphere. At the same moment (11:29AM in Austria) the Peace Bell at the United Nations in Vienna will ring. The 2017 ceremony celebrates the anniversary of the first Earth Day initiated by John McConnell on March 20, 1970, in San Francisco, and will mark its 47th celebration at the United Nations in New York City. To attend this UN event, RSVP by March 15th is required, by email, to earthsociety1@hotmail.com. Include name and telephone number. Participants should bring a photo-ID for UN Security, and arrive by 5:50 AM EDT, Monday, March 20 at the UN Visitor’s Entrance at 46th Street and First Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. To participate from anywhere around the world, you may ring a bell at this shared “Moment of Cosmic Equipoise” with the global intention to facilitate peace on our beautiful planet. WBAI Pacifica Radio Show Special
Health Action With Host Kathryn Davis Preview of Planet Heart’s Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration March 20th 1PM Eastern Time (USA) Listen live online at http://www.wbai.org Featured Guests include:
On World Water Day March 22nd The Compassion Games will launch and build momentum for Earth Week happening from April 22nd through April 30. During Earth Month we will pass the Compassion Torch to different Champions of Compassion in Support of Standing Rock who are standing to Protect and Restore Mother Earth.
One Love Rising Radio – Special Teleconference Edition for World Water Day With Host Heidi Little – Co founder/Director of International Children’s Month and Co-Host Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, The World March 22, 2017 at 1PM Eastern Time (USA)To Join the Teleconference call by phone: +1 516 418-5703 Featured Guests include:
Planet Heart’s 10th Anniversary Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration 2017Saturday April 22, 2017 | 6:30pm (Sharp)–10:00pm (Doors open 6:00pm) Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew | 263 W. 86th Street, NYC Inspirational Talks – Live Music Performances – Inspired Poetry – Guided Meditations – Vibrational Sound Activations On Earth Day April 22nd, 2017 there will be Global Teach-ins and the March for Science in Washington DC and other locations. Thank you for all you are doing to create a better world!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing: WE.net/trends 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Change Your World An Urgent Message >From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change events and announcements worldwide! Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate Donation Page: WE.net/donate Facebook – Twitter |
World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.
Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater. In 2015, World Water Day has the theme “Water and Sustainable Development”.
In 2016, the theme is “Water and Jobs,” in 2017 “Wastewater” and in 2018 “Nature-based Solutions for Water”.
WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts of people, organizations and movements working for the common good www.WE.net |
Celebrating Earth Month Worldwide
March 20th (Equinox Earth Day ) through April 22nd and Beyond See and Post Events Worldwide on GlobalUnityCalendar.org See also Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing http://WE.net/trends To Join the Teleconference call by phone: +1 516 418-5703 Featured Guests include:
Details below! This year a variety of organizations, (including those above), with people around the world, are celebrating Earth Month. Earth Month is a convergence of events, broadcasts and other activities starting with the Original Earth Day on the Equinox March 20th (World Happiness Day), including World Water Day March 22nd, World Meteorological Day March 23rd, and continuing through April 22nd (Earth Day celebrated), and culminating with the Peoples Climate March on March 29th. Here are selected event details:
The Earth Society Foundation
www.earthsocietyfoundation.orgcordially invites you to participate in the celebration of the 47th Annual UN Peace Bell Ceremony On the Original Earth Day Monday, March 20, 2017 Equinox is at precisely 6:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time (USA) The Ceremony will begin at 6:00 AM EDT at the Peace Bell
in the renovated Japanese Garden at UN Headquarters The Earth Society Foundation invites you to ring a bell for peace March 20th on the Equinox wherever you are. The Peace Bell at the United Nations in New York City will ring at 6:29AM Eastern Daylight Time – the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Fall in the Southern Hemisphere. At the same moment (11:29AM in Austria) the Peace Bell at the United Nations in Vienna will ring. The 2017 ceremony celebrates the anniversary of the first Earth Day initiated by John McConnell on March 20, 1970, in San Francisco, and will mark its 47th celebration at the United Nations in New York City. To attend this UN event, RSVP by March 15th is required, by email, to earthsociety1@hotmail.com. Include name and telephone number. Participants should bring a photo-ID for UN Security, and arrive by 5:50 AM EDT, Monday, March 20 at the UN Visitor’s Entrance at 46th Street and First Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. To participate from anywhere around the world, you may ring a bell at this shared “Moment of Cosmic Equipoise” with the global intention to facilitate peace on our beautiful planet. WBAI Pacifica Radio Show Special
Health Action With Host Kathryn Davis Preview ofPlanet Heart’s Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration March 20th 1PM Eastern Time (USA) Listen live online at http://www.wbai.org Featured Guests include:
On World Water Day March 22nd The Compassion Games will launch and build momentum for Earth Week happening from April 22nd through April 30. During Earth Month we will pass the Compassion Torch to different Champions of Compassion in Support of Standing Rock who are standing to Protect and Restore Mother Earth. One Love Rising Radio – Special Teleconference Edition for World Water Day With Host Heidi Little – Co founder/Director of International Children’s Month and Co-Host Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, The World March 22, 2017 at 1PM Eastern Time (USA)To Join the Teleconference call by phone: +1516 418-5703 Or go online to One Love Rising: www.blogtalkradio.com/oneloverising Featured Guests include:
Planet Heart’s 10th Anniversary Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration 2017Saturday April 22, 2017 | 6:30pm (Sharp)–10:00pm (Doors open 6:00pm)Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew | 263 W. 86th Street, NYC $25 pd in advance by Apr 21, $33 cash only at door – no refundsInspirational Talks – Live Music Performances – Inspired Poetry – Guided Meditations – Vibrational Sound Activations Inner Shamanic Journeys – Vendors – Celebrations – And More – All Are Welcome! Please Share! FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.PLANETHEART.ORG CONTACT US AT 212.222.5432 OR EARTHDAY@WETHEWORLD.ORG On Earth Day April 22nd, 2017 there will be Global Teach-ins and the March for Science in Washington DC and other locations. Thank you for all you are doing to create a better world! Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing: WE.net/trends 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Change Your World An Urgent Message >From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change events and announcements worldwide! Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate Donation Page: WE.net/donate Facebook – Twitter |
Shared meal and showing of the fim by Marie-Monique Robin ‘Qu’est-ce qu’on attend?’, as part of the events for Pesticide Action Week. Seven local associations have helped organised the event and will take part in the debate following the showing of the film. The film tells the story of the town of Ungersheim in Alsace, France, which undertakes 21 actions for the 21st century to reduce their carbon footprint.
A shared meal to start the evening, followed by a screening of the film and a debate on the issues raised.
Love Remembers Day is a worldwide virtual event showing compassion and love for those living with anaphylaxis, life threatening allergies and remembering those lives that have been lost. Visit www.compassionforanaphylaxis.com
Film ‘La Mort est dans le pré’ (Death is in the fields) followed by discussion with medical experts and the President of Générations Futures, Maria Pelletier.
A night of networking, fun and SOULFUL music acknowledging the contribution of several great music entertainers of African descent.
Would you like to learn about Water Is Life! Protect The Sacred Earth Week? Join this webinar and we will talk together about our plans for April 22 through April 30th in the World’s largest compassion for Earth Competition! Join face to face on Zoom. You will meet others from all over the world caring for the Earth that also play. We will be showcasing the “Call To Play” Earth Week, and sharing tips on engaging your community, teams, and friends in the great value of joining too!
Join the Zoom Webinar Wednesday, April 5th 12 PM PST at this link.
https://zoom.us/j/493360973
We will also go LIVE on Compassion Games FB Page too!
Learn more and sign up to play Earth Week here:
http://compassiongames.org/earth-week/
Email Sommer Joy, CGI Relations Coach for more information about partnership opportunities, and Earth Week questions.
You can find Sommer on live chat on all pages of the website at
www.compassiongames.org or email at
sommer@compassiongames.org.
“Vegetable patches everywhere and organic food for everyone” is the theme for the two days of talks, films and workshops.
Join us for our 2nd Annual Dandelion Festival where we will be “Reimagining the American Landscape” through workshops, live music, activity booths, vendors and more!
Workshops willl start in the morning from 10am-12pm.
10-11am Nancy Gift
Nancy will be giving a ppresentation on landscaping without ppesticides!
11-12pm Richard Olson
“An introduction to backyard beekeeping for beginners interested in keeping one or a few hives as a hobby. Focusing on the top-bar hive, the workshop describes hive design; placing the hive in the yard; obtaining and installing bees in a new hive; basic hive management in spring, summer and fall; pests and diseases; and harvesting honey and bees wax. Information on sources and costs of bees and equipment is provided, and codes and regulations affecting urban beekeeping are discussed.”
The Festival will be held on Fairchild Lawn on Berea College’s campus from 1-6pm and will feature live music, booths from local businesses, food, games, and activities (all child-friendly)! More than 20 vendors will be there!
Berea College Dining Services will serve dinner on the lawn from 4:30-6pm.
The National Tartan Day New York Committee President, Kyle Dawson, announced that acclaimed actor Tommy Flanagan, born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, will be the Grand Marshal of the 19th Annual New York Tartan Day Parade, which will take place on Saturday April 8th.
150 East 55th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022
“It is an honor to celebrate my culture,” said Mr. Flanagan about his appointment to Grand Marshal. “I have great pride in my heritage. Although I now live in Malibu, I visit Scotland regularly with my family. I’ll have my daughter flying her flag forever.”
The parade steps off at 2:00 PM and marches up Sixth Avenue from 44th Street to 55th Street.
Bands, Pipers, Dancers and Clans from Scotland and throughout the United States, Canada, Scotland and elsewhere are joining the Parade, along with dozens of Scottish and West Highland Terriers. To register to participate, please visit: http://nyctartanweek.org/
If you have any questions about your registration, please write to info@nyctartanweek.org.
National Tartan Day New York Committee
New York City, NY 10022
The 5 internationally renowned judges will give their recommendations, following the hearing in October 2016, in a livestreamed event in English, French, German and Spanish.
Native and Indigenous communities across the country are leading a resistance movement focused on climate change, decolonization, and cultural appropriation. In celebration of Earth Week, the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School invites you to join Native and Indigenous artists, activists, and thought leaders underscoring the value of traditional ecological knowledge and the necessity of transcending the imposed boundaries of thought, borders, and mediums as we advance socially just approaches to environmental issues.
Chief Phil Lane Jr. is a traditionally recognized Hereditary Chief and Elder. He is an enrolled member of the Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations, and is a citizen of both Canada and the United States. With master’s degrees in Education at National University and Public Administration at the University of Washington, Chief Phil Lane, Jr. is an internationally recognized indigenous leader in human and community development. The founder and chairman of the Four World’s International Institute (FWII), an organization dedicated to “unifying the human family through the Fourth Way”, Chief Phil Lane, Jr. is the recipient of many awards, including the John Denver Windstar Award, and is a frequent speaker on behalf of indigenous rights and wisdom.
Most recently Chief Phil was ceremonially recognized as an Honorary Woman by the sisters of the Salish Territories because of his relentless message and dedication, over the past 50 years, of the spiritual reality of the Equality of Women and Men. Chief Phil holds dear the Equality of Women and Men as a Spiritual Reality.
Register here: https://www.charterforcompassion.org/april-compassion-for-the-earth
Charter for Compassion International Women and Girls Sector, along with partner organizations, recognizes the need for a greater inclusion of voices and involvement of women in leadership in the global healing and transformation that is occurring. For that purpose, we have put together the Reaction to Response Webinar Series.
Purpose of Series:
Given the challenging times we are living in, the purpose of this series is to provide on-going discussions focused on responding rather than reacting to our current global state of affairs. Through this series, we intend to help shift from fear-based reactions to care-based responses, that is, learning from history in order to further lay the foundation for compassionate and care-based communities.
This series will provide the platform to:
- hear from, and be inspired by, “well-known” experts in the field, or grassroots and/or community leaders doing “cutting edge” work around creating a care and compassion-based reality for people and planet; and
- through the pre- and post-call Facebook discussion, inspire and encourage community engagement at the local, national, and international levels.
This crafty school art project took a day to finish with the help of 70 girls. We cut out stencils of our hands, wrote one thing we pledge to do to help the Earth be greener and strung them up on the handrail of our school staircase. Celebrate Earth Day at your school with this crafty idea!
Promoting the environmental awareness has never been so fun. The students of Developing Virtue Girls School made wall art in the shape of a pyramid illustrating the kind of responsibilities we owe to the Earth like picking up trash. It was an overall success and now we have a beautiful pyramid to hang up on the wall.
Join us from wherever you are on April 21 at 12pm PDT for Global Ho’oponopono! Register here: www.malamapono.life
Share your stories on social media using the #MALAMAPONO hashtag (which means “to care for one’s self” in Hawaiian)
Ho’oponopono is a Hawaiian healing ceremony that invites practitioners to clear blocked energy, trauma, and wounds converting negative energy into positive energy, love, and deepened connection. The problems we face on Mother Earth are the result of humans being out of balance with themselves, each other, and our natural environment. To bring healing to the earth we must first look within and bring resolution to the history which brought us to the present moment. Hawaiians, living on islands with finite land resources, have a powerful cultural practice that is valuable to all of humanity at this time. Mālama Pono means “to take care of one’s self”. Since the health of our planet and the individual is intertwined we are inviting all to join us for Earth Day by starting within using this simple and profound healing practice. Please visit www.malamapono.life for more info!
Thank you Unify for this event for the world!
March for Science website:
https://www.marchforscience.com/
over 360 marches around the world planned that day: https://www.marchforscience.com/satellite-marches/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScienceMarchDC
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sciencemarchdc/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marchforscience
The March for Science is a celebration of our passion for science and a call to support and safeguard the scientific community. Recent policy changes have caused heightened worry among scientists, and the incredible and immediate outpouring of support has made clear that these concerns are also shared by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Mischaracterization of science as a partisan issue, which has given policymakers permission to reject overwhelming evidence, is a critical and urgent matter. It is time for people who support scientific research and evidence-based policies to take a public stand and be counted.
On April 22, 2017, we walk out of the lab and into the streets
We are scientists and science enthusiasts. We come from all races, all religions, all gender identities, all sexual orientations, all socioeconomic backgrounds, all political perspectives, and all nationalities. Our diversity is our greatest strength: a wealth of opinions, perspectives, and ideas is critical for the scientific process. What unites us is a love of science and an insatiable curiosity. We all recognize that science is everywhere and affects everyone.
Science is often an arduous process, but it is also thrilling. A universal human curiosity and dogged persistence is the greatest hope for the future. This movement cannot and will not end with a march. Our plans for policy change and community outreach will start with marches worldwide and a teach-in at the National Mall, but it is imperative that we continue to celebrate and defend science at all levels – from local schools to federal agencies – throughout the world.
Love This Place! Serve the Earth!
Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week! is a 9 day global challenge to inspire acts of love, service, and compassion toward our Mother Earth and all life!
Beginning on April 16th and continuing through April 24th, Serve the Earth Week is played globally between impassioned individuals who can form teams that represent cities, youth groups, faith and interfaith congregations, environmental organizations, businesses, governmental agencies and Indigenous communities. Players and teams strive together to come up with fun and creative ways to develop regenerative practices that celebrate life’s interconnectivity, while cultivating a responsibility to protect and restore the Earth for future generations of life to come!
Let’s come together and celebrate all that we love on this beautiful planet, and allow this love to move us into unprecedented, unified compassionate action for our world!
Mother Earth needs our love! And we need Mother Earth!
Since it is the Earth’s land, water, and clean air that we totally depend upon for our sustenance, well-being, and future, the decision to act compassionately toward our Mother Earth is as natural as breathing. This “Green Compassion” is calling us to live in unprecedented, unified action to change the narrative of our current story to one of justice, sustainability, and love for one another, all beings, and this place we call home.
Mobilized compassionate action to Protect and Restore the Sacredness of Mother Earth is the ultimate act of compassion, for its benefits reach far beyond our individual selves to all living beings. The youngest among us, and our future generations, are looking to us – their ancestors! – to care for the Earth lovingly so that it can support and sustain their lives as well.
Let’s play together and bring compassion to life for Mother Earth!
In the honor of “Divine Mercy Sunday“, and in the honor of “100th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima ‘s apparitions”, I am inviting you to join me in ONE Day Retreat in New York City
April 22 nd this year. It is the first time I do a retreat like this. I will focus on the Prayer MIRACLES DAY“. Our Lady told us in Fatima, in Kibeho and everywhere she appeared, that the ROSARY is Her favorite PRAYER, a weapon, a prayer that can move mountains if prayed well. With Our Lady’s help, we are planning to do just that.I invite you to join us, counting on this SPECIAL time of God’s Mercy, to write a letter of your prayer requests and bring it to the retreat so we can present them to OUR MOTHER and ask Her to present them to Her SON and to the FATHER. It will be a special day, to pray for the SICK, for our many different needs. I expect miracles, Jesus and Our Lady always answer our prayers when we ask from our hearts, even more when we PRAY together.
Location of the retreat: Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary 325 East 33rd Street, New York, NY 10016 (Between 1st & 2nd Avenue),
The March for Science-Tulsa joins forces with the Earth Day Festival! Budget cuts, censorship of researchers, disappearing data sets, and threats to dismantle government agencies, like the Environmental Protection Agency, harm us all by putting our health, food, air, water, climate, and jobs at risk. Protect scientists’ right to speak out about their work!
PLANET HEART’S 10th ANNIVERSARY
“ANNUAL WORLD PEACE EARTH DAY CELEBRATION”
Produced by Andrew Kaen in Association
with We, The World (fiscal sponsor) & Jodi Serota.
Come join us in NYC in a Conscious Community Gathering in Unity, Honoring Mother Earth & The New Earth,
with Inspirational Talks,
Live Music Performances,
Meditation, Ceremony,
Vendors and
Celebration.
Featuring:
Myra Jackson, http://gaiafield.net/
Julian Michael, http://www.julianmichael.net/
Jodi Serota, http://www.jodiserota.com/
Olivia Olkowski, http://www.spiritrockshamanichealing.com/
Rick Ulfik, https://we.net/
Bethany and Rufus, http://www.bethanyandrufus.com/
Deborah Moldow, http://revdeborah.com/
More to come…
More details coming soon!
ALL ARE WELCOME! Please Share!
Time: 6:30PM Sharp – 9:30PM.
(Doors Open at 6pm for Registration)
Price: $25 (pre-paid by April 21st) or $33 cash only at door. (No Refunds).
Location: Church of Saint Paul & Saint Andrew
263 W. 86th Street @ West End Ave.
Tickets & Info: www.planetheart.org,
Email: info@PlanetHeart.org ,
Call: 212-222-5432.
A portion of the proceeds helps support We.Net.
For anyone that is going to the March for Science NYC, this is the perfect antidote for the evening to be led to, as we connect as ONE.
Sponsors: We.net, Planetheart.org, Vividseats.com
Co-Sponsors/Partners: Inner Realm Magazine, Wisdom Magazine, Creations Magazine, Natural Awakenings Magazine, Heart of Mind Radio, WBAI, Talking Alternatives Broadcast, Good News Broadcast, Green Festival, Vigil for International Peace and Ecology, We Care for Humanity… more to be added.
On Sunday, April 23rd 9 AM PST -9:30 AM PST
Global Water Blessing Ceremony with Champion of Compassion Amy Walker
Here is a sneak peak of the profound talent and courageous compassion Amy Walker is here! She will be sharing her voice and spiritual intention on this call with us.
What in the world is happening?
– War and violence
– Alarming climate change
– Profits before people
At the same time, a hopeful movement grows:
– Corruption is being brought to light
– People are demanding justice, peace and a livable planet
What is behind these remarkable changes?
Maitreya the World Teacher, and the Masters of Wisdom are inspiring the Heart of Humanity, to create a world based upon justice and unity.
Conference on the theme of creating a new world, with Frédéric Lenoir and Pierre Rabhi – both philosophers, writers and agents of social change.
People’s Climate March in Washington DC to demand that the new administration and congress prioritize a progressive Climate, Justice, and Jobs Agenda.Join the 350NYC contingent for this historic march!
PURCHASE YOUR 350NYC BUS TICKETS HERE
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peoples-march-for-climate-justice-jobs-350nyc-contingent-tickets-32405786580
Or through People’s Climate Movement
https://newyork.peoplesclimate.org/
Now more than ever we need to stand up for the planet and protect what we love. The Trump administration and the extremist GOP Congress are mounting an all-out attack on the environment and our civil liberties. The People’s Climate Movement is organizing a country-wide arc of action, culminating on April 29 in Washington DC in a powerful mobilization that will unite all of our movements for justice, peace and a sustainable planet. Each and every day, grounded in our unified resistance, we will advance our vision of what we as a nation need to do now to build a future with millions of good jobs, justice for communities and clean energy, air and water.
As a member of the organizing table of People’s Climate Movement NY, 350NYC is proud to sponsor buses to the PCM in Washington, DC on April 29. We invite you to march as a member of the 350NYC contingent to raise up our voices in defense of the planet.
We are offering seats at several different levels including free travel for students and participants with limited means. We also are planning to organize a coordinated “march within a march” to maximize our voice and visual impact and deliver a stronger message to those in power in Washington. Join us now to be part of this contingent.
NOTE: If you plan to march with another contingent for this march (eg. your faith group, union or college) you should check in with them about their plans for coordinated travel to DC before buying your ticket.
Climate justice – This march will highlight the interconnected struggles for a just society and a sustainable planet. You can read more about the national march organizers and the specific platform for the march at https://peoplesclimate.org/
Peoples Climate Movement March April 29th
Website: https://peoplesclimate.org/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/peoplesclimate/
Join the People’s Climate Movement this April 29th in Washington, D.C. and across the country to stand up for our communities and climate.
Throughout the first 100 days in office, the People’s Climate Movement is organizing a country-wide arc of action, culminating on April 29th in Washington DC in a powerful mobilization to unite all of our movements. To change everything, we need everyone.
Global Love Day, held annually each May 1st since 2004, is the universal recognition of our innate oneness through love. It is our vision to unite one and all in a celebration of love and compassion. We honor each May 1st as a symbolic day of unconditional love and call upon all people and all nations to gather together in the wisdom of peace and love. Join people around the world in celebrating and expanding LOVE.
The tenets of Global Love Day best summarize our vision:
We are one humanity on this planet.
All life is interconnected and interdependent.
All share in the Universal bond of love.
Love begins with self-acceptance and forgiveness.
With respect and compassion we embrace diversity.
Together we make a difference through love.
When we come from this limitless love, we naturally and easily embrace ourselves and our fellow humanity. Opening our heart, we allow unconditional love to be our guide and compassion to be our gift to life.
We invite you to celebrate with us by consciously focusing on love and what it means to you throughout this day. We hope that by practicing love in all areas of your life, you will find it easy to love unconditionally all year long. Our main theme explains it best…”Love Begins With Me”
“Go to the water. Set your intention. Sing to the water. Reawaken the genetic connection to the source and recommit to nurture and sustain that which support life.
Contribute to the wave. One heart. One prayer. Water we love you. We thank you. We respect you.
We will protect you.”
Expand The Box is a safe and astonishing 3-day learning environment for upgrading traditional thinking and behaviors.
Without our knowing how, the standard thinking and behavior patterns we adopted from our parents, our culture and our education system severely limit both the quality of our relationships and our ability to respond creatively to the opportunities and challenges of life. Expand The Box installs swinging doors through walls that previously appeared to be impenetrable.
An interactive event based on “The Cosmic Hologram,” by Dr. Jude Currivan, with music, poetry and a discussion of how this perspective empowers the work of the UN community and the implementation of the Sustainable Development agenda.
Marches in major cities throughout the world to protest against the chemical giant’s politics and excessive use of chemicals in the environment.
To enlarge the team of planet Earth, Gaia is looking for evolutionaries working in full self-responsibility and on a freelance basis in different departments (e.g. cultural evolution, regeneration and conservation of flora and fauna, sustainable energy production, evolution of the economy, enlivening soils, upgrading human thoughtware, etc.)
– Are you willing to put your talents in service of something bigger than yourself?
– Are you ready to take radical responsibility for everything you do and don‘t do?
– Are you willing to leave your comfort zone and explore the unknown?
A growing team of extraordinary, inspired, and like-minded people with a strong vision of what is possible who lead a purposeful life, being their destiny in action and creating a future where all living beings can live harmoniously on planet Earth instead of merely surviving. If you are interested to meet with your team-colleagues, join us at the UnConference. We are looking forward to creatively collaborating with you!
Free talk about Maitreya and the Masters of Wisdom, here to guide humanity out of the current chaos into a brilliant new age where sharing and cooperation are guiding principles. Included will be an introduction to Transmission Meditation, a potent form of world service and personal spiritual growth.
The role of the Masculine and The Men Who Hold Us
In honor of the men around the world, this month’s topic explores the journey men must go through to honor and empower the feminine while remaining empowered and holding a space of gender equality.
Speaker, Anthony de Sigley, most recently described as a ‘unicorn’, due to an unconventional career path, Anthony is a pathfinder and a change catalyst.
Anthony is a people-focused transformational leader who advises, coaches and mentors leaders and develops organizations in the commercial, public/government and not for profit/social sectors, helping them to define and realize their visions and improve their capabilities and performance. Anthony is a practical visionary who delivers real change in complex and challenging environments.
This practical focus is at the core of a lifelong exploration of the big questions: “Why are we here? What does it mean to be human?” and in this context “what does it mean to be a man?”
Anthony’s particular interest is the development and expansion of human awareness, across an increasing range of consciousness. Latterly, this has focused on understanding our physical reality as the key to unlocking the tremendous opportunity that we embody, as nature’s great work. From science to art, Anthony’s own journey, interests, and practice have led him to psychotherapy, shamanism and plant medicine, and latterly dance, seeking tools that will help us live integrated and embodied lives.
Anthony works with people, teams, and organizations to change the way they think, behave and experience life, helping them become more aware and more effective, to become truly free. Thank you, Women and Girls Sector of The Charter for Compassion for this year series of Reaction to Response.
See last months Reaction To Response Here:
Register for June 7th here:
https://www.charterforcompassion.org/june-the-role-of-the-masculine-and-the-men-who-hold-us
A weekend of events to promote unity and bring communities together as well as to commemorate the inspiring MP for Batley and Spen (Yorkshire, GB) who was brutally murdered by an extremist last year. Street parties, coffee mornings, meetings – at all levels of society.
2017 will mark the 22nd year of World Peace and Prayer Day. It has been hosted at sacred sites in communities all over the world including Mt. Fuji, Ireland, South Africa, the Black Hills, Mexico City, New Zealand, Brazil, Grey Horn Butte (Devils Tower), and many other sites. For a complete list of previous sites, visit here. In 2016 we saw an unprecedented coming together of tribes and people from cultures around the world to protect water at Standing Rock. The call to protect our connection to the land and sacred sites is echoing in a growing chorus across the planet as we face many environmental crises and climate change.
We are overjoyed to announce this sacred gathering on Hawaii Island the same month that Hōkūle’a returns from her 4-year journey around the world. World Peace and Prayer Day is a ceremony, not a concert or festival, it is being honored in Hawaii as well as simultaneous sites around the world on June 21. There are specific protocols to be honored at this gathering and anyone wishing to attend should come with a humble heart to pray and learn.
Thank you and many blessings!World Peace and Prayer Day is a free event and we are now in the process of fund-raising to bring elders and dignitaries from around the world. If you would like to participate, you can make a donation below. Please join our mailing list by filling out the form in the upper right-hand column of this page or visiting here, and we will keep you posted with news and information as event details become confirmed. Thank you for your interest and support!
FB Event to stay informed and present with Ceremony on those days.
Following the birth of a White Buffalo Calf in 1994, the Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe for the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations— Arvol Looking Horse, was directed to honor the Four Directions with ceremony on Summer Solstice/June 21st. According to Lakota Star Knowledge, the birth of “Miracle,” a female white buffalo, signaled a time of Earth changes and the coming of The Mending of the Hoop of all Nations. The Summer Solstice is said to be a powerful time to pray for peace and harmony among all Living Beings. Grandmother Earth’s gifts; the air, water, plant, animal, and rock nations must be allowed to heal if we are to live in harmony with Her.
Ancient prophecies throughout the world have predicted this time…when population growth, over-consumption, depletion of our natural resources and pollution would severely damage our Earth’s life-sustaining capabilities. It has become Chief Looking Horse’s personal commitment as the “Keeper of the Sacred Bundle” to assist in the fulfillment of the Mending of the Hoop of all Nations. Besides his work with his own community, meeting with global and spiritual leaders around the world and speaking and offering prayers at Universities and environmental symposiums, (including the United Nations); Chief Looking Horse’s mission with World Peace and Prayer Day has already made tremendous contributions to the progress of Earth Awareness and World Peace.
Your welcome to join and support this Global Event lead by Chief Arvol Looking Horse on June 21st and help First Nations Elders attend from all love the world. Every penny helps–the more we share with our friends, family, and community, the more we will achieve this easy goal. Donate HERE
Lear more here! http://worldpeaceandprayerday.com/
Points of Light’s Conference on Volunteering and Service is the largest service-related convening of nonprofit, government, business and civic leaders in the world. Each year, thousands of people who really care about the future of volunteer service convene in one place – to learn from, share with, and get inspired by one another – to work together to increase the number of volunteers in the world and the impact of the work they do.
Points of Light’s Conference on Volunteering and Service provides the singular opportunity for thousands from around the world to come together to shape the future of volunteerism. As the world’s largest service-related convening, it brings more than 3,500 nonprofit, government, business and civic leaders together to gain and share knowledge, resources and connections needed to galvanize the power of people to create change globally.
Join one of India’s most revered spiritual leaders and yogis, His Holiness Swami Chidanand Saraswati (www.PujyaSwamiji.org) for a historic first-of-its-kind celebration of International Yoga Day at the United Nations in New York City. Organized by the Indian Mission to the United Nations and attended by eminent dignitaries, this celebration will include music, meditation, chanting and dynamic yoga classes with two of America’s most renowned yoga experts — Seane Corn (www.SeaneCorn.com) and Sharon Gannon (https://jivamuktiyoga.com/teacher/sharon-gannon).
The event is in two parts: Part one is the evening of the 20th June from 6 – 7:30 pm on the North Lawn at the United Nations Headquarters where H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati, Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati (www.Sadhviji.org), Seane Corn and Sharon Gannon will lead a transformative program which will conclude with participation by all of New York’s yoga studios and inspiration to take yoga off the mat into the world.
Part two is the morning of the 21st from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm in the ECOSOC Chamber at the United Nations Headquarters which will be a high level panel discussion with questions-answers on Yoga and Health. H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati and Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati will be joined by leaders from the World Health Organization as well as corporate and media leaders in a compelling discussion on how yoga can lead to health for the body, the mind, the spirit and our communities and world.
Both events are free to all but, due to United Nations security, registration is required for the 21st morning event and requested for the 20th evening event. Registering will also ensure that you will be kept up to date with all program updates and details as it gets closer. Please note — for the 21st morning high level panel, only those who have pre-registered by the 18th June will be permitted inside.
Join us at the Launch Sunrise Ceremony of the at the World’s Largest Service & Volunteer Event on Earth at 6:30am PST lighting the Global Compassion Torch! RSVP HERE
Now is the time for the global community, as one human family, to act together as an authentically empowered collective to make unprecedented unified action toward love and peace, our generation’s legacy.
UNIFY and Compassion Games are partnering to produce the World Peace and Global Unity Campaign. The campaign is an opportunity to co-create across divides, synchronize our shared intentions and gamify our compassionate action globally. The Campaign will launch on June 21 and culminate with a World Peace Weekend taking place on September 23rd and 24th.
The purpose of the campaign is to catalyze and quantify the shared impact of globally synchronized activities and events focused on peace, compassionate action, and community service. Campaign participants connect globally synchronized events to compassionate action in local communities around the world. We synchronize globally and organize locally.
During the campaign, we will unify +2,500 locations around the world engaging in peace activities and meditations. We will link them to organize compassionate acts and service projects locally and then have these results reported and shared via the World Peace and Compassion Report Map. By illuminating these events and activities we are creating opportunities for learning, sharing experiences and making connections so that these local efforts can become a global force for change.
UNIFY and Compassion Games are partnering to unify compassionate action as a dynamic force capable of creating a “ripple effect” that can lead to a global tsunami of peace and unity.
On June 21st, our leadership team will be celebrating World Peace & Prayer Day, World Yoga Day and passing the Global Fire of Compassion Torch to Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. (Global Activist from Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations and Compassion Games Chairperson) Kayah George (Youth Activist from Tsleil-Waututh Nation), Ken Workman (Cheif Seattle’s Great Grand Son) and Points Of Light (The World’s largest service and volunteer organization) at The Service Unites Conference in Seattle, WA.
We would be honored if you joined us LIVE on Compassion Games FB Page with changemakers from all over the world for this never before special Global Compassion Torch Ceremony & Launch at Sunrise! What is your wish for the world? Share your wish and gratitude for this world with us on June 21st.
We will have more details soon about this featured day of lighting up the world with the fire of compassion! This day will be launching to the world the first day to sign up and warm up for Global Unity Games, Building Bridges in action September 9th through September 24th. Learn more about these 16 days we are building momentum now for here: http://compassiongames.org/global-unity-games/
This FB Live Event is a great way to get you and your teams inspired in action and creative preparation for the 2017 World Peace & Global Unity Campaign. Please share this event far and wide! The Points of Light are incredible Champions of Compassion. If you are a resident near Seattle, Washington, check out the Points of Light Service Unites Conference details here and join us in person:
http://www.volunteeringandservice.org/index.html
If you have any questions are ideas please email us at sommer@compassiongames.org
While Arno’s current work does not specifically address “women’s issues,” the transformation he underwent included shifting his views on women, how men and women relate to one another, which ultimately moved him to become an active feminist.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Arno Michaels was a founding member of what went on to become the largest racist skinhead organization on Earth, and a Reverend of a self-declared Racial Holy War. He also fronted as the lead singer of the hate-metal band Centurion, that sold more than 20,000 CDs by the mid-nineties and is still popular with racists today.
Single parenthood, love, his daughter, and the forgiveness shown by people he once hated all helped to turn his life around, allowing him to embrace diversity and practice gratitude for all life. Today, Arno is a speaker, practitioner of character development outreach and author of My Life After Hate. Arno enjoys spending time with his daughter, art, music, and all forms of fearless creative expression, along with climbing things, being underwater, and exploring the wonderful natural beauty of our planet Earth.
The Day Out Of Time The Mayan Calendar, known by the Maya as the Tun Uc or Moon Count is a 13-Moon Calendar and was devised by the Mayan Time-keepers, the Jaguar Priests. The calendar measures the year in 13 even months of 28 days each; a perpetual calendar of 52 perfect weeks, making a total of 364 days. With this Mayan Harmonic Time Standard, we usher in Galactic New Years Day on July 26th, and the day before that, JULY 25th, is the 365th day of the year on this 13-Moon Calendar. That day actually falls between the end of one calendar year and the beginning of the next, so July 25th is known as THE DAY OUT OF TIME as it literally is not a day of the week or day of the month at all.
The Day Out Of Time has been celebrated worldwide since 1992 as part of a growing World Peace Movement. For this reason, this special day is observed as the day to cancel all debts, pardon and forgive and to celebrate life through art and nature. It’s a day to experience true freedom…a time to ground the consciousness of and truly manifest unlimited prosperity and abundance as we usher in Galactic New Years Day on July 26th!!
On this day, honored by both the Egyptians and Mayan cultures, the Star Sirius rises with the Sun and a portal of creative potential is activated as we cross the Galactic Equator. What did they know that we have yet to learn?
This Very Special Event will include: Ceremonies of Forgiveness, Healing Through Vibrational Sound, Art, Working with Multidimensional Realms, Cancelling Debts so that all beings can have the opportunity of Beginning the New Time Unburdened, and Re-Harmonizing with Natural Time. In addition, there will be Guided Experiences Unveiling Creative Potentials for Divine Life Missions.
Please join us for this very special Global Peace Through Culture Event. Reservations are highly recommended. Please register now!
Where: New York New Church, 114 East 35th Street, New York, NY 10016. (At Park & 35th St.)
Cost: $25 in advance via Eventbrite or $33.00 cash only at the door.
Or Call 212-736-0999.
3 Days to go, We are So EXCITED
*****We HAVE added a 4th day. So many speaker requests. New speakers details to come.*****
****We are Uniting Globally****
(((New Earth New You NOW)))
FREE online LIVE 4 day Summit- 6th-9th August 2017 (U.S Dates).
“We are the future” – “To Heaven on Earth in our Time”
All of the best Earth Solutionaries: Coming to you LIVE, where ever you tune in from.
REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-earth-new-you-now-live-online-summit-tickets-32025211269
This is a LOVE revolution of Solutions of grand proportion.
Synergistic Co-Creations of New Earth.
8 Group Meditations.
4x Open Group discussions end of each conference.
Shared – Future events, festivals, Summits and Sustainable community and Earth Healing Projects to be revealed.
REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-earth-new-you-now-live-online-summit-tickets-32025211269
Host: Destiny Fae- Inspire Destiny, Inspire Unity Movement, New Earth New You NOW
Current speakers (Times in U.S Pacific):
DAY 1: (Spirit)
1:30pm – Yan Golding – United Earth
2:30pm – Michal Stefanow – astralship.org
3:15pm – Tessa Alexa Stanford – True Self Coach and Spiritual Teacher
3:45pm – Simon Bull – The Evolutionary Living Project
4:15pm – Kelly Kingston – OnePurse OnePlanet Ltd, NUU The Real World, Inspired Living Events, Inspired Living KIDS
4:45pm – Terrence LaMont Bellows – We Are Valuable Media
5:30pm – Margaret Sramko – Transformational Teacher, Dream Therapist, an Author and a Seminar Facilitator.
DAY 2: (Body)
1:30pm – Deane Thomas – Tesla Sustainable Village and Innovation Centre
2:30pm – Joshua Faust – Into the Mythica
3pm – Aeon PI Phlo – New Earth Solutions
3:30pm – Brittney Johnson – Fruit The World, Top of the Mountain
4:15pm – Amber Gibson – The New Earth Collective
5pm – Jangee Westphal – Humanitree
5:30pm – Amitabhaya & Moriya Light – Quantum Light Sound Healing
DAY 3: (Spirit)
1:30pm – Jody Morrison – spiritualistsonline.com, SOC Radio
2:15pm – Paula Hopwood – Inspirational Speaker, Author, InSpirit Soul Healer/Reader
2:45pm – Nomvula Green – Nomvula the Greeninglady
3:30pm – Michelle Lightworker – Lightworker Reflections
4pm – Shakara Tosha – An energetic guide + artist who communicates Light Languages + Star Messages
5pm – David Kam – Earth Dollar
5:30pm – Aislinn Kerchaert – Energy Therapy | Kundalini Goddessing | Earth Activation Altar-ation Art.
DAY 4: (mixed topics)
Details to come ASAP.
Some Themes discussed:
New Earth Energies, New Age theories, Eco Villages, Sustainable Communities, Collaborative and Sustainable Business, Alternative Currency, Mind Shifts and Mind Works with Consciousness, DNA upgrades and Consciousness evolution, Re forestation, Raw Food, Vegan food, Nutrition, Wellness in Mind Body and Spirit, Masc and Fem Balance, Synergistic social media and Alternative Media solutions, Quantum Physics and more.
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Also seeking Volunteers – Sponsors – More Co – Creators welcomed.
Our Sponsors:
The Source – Our “Omniversal” Broadcast Network
OnePurse OnePlanet Ltd
Inspire Destiny
Inspire Unity Movement
REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-earth-new-you-now-live-online-summit-tickets-32025211269
If interested in Helping in any way please email: newearthnewyounow@gmail.com
Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/920837694723261/
#NewEarthNewYouNOW #NewEarth #Unity #inspire #global
On the occasion of the 72nd Anniversary of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki join Pax Christi Metro New York, Global Security Institute, Catholic Worker, Hiroshima Never Again: Principles for Inner and Outer Peace
Come for the Prayer, Presentation, and Public Witness
Sunday, August 6th, 2017
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM Prayer and Presentation: 20 Washington Square North Public Witness: Fr. Demo Square accessible by subway–A, B, C, D, E, F to W. 4th St.; N, R to 8th St.; 1 to Sheridan Sq.; and 6 to Astor PlazaBecause of the prayerful nature of the procession, we ask participants not to bring any signs or banners. Suggested minimum donation: $5 For more information, contact Pax Christi Metro New York, 371 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY Dear Friends, If you or your colleagues will be in New York City on August 6th, we invite you to be part of this commemoration of the 72nd Anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It will feature We, The World Advisory Board Member Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nominee and a tireless advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons. We hope you will be part of this exceptional event! Rick Ulfik |
Welcome to The Global Peace & Prosperity Summit in Mumbai. It is being hosted by Global Peace & Prosperity Initiative & Brahma Kumaris, on 27th Aug, from 10:30am to 1 pm at Kalina University, Mumbai.
Celebrating Peace events in 196 nations of the Earth.
You will be delighted to be in the presence of distinguished guests and speakers from the Global Peace & Prosperity Initiative, USA.
Highlights of the summit:
1. Peace Music & Dance
2. The Peace Pledge
3. Peace Dialogue
4. Peace Meditation
The ‘Global Prosperity and Peace Initiative’ was first launched globally at the 2nd World Parliament on Spirituality in Nov’16 in Utah, Salt Lake City, USA, by the Women’s Information Network (www.WomensInformationNetwork.com) an organization with its presence in all 196 nations.
The Global Unity Games last for 11 days: they begin on September 11th and end on September 21st. This year marks the 15th Anniversary of September 11th and the 35th annual International Day of Peace. In 2001 the International Day of Peace took place on 9/11. Earlier, the UN General Assembly had decided that the International Day of Peace should be permanently observed on September 21st starting in 2002. Our colleagues at We, The World looked at Peace Day moving from September 11th to September 21st and were inspired to launch 11 Days of Global Unity as a time to promote and celebrate compassionate action around the world.
There are many ways that individuals and teams can play, from organizing creative service projects to give back to one’s community to performing acts of kindness to promote unity of the human family. All players will receive an Agent of Compassion mission to use each day of the Global Unity Games, offering meaningful, tangible ideas and inspiration for activities as a way to play. Players then report on their activities on the Compassion Report Map. The reports of Registered Teams are reflected on the Global Unity Games Scoreboard, displaying the number of volunteers, number of hours served, number of people served, and the monies raised for local or global causes.
On September 9th, join groups from across the city as we march through the borough against Gentrification, Racism and Police Violence!
11 AM Gather at Barclays Center
12 PM Beginning of march to Ebbets Field
1 PM Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street
1:30 PM Ebbets Field, Crown Heights
3:30 PM Von King Park, Bedford-Stuyvesant
4:30 PM Myrtle Ave and Broadway
5:30 PM End of march at Myrtle-Wyckoff Plaza
To read this online in your browser Click Here WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts of people, organizations and movements working for the common good www.WE.net 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World September 11- 21, 2017 Culminating on the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE Sept. 21st It’s Time to Unite Our Efforts! Every day we hear about new social, political and environmental challenges for our society and world. Millions of people are concerned about increasing economic insecurity, militarism, and environmental .degradation Growing polarization and intolerance is keeping us from collectively addressing the issues that potentially threaten our civilization’s very existence: The Mass Extinction of Species and Climate Disruption – both of which scientists say may become irreversible in the next 5-10 years if extraordinary action isn’t taken.
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If you and your group create it, we’ll promote it during 11 Days of Global Unity! September 11 – 21
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11 Days of Global Unity
Tele-Summit September 11-21, 2017
Deep Dialogues on Each of the 11 Themes of Change
Featuring Visionary Thinkers & Activists This year including: Ralph Nader, Marianne Williamson, Pre-Register for FREE: 11DaysSummit2017@WeTheWorld.org
New voices are emerging
that may have an unexpected influence in high places… An Urgent Message From Your Children http://WeYourChildren.org Are you alarmed about the kind of world our children will grow up in? They are too! If you or your friends have environmentally concerned children who are 12 years old or younger in your life, here is an opportunity for them to express their fears, concerns and hopes for the future in a simple video.
An Urgent Message >From Your Children at http://WeYourChildren.org is a Public Service Video Series featuring children under 13 speaking in their own words to adults, making an appeal to all of us to respond with appropriate urgency.At http://WeYourChildren.org you’ll see 20 inspiring kids speaking in their own words, and learn how the children in your life can create and upload their own videos to add their voice for a Livable Future.Let’s spark a global children’s movement that gets the attention of those in power and helps to create major change! Your generous tax deductible Donation will help us to continue and expand our global network of collaboration and action! With your Support we will:
Thank you! Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, The World |
The Extraordinary Highlights from 11 Days of Global Unity 2016!
See All 11 Days 2016 Featured Allies and Events: http://WE.net/11days2016highlights
If you think organizing for change is more important now than ever before, please consider supporting our efforts with a generous donation and connecting us with potential major funders. We are working to create unprecedented cooperation and coordination between the world’s transformative grassroots movements. Our goal is to build public support and political will for solutions (like renewable energy) that create sustainability and peace for all.
Thank you!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Change Your World
Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing , Trends Newsfeed
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events worldwide!
Renewable Energy Media Campaign and Movement
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We will start with a MultiFaith Universal Worship service with readings and music. We will then feature talks related to community gardening and the environment. We will have a pep rally for our Greater Toledo & NW Ohio Compassion Games. Then we will share a meal of garden soups with potluck sides.
We are championing Education for Life through #SendThemBack2School for underprivileged children in rural areas of Nigeria Access to education can help lift people out of poverty, bring a deeper understanding of the world around us and providing better opportunities for everyone, including girls. We are focusing on ensuring everyone has access to learn no matter who they are or where they are.
Wheels of Hope Rising Foundation Nigeria focusing on bring education support to underprivileged children and community to promote a culture of peaceful relationship and non violence in their respective communities
The time is upon us and on Monday morning we will be performing this artistic ritual with 150 dancers from all over the globe as an example of what can be if we all work together for one peaceful collaborative world. Our human mandala of peace will send up a cry to the heavens, to the universe. and to the world that there is a better way and we are taking proactive steps to create a world of peaceful coexistence for all. Please join us live online and add your vibrations of peace and good will as we meditate and reach out together during this half hour sacred offering. A cry for Peace.
We will meet online daily for #11DaysOfGlobalUnity To begin the day with a mantra and hear about the speaker for the day.
A Fun way to help #GlobalUnityNow and #11DaysOfGlobalUnity trend on social media. Follow www.twitter.com/thewecampaign and www.twubs.com
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. She has written seven New York Times best sellers, including her newest book Tears To Triumph: Spiritual Keys to Healing Anxiety & Depression. Four of her books have been #1 New York Times best sellers, including the mega best seller A Return To Love which contains the famous paragraph beginning,“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” Marianne lectures LIVE every Tuesday night in New York City at the Marble Collegiate Church at 29th St at 5th Avenue, 7:30PM ET / 4:30PM PT. Her talks are also LIVE STREAMED – you must register in advance and you’ll have access to the video for 72 hours.
Marianne’s book A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever was selected by Oprah to be one of her Favorite Things in 2010. Marianne’s other books include The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America and The Gift of Change. She has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America and Charlie Rose. Marianne is a native of Houston, Texas.
In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. Today, Project Angel Food serves over 1,000 people daily. Marianne also founded a Campaign to establish a US Cabinet Level Department of Peace. In December 2006, a NEWSWEEK magazine poll named Marianne Williamson one of the fifty most influential baby boomers. According to Time magazine, “Yoga, the Cabala and Marianne Williamson have been taken up by those seeking a relationship with God that is not strictly tethered to Christianity.”
Register for The Summit HERE
WE - A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts of people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.net
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. Six of her ten published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1 New York Times Best Sellers. A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” – often misattributed to Nelson Mandela’s Inaugural address – is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
Recap of the day and a gathering of hearts in the vision for #GlobalUnityNow
JOIN this Conversation HERE on September 12th 10 am PST HERE
Michael Bernard Beckwith
Michael Bernard Beckwith is the founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center, and founder of the Agape University located at the Los Angeles headquarters of the Agape Movement. He is also a co-founder and president of the Association for Global New Thought (AGNT). Dr. Beckwith is an international speaker and faculty of meditation, and originator of the Life Visioning Process. His books include: Spiritual Liberation~Fulfilling Your Soul’s Potential, Inspirations of the Heart, Forty Day Mind Fast Soul Feast, and A Manifesto of Peace. He has been a guest on The Oprah Show, Larry King Live, Tavis Smiley, and his own PBS special, The Answer Is You.
Steve Farrell
Steve Farrell is the President & Worldwide Executive Director for Humanity’s Team, a global grassroots spiritual movement focused on awakening and embodying Oneness so humanity may enjoy a sustainable world of peace, harmony and happiness. Humanity’s Team presently has over 590,000 friends in over 150 countries.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010 and a conscious business initiative focused on creating a new global standard for business in the 21stcentury.
Before Steve became involved with Humanity’s Team he co-founded and led two high growth technology companies based in Silicon Valley in the 1990’s that were featured in the INC 500 and spanned the United States and Europe. At this time he was an officer in the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization and the Young President’s Organization. But he walked away because he felt a calling to help create a new dream based on the Divine in life that humanity can manifest together.
Steve lives with his wife Stephanie and his two children in Boulder, Colorado.
WE - A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts of people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.net
September 11-21, 2017
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
Click here to register – it’s FREE!
Michael Beckwith & Steve Farrell
Michael Bernard Beckwith is the founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center, and founder of the Agape University located at the Los Angeles headquarters of the Agape Movement. He is also a co-founder and president of the Association for Global New Thought (AGNT). Dr. Beckwith is an international speaker and faculty of meditation, and originator of the Life Visioning Process. His books include: Spiritual Liberation~Fulfilling Your Soul’s Potential, Inspirations of the Heart, Forty Day Mind Fast Soul Feast, and A Manifesto of Peace. He has been a guest on The Oprah Show, Larry King Live, Tavis Smiley, and his own PBS special, The Answer Is You.
Steve Farrell is the President & Worldwide Executive Director for Humanity’s Team, a global grassroots spiritual movement focused on awakening and embodying Oneness so humanity may enjoy a sustainable world of peace, harmony and happiness. Humanity’s Team presently has over 590,000 friends in over 150 countries.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010 and a conscious business initiative focused on creating a new global standard for business in the 21stcentury.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
MindfulmediaMom Karen Palmer host of GlobalkindnessTV will interview the founder and hear the back story of how #LoveGlassesRevolution is spreading love and hope all over the world.
On September 13th 10:00 AM PST Join this Conversation HERE
Join the CEO of Al Ihsan Charity Association, Sheikh Dr. Abdul Aziz Al Nuaimi (a.k.a. The Green Sheikh), as he emphasizes how, in order for humanity to address the decline of the “Natural Environment,” we must face the dis-ease of the “Human Environment” — beginning with greed and power. Dr. Al Nuaimi shares his experience working with youth in the United Arab Emirates to foster tolerance and compassion… and introduces a climate restoration program to reduce greenhouse gases.
During this important session, you’ll discover:
- 7 critical factors for successful sustainability & peace
- The “Blue Youth” — 50,000 young people working on solutions for the global water crisis & climate change
- Islamic teachings on environmental stewardship
H.H. Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al Nuami
Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Nuaimi bin Ali Al Nuami is a member of the Ajman royal family in the United Arab Emirates, and has made a name for himself as one of the most resilient and vocal proponents for the environment, as well as being a youth catalyzer through his inspirational presentations made around the globe. His Highness is considered to be a change agent for environmental planning and long-term strategy on sustainability in the UAE, where he is a global leader, environmentalist and a social campaigner in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), as well as the Arab World.
As CEO of Al Ihsan Charity Association, HH Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Nuamimi leads effectively in the social work of UAE with compassion and effective actions. His strategic vision based on the integration of local community efforts fits with his mission towards achieving a better life for the needy people and less fortunate families who look after them every day by the organization he oversees.
Sheikh Abdul Aziz, better known as the “Green Sheikh” for his good work in environmental education, is also a visionary who over the past 25 years has dedicated his life to traveling and collaborating around the world on issues related to humanity, global peace, cooperation, understanding and environmental stewardship. HH spearheads by encouraging and motivating groundbreaking ideas developed by youth, through his empowering actions, and a meaningful way of life. He leads by practicing his belief of living a more simple life.
WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts of people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.net
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit
September 11-21, 2017
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER – IT’S FREE!
H.H. Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al Nuami – CEO of Al Ihsan Charity Association.
Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Nuaimi bin Ali Al Nuami is a member of the Ajman royal family in the United Arab Emirates, and has made a name for himself as one of the most resilient and vocal proponents for the environment, as well as being a youth catalyzer through his inspirational presentations made around the globe. His Highness is considered to be a change agent for environmental planning and long-term strategy on sustainability in the UAE, where he is a global leader, environmentalist and a social campaigner in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), as well as throughout the Arab World.
As CEO of Al Ihsan Charity Association, HH Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Nuamimi leads effectively in the social work of UAE with compassion and effective actions. His strategic vision based on the integration of local community efforts fits with his mission towards achieving a better life for the needy people and less fortunate families who look after them every day by the organization he oversees.
Sheikh Abdul Aziz, better known as the “Green Sheikh” for his good work in environmental education, is also a visionary who over the past 25 years has dedicated his life to travelling and collaborating around the world on issues related to humanity, global peace, cooperation, understanding and environmental stewardship. HH spearheads by encouraging and motivating groundbreaking ideas developed by youth, through his empowering actions, and a meaningful way of life. He leads by practising his belief of living a more simple life.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for change makers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
Join us as we learn and Stop and imagine for a moment, if we had global peace and abundant resources EVERYWHERE on this planet. Come find out how you can lend your energy to support this project…
Please join us at Unity Village for the 24th annual Unity World Day of Prayer!
Weds, Sept 13:
* 7-8:30pm Opening Service in the Activities Center with keynote by Rev. Linda Martella-Whitsett. Music by Jana Stanfield. A candlelight walk to the Silent Unity Chapel will follow to open the 24-hour prayer vigil.
* 8:45pm Reception at Unity Banquet and Dining.
Thurs, Sept 14:
* 7:30-9am Interfaith Prayer Breakfast at Unity Banquet and Dining – In Person & Live Online.
* 11am Silent Unity Prayer Service in Activities Center – In Person & Live Online.
* 1:30pm Sacred Circle prayer experience in the central courtyard by flagpole
* 2:30-3:30 Sound Immersion (Gongs) in Activities Center – In Person & Live Online
* 3:30-5pm Art Gallery opening and Poetry Reading behind the bookstore.
* 4-6pm Open House for Unity Worldwide Ministries in Unity Education Building.
* 7-8pm Inspirational Concert by Jana Stanfield and closing celebration – In Person & Live Online.
* 8pm Closing of the 24-hour prayer vigil in the Silent Unity Chapel.
All events are free and open to the public. No registration required.
Donations gratefully accepted.
On September 14th at 10:00AM PST join this conversation HERE
Join the program manager at Restore Oakland, Nwamaka Agbo, as she speaks to the catastrophic rising economic inequality, how it’s threatening many aspects of our society, and what you can do about it — for yourself and your community. She offers local solutions and collective organizing efforts to end poverty.
During this potent session, you’ll discover:
- The role of movements such as the Ella Baker Center & the Movement Strategy Center
- Innovative neighborhoods that apply the EcoDistricts Global Protocol
- Strategies for building sustainable & thriving communities
Nwamaka Agbo
Program Manager at Restore OaklandNwamaka Agbo has over 10 years of experience in working on social and economic justice issues and campaigns that help support the sustainable and equitable development of thriving and prosperous communities as the New Economy Innovation Fellow for Movement Strategy Center. Through a strategic partnership with Movement Strategy Center, Nwamaka serves as the Program Manager for Restore Oakland – a joint initiative of the Ella Baker Center and Restaurant Opportunity Centers United.
Most recently, as the Director of Programs at EcoDistricts, Nwamaka was responsible for leading Target Cities – a pilot program designed to support 11 innovative neighborhoods in 9 cities across North America in applying the EcoDistricts Global Protocol to help accelerate and achieve their district-scale sustainability goals.
During her time as the Director of Programs at Transform Finance, Nwamaka helped to design and launch the inaugural Transform Finance Institute for Social Justice leaders. The Institute was created to educate and train social justice community leaders about how to best leverage impact investments to deepen their social impact for transformative social change. Prior to that, Nwamaka worked at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights for over six years in a range of positions spanning from Policy Director, to Campaign Director and Deputy Director. During her tenure at the Ella Baker Center, Nwamaka helped to support the launch of the Oakland Green Jobs Corp and later went on to develop the organization’s Oakland-based Soul of the City civic engagement campaign.
WE - A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts of people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.net The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit
September 11-21, 2017
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER – IT’S FREE!
Nwamaka Agbo - Program Manager at Restore Oakland.
Nwamaka Agbo has over 10 years of experience in working on social and economic justice issues and campaigns that help support the sustainable and equitable development of thriving and prosperous communities as the New Economy Innovation Fellow for Movement Strategy Center. Through a strategic partnership with Movement Strategy Center, Nwamaka serves as the Program Manager for Restore Oakland – a joint initiative of the Ella Baker Center and Restaurant Opportunity Centers United.
Most recently, as the Director of Programs at EcoDistricts, Nwamaka was responsible for leading Target Cities – a pilot program designed to support 11 innovative neighborhoods in 9 cities across North America in applying the EcoDistricts Global Protocol to help accelerate and achieve their district-scale sustainability goals.
During her time as the Director of Programs at Transform Finance, Nwamaka helped to design and launch the inaugural Transform Finance Institute for Social Justice leaders. The Institute was created to educate and train social justice community leaders about how to best leverage impact investments to deepen their social impact for transformative social change. Prior to that, Nwamaka worked at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights for over six years in a range of positions spanning from Policy Director, to Campaign Director and Deputy Director. During her tenure at the Ella Baker Center, Nwamaka helped to support the launch of the Oakland Green Jobs Corp and later went on to develop the organization’s Oakland-based Soul of the City civic engagement campaign.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010 and a conscious business initiative focused on creating a new global standard for business in the 21stcentury.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
Join us on GlobalKindnessTV with Christina Caudill sharing what the stars and cosmos have to say about Global unity,kindness, justice, and health A wonderful and inspiring conversation to uplift us.
On September 15th 10:00 AM PST Join HERE
Health
During this engaging session, you’ll discover:
- Diet related disorders… & how the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) is being exported around the world
- The Naturopathic Therapeutic Order
- What you can do to improve your health & our collective wellbeing
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is a doctor trained in integrative medicine. When his six month old son became ill from a preventable vitamin deficiency he took charge of finding a whole new way, not just of taking care of his family and his patients, but to get to the bottom of what makes people ill and keeps us healthy. He completely restored my son’s health and now applies the same 360-degree progressive approach to my patients.
Using progressive, integrative and natural medicine, he routinely helps patients with diabetes, blood pressure issues, sleep and energy patterns, menopausal symptoms, IBS, autoimmune conditions, circadian rhythms and many other common health problems. Dr. Chatterjee’s starting point involves the four pillars of health: sleep, rest, food and movement. He feels that progressive medicine is all about thinking about the body’s systems and how they can work better to reduce the risk of chronic disease and improve day-to-day wellbeing.
James Maskell
James Maskell is the host and founder of the Functional Forum, the largest integrative medicine conference in the world, streamed live to physician communities in over 100 countries. He is also the CEO of Evolution of Medicine, a community e-commerce hub that fuses technology and functional medicine. James has been featured at TEDMED, Huffington Post Live, TEDx, KevinMD and several other organizations. He has lectured to physician audiences on three continents, worked with AIHM, The Integrative Health Symposium and George Washington University’s Metabolic Medicine Institute, and spent four years on the faculty of “Heal Thy Practice.”
WE - A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the effortsof people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.net The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit
September 11-21, 2017
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER – IT’S FREE!
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee and James Maskell.
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is a doctor trained in integrative medicine. When his six month old son became ill from a preventable vitamin deficiency he took charge of finding a whole new way, not just of taking care of his family and his patients, but to get to the bottom of what makes people ill and keeps us healthy. He completely restored my son’s health and now applies the same 360-degree progressive approach to my patients.
Using progressive, integrative and natural medicine, he routinely helps patients with diabetes, blood pressure issues, sleep and energy patterns, menopausal symptoms, IBS, autoimmune conditions, circadian rhythms and many other common health problems. Dr. Chatterjee’s starting point involves the four pillars of health: sleep, rest, food and movement. He feels that progressive medicine is all about thinking about the body’s systems and how they can work better to reduce the risk of chronic disease and improve day-to-day well-being.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010 and a conscious business initiative focused on creating a new global standard for business in the 21stcentury.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
Vermont Youth UNITE: Together for Peace
Pabitra Bhattarai: Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program, Victoria Los: UNITE, Samuel Cowles: Climate Reality Project, Olivia Lapierre: NET Zero, Aden Haji: SURF, Zymora Davinchi & Audrey Grant: POC: Power of Color
UNITE is the collaboration of culturally diverse youth activists who come together from all across the state of Vermont to collaborate, innovate, and share. Youth leaders are creating space for the connection of different ideas, cultures, languages and religions in Vermont through innovation, sharing, and understanding. Youth speak up and use their voice as a tool for social change. Our goal is to help all youth realize that they do matter in this society and their voices have the power to change communities for the better. The power of encouraging youth leadership skills creates a society of engaged and aware leaders.
We are Together for Peace
Check out all the good news happening in our world and how you can be part of the solution. #InnerPeaceForWorldPeace learn synchronized breathing and many other awesome techniques for peace, love, and unity.
Globally Good Show with host @MindfulMediaMom features guests and stories to focus on the good in our world. In this episode we talk about how to experience synchronized breathing and messages of hope and unity from Emily Harrison founder of The Akashic Academy.
Srinivas Arka is a World Renowned Philosopher, Inspirational Speaker, Author, Developer of Human Positive Potential Programmes and a Founder of the Centre For Conscious Awareness (CCA) Registered Charities Globally .
He is known for his work serving communities around the world. Highly regarded for his lectures, workshops and books, his work has inspired people around the world to explore and develop their intuitive awareness, thus helping them to achieve a more balanced and fulfilling life for themselves and where possible helping those around them.
Srinivas Arka’s methods and educational programmes have helped people gain more clarity, admirably manage their stress and to find their own answers. They are able to understand the influence of the mind on their physical health, and learn ways to achieve their objectives by being self-guided by their own active, intuitive faculty.
Arka Philosophy and the practice of its methods raises body-mind awareness, and helps you to recognise the power of creative-emotion commonly identified with the heart, bringing with it an experience of a unified field of consciousness and the ability to feel intuitive guidance in yourself, and increase your empathy for others through higher understanding.
This Bubble will be fully activated on September 16, 2017 @ 12:00 Noon EST on the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls. It will envelope Earth as well as stretching another 2,222 miles into space.
Join millions worldwide on Saturday, September 16th at
noon NY Time and focus your prayers and
meditation on a peaceful resolution
before the situation escalates out of control. We will connect online live with Karen Palmer on The We Campaign Facebook Live.
James Twyman has been invited to the DMZ between North and South Korea to focus the synchronized meditation. We ask that you join together in groups or on your own and focus on peace on the Korea peninsula for fifteen minutes on September 16th. In the past these global meditations have been instrumental in dissolving conflicts, and given the potential catastrophe of a nuclear war with North Korea, we need you more than ever.
A Letter from James Twyman:
This is perhaps the most important prayer vigil we’ve ever been called to organize. The danger of this situation cannot be overemphasized, but neither can the opportunity. I believe that focused worldwide meditations are the most powerful force in the Universe.
On Septemeber 16th 10:00 am PST Join HERE
Join the International Activities Director and General Coordinator at Living Peace International, Carlos Palma, and Arooj Javed, a passionate advocate for interfaith and intercultural dialogue, as they share their experiences bringing peace education projects to children in 1000 schools in 113 countries. They demonstrate how children engaged in peace projects are highly motivated to stay in school. And they discuss whether current social media technology is a productive tool for empowering young people to organize… or more of a distraction from getting involved.
During this inspiring session, you’ll discover:
- How adding peace education to children’s school curriculum can improve academic performance
- Information about several children’s peace programs — including Dice For Peace, the Focolare Movement & the Youth World Peace Forum with Syrian refugees in Amman, Jordan
- An urgent message from Your Children Program
Arooj Javed
Arooj Javed is a passionate advocator for interfaith and inter-cultural dialogue and an ardent believer in humanity. She believes that only if we are able to educate our future generations the value of peace, conflicts can be resolved with negotiation, forgiveness, and reconciliation can heal old wounds and love can overcome all grievances.
She received a masters’ degree in mass-communication with a specialization in public relations from Pakistan. She completed her second masters’ degree in Culture of Unity with a focus on human development, religion and peace building at Sophia University, Italy. Currently, she is enrolled in the same university in Ph.D. program. Her research is based on the role of religion in peace building. She is a former world bank employee and is currently engaged in Living Peace and various projects around the globe with the desire to play her part in promoting peace and unity at academic and practical level.
Carlos Palma
Carlos Palma is the international activities director and general coordinator of Living Peace International Project, a path of peace Education with a universal proposal open to all, children, teens, youths, and adults, of different cultures, religions and social groups. Living Peace involves today 250.000 students from more than 1000 schools and Associations in 113 countries, creates mini and macro peace projects to apply in collaboration with 48 International Peace Organizations.
Since 2015 Carlos Palma is the President of the Youth World Peace Forum, a project of the Schengen Peace Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organization, approved by His Majesty the Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg. Created with the purpose of promoting the message of peace in Europe and the world, the Foundation contributes to the development of a more peaceful world by spreading the “Spirit of Schengen” into all world regions.
The 1st Youth World Peace Forum was in Cairo, Egypt, working on the topic of “Let’s Bridge “. In 2016, Florianopolis, in Brazil, hosted the Youth Forum in September, on the topic of “We Believe” and from 17 to 25 September 2017 it will be in Amman, Jordan, on the topic “Now is the Time” , 9 days to live and work in a refugee camp with and for the refugees coming from Syria.
WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts of people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.net
September 11-21, 2017
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER – IT’S FREE!
Today’s Featured Speakers are: Carlos Palma and Arooj Javed
Carlos Palma is the international activities director and general coordinator of Living Peace International Project, a path of peace Education with a universal proposal open to all, children, teens, youths and adults, of different cultures, religions and social groups. Living Peace involves today 250.000 students from more than 1000 schools and Associations in 113 countries, creates mini and macro peace projects to apply in collaboration with 48 International Peace Organizations.
Since 2015 Carlos Palma is the President of the Youth World Peace Forum, a project of the Schengen Peace Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organization, approved by His Majesty the Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg. Created with the purpose of promoting the message of peace in Europe and the world, the Foundation contributes for the development of a more peaceful world by spreading the “Spirit of Schengen” into all world regions.
The 1st Youth World Peace Forum was in Cairo, Egypt, working on the topic of “Let’s Bridge “. In 2016, Florianopolis, in Brazil, hosted the Youth Forum in September, on the topic of “We Believe” and from 17 to 25 September 2017 it will be in Amman, Jordan, on the topic “Now is the Time” , 9 days to live and work in a refugee camp with and for the refugees coming from Syria.
Arooj Javed is a passionate advocate for inter-faith and inter-cultural dialogue and an ardent believer in humanity. She believes that only if we are able to educate our future generations the value of peace, conflicts can be resolved with negotiation, forgiveness and reconciliation can heal old wounds and love can overcome all grievances.
She received a masters’ degree in mass-communication with a specialization in public relations from Pakistan. She completed her second masters’ degree in Culture of Unity with a focus on human development, religion and peace building at Sophia University, Italy. Currently, she is enrolled in the same university in PhD program. Her research is based on the role of religion in peace building. She is a former world bank employee and is currently engaged in Living Peace and various projects around the globe with the desire to play her part in promoting peace and unity at academic and practical level.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010 and a conscious business initiative focused on creating a new global standard for business in the 21st Century.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
We will be flying kites for Peace at a game park in Harare Zimbabwe. We will be hosting 40 charities who will be fundraising and spreading awareness of their causes. We hope to inspire unity hope peace gratitude and love
August 24, 2017, NYC –The Vigil for International Peace is a transformational, grassroots effort dedicated to promulgate peace through participation in art, song, dance, music, prayer and ceremony. The purpose of this Vigil is to awaken humanity to harmony and peace through the power of intent and celebration. Our vision is to heal and bridge our lives and communities to achieve divinity alignment and recognize the oneness in all. UN Resolution 55/282: “Declares that the International Day of Peace shall henceforth be observed as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, an invitation to all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities for the duration of the Day. This Resolution was based on Res.36/67 of 1981
Rev Susana Bastarrica is a former United Nations International Civil Servant, an Interfaith Ordained Minister International Speaker, activist of the New Seminary, Peace and Environmental evolutionary interactivist. She’s the Founder/Organizer of The Vigil for Peace and Ecology born from the ashes of the 9/11 tragedy. With a group of friends, Susana Bastarrica went into the streets with candles and prayers in the midst of the horror. She went out of the house in the evening with some friends and some candles to all the fire houses around her neighborhood. They gathered every night in the dark of the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza (47 street between 1st and 2nd avenues) and went all around the neighborhood stopping at the devastated Fire Houses bringing them food and comfort.They were gathering and singing every night until police advised them it was unsafe to congregate. Thus, they proceeded to other public venues such as Lincoln Center Plaza and Central Park. After many gatherings in Central Park and Lincoln Center, the amount of neighbours and friends became unmanageable until the time came when were invited as a temporary place for assembly by (at the time Park’s Commissioner) Mr. Henry Stern. Much to Susana’s surprise, Mr. Stern suggested to held a event at the most iconic place in Central Park: The Naumburg Bandshell! Since 2002 The Bandshell has become their home for the celebration of the International Day of Peace September 21 of each year. Mr. Jeremy Gilley, of Peace One Day was instrumental in promoting the signing of the Resolution 55 /282 issued by the General Assembly on the 7th of September 2001. The first Vigil for Peace was held on the 21st of September 2002 to coincide with the United Nations designated International Day of Peace on September 21st each year. Since then The Vigil for Peace is being held at the Bandshell in New York’s Central Park on the closest Sunday to September 21st.
We invite you and your friends and family to participate at The Vigil for Peace & Ecology on our 16th Celebration at the Bandshell on the 17th of September from 9:00 to 5:00pm. There will be many musicians, artists, singers, performers and activists including featured band Suburban Sensi, a World Peace Flag Ceremony led by Rev. Deborah Moldow, a Human Peace sign ceremony with Paul Sladkus of Good News Planet, Water Tribute with Fabien Cousteau and filmmaker Greg Reitman (Rooted in Piece), the National Liturgical Dance, Pete Seeger Tribute with Roland Mousaa and Mindy Fradkin, Flamenca Dancer Inma Heredia, and much more.
FB Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/pg/vigil4peaceandecology
Visit us at: www.Vigil4Peace.org
We will gather to celebrate Children and Peace through ~Dance~Song~Prayer~Games~Storytelling~Drumming~
Please join us
On September 17th 10:00 am PST join this conversation HERE
Women With Sande Hart & Despina Namwembe
Join Sande Hart, interfaith activist and advocate for women and youth empowerment, and Despina Namwembe, community organizer, and trainer, as they address the challenges women face around the world, and explore local-to-global solutions for women’s empowerment — including the mission and activities of the Charter For Compassion’s Women and Girls Sector.
During this impassioned session, you’ll discover:
- These ambassadors for women and girls — spreading wisdom & inspiration
- Information about Empowering Political Literacy, which supports women’s equal presence in local & national government
- Some innovative work for women’s empowerment and conflict resolution, & current worldwide efforts for the protection of girls
Sande Hart
Sande Hart is Director of the Women and Girls Sector of Charter for Compassion International. The mother of two, she is: President of S.A.R.A.H. (Spiritual And Religious Alliance for Hope) Women’s Interfaith organization, Past Chair of the North American Region of the United Religions Initiative, and founder of Compassionate California, and Member of the International Team for the One Humanity Institute – Auschwitz Project.
Despina Namwembe is a social scientist with a Master’s in Peace and Conflict Studies. She coordinates the work of over 30 grassroots interfaith organizations doing different social action in the Great Lakes countries of Africa. Despina is a community organizer and trainer who also mentors many in organizational development. Growing up in a continent that sometimes fuses strong customs with religion to deter full women participation, Despina has a passion for addressing issues that support women and girls to achieve their full life potential. She is widely traveled; something that has helped her conceive many life-changing situations outside the box. She is also a contributor to literature in the areas of interfaith, gender, environment and peacebuilding.
WE - A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the effortsof people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.net The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit
September 11-21, 2017
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER – IT’S FREE!
Today’s Featured Speakers are : Sande Hart and Despina Namwembe.
Sande Hart is Director of the Women and Girls Sector of Charter for Compassion International. The mother of two, she is: President of S.A.R.A.H. (Spiritual And Religious Alliance for Hope) Women’s Interfaith organisation, Past Chair of the North American Region of the United Religions Initiative, and founder of Compassionate California, and Member of the International Team for the One Humanity Institute – Auschwitz Project.
Despina Namwembe is a social scientist with a Master’s in Peace and Conflict Studies. She coordinates the work of over 30 grassroots interfaith organizations doing different social action in the Great Lakes countries of Africa. Despina is a community organizer and trainer who also mentors many in organizational development. Growing up in a continent that sometimes fuses strong customs with religion to deter full women participation, Despina has a passion for addressing issues that support women and girls to achieve their full life potential. She is widely traveled; something that has helped her conceive many life-changing situations outside the box. She is also a contributor to literature in the areas of interfaith, gender, environment and peacebuilding.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010 and a conscious business initiative focused on creating a new global standard for business in the 21stcentury.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
On September 17th 11:00 am PST Join This Conversation HERE
Special Bonus Empower Women With Tiffani Sharp
Join the founder of Willow Tree Roots, Tiffani Sharp, as she shares about exciting and innovative projects in women’s empowerment around the world. She uses her legal expertise to shed light on the realities of human trafficking on local and international levels and discusses the hopeful work she’s engaged in globally.
During this inspiring session, you’ll discover:
- The intricacies of women’s empowerment in today’s world
- How the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals can impact women
- How to create greater awareness on human trafficking
Tiffani Sharp
Tiffani Sharp is founder and president of Willow Tree Roots. She is a licensed attorney with a specialization in international law and her own legal practice and has spent over a decade advocating for the legal rights of the underrepresented. She has also volunteered much of her time assisting women who are the victims of domestic violence. She has traveled the world extensively to developing countries volunteering in orphanages and working with women to improve their socioeconomic status.
Through her legal practice and travels, she observed that in communities where women actively participated in changing and improving their own economic status, the communities as whole benefited. This underlying philosophy, that improving the socioeconomic status of women is the key to improving a community at large, is at the root of Willow Tree Roots.
On September 18th 10:00 AM PST Join conversation HERE
Human Rights
Join Jey Tsong Khapa professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Robert Thurman, as he sheds light on the current human rights situation for the people in Tibet… as well as the social and political turmoil in the United States and its implications for Tibet. He shares insights on the what it would take to end the polarization and move toward unity.
During this eye-opening session, you’ll discover:
- The efforts of the Tibet House in preserving Tibetan culture & heritage
- Funny and inspiring stories about Robert Thurman & the Dalai Lama
- The Man of Peace Project (for the Dalai Lama)
Robert Thurman
Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, a non-profit affiliated with the Center for Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and dedicated to the publication of translations of important artistic and scientific treatises from the Tibetan Tengyur. At the request of HH the Dalai Lama, Robert co-founded Tibet House US, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization.
Thurman is known as a talented popularizer of the Buddha’s teachings. He is a riveting speaker and an author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics and culture, including The Central Philosophy of Tibet, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Why The Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World and, most recently, with Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies. Time chose Professor Thurman as one of its 25 most influential Americans in 1997 and The New York Times recently said Thurman “is considered the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism.”
Inspired by his good friend the Dalai Lama, Thurman stands on Buddhism’s open reality and thence takes us along with him into an expanded vision of the world, whether the sweep of history, the subtleties of the inner science of the psyche, or the wonders of the life of the heart. He always shares the sense of refuge in the Dharma, which unfailingly helps us clear away the shrouds of fear and confusion, sustains us with the cheerfulness of an enriched present, and opens a door to a path of realistic hope for a peaceful future.
WE - A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the effortsof people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.net
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit
September 11-21, 2017
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER – IT’S FREE!
Today’s Featured Speaker is: Robert Thurman.
Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, a nonprofit affiliated with the Center for Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and dedicated to the publication of translations of important artistic and scientific treatises from the Tibetan Tengyur. At the request of HH the Dalai Lama, Robert co-founded Tibet House US, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization.
Thurman is known as a talented popularizer of the Buddha’s teachings. He is a riveting speaker and an author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics and culture, includingThe Central Philosophy of Tibet, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Why The Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World and, most recently, with Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies. Time chose Professor Thurman as one of its 25 most influential Americans in 1997 and The New York Times recently said Thurman “is considered the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism.”
Inspired by his good friend the Dalai Lama, Thurman stands on Buddhism’s open reality, and thence takes us along with him into an expanded vision of the world, whether the sweep of history, the subtleties of the inner science of the psyche, or the wonders of the life of the heart. He always shares the sense of refuge in the Dharma, which unfailingly helps us clear away the shrouds of fear and confusion, sustains us with the cheerfulness of an enriched present, and opens a door to a path of realistic hope for a peaceful future.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010 and a conscious business initiative focused on creating a new global standard for business in the 21stcentury.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
On September 19th 10:00 AM PST Join this Conversation HERE
Freedom
Join Ralph Nader, American political activist, and multiple time US presidential candidate, as he explores current threats to freedom and democracy, concentrations of wealth and power, political polarization and intolerance. He offers various solutions to these challenging issues — including movements, messaging and media. And he looks at the concept of a WE Party that frames all current events from the perspective of WE and the common good.
During this compelling session, you’ll discover:
- Ralph Nader’s incredible legacy — including the Clean Water Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Consumer Product Safety Act, seat belts, food ingredient labeling & more
- The role of movements in creating change that benefits all
- Simple ways you can take action to improve our society & all of our lives
Ralph Nader
American political activist, author, Lecturer, Attorney, and Multiple Time US Presidential Candidate
Ralph Nader is an American political activist, author, lecturer, attorney, and multiple time US Presidential Candidate. He s activism has been directly credited with the passage of several landmark pieces of American consumer protection legislation including the Clean Water Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Consumer Product Safety Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, and the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act – all which affects everyone in the United States such as through laws mandating seat belts, food ingredient labelling and so much more. He has been named to lists of the “100 Most Influential Americans” by Life Magazine, Time Magazine, and The Atlantic.
The son of Lebanese immigrants to the United States, Nader was educated at Princeton and Harvard and first came to prominence in 1965 with the publication of the bestselling book Unsafe at Any Speed, a critique of the safety record of American automobile manufacturers that became known as one of the most important journalistic pieces of the 20th century. Following the publication of Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader led a group of volunteer law students – dubbed “Nader’s Raiders” – in a groundbreaking investigation of the Federal Trade Commission, leading directly to that agency’s overhaul and reform. In the 1970s, Nader leveraged his growing popularity to establish a number of advocacy and watchdog groups including the Public Interest Research Group, the Center for Auto Safety, and Public Citizen.
A two-time Nieman Fellow, Nader is the author or co-author of more than two dozen books and was the subject of a documentary film on his life and work, An Unreasonable Man, which debuted at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. He has run for President of the United States on several occasions as an independent and third party candidate, using the campaigns to highlight under-reported issues and a perceived need for electoral reform.
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WE.net 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit
September 11-21, 2017
Featuring Visionary Thinkers & Activists including
Robert Thurman, Nwamaka Agbo,
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff, and many others!
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RALPH NADER
Ralph Nader is an American political activist, author, lecturer, attorney, and multiple time US Presidential Candidate who is directly credited with landmark American consumer protection including the Clean Water Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Consumer Product Safety Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, and the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act – all which affects everyone in the United States through laws mandating seat belts, food ingredient labelling and so much more. He has been named to lists of the “100 Most Influential Americans” by Life Magazine, Time Magazine, and The Atlantic.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Pre-Register for FREE: 11DaysSummit2017@WeTheWorld.org
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
Join Karen Palmer host of GlobalKindnessTV to see how we can have more kindness in our schools with expert Jerri Eddington best-selling author of “Work it out” Conflict Resolution Expert ♥ Educator ♥ International Best Selling Author ♥
♥ Soul Coach® ♥ ThetaHealer ♥
Poetry Slam for Peace
Poetry Slam for Peace
Poetry Slam for Peace
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
On September 20th Join this Conversation Here!
Disarmament With Jonathan Granoff
Are we the first generation that has the ability to decide whether or not this will be the last generation? Join the president of the Global Security Institute and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Jonathan Granoff, as he speaks to Disarmament, with a focus on nuclear weapons and related issues of human security… including climate disruption. Jonathan offers his wisdom on compassion and conscience in public affairs, as well as the paradox of more weaponization… which leaves people feeling more insecure. He also highlights the intersection of spirituality and public policy and the current action plan for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
During this important session, you’ll discover:
- The true nature of human security
- The issue of “deterrence”
- What has changed in the strategy to achieve an abolition of nuclear weapons since the 2016 U.S. elections
Jonathan Granoff
President Global Security Institute, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee 2014Jonathan Granoff is an attorney, author and international advocate emphasizing the legal, ethical and spiritual dimensions of human development and security, with a specific focus on advancing the rule of law to address the threats posed by nuclear weapons. He is president of the Global Security Institute, Senior Advisor to the ABA’s Committee on Arms Control and National Security and Co Chair of the ABA Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nuclear Nonproliferation. He is Senior Advisor to the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit and has served as Vice President and UN Representative of the Lawyer’s Alliance for World Security. He serves on numerous governing and advisory boards including the ABA International Law Section, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Fortune Forum, Jane Goodall Institute, the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security and Middle Powers Initiative.
Mr. Granoff is the award-winning screenwriter of The Constitution: The Document that Created a Nation, and has articles in more than 50 publications and books including: The Sovereignty Revolution, Toward a Nuclear Weapons Free World, Imagining Tomorrow, Analyzing Moral Issues, Perspectives on 911, Toward a World In Balance, Reverence for Life Revisited, and Hold Hope, Wage Peace. He has been a featured guest and expert commentator on hundreds of radio and television programs, testified in Congress and at the UN numerous times and has, since 2003, addressed the annual Nobel Peace Laureate Summit in Paris and Rome.
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The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit
September 11-21, 2017
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER – IT’S FREE!
Today’s Featured Speaker is: Jonathan Granoff
Jonathan Granoff is an attorney, author and international advocate emphasizing the legal, ethical and spiritual dimensions of human development and security, with a specific focus on advancing the rule of law to address the threats posed by nuclear weapons. He is president of the Global Security Institute, Senior Advisor to the ABA’s Committee on Arms Control and National Security and Co Chair of the ABA Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nuclear Non-proliferation. He is Senior Advisor to the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit and has served as Vice President and UN Representative of the Lawyer’s Alliance for World Security. He serves on numerous governing and advisory boards including: the ABA International Law Section, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Fortune Forum, Jane Goodall Institute, the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security and Middle Powers Initiative.
Mr. Granoff is the award-winning screenwriter of The Constitution: The Document that Created a Nation, and has articles in more than 50 publications and books including: The Sovereignty Revolution, Toward a Nuclear Weapons Free World, Imagining Tomorrow, Analyzing Moral Issues, Perspectives on 911, Toward a World In Balance, Reverence for Life Revisited, and Hold Hope, Wage Peace. He has been a featured guest and expert commentator on hundreds of radio and television pro-grams, testified in Congress and at the UN numerous times and has, since 2003, addressed the annual Nobel Peace Laureate Summit in Paris and Rome.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010 and a conscious business initiative focused on creating a new global standard for business in the 21stcentury.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
Meeting of anyone interested in giving prayers and invocations for Peace from all faiths and backgrounds incorporating a Minute’s Silence at Noon.
Panel discussion on theme: ” Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for All”
Aim to link this with the SDGs and propose actions which can be taken locally to achieve SDGs.
Audience input encouraged
Medicine for the People Spiritual Gathering is our grassroots movement for Love, Compassion and Healing in our collective conscious, for ourselves, our community, humanity and all our relations. We come together as a collective with the intent of offering our medicine to each other, to Mother Earth, Father Sky and All that IS. We are being called to share our heart space, to give gratitude as we come back to our authentic self and share our joy, peace,harmony and to help us heal in our own way and as a collective. This is a stand for Love and Unity. This is our medicine for a better tomorrow.
We gather to bring Heaven to Earth through free will and soul sovereignty in a unified collective, we humbly speak for humanity and offer healing to all our relations. Through prayer, ceremony, visualization and divine play we journey together with celebration in the arms of mother nature. Join us in beautiful Krause Springs for a weekend of camping, community, and co-creation. We will be sending our prayers through our heart space resonance as we play together, we sing together, we dance together and hold visions of Unity and Harmony for ALL.
We support each other with sharing ideas, gifts, services, talents and abilities. Co creation through collaboration. Everyone is offered the opportunity to give in a unique way,even if it is as simple as a hug, a few kind words, or asking how we can help. In this co creative space we join together for celebrating and cultivating our heart space. As a unified collective we join together in a Saturday Ceremony to give our prayers and Love affirmations to the collective consciousness as our own Medicine for the People. This fall equinox of 2017 we will be joining EARTHDANCE.ORG in a global link-up prayer for peace. We will be in the heart of the largest synchronized peace meditation in the world that takes place along with with the United Nations’ International Day of Peace. Earthdance has grown to become one of the largest globally synchronized music and dance events, having been held in over 1,000 locations in 80 countries. We welcome all open hearts to be apart of this globalized peace prayer and spiral dance. Bring your drums instruments and hold space with us for peace on our planet Earth.
Along with Earthdance prayer for peace we will be having other HEALING WORKSHOPS, and a GROUP ALTER to have as a focus of prayer and Love affirmation. Please bring sacred objects, pictures, crystals, trinkets and /or symbols of those you wish to receive our collective highest intention, affirmations and prayers. We will also have SACRED SOUND SUNDAY accompanied with an ANGEL WALK. We encourage all sacred instruments to come together Sunday morning as we journey into sound healings sessions in lush tropical landscapes of harmony and sing to mother earth together.
The event is FREE with the cost of the land fees that go directly to Krause Springs. Camping is $15 per night for 12 and up $10 for ages 4-11. Gates close at 9 pm. Please see website for rules and details @ www.krausesprings.net. If you would like to contribute to the gathering by offering a workshop/ playshop please contact us at secretagentoflove@gmail.com with a brief description of what it is you would like to offer. There are no paid positions for this gathering. Everyone should bring adequate food shelter and provisions for a safe and happy experience. Land rules apply: NO pets, glass, guns,fireworks, loud music and as always this is a FAMILY FRIENDLY event. Be very mindful of little eyes and ears. Please no drugs, alcohol or public nudity. We are all guests on this beautiful land and want to be welcomed back so please be mindful of all rules and other guests in the park.
As a collective we have the power of intention and free will to mix with Love and compassion. When we come together under a unified mind and collective resonate heart space we can create great change for a better tomorrow. We can help in healing the quantum field of the human consciousness. We get to be the change we would like to see! 3 days of camping communing and co-creation! If you are feeling called to join please RSVP ‘going’ asap so we may hold the correct amount of group space with the landowners. Keep up to speed on all that is happening by checking in the event page regularly and stay informed. This is our grassroots movement for Love! We are all here to Love and BE LOVED! We are the RAINBOW WARRIORS of native american prophecy. We are all here to bring change, if not us…who? Bring your heart, bring your soul and bring divine grace as we gather and heal one another Mother Earth and all our relations.
Rev. Susana Bastarrica will be delivering a Prayer for Peace at 6pm. She is an evolutionary interactivist and the Founder/Organizer of The Vigil for Peace and Ecology. The Vigil was born from the ashes the 9/11 tragedy and inspired by The United Nations Resolutions 36/67 and 55/282 declaring an International Day of Peace and to have the entire World observe a full day of “global ceasefire and nonviolence. Rev. Bastarrica, has been instrumental in expanding the vision of the Central Park Bandshell Vigil for 15 years through cultural interaction and education to raise for Global Peace awareness. Ordained Interfaith Minister of the New Seminary. International multilingual consultant in English, Spanish, French, Rumanian and Italian. She is a teacher and lecturer in the USA, Australia, South America and Europe. Certified Feng Shui Practitioner by the Metropolitan Institute of Interior Design. Founding President of the “United Nations Staff Recreation Council” (UNSRC). SaluS Well-Being Network-and UNSRC-Former President of UNSRC Society of Enlightenment Transformation, Friendship Club, Former UNSRC Assistant Treasurer. Certified Bach Flower Remedy Counselor, Member of the “Flower Essences Society”. Crystal Healing Certification with Katrina Raphaell, Former bilingual volunteer and teacher at HealingWorks, NYC, Wellness center. Aromatherapy teacher and volunteer counselor for the American Red Cross, and the September 11 Recovery Program.
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
Screening Times at: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:20
WE Unify is a life type concert event that begins in ceremony and ends in meditation, jam packed with multi disciplinary performing artists for love and for light the event is being handled by WE The World’s Heidi Little / Omnipresent Entertainment, and B Tru Arts a local Austin not for profit performing arts entity. From music to aerial acro/hula hoops/ the Dance of Oneness, Video segments, and a freedom DJ set, this is a family event. Suggested donation is $10-$25 at the door.
As a Featured Hour of 24 Hours of Compassion
Join this Talk & Meditation with Deepak Chopra
Join Deepak Chopra, founder of The Chopra Foundation and senior scientist at The Gallup Organization, Karenna Gore, director of the Center for Earth Ethics, and bestselling author Kabir Sehgal as they examine the nature of peace… whether peace is possible amid the widespread polarization in our society, and the connection between individual compassion and health and collective wellbeing and peace. They contemplate the nature of human security, and the possibility that war will ever end.
During this engaging session, you’ll discover:
- The illusion of separation that perpetuates humanity’s greatest challenges — climate disruption, poverty & war
- How the transformation of human consciousness can lead to a culture of peace & nonviolence
- What you can do to create peace in your own life, and in the world
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Chopra is the author of more than 85 books translated into over 43 languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Two of his books, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (1993) and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1995) have been recognized on The Books of The Century Bestsellers List.
TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” The World Post and Huffington Post global internet survey ranked Dr. Chopra #40 influential thinker in the world and #1 in Medicine. Chopra serves as the Co founder of Jiyo, Founder of The Chopra Well on YouTube, Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, Assistant Clinical Professor, in the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at the University of California, San Diego, Health Sciences, Faculty at Walt Disney Imagineering and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization. He is also on the advisory board of We, The World.
Karenna Gore
Karenna Gore is Director of the Center for Earth Ethics and is the eldest daughter of former US Vice President Al Gore and Tipper Gore. She is an attorney, advocate, writer, and educator who has worked in the legal center of Sanctuary for Families, as Director of Community Affairs for the Association to Benefit Children, and on the editorial staff of Slate magazine. She is the author of Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America, and in June 2016, Karenna was among 23 protesters who were arrested for demonstrating at the construction site of the Spectra pipeline in Boston.
Kabir Sehgal
Kabir Sehgal is an American author, composer, producer, navy officer, a military veteran, investment banker, and financial executive. He works in corporate strategy at First Data Corporation, a global payments technology firm, which completed the largest IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in 2015. He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of five books including A Bucket of Blessings and Coined. He has also won two Grammy Awards and a Latin Grammy Award as a record producer. He was previously a vice president at JPMorgan Chase. He is a co-author with Deepak Chopra of a book entitled Home: Where Everyone Is Welcome: Poems & Songs Inspired by American Immigrants.
Sehgal has won two Grammy & one Latin Grammy Awards, and his productions have garnered 8 nominations and 5 wins. Sehgal is a composer, librettist, and musician who wrote an opera on the European financial crisis. He co-founded an arts nonprofit organization that merged with the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance.
Sehgal is a US Navy veteran and a reserve officer who served on active duty with special operations in the Middle East, and he received the Defense Meritorious Service Medal. He served as a speechwriter on a presidential campaign and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
WE - A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the effortsof people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.net
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit
September 11-21, 2017
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
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Today’s Featured Speakers are: Deepak Chopra, Karenna Gore and Kabir Sehgal.
Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Chopra is the author of more than 85 books translated into over 43 languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Two of his books, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (1993) and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1995) have been recognized on The Books of The Century Bestsellers List.
TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” The World Postand Huffington Post global internet survey ranked Dr. Chopra #40 influential thinker in the world and #1 in Medicine. Chopra serves as the Co founder of Jiyo, Founder of The Chopra Well on YouTube, Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, Assistant Clinical Professor, in the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at the University of California, San Diego, Health Sciences, Faculty at Walt Disney Imagineering and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization. He is also on the advisory board of We, The World.
Karenna Gore is Director of the Center for Earth Ethics and is the eldest daughter of former US Vice President Al Gore and Tipper Gore. She is an attorney, advocate, writer and educator who has worked in the legal center of Sanctuary for Families, as Director of Community Affairs for the Association to Benefit Children, and on the editorial staff of Slate magazine. She is the author of Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America, and in June 2016, Karenna was among 23 protesters who were arrested for demonstrating at the construction site of the Spectra pipeline in Boston.
Kabir Sehgal is an American author, composer, producer, navy officer, military veteran, investment banker, and financial executive. He orks in corporate strategy at First Data Corporation, a global payments technology firm, which completed the largest IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in 2015. He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journalbestselling author of five books including A Bucket of Blessings and Coined. He has also won two Grammy Awards and a Latin Grammy Award as a record producer. He was previously a vice president at JPMorgan Chase. He is co-author with Deepak Chopra of a book entitled Home: Where Everyone Is Welcome: Poems & Songs Inspired by American Immigrants.
Sehgal has won two Grammy & one Latin Grammy Awards, and his productions have garnered 8 nominations and 5 wins. Sehgal is a composer, librettist, and musician who wrote an opera on the European financial crisis. He co-founded an arts non-profit organization that merged with the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance.
Sehgal is a US Navy veteran and reserve officer who served on active duty with special operations in the Middle East, and he received the Defense Meritorious Service Medal. He served as a speechwriter on a presidential campaign and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010 and a conscious business initiative focused on creating a new global standard for business in the 21stcentury.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
Celebrating the completion of 21 days of Peace with founder of Path to Ananadam on GlobalkindnessTV with host Karen Palmer.
Join us on GlobalkindnessTV with host Karen Palmer @MindfulmediaMom on all social media and Karen McMillian founder of Sacred space, community/mastermind of YINpreneurs. Heart-centered women blending ancient wisdom with modern practice and balancing yin and yang energy to slow down and speed up your success.
The place to gather, breathe, celebrate and support each other with love, wisdom, practices, tools and resources to grow you and your business bliss.
Everyone is invited who would like to enjoy more prosperity and peace for all.
Peace Summit everyone is invited to share an evening of peaceful connecting. If you would like to enjoy more peace in your heart, home, and community please join us and invite friends and family.
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
All are invited who would like to experience more peace in their heart, home, and community.
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
The theme honours the spirit of TOGETHER, a global initiative that promotes respect, safety and dignity for everyone forced to flee their homes in search of a better life. TOGETHER unites the organizations of the United Nations System, the 193 Member States of the United Nations, the private sector, civil society, academic institutions and individual citizens in a global partnership in support of diversity, non-discrimination and acceptance of refugees and migrants. It was initiated during the United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants on 19 September 2016.
Together, let us make this year’s celebration a memorable one where our global family experience a ray of light, hope, and peace from the Supreme Source of Light. Join us for a meditation experience and talk.
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
There will be a second screening at 7:00 PM
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
Conference to Bring Together Environmental and Peace Movements
Speakers will include: Medea Benjamin, Nadine Bloch, Max Blumenthal, Natalia Cardona, Suzanne Cole, Alice Day, Lincoln Day, Tim DeChristopher, Dale Dewar, Pat Elder, Bruce Gagnon, Philip Giraldi, Will Griffin, Seymour Hersh, Tony Jenkins, Larry Johnson, Kathy Kelly, Jonathan King, Lindsay Koshgarian, Peter Kuznick, James Marc Leas, Annie Machon, Ray McGovern, Rev Lukata Mjumbe, Elizabeth Murray, Anthony Rogers-Wright, Alice Slater, Gar Smith, Susi Snyder, Mike Stagg, Jill Stein, David Swanson, Robin Taubenfeld, Eric Teller, Brian Terrell, Brian Trautman, Richard Tucker, Donnal Walter, Larry Wilkerson, Diane Wilson, Emily Wurth, Kevin Zeese.
We are so honored to have been invited to co-produce PEACE IN THE PARK, a free event put on by the Brahma Kumaris in the Music Concourse (bandshell) on 9/23 from 11-6. The event is tied in with U.N. International Day of Peace (which is 9/21, with many events on the same Saturday as ours), and will also participate in the Earthdance Prayer for Peace. I am running the Talk Tent, am curating the speakers, and will emcee throughout the day, and – if I can save myself a time slot – will READ A PASSAGE from my upcoming book The Secret Power of LOVE! And if that weren’t enough, my NEW band S.O.U.L. Twin Messiah will be HEADLINING this event for our DEBUT gig!! We will be playing all new, original songs for YOU! Plus, we will lead a singalong to finish the day, and it will almost-for-sure be Imagine by John Lennon. Our timeslot is 5:30pm in the Bandshell. Wow! What a debut!!
I really hope that YOU can make it to this very special event,
A truly unique and powerful event will happen all over the world on September 23rd and you are invited to take part.
Let’s share a minute’s eye contact with strangers in public to rebuild our sense of shared humanity in Phoenix! This is part of
The World’s Biggest Eye Contact Experiment 2017: Global Event
coordinated by The Liberators International in towns & cities all over the world and your participation will help create a global video message for peace and human connection on the 23rd of September 2017.
(Watch this powerful video from the 2015 event to see what the event is all about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QdnCRWATZ8)
HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EVENT?
1) You can become a participant, host or city representative by joining here –> http://bit.ly/OfficialEyeContact2017
2) Join this event page for updates. We will be posting in the run up to the event with important information.
ON THE DAY?
1) Bring your warm heart, a big smile and positive vibes 🙂
2) Depending on the weather conditions and personal preferences, you can bring pillows or a yoga mat, but also you can just come and share eye contact with others on foot.
3) Enjoy a beautiful morning together and after the event we will send the footage from the event to the Liberators International, so they can create a powerful, inspiring global message of peace and unity to the world !!!
WHERE TO MEET?
We will meet on Saturday the 23rd of September in the area circled at the park. Exact location will be confirmed soon.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
1) Share this event on your profile and invite your friends !!!
2) Subscribe also to the global event here → http://bit.ly/2tBHnW0
3) Watch & share the global invitation video → http://bit.ly/2tBml9X
4) Add hash tag to photos and videos related to the event → #Share1minute #eyecontactexperiment #Phoenix #USA
Follow the Liberators International on Twitter @LiberatorsInt
Event officially hosted by www.theliberators.org & www.eyecontactexperiment.com
Grassroots, interfaith and cultural Peacemakers celebrating and catalyzing greater peace in our community and world. Special 3 pm calling – in Drum Circle
4pm trail of tears intertribal dancers open program. Dances of Universal Peace will be taught. Special performances include: Poem and flute by TJ Anderson, African dance by local youth, Collaborative peace performance by Bernadette Brown & Semelle Ramsey “A Change is gonna Come” by Hadassah Faison, songs by Joy Tru, announcements and community Peace Blessing.
Potluck feast to follow. Bring a food item and friends!
The International Peace and Development Training Centre (IPDTC) announces an Advanced Certificate Proram Training in Making Prevention, Early Warning & Peacebuilding Effective: Lessons Learned, What Works in the Field and Core Skills for practitioners, government leadership, UN Mission and Agency staff, and national and international experts. The programme, held at IPDTC’s Global Academy, is an in-depth, advanced level training assisting governments, inter-governmental organisations and agencies in the field to draw upon front of the field lessons learned in developing effective early warning and prevention systems, and drawing upon practical experiences and real situation case-studies to identify critical lessons and challenges in peacebuilding and prevention. The programme will assist practitioners and their oragnisations, agencies and missions to develop a roster of measures, tools and approaches to make early warning, peacebuilding and prevention work more effectively on the ground in participants own contexts.
Relevant, Operational, Practical
Prevention, Early Warning and Peacebuilding offers participants an intensive, stimulating and challenging environment with experienced practitioners and policy makers from the UN, governments, and local, national and international agencies and organizations from around the world. This allows participants to learn together with practitioners from multiple conflict contexts, agencies, and levels of operation and engagement. Staff of the International Peace and Development Training Centre (IPDTC) and PATRIR’s Department of Peace Operations provide tailored support to assist participants in enhancing in-depth knowledge, applied skills and customized approaches relevant for their needs and contexts. The programme also assists review, development and strengthening of national and organizational strategies and early warning and prevention systems, tools and approaches.
IPDTC programmes have been provided in over 40 countries to more than 3000 senior experts, practitioners, policy makers, government decision-makers and UN staff.
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Peace, September 21st, we are hosting Greg Reitman’s ROOTED in PEACE – a globally transformative, socially-conscious, environmentally-based film. Reitman’s journey of self-analysis resonates with audiences seeking inner peace in a world full of people dominated by war, affected by global warming or haunted by inner conflict. The film follows him as he speaks to thought leaders around the world having conversations around sustainable development, discussing the challenges of our never-ending wars, and facing the realities of uncertainty placed on the world’s institutions by our current political climate. Reitman’s introspective and socially relevant documentary was most recently screened at the United Nations.
From the US to Costa Rica to India, award-winning filmmaker and environmental activist Greg Reitman traveled to visit such luminaries and activists as Deepak Chopra, music legends Donovan, Mike Love and Pete Seeger, film director David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many others. Their common ideas and examples make ROOTED in PEACE an unexpectedly inspirational viewing experience magnified by a stellar soundtrack opening with Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ and closing with John Lennon’s ‘Love.’
On October 31st, 2017 as one of the activities for International Children’s Month – we are encouraging people to celebrate Peace, Harmony, Healing, Abundance and Unity at 1:11pm – in their time zone.This is a virtual event – that means you link in from wherever you are to receive and send the light frequencies .
On all social media livestream events www.facebook.com/TheWeCampaign and www.facebook.com/mindfulmediamom www.twitter.com/TheWeCampaign and www.twitter.com/loveinactiontv
Free online webinar featuring musicians, writers, poets, artists and spiritual luminaries
inspired by Kenneth G. Mills. Hosted by Victoria Friedman, Co-founder of Vistar Foundation.
This event opens the portal to the Spontaneous Unfoldments™ of Kenneth G. Mills, accessible in audio,video, and/or researchable transcript formats. Concerts and other special events can also be accessed in the ever-growing online library of the Words and Works.
Discover the profound radiance of your True Identity
Experience the tonal healing of The Star-Scape Singers
Awaken to the spontaneous expression of your creativity
Weekly Events and workshops every Sunday from 2/4/18 through 3/25/18 after church during the Season of Peace.
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Please let us know if you want to synchronize your calendar with ours.
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First Annual
Featured Speakers Include
Sande Hart – Director of the Women and Girls Sector of Charter for Compassion International Rick Ulfik – the Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Other Featured Speakers include Treasures >From The Universe members Nina Laiberg, Nancy Baldry, and Sarah Otis.
Please join us for a dynamic, inspiring and interactive live conversation on the women’s movement and women’s empowerment between passionate advocates Sande Hart, Rick Ulfik and a collective of women who have come together to give birth to Treasures From The Universe – a project of co-creation and collaboration bringing light, love, and healing to the world in tangible ways.
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY WEBCAST March 7-9, 2018 http://peacechannel.com Co-Sponsored by We, The World, Playing For Change, Unity Foundation Pledge To Peace and Step It Up for Gender Equality Since 1909, International Women’s Day has celebrated the power of women around the globe. On March 8, 2018, International Women’s Day spotlights a worldwide movement for women’s rights, equality and justice. In our first annual Women’s Day Webcast, Peace Channel honors the strength and courage of the women who make up nearly half of the planet’s 244 million migrants, preserving families and contributing to the global economy. You may Embed the Peace Channel W ebcast on your own webpage using this code: <a class=”embedly-card” href=”http://peacechannel.com/“>PeaceChannel</a><script async src=”//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js” charset=”UTF-8″></script>.
To learn more, contact us at darlene@peacechannel.com. Let us know on Facebook if you are planning a Vigil in your area. here are our new Love Power T-Shirts! |
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Visit www.facebook.com/spiritualitygonewild
and like the page to get notifications of when we are live On March 8th, join us for a whole day filled with inspiring interviews, global meditations, and empowering action steps to become what we wish to see in the world. Conscious Women leaders in love, compassion, and kindness will share their uplifting stories of hope and ways the audience can help co-create a kinder and more loving world for all of us.
Guests include: Ladies Go Live, Tina Valant, Lottie Hern Ross, and Jenn Nelson, Then Wendi Gilbert of Kindness Evolution, Sande Hart of Charter for Compassion Women and Girls Sector, Teri Angel of Angelspeakers and Spirituality Gone Wild, David Nichol will lead us in a Global Meditation for Unity, Ann Cabano Founder of Just Be Love Project, Scarlett Lewis of Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation, Heidi Little of We, The World and International Children’s Month, and ShaRon Rae of No Judgement Just Love Movement.
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Unleashing the African Woman Thato Angelina Gabaitse Founder and Director Gabarone, Botswana Unleashing the African woman is a program aimed and designed to train groups of vulnerable women across Botswana. The mission of this program is to empower women to take full control of their lives. The program is designed to bring out the beautiful, strong and compassionate goddess in every woman.
This program strives to achieve this goal by developing the woman’s mindset through the building of leadership, life and entrepreneurial skills. This will be achieved through training conducted for 30 weeks through a body, mind and soul transformation journey with counseling, training on the development of a wholesome and holistic childhood foundation through love, abundance, and joy. Other activities include arts & crafts, theatre & dance, and gardening. Currently we are mobilizing resources to launch the program in partnership with YWCA Botswana (Young Women’s Christian Association), an organization that gives teen mothers the opportunity to continue with their secondary education while their babies are enrolled in the day care centre within the institution!
And soon we will be opening a branch office for We, The World in Botswana. For more information contact us at info@WeTheWorld.org |
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ZEMYNA The Goddess of Earth
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1654075494638275 Inviting all Eco Warrior women to join hands with us to make this a better planet Organised by Namrataa Arora Singh Country Director for Charter for Compassion India, Women and Girls Namrataa Arora Singh is a spiritual eco-feminism activist, currently a fellow with Change.Org’s She Creates Change program in India, battling against the use of plastics and other issues relating to empowering women.
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W.O.M.A.N., Inc.
Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent http://www.womaninc.org 26 Boardman Place | San Francisco, CA 94103
Direct Line: (415) 969-6761 24/7 Support Line: (415) 864-472
Roberta Donnay’s New Album Release
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International Women’s Day 2018 Campaign Theme
#PressforProgress https://www.internationalwomensday.com Now, more than ever, there’s a strong call-to-action to press forward and progress gender parity. There’s a strong call to #PressforProgress motivating and uniting friends, colleagues and whole communities to think, act and be gender inclusive.
Individually, we’re one drop but together we’re an ocean. Commit to a “gender parity mindset” via progressive action. Let’s all collaborate to accelerate gender parity, so our collective action powers equality worldwide.
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On International Women’s Day
Hear & Join Eve Ensler’s Passionate Call for 1 Billion Women To Rise! Go to http://WE.net/EveEnsler for the inspiring interview with Eve Ensler who has led a global movement to end violence against women.
“At the beginning, we got a group of women together in my living room. I think living rooms and kitchens are where all revolutions really begin.”
– Eve Ensler Tony Award winning playwright, activist, and author of the theatrical phenomenon The Vagina Monologues
Eve Ensler was the Featured Speaker on WOMEN for the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit 2015 produced by the Shift Network in Partnership with We, The World.
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It’s Time to Unite Our Efforts
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
Extended Interview with Eve Ensler at http://WE.net/EveEnsler
Resources for Collaboration & Action
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit 2017 – Listen to the recent interviews with Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Ralph Nader, Robert Thurman and many others!
Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing , Trends Newsfeed
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events worldwide!
Renewable Energy Media Campaign and Movement
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
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Artists and people from the community will be given canvases and paints to create their visions of what can be done to heal people and halt HIV/AIDS. The winner will receive $500 and have her or his work displayed at the Old Dillard Museum.
Audrye S. Arbe is a #1 International Best-Selling Author with RAISING RACE CONSCIOUSNESS Healing Racism Sexism and Other Isms (RRC). Audrye is a Cosmic Being, The Transformation Catalyst, Diversity Expert, Metaphysician, Life Strategist, Healer, Frequency Shifter, Award-Winning Author and Artist, Speaker, Seminar Leader.
Equinox Earth Day – the Start of Earth Month! March 20th through April 22nd
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WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts of people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.net Celebrating Earth Month Worldwide March 20th (Equinox, the Original Earth Day ) through April 22nd Earth Day See and Post Events Worldwide on GlobalUnityCalendar.org Programs by We, The World and Allies Included in this special newsletter:
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The Earth Society Foundation The Original Earth Day on the Equinox Please join us at 12:15pm local NY time as we celebrate the annual Peace Bell ceremony and a shared moment of silence for “peace, justice and care of Earth.” We are encouraging people to ring a bell at whatever location you are at and add your thoughts to this powerful moment around the world – the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Fall in the Southern Hemisphere. We are also acknowledging that March 20 is “International Day of Happiness and Well Being.”
Check out the Earth Society Foundation’s new website in development at www.earthsocietyfoundation.us John McConnell was one the founders of the Earth Society Foundation as well as the founder of Earth Day. John McConnell was the driving force behind the 35 consecutive United Nations Peace Bell ringing ceremonies for over three decades, in cooperation with the United Nations. He initiated many “firsts” at the UN, including “Minute for Peace, “Earth Day on the Equinox” and the original Earth Charter. To this day The Earth Society Foundation is still celebrating Earth Day along with millions of people across the country as well as the globe.
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Global Kindness TV
http://www.facebook.com/spiritualitygonewild With Host Karen Palmer known as MindfulMediaMom Outreach Coordinator for We, The World Featuring Special Guests
Please share/like on facebook http://www.facebook.com/spiritualitygonewild Join us for inspiring conversations about how we can have more compassion, collaboration, and kindness in our world. Karen Palmer host of Globalkindness TV welcomes her guests Rick Ulfik of We, The World and Jon Ramer of Compassion Games. Let’s experience an uplifting dialogue of hope for all.
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In commemoration of the
International Day of Happiness Tuesday, 20 March 2018 Special High-Level Event at the United Nations Happiness at the Center of Government Work 10am – 11:30 am, in the UN Delegates Dining Room
(NYC headquarters, 4th floor) NOTE: At this point, a UN grounds pass/badge is required for admission
This day has been decreed for annual recognition by UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/66/281, Co-hosted by the Missions of UAE, Costa Rica, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Portugal and Slovenia to the United Nations, as founding members of the “Global Happiness Coalition. Professor Jeffrey Sachs, in his capacity as director of the Global Happiness Council, introduces the first policy report on happiness and well-being. And the roundtables will be preceded by remarks by Ambassador Al-Bayati, who spearheaded the UN Resolution, to provide background on the International Day of Happiness. The six underpinning themes of the report will then be discussed through interactive roundtables on Mental Health and Happiness, Positive Education, Social Connections, Work and Wellbeing, Happy Cities and Metrics, chaired by UN delegates, policy makers, experts and international organization representatives. Outcomes will be shared with all participants in the closing segment. The event will be followed by a special session on the World Happiness Report by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Dr. Judy Kuriansky The April 2018 Compassion Games
http://compassiongames.org/earth-weekA 9-day global challenge to inspire acts of love, service, and compassion toward our Mother Earth and all life. April 14th and continuing through April 22nd (Earth Day), April Compassion Games catalyzes the love human beings have for the Earth by bringing people together globally to participate in a playful competition of compassionate action.
And check out Kristin Hoffmann’s Song for the Ocean |
– ONE – The Message From Mother Earth Click HERE for more tracks from Heidi Little Heidi Little is Outreach Coordinator for We, The World SUMMER IN THE FOREST A Film by Randall Wright Press/Launch Party on March 21, World Down Syndrome Day – 6:30PM at 3 West Club
3 West 51st Street, Manhattan New York CityFilm openings, March 23-30. In NY: March 23rd – Village East Cinemas In LA: April 6th “This full length uplifting feature movie on disabilities is: “Breaking down Prejudice, Revealing Beauty and Proclaiming the Ability in Disability.” Filmmaker was honored by the Queen of England, the Pope, and the Templeton Award.
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Planet Heart’s 11th Annual
World Peace Earth Day Celebration “Celebrating Our Planet, Healing Our Heart” Saturday April 21, 2018 6:30PM – 9:30PM At New York New Church 114 East 35th Street, Manhattan, New York City Cost: $25 pre-paid by April 20th or Doors Open & Registration at 6pm. Produced by Andrew Kaen in Association with We, The World (fiscal sponsor), and Jodi Serota. Come join us in NYC for A Very Special Evening with our Conscious Community as we Gather in Unity Honoring Mother Earth & The New Earth. Listen to Inspirational Talks, Experience Live Music Performances, Opening and Closing Ceremony and Inspired Poetry along with Guided Meditations. Heal, Awaken & be Ignited through Vibrational Sound Activations. Featuring Jodi Serota (Metaphysical Educator, Channel, Vibrational Healer, Professional Artist), Kurt Johnson (Author, The Coming Interspiritual Age), Premik (Composer, Arranger, Producer and an accomplished Multi-Instrumentalist), Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign) and more. With host Mitchell Rabin (Founder/Producer/Host of A Better World TV and Radio). |
Rita Morgin Free land healing meditation call Thursday April 19, 2018
at 8 am Pacific time and at 7pm Pacific time the call will be recorded and a free MP3 provided upon request. The freeconferencecall line information is: Free Conference call invite
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Or, enter online meeting ID on desktop app: ritadragon79 Contact: ritadragon79@gmail.com We, The World is seeking highly motivated individuals passionate about creating social change to positively impact people and the planet. If you want to join the WE Team and be a Volunteer WE Coordinator CLICK HERE.
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2018 Events around the world
To celebrate this year’s International Day of Forests, this event will gather eminent speakers presenting innovative ideas on urban farming, the integration of trees in buildings, wood construction and architecture, showing that technology and ingenuityhave no limits.
Project Extraordinary is an inaugural award competition to make sustainability sexy for consumers. The brief is to develop a concept for a short-form video that demonstrates an idea that makes sustainability so sexy it cannot be ignored any more. This initiative is a collaboration between WiLD Studios and WWF, supported by UN Environment.
Distinguished guests will discuss ‘difference’ from diverse perspectives and how engagement with the natural world, each other, and diverse spiritual traditions may bridge the divide. The evening’s guests include Duncan Murdoch, host of forest walks throughout the state with his organization, Nature Connection Guide, artist; and Steven Parker owner and manager of High Reach Farm, a diversified tree farm in Danville, VT.
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info@windhouseresources.com
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Date/Time
Date(s) – 22/03/2018 in GHANA
All Day
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Location
Chief’s palace
Sankofa: Reclaiming relevant indigenous cultural and ancestral values to make a case for nature-based solutions
The chieftaincy, elders and people of Funko community-located in the Western Region of Ghana- honored World Water Day by creating awareness about the need for circumspection when adopting vices or policies which consequently cause public health problems and are detrimental to the environment. Illegal/unsustainable mining – popularly referred to as “Galamsey”in the country- and fringe activities which indirectly empower the practice are examples of such vices.
The Funko community is close to the Ankobra river and, symbolic of the strong inter-connectivity still existent between most societies and their natural environment. This river is an important source of drinking water for many communities in the Western Region of Ghana- and beyond- but continues to be polluted through illegal mining activities. It flows at least 120 km south to the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic) and is located very close to the western part of Axim, a commercial center of the river basin.
In celebrating this important day, we sought to highlight the important role some historic cultural practices (spoken word, dancing and drumming) and community dialogues can play in influencing the re-adaptation of relevant conservation values which were more commonly applied by the ancestors. Overall, the concept of Sankofa is espoused. Sankofa is a Ghanaian-originated cultural principle which literally means to take back what was lost in order to protect the future. This -arguably- manifests the tenets of sustainability. There are many of such doctrines in many communities across the world.
The principle teaches communities the importance of going back to their roots- and reclaiming worthy values- in order to move forward. For example, the indigenous and unadulterated local anthropological cognition reveres some key natural receptors – such as rivers, wetlands and forests- as deities. By tapping into the novelty of such values, the current mega trend of sustainability would be well anchored and in a way which significantly addresses most of the conservation, food security and sub regional stability challenges existent now. A cultural dance and community dialogue were among the activities undertaken to commemorate the day.
On World Water Day, the funding partner and collaborator for the performances –who is also the founder of Windhouse Resources Systems (WRS)- would reach out to stakeholders to solicit input on case studies concepts intended to be develop in order to make a stronger case for nature-based solutions. WRS is a boutique sustainability consultancy located in Ghana – West Africa.
Contact information
Email Address:
info@windhouseresources.com
Date/Time
Date(s) – 22/03/2018
All Day
Location
Chief’s palace
Share your smiles, compliments, time, talents, money, and energy with those around you. We must truly be the change that we want to see. And we can do it. We are doing it. Believe that the future is full of mindfulness where hearts mean more than our accounts.
The Love Initiative.
Notes From the Road – Bright Lights Blog
http://troubadourofpeace.blogspot.com/
Book a house concert or music for a yoga class today!!
TOUR DATES
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3/22/18 | 3:00 PM | Choices | Akron, OH | |
3/22/18 | 6:00 PM | Tea Time for Peace | Kent, OH | |
3/23/18 | 5:00 PM | Friends of the Metro Parks Benefit w/ the Bright Lights | Akron, OH | |
3/27/18 | 7:00 PM | Brother’s Lounge | Cleveland, OH | |
3/30/18 | 6:30 PM | 330 Day @ Akron Civic Theatre | Akron, OH | |
3/31/18 | 10:30 AM | Celebration of Life for Marilyn Stroud | Cuyahoga Falls, OH | |
4/3/18 | 6:30 PM | MLK Kirtan | Akron, OH | Donations |
4/4/18 | 6:30 PM | Nonviolent Communication Circle | Akron, OH | Donations |
4/6/18 | 7:00 PM | Big Love Night @ Live Music Now w/ Rhodes St Rude Boys | Akron, OH | $5-10 |
4/7/18 | 8:30 PM | Mustard Seed Highland Square w/ Bright Lights! | Akron, OH | |
4/10/18 | 7:00 PM | Brother Lounge | Cleveland, OH | |
4/16/18 | 7:00 PM | Wolf Creek Winery | Norton, OH | |
4/21/18 | 6:30 PM | Bright Lights @ the Rialto | Akron, OH | $5 |
4/22/18 | 4:00 PM | Yoga Central | Canton, OH | |
4/28/18 | 7:00 PM | Wine Mill | Peninsula, OH | |
5/2/18 | 6:30 PM | Nonviolent Communication Series | Akron, OH | Donations |
5/4/18 | 7:00 PM | Big Love Night @ Live Music Now w/ Gretchen Pleuss | Akron, OH | $5-10 |
5/5/18 | 12:00 PM | Cleveland VegFest | Cleveland, OH | |
5/5/18 | 6:00 PM | Bent Ladder winery | Doylestown , OH | |
5/8/18 | 7:00 PM | Brother’s Lounge | Cleveland, OH |
Soon it will be time again: On Saturday, March 24, 2018, the next EARTH HOUR will take place! Watch as the lights go off anywhere in the world between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm local time – as a sign of protecting our planet and calling for more climate protection.
For a nature-friendly energy transition :
The oceans are warming up, glaciers are retreating, the deserts are spreading: in order to prevent the worst effects of climate change, we must consume significantly less energy, switch to environmentally friendly renewable energies and protect the forests and oceans for climate regulation. Politics must create framework conditions, companies must save greenhouse gases, but every single one is now in demand!
Together we can promote a nature-friendly energy transition, actively influence climate policy and promote sustainable lifestyles.
Join in:
- To be active even for climate protection
- Climate and energy tips
- Participation for companies as well as cities and communities
Largest climate protection action in the world!
The WWF EARTH HOUR is a simple idea that quickly became a global event: when the first time the EARTH HOUR was switched off in 2007, it only happened in one city: Sydney. Meanwhile, the number of participants is growing from year to year. In 2017, EARTH HOUR reached hundreds of millions of people in 187 countries and territories. More than 12,000 famous buildings have been darkened.
Hosted by The Annual “Who’s Your Mama?” EARTH DAY & Environmental Film Fest Events.
WATER OLYMPICS
Students at the Lutheran primary school of Zlatice Oravcova will participate in a Water Olympiad to raise their awareness of the importance of water. Each class will compete in water-based events to determinate a champion. Activities include a mineral water taste test, singing folk songs, cleaning water, blowing bubbles and much more. Students will learn the importance of saving water for next generations and of clean water.
Date/Time
Date(s) – 26/03/2018
9 h 00 min – 13 h 00 min
Location
Evanjelická základná škola Zlatice Oravcovej / Lutheran primary school of Zlatica Oravcova
Address
Daxnerova 42
Rimavská Sobota
Rimavská Sobota
Banskobystrický
97901
Slovakia
When: Wednesday 28th March 2018, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Where: Kiki’s Café, 63a Holland Road, Hove, BN3 1BA United Kingdom
Are you sick of breathing in toxic fumes from road traffic? Fed up of the plastic waste which blights our beaches and streets?
Come along to our campaigns social to join us in improving the city’s environment.
Whether it’s the needless plastic waste that our economy produces, the detritus left on our beaches after every sunny day or sporting event or the polluted air we’re stuck breathing every day – enough is enough!
Brighton and Hove Friends of the Earth are meeting to combine forces in our response to the issues of air and plastic pollution – working together to create lasting solutions for our city.There’ll be opportunities to hear more about the challenges and solutions around plastics and air pollution and help shape the direction of our local campaigns.
When: Wednesday 28th March 2018, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Where: Kiki’s Café, 63a Holland Road, Hove, BN3 1BA
We will be offering refreshments and the first drink is on us!
Come along and help improve your local environment.
Looking for other ways to celebrate? During April, show us your love for trees. Share a photo or video of how you care for trees on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, tag @MontgomeryParks, and include #HugATree. We will share our favorites.
Here are some suggestions for showing love for trees:
• Plant a tree
• Remove invasive vines
• Hug a tree with friends and family
• Learn more about trees at Montgomery Parks’ nature centers and gardens
• Do research on trees at your local library
Happy Earth Month!
This is a perfect event to bring the whole family. You will see the best eco-friendly products and services across all consumer categories, and everything is kid-friendly.
https://www.earthx.org/attend/
register for free attendance or $5.00 tickets
EarthX Presents the World’s Largest Environmental Expo, Conference and Film Festival in Dallas
With a mission to connect the global community to create a sustainable world for all life and future generations, Texas-based nonprofit EarthX is hosting the world’s largest environmental expo, conference and film festival from April 13-22, 2018, at locations throughout Dallas.
The EarthX three-day expo, five-day group of conferences and 10-day film festival champions progress and innovation by bringing together environmental organizations, businesses, academic institutions, government agencies, interactive programming and thought leaders. The event also fosters celebration with interactive and immersive family entertainment, live music and sustainable food pavilions.
Founded in 2011 by Dallas-based environmentalist and businessman Trammell S. Crow, EarthX, formerly known as Earth Day Texas, began as an outdoor event spanning five blocks of Flora Street in the Dallas Arts District. It has grown to occupy approximately 1/2 million square feet of indoor and outdoor event space in Dallas’ historic Fair Park. In 2017, the event drew 116,000 attendees, 800 exhibitors, more than 250 speakers. Approximately 1,200 volunteers will be needed to put on the massive event this year. Visit earthx.org to register for the 2018 event and receive free admission.
“While we didn’t come up with the initial idea of a pro-business Earth Day, we ran with it and grew it into the world’s largest gathering of its kind,” said Trammell S. Crow, founder of EarthX. “International environmentalists, elected officials, investors, business leaders, educators and families are coming to EarthX in Dallas for an array of conservation-focused offerings, exhibits, films and conferences, where Earth is our common ground.”
Confirmed, renowned speakers in their areas of expertise for EarthX 2018 include astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Mission Blue; James Baker, Former Secretary of State; John Kasich, Governor of Ohio; Susan Eisenhower, Presidential Blue Ribbon Nuclear Commission; Academy-Award winner Louie Psihoyos; Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd; mayors of Phoenix, San Antonio and other cities; Dr. Ved Chirayath, Director of Laboratory for Advanced Sensing in the Earth Science Division at NASA Ames Silicon Valley; as well as representatives from National Laboratories.
EarthX features five days of conferences from April 18-22. E-Capital Summit will convene mission-driven investors, incubators, accelerators, researchers and breakthrough clean technology innovators from around the world to form partnerships having substantial, positive impacts on profits, people and the planet. EarthxHack, a 24-hour event, is the world’s largest environmental hackathon, sitting at the intersection of innovation, technology and the environment. The platform will create groundbreaking solutions by utilizing the brightest technical minds of today focusing on the problems of tomorrow. New for 2018, EarthxSolar will bring together change-makers in the business world and in solar energy. Other conferences, including EarthxOcean, EarthxResponsibleOilandGas, EarthxBridge Summit and EarthxPolicy: Energy Done Right, will encompass educational, municipal and environmental efforts.
Exhibitors of EarthxExpo, taking place at Fair Park April 20-22, include The National Audubon Society, Greenpeace, and The Plastic Soup Foundation, a nonprofit focused on reducing ocean plastic from Amsterdam, NL. EarthX has partnered with Trees for the Future to plant as many trees as possible in five African countries during the expo as well as with The Great Seed Bomb and City of Dallas for the weekend-long Seed Bomb Blowout to help increase vital pollinator habitat here at home. In addition, Oncor will showcase the new Nissan Leaf with examples of EV charging stations, UPS is bringing its interactive education trailer on alternative fuel transportation, and TxDOT’s Don’t Mess with Texas Program offers an interactive virtual reality game about litter prevention.
EarthxExpo attendees can experience a wide range of educational and interactive activities for the whole family during the three-day event. There is plenty to do and see focused on sustainability and green living, from an Outdoor Adventure Zone featuring scuba diving to tree climbing and goat yoga and an Interactive Zone with virtual and mixed reality, to exploring a Tiny House Village or enjoying the Eco Auto Show, E-Bike track and science education trucks.
Prior to the launch of the expo and conferences, EarthxFilm will commence on April 13 and run through April 22. EarthxFilm uses the power of film and emerging media to raise awareness of global environmental issues. Over 10 days, EarthxFilm will present over 60 features and shorts at screenings and events across the city. EarthxFilm’s educational components include Youth Online Filmmaking Competitions (open now), in-school screenings and hands-on workshops at EarthX. An EarthxFilm Awards Ceremony will be held on the last day of the festival, Sunday, April 22.
On Friday, April 20, EarthxGlobalGala will be a star-studded evening event that honors visionary leaders in environmental education, film and television. The Global Impact Awards will be given during this fascinating, fun and interactive night at the Perot Museum of Science and Technology.
See the Call to Play Earth Week video below!
“Mni Wiconi.” It means, “Water is Life.” These powerful words arose from the vision of Indigenous Youth at Standing Rock in North Dakota, and they stand strongly for the growing spirit of our time. The spirit of Mni Wiconi says: “Life is not possible without water. Therefore, it is the right of all life to have water that is safe, clean, and nourishing.” Water is Life has become a cry for unity, among people of all continents and nations, to protect and restore all that is Sacred and life-giving in our world.
Water is Life! Protect the Sacred Earth Week is a 9-day global challenge to inspire acts of love, service, and compassion toward our Mother Earth and all life.
Beginning in 2018 on April 22nd and continuing through April 30th, Protect the Sacred Earth Week catalyzes the love human beings have for the Earth by bringing people together globally to participate in a playful competition of compassionate action.
In Earth Week, Players and Teams strive together to come up with fun, meaningful, and creative ways to develop regenerative practices that celebrate life’s interconnectivity, while cultivating a responsibility to protect and restore the Earth for future generations of life to come!
Let’s come together and celebrate all that we love on this beautiful planet, and allow this love to move us into unprecedented, unified compassionate action for our world!
Water is Life! Protect the Sacred Earth Week is grounded in appreciation and respect of one’s local bioregion, honoring Indigenous leadership and practices in how best to care for Mother Earth while acknowledging our human place in the web of life. Earth Week is a way to explore how we can be compassionate toward the Earth, and act in ways to discover compassion for ourselves, each other, and all members of the Earth Community.
Earth Week includes Earth Day, an annual event to support environmental protection.
Alta Earth Day
- April 14, 2018
- Presented By: Alta Ski Area
- Venue: Alta Ski Area
East State Highway 210/Little Cottonwood Canyon
Alta, UT 84092 - Time: See official website for schedule: https://www.alta.com/the-mountain/events/earth-day
- Start Time:10:00 AM
- End Time:11:59 PM
- Category: Festivals & Special Events
- Add to Trip Planner
Join Alta for its 9th annual community Alta Earth Day on Saturday, April 14, 2018. We aim to encourage environmental stewardship, responsible recreation and awareness of the relationship between climate change and the future of the ski industry in Little Cottonwood Canyon and beyond. The day will feature: Eco-Friendly Vendors, Naturalist Tours, Birding in Alta, Après Earth Day & Film!
Wildlife in the City Week – Seattle WA
Discover Your Wild Neighbors
April 15-21, 2018
The National Wildlife Federation, in partnership with Seattle Parks and Recreation, Conservation Northwest, and other local organizations, is presenting the second annual Wildlife in the City Week. This multi-day, multi-venue event will help the community to explore and learn how we can all have a positive impact on wildlife living among us and become a champion of urban wildlife.
Our experiential events range from urban wildlife walks to hands-on activities with youth at community centers. The week will conclude with a Wildlife Festival on Saturday, April 21 from 1-5 pm at Discovery Park. Numerous nonprofit organization will share what people in urban areas can do to help animals specific to the Puget Sound, like river otters, salmon and bobcats, that need our protection.
The National Wildlife Federation is one of the largest and most influential non-profit conservation, education and advocacy organizations in the U.S. We are building on a long legacy of bringing species such as bison, eagles and whales back from the brink of extinction while inspiring the next generation of conservationists. Learn more about what you can do for wildlife at our Garden for Wildlife website.
The Institute for Sustainable Development is proud to present Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Indigenous climate activist, hip-hop artist, author, and Youth Director of Earth Guardians to Chico State for a student and community Earth Month event.
We hope you can join us on Monday, April 16, 2018 from 3:00-5:00 pm at the Bell Memorial Union Auditorium.Seating starts at 2:00 pm. This show is free and open to the public with advanced registration. Click here to register for this event.
Earth Guardians Youth Director Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, (his first name pronounced ‘Shoe-Tez-Caht’) is a 17-year-old indigenous climate activist, hip-hop artist, author and powerful voice on the front lines of a global youth-led environmental movement. At the early age of six Xiuhtezcatl began speaking around the world, from the Rio +20 United Nations Summit in Rio de Janeiro, to addressing the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York city.
He has worked locally to get pesticides out of parks, coal ash contained, and moratoriums on fracking in his state and is currently a lead plaintiff in a youth-led lawsuit against the federal government for their failure to protect the atmosphere for future generations. Xiuhtezcatl has traveled across the nation and to many parts of the world educating his generation about the state of the planet they are inheriting.
His message has inspired youth to join the front lines to combat some of the greatest issues of their times that are impacting their communities and future. Earth Guardians has grown to hundreds of youth-led crews in over 30 countries. His work has been featured on PBS, Showtime, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Upworthy, Aljazeera, The Guardian, Vogue, Bill Maher, The Daily Show, Skavlan, Q&A, AJ+, CNN, MSNBC, HBO, VICE, and many more.
In 2013, Xiuhtezcatl received the 2013 United States Community Service Award from President Obama, and was the youngest of 24 national change-makers chosen to serve on the President’s youth council. He is the 2015 recipient of the Peace First Prize, recipient of the 2015 Nickelodeon Halo Award, 2016 Captain Planet Award, the 2016 Children’s Climate Prize from Sweden, as well as the 2017 Univision Premio’s Ajente de Cambio Award.
Read an excerpt from Xiuhtezcatl’s book
We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet
Free Conference call invite
Organizer: Rita Morgin
Land healing meditation: sending love and light to all the energies on a land or space that are in need of Loving Care.
18TH ANNUAL Earth Day Celebration
Learn what you can do to help our ocean planet at the Aquarium of the Pacific’s eighteenth annual Earth Day Celebration. Join the Aquarium for a weekend of family fun celebrating Earth Day while learning simple, everyday tips to protect our environment. Visit booths from various Earth-friendly organizations, and participate in hands-on learning demonstrations for people of all ages. The Aquarium will also debut new climate change programming and exhibits during Earth Day weekend.
WHEN | SATURDAY, APR 21, 2018 | 9:00 AM–5:00 PM SUNDAY, APR 22, 2018 | 9:00 AM–5:00 PM |
COST | Included with general admission to guests. Free to Aquarium members; 20% off for their guests. |
TICKETS | Members get in free. Simply show your card at the entrance. Not a member? General admission is required. You can purchase tickets online. |
INFO | (562) 590-3100, ext. 0 |
Wilmot, OH 44689
USA
Spend a day celebrating the earth!
TWC Wilderness Run: 9:00 – 12:30
Register through Vertical Runner Race Management. A fun run for the kids is an option.
Garlic Mustard Pull: 9:00 – 3:00
You can help with conservation efforts by picking up litter or pulling invasive garlic mustard.
Backpacking Club Demonstration: 9:00 – 12:00
Looking for a new hobby? Learn about places to go and the gear needed from the experts.
FotoFest: 9:00 – 5:00 and Sunday, April 22, 1:00 – 4:30
Be sure to vote for your favorites in our annual nature photography competition sponsored by TWC Photo Club.
Playscape Playdate: Earth Day Scavenger Hunt: 10:00 – 12:00
How well does your family know The Wilderness Center? Start at the Playscape on a scavenger hunt around our favorite spaces and come back to show off your discoveries. Easy and advanced levels will accommodate children of all ages.
Habitat Earth: Digital Theater Show: 11:00, 12:00 and 1:00 show times
Living networks connect and support life forms large and small — from colonies of tiny microbes and populations of massive whales to ever-expanding human societies. Discover what it means to live in today’s connected world. Through stunning visualizations of the natural world, dive below the ocean’s surface to explore the dynamic relationships found in kelp forest ecosystems, travel beneath the forest floor to see how Earth’s tallest trees rely on tiny fungi to survive, and journey to new heights to witness the intricate intersection between human and ecological networks.
Story Walk™ and Dip-netting: 1:00 – 3:00
Walk a trail and read a book! Follow pages from Turtle Splash then grab a net and dip into the pond to discover for yourself first-hand what lives there!
Kids Earth Day Celebration by Los Angeles County Department of Beaches & Harbors
DATE AND TIME
Sat, April 21, 2018
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDT
LOCATION
Don’t miss the first Earth Day celebration at the Dockweiler Youth Center! Join 3rd Rock Hip Hop as they teach kids about environmental awareness through hip hop music. This community and family-oriented event will also feature:
- Environmental exhibitors
- Hands-on activities
- Bouncy houses
- Games
- FREE giveaways
- & so much more!
COST: Admission is FREE!
Faster Check-In w/ EventBrite RSVP Tickets! For faster entry into the event and access to the rides & attractions, each entrant must show a printed or digital EventBrite ticket showing acceptance of the liability waiver.
Regular Check-In: Upon arrival, all entrants to the event who don’t have an EventBrite ticket that shows acceptance of the liability waiver must complete & sign a hard-copy liability waiver form before accessing the rides & attractions.
Please click here for a downloadable flyer. Call (310) 726-4128 for more information.
Saturday, april 21, 2018 9:00 am to 1:00 pm PDT
SAVE THE DATE SATURDAY APRIL 21ST, 2018
PLANET HEART’S 11th
ANNUAL WORLD PEACE EARTH DAY CELEBRATION
“Celebrating Our Planet, Healing Our Heart”
Produced by Andrew Kaen in Association
with We, The World (fiscal sponsor) & Jodi Serota.
Come join us in NYC for A Very Special Evening with our Conscious Community as we Gather in Unity Honoring Mother Earth & The New Earth.
Listen to Inspirational Talks, Experience Live Music Performances, and Inspired Poetry along with Guided Meditations.
Heal, Awaken & be Ignited through Vibrational Sound Activations.
There will be Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Celebrations & Prayers for World Peace, Planet Earth & All Inhabitants.
All Are Welcome! Please Share! We Are One!
May Peace Prevail On Earth!
Featuring:
❤️Mitchell Rabin (Host/MC): Founder/Host/Producer, A Better World Radio and TVP, www.abetterworld.net
❤️Andrew Kaen: Executive Producer/Vibrational Sound Healer/Poet
❤️Jodi Serota: Metaphysical Educator, Channel, Vibrational Healer, Professional Artist, www.jodiserota.com
❤️Rick Ulfik: Founder of We, the World, We Campaign (www.we.net)
❤️Kurt Johnson – Author, The Coming Interspiritual Age, President of the Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (FIONS), www.interspirituality.com
❤️Ron and Victoria Friedman: Co-Founders, Vistar Foundation
www.vistarfoundation.org
❤️Barbara Biziou: Spiritual Life Coach and Global Ritual Expert
http://barbarabiziou.com/
❤️Premik Russell Tubbs: Composer, Arranger, Producer and an accomplished Multi-Instrumentalist, www.premik.com
❤️and you
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❤️Visit our Full Website for FULL DETAILS and bios of Presenters
http://www.planetheart.org/
Contact: info@planetheart.org
Event hotline: 212-222-5432
Direct line: 646-765-7890 – Andrew Kaen,
Executive Producer, Founder, Principal Organizer
❤️Visit the website http://www.planetheart.org/
ALL ARE WELCOME! Please Share!❤️
Time: 6:30PM Sharp – 9:30PM.
(Doors Open at 6pm for Registration)
Price: $25 (pre-paid by April 20th) or $33 cash only at door. (No Refunds).
Location: New York New Church
114 East 35th Street, New York, NY, 10016
More Info: www.planetheart.org ❤️
Email: EarthDay@WeTheWorld,org
Call: 212-222-5432.
A portion of the proceeds helps support We.Net.❤️
Sponsors: We.net, Planetheart.org
Co-Sponsors/Partners: Inner Realm Magazine, Wisdom Magazine, Creations Magazine, Natural Awakenings Magazine, Heart of Mind Radio, WBAI, Talking Alternatives Broadcast, Good News Broadcast, Vigil for International Peace and Ecology, We Care for Humanity, Pete Rogina and Eileen Cohen’s Peace Lights, Aum Shanti Bookshop, Forest Nation, Action Moves People United, Interspiritual Network, A Better World with Mitchell Rabin, The Family of Light: Artists, Psychics & Healers (Alan Pratt), Ayurveda Cafe, Sanctuary for Harmonic Living, Peace December (NY Peace Coalition), Sylvia Moss, Vistar Foundation, FIONS, Peace Toys (HUGG A PLANET), Peace Lights Org, Media Dream Productions, Vanessa Espinosa Graphic Design, Anne Leighton Media Relations, #EarthDay2018 #PledgetoPlant
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Pope Francis said “Bring the whole human family together . . . for we know that things can change.” (Laudato Si’, 13)
Celebrate creation during mass. After mass, encourage your diocese to shrink its carbon footprint by signing postcards together.
It’s surprising, but postcards really do work.
The diocese is a moral leader. It also coordinates activities in parishes that affect a lot of people. That’s why its commitment is so important.
On Earth Day we lift our voices as one. We’re uniting in a big global effort to encourage dioceses to reduce their emissions. Here’s how it works:
- Celebrate creation during mass. After mass, work together to write postcards to the diocese.
- The postcards will encourage the diocese to put Catholic teaching into practice by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.
- The first step is to establish an office devoted to caring for creation.
Diocesan staff are invited to a webinar led by Vatican officials.
SCIENCE MARCHES ON
In 2017, more than one million people around the world gathered together in the largest event for science advocacy in history. On April 22, 2018, March for Science Denmark unites again to hold our elected and appointed officials responsible for enacting equitable evidence-based policies that serve all communities and science for the common good.
IT’S TIME WE HELD OUR POLITICAL LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE FOR SUPPORTING GOOD SCIENCE POLICY. IT’S TIME WE JOIN TOGETHER AND DEMAND THAT OUR LEADERS USE SCIENCE TO INFORM THEIR WORK AND CAST THEIR VOTES FOR SCIENCE.
We are scientists, science enthusiasts and concerned people of planet Earth. We come from all cultures, all religions, all gender identities, all sexual orientations, all abilities, all socioeconomic backgrounds, all political perspectives, and all nationalities. Our diversity is our greatest strength; a wealth of opinions, perspectives, and ideas is critical for the scientific process and social progress. What unites us is a love of science, reason and an insatiable curiosity for knowledge. We recognize that science is everywhere and affects everyone on the globe.
Science protects the health of our communities, the safety of our families, the education of our children, the foundation of our economy and jobs, and the future we all want to live in and preserve for coming generations.
“The World Sends Us Garbage, We Send Back Music”
– Favio Chávez, The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura
Mon, April 23, 2018 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM AEST
Lendlease, Tower Three, International Towers Sydney
300 Barangaroo Avenue
Barangaroo, NSW 2000 Australia
Get creative at our recycled art and sculpture workshop, hear from local environmental groups and see this year’s Sculptures @ Bayside exhibition.
DATE AND TIME
Tue. 24 April 2018
11:00 am – 2:00 pm AE
LOCATION
Cook Park, Kyeemagh
Cnr Bestic St and The Grand Parade
Sydney, New South Wales 2216
Australia
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Volunteer Recruitment Happy Hour
4:30 – 6:00 pm MDT
390 W Riverside Dr
Estes Park, Colorado 80517 (970) 586-7300
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Rocky Mountain Conservancy is excited to share its 2018 Volunteer Events! This summer we have volunteer projects planned from May through October working on litter clean-ups, trail project, invasive species removal, native plant restoration, fire fuels reduction, and more!
Join us on April 25, 2018 for Happy Hour at Rock Cut Brewing to learn more about these opportunities, register for our volunteer list, and enjoy some discounts on local craft beer when you sign up!
Current list of volunteer opportunities can be found at https://rmconservancy.org/donate/support-work/volunteer/.
A Blanket of Dust is a political thriller and a new addition to the Theater of Resistance. It is the story of Diana Crane, a modern day Antigone. The daughter of a US Senator whose husband has died in the World Trade Center, her subsequent ordeal in seeking justice for his murder ultimately drives her to the outer fringes of society. Struggling with facts that the government, the media, her family and her countrymen deny, she finally confronts them all with a harrowing act of sacrificial tragedy.
Crystal Reiki is an Alternative Healing method which combines the Universal Life Force of Reiki Energy with the Healing Power of Quartz Crystals!
Requirements: Reiki Practitioner Level 1+2. If you are not a Level 2 Reiki Practitioner, please specify this, and I will include the Reiki Level 1+2 Attunements in this session.
You will learn how to use Crystals and how to benefit from the Reiki Energy for Healing.
We come together for the Annual Children’s Global Wave Of Love, at 1:11pm in every time zone beginning in New Zealand and ending in Hawaii, we come together to collectively intention “Children across the planet in love, care and respect.” Based on the Fibinacci sequence of increasing increments of divine love we send out love across the waters and lands for all. A peak day for International Children’s Month and our free year long thematic activity platform International Children Love Self Love and Cooperation 2018.
June 26th an important primary election in NYC’s for those of us who want our US Representatives to recognize the urgency and importance of pushing back on nuclear weapons today. 131 Democrats voted last month to increase spending by 22 billion for new nuclear weapons, on top of an already huge layout of our tax money.
Suraj Patel is showing leadership, and bravely, wisely, making it an issue in this election. Spread word, lend support. Thank you
Please, spread the news of Suraj, to any who live in NY’s 12th District:
Union Square,
East Village,
Lower East Side,
Upper East Side,
Lenox Hill,
Sutton Place,
Midtown,
Midtown East,
Stuyvesant Town,
Gramercy,
Flatiron
Williamsburg,
Greenpoint,
Long Island City,
Astoria,
and Roosevelt Island.
https://www.surajpatel.nyc
Collaborating … for a Healthy Environment and Climate Resiliency
Is the environment where you live healthy?
Is the air breathable, the water drinkable,the land dry and toxic free?
Is the climate making things worse?
Florida’s urban corridors, fresh water, lagoons, and coastal communities are under stress.
Our health is threatened. We must address the changes to be well.
Join faith and community partners in two days of mutual learning and network building.
Come, share what you have learned!
Dr J B Callahan Neighborhood Center
101 North Parramore Avenue
Orlando FL 32801
Friday, June 29, 2018 10 AM – 8 PM
Saturday, June 30, 10 AM – 4 PM
http://www.cityoforlando.net/recreation/dr-j-b-callahan-neighborhood-center/
Register at https://fl-ican.org
Florida Interfaith Climate Actions Network (FL-iCAN!)
Join our Florida Learning Community today!
FRIDAY AGENDA ($40 Lunch & Dinner)
▪ Meet activists in your bio-region
▪ Earth Charter 18th Birthday Celebration
▪ World Health Organization Report
▪ Global health & climate challenges
▪ Lunchtime Conversations
▪ World Café explorations
▪ Open Space organizing of actions
▪ Dinner Collaborations
▪ Campfire honoring Miccosukee-Simanolee
clan leader Bobby C. Billie
SATURDAY AGENDA ($25 Lunch)
▪ Parramore youth success stories
▪ Regional climate collaborative initiatives
▪ Healthy food prep demonstration
▪ Lunch FL-iCAN! governance conversations
▪ Sowing a culture of peace in Florida
▪ FL- iCAN! Affiliates
▪ Next Steps as responsible citizens
FL-iCAN! is emerging where health and
environment face climate change among people
of goodwill and face who are taking action.
A great soul /funk concert. Come and be uplifted by great music and let’s raise as much money as possible to help re-unite children who have been separated from their families at the U.S. border. Tickets are $10. Please click on the link below to buy tickets, bring friends! You may make an extra donation on the night if you so wish. All proceeds will go to this great cause. Rob Duncan has played music all over the world, is a father of 3 and writes music about his experience of being human, man and father.
Here’s what he says about his music and this concert:
My music draws from my life experience; spiritually, soulfully, intellectually, and emotionally. All of my songs represent my musical influences like soul music, blues, jazz, and rock. Deeply soulful, funky, melancholy music with ultimately a message of hope. That’s how I write my music. That’s how I sing my music. I lay my heart on the table and reach you in places that you feel.
I have decided to donate the cover charge from my upcoming show at Rockwood Music Hall 3 to RAICES. RAICES primarily provides two very very important things.
It provides lawyers for the children who have been torn from their parents by ICES, and it pays the Immigration Bond which releases the parent from detention allowing their children to rejoin them. This is where your $10 cover charge for my upcoming show will go. If you wish to donate extra you may do so on the night of the show.
ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL PRESENTS
ROB DUNCAN LIVE with his Funkin Soul Band
Date: Saturday, July 7
Time: 7 PM – 8 PM (Arrive by 6:30. Show starts at 7:00! )
Rockwood Music Hall Stage 3
185 Orchard St, New York, NY
Hosted by North Corner Music
$10 Cover Charge
For Tickets, Click Here: https://bit.ly/2LB0QPM
WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts
of people, organizations and movements working for the common good
WE.net
Dear Friends,
As one of the supporting organizations of this conference, We, The World is very excited to invite you to attend (in person or via livestream) the Inaugural Global Town Hall for Global Governance Renewal, Innovation and Reform – a FREE event July 21-23, 2018 at the University of Colorado in Boulder. This will be the first of a series of Global Town Halls leading to 2020 the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. The Global Town Halls are a means for direct citizen input into an effective and inclusive preparatory process for a UN2020 summit to catalyze the renewal and strengthening of the UN.
Complete details are below. Please Note: If you Register for the livestream, you will be given the direct livestream link prior to the event. We hope you will join us!
Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events worldwide!
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MAPTING PHOTO CONTEST
United Nations International Youth Day 2018
2018 Safe Spaces for Youth
Earth Charter Initiative
#YouthDay #SafeSpaces4Youth
Take a picture using #YouthDay and #SafeSpaces4Youth
with SDGs 4 Quality Education and 5 Gender Equality
for a chance to win a free Online Youth Course on Leadership, Sustainability, and Ethics!
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PO Box 117
Yellowstone National Park
WY 82190
Phone: 406.848.2400
Email: contact@yellowstone.org
Bozeman Office
222 East Main St.
Suite 301
Bozeman, MT 59715
Phone: 406.586.6303
Yellowstone National Park is still full of visitors enjoying the summer sun, relishing these final weeks of the season. However, the first snowfall is poised to blanket the park in white within just a few months. Winter is nearly here, and we want to offer you a special way to welcome it.
Yellowstone Forever Institute winter programs will open for registration to the general public on Aug. 22. From wildlife programs to snowshoeing and skiing adventures to a class about Lakota Winter Stories and Skills, there is something for everyone to enjoy this coming winter.
The Lakota Winter Stories and Skills program is one of the highlights of our winter each year. You’ll learn about Lakota oral traditions, use natural ingredients to fend off cold, and prepare traditional soups and stews. It’s always a wonderful time.
Other programs that people always enjoy include The Intelligence of Animals, interpreting the way animals move and vocalize to uncover insights about their inner lives; Birds of Winter, an ornithology adventure visiting a variety of habitats; and many more.
But we keep groups rather small so every experience can be personalized and unique – which means they fill up very quickly. And we’re excited to report that you can now register for your program and lodging together online.
The true beauty of Yellowstone is that it offers a different experience for each visitor. No matter what area of the park interests you, we can help you gain a deeper connection to Yellowstone while you’re here.
The Yellowstone Forever Institute introduces thousands of students to the park’s natural wonders. Programs range from one day to three weeks in length, and highlight the park’s amazing wildlife, geothermal areas, rich history, and awe-inspiring wilderness.
View the 2018 winter or summer catalog.
Registration for Winter 2018-19 Field Seminars opens August 15, 2018 for Yellowstone Forever Supporters, and August 22, 2018 for the general public.
Learn about our new Yellowstone Day Adventures program, offering a convenient, expert-led wildlife watching experience during the summer season.
Yellowstone Forever—formerly the Yellowstone Association and Yellowstone Park Foundation—is the official nonprofit partner of Yellowstone National Park.
We partner with Yellowstone National Park to create opportunities for all people to experience, enhance, and preserve Yellowstone forever.
Our educational programming, products, and services help people enjoy, understand, and appreciate the wildlife, geology, and cultural history of the park. The opportunities Yellowstone Forever provides for volunteerism and community relations develop and engage new stewards for the park. Through thoughtful cultivation and stewardship of people who love the park, Yellowstone Forever is building a broad network of philanthropic supporters dedicated to preserving the park.
Yellowstone Forever’s mission of engagement and support through education and fundraising for the park will ensure Yellowstone remains for generations to come.
PARTNERS
Training for Activists regarding climate change who then, go on to teach and education others.
Dr. Charles Mully
Mully Children’s Family USA
OnBuzz
Mother Teresa.
The Letters: The Untold Story of Mother Teresa.
will benefit Mully Children’s Family
Please join us in celebrating an amazing humanitarian
and Nobel Peace Prize winner who
served others in need.
After what seems like forever playing defense, our chance to go on the offense comes September 8.That’s the day we Rise for Climate across the world — there will be big events in at least 80 countries.
But the most important focus may be in the U.S. — we launched this day of demonstrations to coincide with the upcoming Global Climate Action Summit in California. Just as we did before the Paris climate conference, we need to demonstrate that there’s a deep and wide demand from people across the U.S. for climate action.
And if we can’t do it now — after the hottest May to July period in American history, after wildfires that closed Yosemite and Glacier national parks, after Hurricanes Harvey and Maria — then when? This is the moment. We’re not trying to persuade Trump — he’s unreachable. Instead we’re telling governors, mayors, local officials of all kinds that they need to take up some of the slack from D.C.
We’re focused on 100% renewables (and the price of solar power keeps hitting record lows). We’re focused on stopping the build out of new fossil fuel infrastructure (and just last week came the news that yet another court has ordered yet another new review of Keystone XL). And we’re focused on stopping the flow of money to the fossil fuel industry (we’re still a little giddy from the news that the entire nation of Ireland is divesting, bringing the total commitments to well over $6 trillion).
But now we need you, in your community. If the past days of global action are any indication, this will be fun, moving, and extraordinarily useful. Find out what’s happening near you, and sign up. And see you in the streets.
Boston RISE for Climate, Jobs, and Justice: Rally and People’s School
Date and Time:
Sat, Sep 8, 2018 12:00 PM (Local Time)
Time is tentative.
Organized By: Massachusetts Chapter
Location: Boston, MA 02114, USA
Map | Directions
Event Organizers:
Michele Brooks
michele.brooks@sierraclub.org
(617) 423-5775
Climate change impacts people of color, low-wage workers, and Indigenous peoples—here and around the world—first and worst. Extreme heat, drought, floods, wildfires, storms, and poisoned oceans caused by fossil fuel pollution worsen the war, famine, poverty, violence, and oppression they already face. Many are left with no choice but to leave their homes and seek refuge in the U.S., only to be met with more violence and oppression by our own government. Families are being torn apart. Ecosystems are collapsing. People are dying. The tide is rising…but so are we. As governors, mayors, and corporate reps meet at the Global Climate Action Summit in CA—and as our own Governor & Legislature in MA continue to accept money from the fossil fuel industry and then fail to enact commonsense climate and immigration reforms—we’ll prove that real climate leadership rises from the grassroots up and doesn’t leave anyone behind. On Sept 8 (and beyond), local climate and immigrant justice groups are joining forces to strengthen relationships across our movements, build collective power, and demand accountability and ACTION on climate change and immigrant rights: 100% renewable energy for all. Dignity & respect for all. JOIN US to envision & build a JUST TRANSITION in MA: FROM dirty coal, oil, & gas TO clean wind & solar power. FROM prisons & deportations TO freedom & sanctuary. FROM worker abuse TO safe, green, family-sustaining union jobs. FROM gentrification & displacement TO affordable housing & transit. FROM corporate control TO community control. FROM polluted air, water, & soil TO healthy people & planet. FROM extraction & exploitation TO economic & environmental justice. On Sept 8: Resist – Learn – Build – Connect – Act – RISE – for Climate & Immigrant Justice Join us for the Climate, Jobs, & Justice outdoor “People’s School.” It will start with a short kickoff rally that highlights the intersections of our issues, the failings of our political system in MA, and the urgency of this moment for us to come together and take action. The rest of the day will consist of interactive teach-ins, skill-shares, and art-builds that touch on a range of intersectional topics to educate folks, build relationships, and lift up the work of local frontline groups. |
Join us on the Road to 2020!
11 Days of Global Unity is a community action-oriented program, hosted by the Florida Earth Charter Initiative and “We the World.” Beginning on September 11th, and leading up to the UN’s International Day of Peace – September 21st – Syraj Syed, founder of Your Authentic Self Work, and Sue Blythe, creator of the FutureFlash! Climate Challenge, will interview community activists for each of 11 Themes for Change.
Register at https://docs.google.com/forms (copy link to browser) to receive each day’s Community Exchange and learn how you can find your place in the movement of movements for a sustainable, just and peaceful future.
Join us on the Road to 2020! |
The Empowered Elder:
CEN’s Foundation Workshop
Tuesdays, Sept 11th – Oct 23rd
10 – 12:15pm PDT 1 – 3:15pm EDT
Join the Conscious Elders Network for our online workshop. The Empowered Elder Workshop covers the underlying principles and ideas of CEN and invites a shift from individual self to global self, and from “senior” to empowered Elder. This highly interactive workshop incorporates practices of the Work That Reconnects, Age-ing to Sage-ing, Sacred Activism, and more to help us explore together what it means to be an Elder at this time in history.
Facilitated by Constance Washburn M.A., a founding member of the Conscious Elders Network. She is an activist, workshop leader, and educator with over 35 years of experience designing programs which inspire and build deep connections to ourselves, each other, and the natural world.
Video recording of each session will be available for those who need to miss a session or two.
Seven Online Sessions
via Zoom Video Conferencing
Cost: $85 – $100 Sliding Scale
Celebrating 20 Years With We, The World & Good News Planet
CHURCH OF THE VILLAGE
201 WEST 13TH STREET (corner of 7th Ave.) Manhattan, NYC
WEDNESDAY SEPT 12, 2018
6:30PM – 9:30 PM
Sliding Scale: $10/20 in advance, $15/25 at the door
Ticket Link: http://bit.ly/WTW20GN
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/250681448989549/
Livestream Link (day of event): https://www.youcanview.com/
Official Website page: https://we.net/20years
Don’t miss this Unforgettable Once-In-A-Lifetime Event!
6:00pm Doors Open
6:30pm Sharp – 9:30pm Program
9:30-10:00pm Networking
With Hosts
Paul Sladkus, Founder, Producer and Host of Good News Planet and
Rick Ulfik, Founder of We, The World and the We Campaign
Featuring:
Special Opening Performance at 6:30 by Dynamic New York R&B Recording Artist Al Smith
Kathryn Davis, host of Heart of Mind Radio
Rev. Deborah Moldow, founder of Garden of Light
Singer songwriter Heidi Little
World Dance with Kaeshi Chai and PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment)
Singer songwriter Kristin Hoffmann
Claire Diab, International Yoga Therapist, Board Member of the Deepak Chopra Center
Joumana Rizk, Peacelights
Monica Willard, United Religions Initiative
Rev. Susana Bastarrica, Founder, Vigil for Peace and Ecology
Alan Steinfeld, host and producer of New Realities
Mitchell Rabin, host and producer of A Better World
Drs. J.J. and Desiree Hurtak, Academy For Future Science
Andrew Kaen, Founder, Planet Heart, Producer of Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration
Tribute To Carole Hart (helped launch Sesame Street, Free to Be, You and Me)
World Premiere of the We, The World Song by Heidi Little, Rick Ulfik, Andrew Kaen and others
Tribute to Aretha Franklin & Wilson Pickett Featuring Cherette White, Al Smith, Rick Ulfik and other Musicians
Plus Special Video Presentations including:
Video Message from Deepak Chopra (Bestselling Author and We, The World Advisory Board Member)
Woodstock Forever: Peace, Love, Hope. Movie Premiere Trailer
An Urgent Message From Your Children
For more information contact: Andrew Kaen, organizer 646-765-7890
or email andrewkaen@wetheworld.org
GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT
Moscone Center South in San Francisco, California.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 — FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
The Global Climate Action Summit will bring leaders and people together from around the world to “Take Ambition to the Next Level.” It will be a moment to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of states, regions, cities, companies, investors and citizens with respect to climate action.
It will also be a launchpad for deeper worldwide commitments and accelerated action from countries—supported by all sectors of society—that can put the globe on track to prevent dangerous climate change and realize the historic Paris Agreement.
The decarbonization of the global economy is in sight. Transformational changes are happening across the world and across all sectors as a result of technological innovation, new and creative policies and political will at all levels.
States and regions, cities, businesses and investors are leading the charge on pushing down global emissions by 2020, setting the stage to reach net zero emissions by midcentury.
ATTENDING THE SUMMIT
People everywhere are encouraged to participate in the hundreds of affiliate events taking place in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the world during the week of September 10-14th, including climate action panels, workshops, tours, exhibits and other special events. The full affiliate event schedule will be posted here this summer.
From September 12-14, you can virtually attend the Summit by streaming it live on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. In person, Summit attendance for the plenary and other high-level sessions is by invitation and will require accreditation. If you represent an organization ready to make a major climate commitment at the Summit, please send details about that proposed announcement by clicking here.
The Global Climate Action Summit is also committed to reducing the environmental impact of the Summit event itself. To see how the Summit looks to meet or exceed international sustainability standards for large events, please click here.
At the heart of the Paris Climate Change Agreement is the commitment by national governments to review their progress and rachet up the ambition of national climate action plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
The Global Climate Action Summit, happening midway between Paris 2015 and 2020, is timed to provide the confidence to governments to ‘step up’ and trigger this next level of ambition sooner rather than later.
The momentum we generate this year must lead to bending the curve of emissions down by 2020—science advises us that this gives the world the best opportunity to prevent the worst effects of climate change. 2018 therefore must be the beginning of a new phase of action and ambition on climate change.
The Summit will underscore the urgency of the threat of climate change by mobilizing the voices and experience of real people, in real communities already facing real and stark threats. It will challenge and channel the energy and idealism of people everywhere to step up and overcome it.
At the Summit, international and local leaders from states, regions, cities, businesses, investors and civil society—known as “non-party stakeholders/non-state actors”—will be joined by national government leaders, scientists, students, nonprofits and others in a new wave of mobilization.
They will be sharing what they have achieved to date and committing to doing more to usher in the era of decarbonization, greater levels of sustainability and prosperity for the many rather than the few.
These actors will also celebrate a range of new climate commitments under five key areas: Healthy Energy Systems, Inclusive Economic Growth, Sustainable Communities, Land and Ocean Stewardship and Transformative Climate Investments.
The confidence, enthusiasm and support generated by this wave of action now and through 2019, will embolden national governments leaders to trigger the necessary domestic processes ahead of 2020 while also triggering more states and regions, cities, businesses and investors to ‘step up’ further action themselves.
THE CO-CHAIRS
WORLDPEACEPRODUCTIONS.ORG, WE.NET, VEGANSEDONA.COM & FamilyOfLight,org
Invite you to participate in a global #11DAYSOFGLOBALUNITY
Movement for Peace & Sustainability Sept 11-21,
Culminating with the International Day of Peace.
The 3RD DAY of our ONLINE #11DaysOfGlobalUnity
FREE FILM SCREENINGS – VEGAN FILM FESTIVAL is Sept. 13.
THEME: Environment
FILMS: MEAT THE TRUTH & SEA THE TRUTH
Please host or attend a free improVdinners.com film screening by:
watching the film online,
donating to our cause and
joining our MEDIA THAT MATTERS movement,
AND/OR
take an 11 Day Challenge to goVegan!
by Breakin’ Bread Together for a Better World!
www.VeganFilmFest.com
CLIMATE ACTION IS FEMALE: HOW WOMEN ARE SUPERCHARGING LOCAL LEADERSHIP FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONSAn Official Affiliate Event of the Global Climate Action Summit, San Francisco, CA Climate solutions are bubbling up on the local level, often led by women leaders. This panel discussion will highlight the groundbreaking work of women taking action on climate change at the local level, including mayors, community activists, and other women leaders. The panel will by led by Heather McTeer Toney (shown above), who served as the first African-American, first female, and youngest mayor of Greenville, MS. In 2014, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as Regional Administrator for Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Southeast Region. She is a senior advisor on local government for Moms Clean Air Force. |
WHEN: Friday, September 14, 2018
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. — Light breakfast and coffee
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. — Panel discussion
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. — Optional tour of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Headquarters
WHERE: San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Building (525 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco CA 94102)
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MISSION of Moms Clean Air Force
Moms Clean Air Force is a community of over 1,000,000 moms and dads united against air pollution – including the urgent crisis of our changing climate – to protect our children’s health. We arm members with reliable information and solutions through online resources, articles, action tools, and on-the-ground events. We work across the US on national and local policy issues, through a vibrant network of state-based field teams. Our moms meet with lawmakers at every level of government to build support for commonsense solutions to pollution. We believe that protecting children’s health is a non partisan issue. In fact, we think of ourselves as “Mompartisan”. We meet with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to let them know that votes for clean air and a stable climate are urgently important to us. Moms have passion and power – an unbeatable combination. We are harnessing the strength of mother love to fight back against polluters.
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WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON
- Connecting the dots between climate change and children’s health;
- Building support for standards that limit climate pollution from carbon, methane, and ozone;
- Protecting children from potentially harmful chemical exposures through education and advocacy focused on toxic chemicals in consumer products and other sources;
- Bringing the voices of parents to decision makers at the local, regional, and national levels;
- Driving solutions that support clean, renewable energy for a strong economy and healthy families; and
- Fostering a national conversation about climate change that moves beyond partisanship, to focus on families and communities.
WHY MOMS?
Moms have passion and power — an unbeatable combination. Moms will do everything we can to keep our children safe and sound. That’s why we are uniting to ensure that our children have clean air right now, and for their future.
At Moms Clean Air Force, we make it easy and fast for busy parents to make their voices heard—while baby naps.
Because sometimes, being a good mom means being an active citizen.
GRANDMOTHERS OF THE SACRED WE
PRESENT
“INDIGENOUS WISDOM OF THE CHAKRAS”
Many Grandmother Elder prophecies have been foretold. Here is your invitation to experience and receive treasured wisdom as Grandmothers of the Sacred We return to Western Michigan.
Healing And Empowering Topics Will Include
Tribal Foundational Beliefs
Intimate Prayer
Courage to Trust
The Harmony of Love
Empowering Your Ancestral Voice
Expression of Joy and Peace
Friday, September 14, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 15, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 16, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Lunch and Beverages provided on Saturday and Sunday.
$270 for all three days. (No day passes.)
Tickets now on sale!
Also go to: www.skyviewretreatcenter.com
28 spaces remaining!
We have people traveling here from outside of Michigan for this extraordinary gathering! Driving from Canada and the Midwest!
If you are feeling the call to attend, please heed the call and do what you can to experience their healing ways and deep wisdom.
Those who register before midnight, EST, July 31st, will be eligible to win some Early Bird goodies donated from the Grandmothers themselves!
Please continue to share this auspicious opportunity for us as individuals and for the collective of humanity.
1 to 1 Healing Appointments are now being scheduled for
Monday, September 17 and Tuesday, September 18.
See information further down on the page for details.
Tickets are non-refundable after September 1, 2018.
No on-site camping.
Hotels available in Grand Haven, Muskegon, Holland, Allendale, or Grand Rapids.
Airports located in Muskegon and Grand Rapids.
PayPal account is not needed. You can check-out with a credit or debit card.
You will receive an email confirmation within 48-hours of registering. If you don’t receive a Welcome Email from Sky View Retreat Center within this time, please check your spam folder or email us to confirm your space for this Event.
If you are purchasing 2 tickets, please include the second person’s name and current email address.
Speakers subject to availability.
Facebook Event Page link: www.facebook.com/events/353236211822001/
Get Your Tickets Now: Pathway to Paris
Bioneers is thrilled to partner with the brilliant minds behind Pathway to Paris who will be hosting two evenings of music and art at the Global Climate Action Summit on September 14 in San Francisco and September 16 in Los Angeles. The events will feature well-known artists, including Patti Smith, Flea, Olafur Eliasson, Bill McKibben, Tenzin Choegyal, and more.
Get your tickets for the San Francisco event on September 14 and for the Los Angeles event on September 16.
Pathway to Paris is an initiative in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme and 350.org that brings together musicians, artists, activists, climate change experts, academics, politicians and innovators to participate in a series of events, dialogues and leading initiatives to help turn the Paris Agreement into reality.
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Pathway to Paris was founded by Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon in September 2014 with an intimate evening of music and discourse at Le Poisson Rouge immediately following the People’s Climate March in New York City.
Sponsored by Elders Climate Action (ECA) and Elders Activists for Social Justice (EASJ), Action groups of the Conscious Elders Network, Environmental Justice Working Group and the Unitarian Universalist Church.
September 15, 2018
9 am – 4 pm
San Francisco, CA
As Elders, we will explore, decide, and act:
Seeing with new eyes- what really is happening to our Earth home.
Claiming our roles as Elders and our interconnection to all life.
Examining and choosing the ways we are called to act for our Earth home.
Come join a deep examination of our elderhood and our needed, pivotal role in restoring the life-sustaining legacy for our grandchildren, future generations, and all life. We will explore our passions and skills to effect change and to build relationships for a thriving future.
Be an Elder Standing for Earth and Humanity!
Morning Session
Through interactive processes from the Work that Reconnects, we will explore together how to reclaim our Elders’ moral voice — the voice that speaks for the welfare of all — protecting our grandchildren, restoring Mother Earth, and regenerating a flourishing world. We will have opportunities for truth-telling about the state of our world and the pain and gratitude we feel on its behalf. We will provide particular focus on the unjust effects on communities most at risk from climate chaos and on our planetary life support systems. And we’ll share our dreams of transforming our society towards health, justice, peace, and cooperation.
Lunch Hour
Lunch will be provided. This hour will feature a celebration of our diversity.
Afternoon Session
We will summarize the reality of our changing climate and the positive solutions available to combat this threat to all life. We will hear from Elders who have developed successful community organizing methods that we can adopt. We will divide into small groups by interest and region (a) to address climate action, social justice, intergenerational collaboration, or other themes that may arise; and (b) to create action plans for going forth. We will come together to report on these plans and our commitments thereof.
We will end by celebrating our elderhood and the restorative roles we have chosen.
First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
Martin Luther King Room
1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA
9 am- 4 pm
Registration includes sliding scale fees to cover our costs.
In part one of our fundraising series, international speaker, author, and peace activist, John Dear will host a discussion based on his latest book,“They Will Inherit the Earth”. In it, he examines the connection between violence and our treatment of Mother Earth. He writes, “We need not be blind any longer.” We can reclaim “a vision of peace for ourselves, Mother Earth, and her creatures.”
Join us for an afternoon of challenging reflection on how the current time calls for a transformation of our vision and way of life. A reception to follow in our gardens.
Tickets are required for this event. All proceeds benefit the Center for Environmental Transformation.
UMass Campus Center – 1 Campus Center Way Amherst, MA
REGISTRATION—-https://cohousingassociationoftheunite.regfox.com/northeast-cohousing-summit
This regional cohousing conference is for :
People who want to learn about cohousing, how to create it, how to live it
Those that are forming a cohousing community, whether you’re just starting or already building
Residents who currently live in a cohousing community
Architects, developers, planners or other professionalsinterested in creating communities
What is Coho/US?
Coho/US is a national non-profit raising awareness of the benefits of cohousing and supporting the development of cohousing communities nationwide. We serve as a connector and clearinghouse to grow and nurture cohousing.
What is our Mission?
Coho/US advances cohousing by assisting forming and existing communities through a robust network of resources and access to technical assistance; and educating the public about the benefits of cohousing, from resource conservation and sustainability to resilient communities and healthy families.
Coho/US Program & Services
- Educating and inspiring through national and regional conferences
- Serving as a clearinghouse and connector for resources and professional services
- Building a national cohousing community through networks and mentoring
- Fostering a cohousing-friendly social, political and economic environment through education & advocacy
- Collaborating on opportunities to grow the cohousing movement and nurture communities.
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REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN for the Northeast Summit!
Conference sessions held at UMass Campus Center – 1 Campus Center Way Amherst, MA 01003
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Affordable Cohousing, Including Affordable Farming – Lessons Learned and Being Learned at Rocky Corner, Bethany CT – Saturday Session with David Berto, Richard Wilber & Jerome Garciano
Rocky Corner is the first cohousing community in Connecticut. It is being developed by Green Haven, Inc., which is a local group who got together to create this community that they then want to live in. Construction is underway at this time. The community is located on an abandoned dairy farm of 33 acres in close proximity to New Haven, CT. With clustering of the buildings, most of the property is preserved as farmland. The goals of this project include creating a vibrant cohousing community in a rural setting, with a wide range of affordable units for a wide range of income diversity, and creating an effective and affordable approach to utilizing the remaining farmland. All of these goals presented large challenges but are being accomplished. Development of a cohousing community in this rural setting inherently had initial challenges of high land costs, zoning and town approvals, and creating of water, septic, road access and fire safety. The community of 30 homes and families will have 13 of these at reduced prices that are affordable to purchasers in a range of limited incomes. With the relatively small farm area, alternatives are being evaluated to determine the best ways to effectively utilize this area for ongoing and productive agriculture. An initial detailed evaluation was undertaken by a permaculture expert to define the best uses in the different locations throughout the site. Alternative uses are then being defined and evaluated to best align with the soil characteristics and local interest. Uses include community supported agriculture, community gardens, fruit and nut trees, eggs, small animals, coppice, and other uses as they are identified.
Affordable Co-housing: The Sharing Housing Option – Saturday Session with Annamarie Pulhar
Many people who see the benefits of co-housing and would like to live in such a community can’t afford it. The costs of land and new construction mean that only the affluent can comfortably commit to joining a co-housing communities. But what if people agreed to buy in together to live under one roof? Or an owner opens his/her house to a home-mate? How might that simple idea make it possible for the less than affluent to participate in co-housing communities? How does this impact the community?
This Think Tank will explore the how shared housing can be incorporated into co-housing communities. Lead by Annamarie Pluhar, author of Sharing Housing, A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates and President of Sharing Housing, Inc., it will begin by identifying the barriers and opportunities to implementing this idea. Small groups will then discuss how those barriers can be overcome.
Age-Friendly is Human Friendly – The Appropriate Environment Supports Purposeful Living at Any Age - Saturday Session with Ruth Neeman
Environments that support healthy aging are residential, inviting and are desirable for all, at any age. Universal Design, that is based on principles of equitable use, flexibility and adaptability, simplicity and clarity, perceptible information, tolerance for error, low physical effort, and appropriate accommodation for a variety of abilities – dovetails beautifully with the Cohousing focus on community, interdependence, friendship, accommodation and support.
A Taste of Dynamic Governance / Sociocracy – Saturday Session with Jerry Koch-Gonzalez
Looking for an effective way to make decisions? Check out this taste of sociocracy, an increasingly popular governance and decision-making method based on the values of transparency, equivalency, and effectiveness. We will have an appetizer of the basic principles. We will gorge on two main courses: a hands-on experience of organizational structure that maximizes participation and empowerment, and a real consent decision-making process of selecting someone to a role. We will close by looking at the dessert menu of the ways feedback keeps a community yummy!
Getting the Work Done – Saturday Session with Lyons Witten
How do you get all your community work done? Each cohousing group needs to decide what tasks to include in community work, what system to use to connect each member with their tasks, how to organize meals work in particular, and whether and how to enforce work agreements. In this session, I will explore a wide range of work systems used by existing communities, as well as presenting a framework for understanding the many facets of community work. I will illustrate the breadth of work taken on by most cohousing communities using a “work budget” matrix that can be adjusted to fit your specific community, and will present useful information on how to actually keep your community running smoothly.
Growing Your Group – Saturday Session with Dyan Wiley
Explore the many ways that successful cohousing communities have marketed and promoted their community and the benefits of cohousing. Consider strategies to attract and retain interest and participation — orientation/meet and greet sessions, local news stories, special events, e-newsletters, and social media tools. Understand the importance of good communication skills, being comfortable with conflict, and other factors contribute to building the social fabric of your membership as you build the physical structures and policy agreements that will support your community over time.
If It Doesn’t Work Socially, Why Bother – Saturday Session with Charles Durrett
Across the globe, we seek ways to make neighborhoods more conducive to living lighter on the planet and being happier. We yearn to let our kids play with the neighbors knowing they are safe. New and “innovative” solutions are trying to solve the senior housing challenge, only to fail due to lack of buy-in from the community. Charles Durrett says, “Forget trying to reinvent the wheel. The answers do exist – it’s a matter of addressing our social beliefs and asking if they will bring us happiness.” Durrett will explain the importance of being authentic and listening to the community when addressing senior and intergenerational housing. He will also explain why crafting a well-fitting glove in a facilitated process is one of the keys to success.
Living and Farming in Community – Saturday Session with Nubanusit Neighborhood & Farm and Stowe Farm Community
Nubanusit Neighborhood & Farm (NN&F) and Stowe Farm Community (SFC) will present and discuss the joys, benefits, challenges, and options of farming in community. The presentation will include information about several other agricultural cohousing communities in the northeast region. Join us as we share stories and lessons learned – and learning!
Meals 3 Times a Week – Saturday Session with Ross Harpestad & Catya Belfer
Well, really it’s 11-13 per month, but who’s counting? Come hear about the Mosaic Commons meals program, from Cat Belfer, cook and kitchen czar, and Ross Harpestad, meals scheduler extraordinaire. Tell us what’s great about how you do meals, what you’re struggling with, what you wish for.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Hated Co-Housing: Our Transcendentalist History – Saturday Session with Samantha Bernstein
This presentation will offer a deep dive into the spiritual ancestor of co-housing: the transcendental Utopian communities of the 1840s. Brook Farm and Fruitlands (both in Massachusetts) will be described, along with a discussion of voluntary simplicity (an essential component of these communities), and how the concept has changed and developed since those communities were founded. An essential question will be posed and discussed: How does co-housing support or not support voluntary simplicity? Presentation is for anyone living in co-housing or thinking about living in co-housing.
Replacement Reserves: Taking the Worry Out of your Community’s Financial Future – Saturday Session with Lyons Witten
A real-life DIY cohousing Replacement Reserves (RR) Spreadsheet will be used to explain the benefits of Replacement Reserves, how to manage the multitude of potential items needing replacement (someday), how Replacement Reserves are funded, what big-ticket items cannot be included in Replacement Reserves and how to manage those expenses. Those who do not have such a spreadsheet can use this example to set up their own. This is a “living DIY model” that should be reviewed each year by the Finance team/committee. Having said that, and shown how to use the “living model”, it may be that some/most communities would want to hire a consultant to help them fill in the categories, costs, and life-expectancy of each item in the RR model. This session will provide insight for either way the DIY RR model is used.
Singing in Community – Saturday Session with Zachary Belfer-Shevett & Catya Belfer
Would you like to sing more in your cohousing group? Come experience how groups use song to grow community. Combining conversation and singing, Zach & Catya will share some great songs that really work well for different cohousing groups. Learn about why “having a good voice” doesn’t matter. Learn pitfalls to avoid when selecting songs. Learn about bringing singing into your group’s culture. Cat & Zach will create space for songs from participants, so bring your favorite. If possible, contact us beforehand to teach us your song. (Note: we’ll not be sharing explicitly religious songs.)
Structure in Community – Saturday Session with Karen Gimnig and Carolyn Shapiro
In this session we’ll talk about some of the structures available to cohousing communities including Sociocracy and Imago Relationships tools. We’ll briefly describe each one, share our experience with the transformational power these structures can have, how they can be adapted for different groups, and what can be challenging about them. Bring your questions. This will be a time of story telling with just enough explanation to enable you to bring pieces back to your community.
User-Centered Cohousing Design: Perspectives from Environmental and Social Psychology – Saturday Session with Debi Levine
What lessons can we learn from environmental and social psychology to inform the design and development of cohousing communities? How can theory and practice in these areas help us maximize satisfaction of individual and social needs?
Environmental psychology, also known as person-environment studies, provides insight into how the built – and natural – environment affects individual and interpersonal behavior. Social psychology helps us understand how interpersonal dynamics influence our notions of community, and can also help us evaluate how to apply community design principles originating in one culture (Denmark), to our own.
This session is an opportunity to (1) learn how basic human needs for both privacy and positive social interaction can be addressed through macro and micro physical design elements; (2) expand upon user-centered design principles to address how cultural norms and notions of “community” can inform design choices; and (3) share experiences about design elements that have worked well – and not so well. Insights from social psychology that can inform the consensus decision-making process around design will be interwoven throughout the session.
Want Something to Change in Your Community? – Saturday Session with Betsy Waters
With a change you are interested in making in your community in mind, explore organizational development strategies. We will draw heavily from the work of the consultant group, Vital Smarts.
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Bios: 2018 Northeast Cohousing Summit
Alan O’Hashi, MPA, resides in Silver Sage Village cohousing in Boulder, CO and is a documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and seasoned storyteller. His latest, “The New Deal Artist Public Art Legacy just aired on Wyoming PBS. He’s developing the Lincoln Court Mixed Use Intentional Community in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Annamarie Pluhar, M.Div, is the founder of Sharing Housing, Inc. a nonprofit 501©(3) whose mission is to promote the idea of shared housing for adults and provide
educational resources. An award-winning speaker, she is the author of Sharing Housing, A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates. She designs and delivers in-person workshops and on-line webinars to teach individuals and organizations the tools for effectively selecting a good home-mate. Her blog is at https://www.sharinghousing.com. The nonprofit organization is at https://sharinghousing.org. She is a graduate of Vassar College and has a masters in divinity from The Episcopal Divinity School. She lives in Vermont with one two-legged and two four-legged Housemates.
Carolyn Shapiro is an artist/education. She worked with her husband to establish White Pine Cohousing where she introduced the sociocratic method as the way to conduct cohousing meetings. She looks forward to sharing her experiences with how the sociocratic method works for White Pine and how it has helped members deal with difficult issues.
Catya Belfer is a founder and resident of Mosaic Commons, about an hour and a half East of Amherst. Catya works as a technical program manager and also builds websites for cohousing groups and others, including www.cohousing.org. She cooks for the community once or twice a month. She is passionate about building connections between people and has been involved in intentional communities since 1994. On the non-technical side, she is fascinated by how we build community through ritual, tradition, and song, though she’s not as good at singing and harmony as her kid.
Charles Durrett brings a wealth of knowledge and experience. He pioneered the cohousing movement in the U.S. and teaches architects and community leaders how to start successful cohousing communities around the globe.
David Berto created Housing Enterprises, Inc. 25 years ago to provide creative solutions to housing development and to preserve historic structures. Prior to this he was a nuclear engineer. Housing Enterprises, Inc. now has a staff of 4. Housing Enterprises assists small nonprofit groups and others in all aspects of developing and sustaining all types of affordable, mixed income and mixed use housing projects in Connecticut and other parts of the country. They work with each organization throughout all steps of the development process to create quality projects that strengthen neighborhoods and provide housing where families and individuals can feel proud to call home.
Debi Levine is a freelance instructional designer and professional facilitator with advanced graduate training in Social Psychology, People-Environment Studies, and Human Relations Training. Over the past 25 years, Debi has developed and led workshops on a broad range of management and professional development topics, and has consulted to several Cohousing communities on consensus-building and effective facilitation skills. Debi has an abiding interest in how the natural and built environments influence individual and interpersonal behavior, and how they can support health, healing, and a sense of “home.” She has been an active member of the Environmental Design Research Association, a board member of LivableStreets Alliance, a six-year resident of Cornerstone Cohousing in Cambridge, MA, and a former expatriate, having lived in Denmark for nine years – including in a variety of informal “living-together” housing situations.
Dyan Wiley is a founding member of Pioneer Valley Cohousing Community in Amherst MA. She was a key member of the Membership committee working to attract newcomers to their start-up community 25 years ago. She also served on the community’s Development Team, Facilitation committee, and kitchen design team. She has helped several other communities with their marketing and outreach efforts through trainings and informal consulting. For her day job, Dyan works full-time in the grants office at Mount Holyoke College and is a busy activist for immigrant rights.
Elizabeth Magill is one of the early members of Mosaic Commons Cohousing in Berlin, MA, and has been part of their conflict resolution (now called community support) team through its many changes. Liz also handles conflict and community in her “day job” is as a pastor in the United Church of Christ. When it’s all too much she hides in her attic making quilts.
Gabriel Mugar is a researcher and activist working at the intersection of technology, media, and community building. He is currently a Design Researcher at IDEO in Cambridge, MA. Until May of 2018, Gabriel was a research associate and affiliate faculty at the Emerson College Engagement Lab where he coordinated a national study on civic media practitioners and taught courses on qualitative research and digital media studies. Gabriel earned his PhD from the Syracuse University School of Information Studies where his dissertation research looked at the newcomer management strategies of digital participatory platforms and how newcomers negotiate such strategies. Gabriel’s recent work includes designing experiences to engage Boston Public School students in conducting research and writing for descriptions of historic locations in augmented reality games developed by Niantic, Inc. (makers of Pokemon Go), and researching Civic Media Innovation in the United States, published as a white paper for the MacArthur Foundation. Gabriel is the founder of the Transformative Culture Project, aBoston-based nonprofit that supports career development for young media professionals across southern
New England, and is an affiliate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
University.
Jana Lussier is a Head Cook at Pioneer Valley Cohousing. She has also cooked semi professionally at various restaurants in her former life. Now she is a licensed Acupuncturist.
Jerome Garciano is an attorney with a concentration on state and federal tax financing incentives affecting the built environment. His experience includes provided legal support for developers, syndicators, investors, non-profit sponsors, and government agencies in renewable energy and real estate developments using the historic, new markets, renewable energy and low-income housing tax credits. As a LEED, AP, he has also served clients utilizing energy efficiency and renewable energy tax incentives. An attorney at a major Boston law firm, he has also served as a finance project manager at The Community Builders, Inc., a national non-profit developer of affordable housing. Prior to that, Mr. Garciano was a financial analyst with Recapitalization Advisors, a nationally recognized real estate finance consulting firm, specializing in repositioning affordable multifamily housing assets. He is a CPA and has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University.
Jenny French and Anda French, AIA, are principals of French 2D, an architecture studio based in Boston. French 2D’s work combines architectural form-making with integrated art practice, and experimental collaborative methods in commercial, residential, and civic projects. French 2D works on housing and mixed-use with a focus on unconventional housing types that combine familiar ideas of home with more radical organizations and typologies. They focus on the ethos of compact living and shared resources in projects like the first all micro-unit building built in Boston. French 2D was one of five finalists in the 2013 Museum of Modern Art PS1 Young Architects Program in New York, and the firm was featured as Architect Magazine October 2017 Next Progressives. Jenny French is a Design Critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Anda French serves on the Board of Directors of the Boston Society of Architects.
Jerry Koch-Gonzalez is a founding resident at Pioneer Valley Cohousing, and has been
teaching sociocracy and Non-Violent Communications for many years.
Karen Gimnig is a certified professional facilitator with Imago Relationships International. She believes that every decision to be made and every conflict that occurs is an opportunity to increase the sense of community in cohousing. She is passionate about sharing the tools that help communities take advantage of these opportunities to experience deeper relationships and greater joy. She brings experience from her own cohousing community as well other other communities, the board of Coho US, and other non-profit organizations. Feel free to contact her with questions at gimnig@gmail.com or 678-705-9007.
Laura Fitch is a founding principal with Fitch Architecture & Community Design in Amherst, Massachusetts and a 24-year resident of Pioneer Valley Cohousing. Fitch specializes in energy-efficient building design for homes, commercial properties, and smart growth communities. She has worked on programming, schematic design, and/or full architectural services on over thirty cohousing communities across North America for which the firm has received numerous awards.
In 2006, Fitch was given the Boston Architectural College’s “Distinguished Alumni Award”, stating “because of you, Laura, many people have found more neighborly and sustainable ways to live. Through your work, our world is a better place”. Laura, principal of Fitch Architecture & Community Design, Inc., can be contacted at lfitch@facdarchitects.com. 413-549-5799
Lyons Witten, 24-year resident, chairman of the Buildings Grounds Circle and a member of the Finance Circle of Pioneer Valley Cohousing (Amherst, MA), will present useful information on how to keeping your community running smoothly. From fascinating meal sign-up sheets to complicated replacement reserve spreadsheets, he has helped run a tight ship through the quagmire of cohousing!
Email: lyons@cohousing.com
Mary Kraus, AIA, LEED BD+C is a cohousing architect and facilitator who has worked with over two dozen communities in the US and Canada over the past thirty years. She was a founding board member of the Cohousing Network (now Coho US). She lives at Pioneer Valley Cohousing, the first cohousing community in the eastern US, where she can be found preparing dinner in the common house kitchen with her cook team.
Nubanusit Neighborhood & Farm has 29 families in a rural cohousing community on 113 acres in Peterborough, NH
Rev. Dr. Betsy Waters — a workshop leader, coach and a church consultant, pastor, past school psychologist and teacher, facilitator and process leader at Mosaic-Commons. www.renewingchurches.com
Richard Wilber has a B.A. in Fine Art, worked as a computer programmer, and is now retired. He is an amateur woodworker and has recently received a Permaculture Design Certificate, skills that will come in handy in the Rocky Corner cohousing community. He believes that living in community and designing the landscape using permaculture principles are important for the health of our planet. He is hoping that Rocky Corner can set an example in living the change we want to see, and that others will be inspired to do something similar.
Ross Harpestad is a resident of Mosaic Commons, about an hour and a half east of Amherst. He cleans up after meals three to four times a month as well as performs the monthly meals accounting and the every-other-month meals scheduling process. Ross works as a Senior Software Engineer and Analyst for a large for-profit that designs financial software geared towards schools, cities and counties governments. He grumbles a lot and has been involved with Mosaic Commons since 2009.
Ruth Neeman AIA, Principal, Director of Senior Environments Design Studio – LWDA Inc.is a registered architect with more than 30 years of experience in planning, design and research focusing exclusively on environments that enable elders and support independence and aging with dignity. Her project experience includes new construction and renovations of Independent Living Communities, traditional and memory supportive Assisted Living facilities, Long Term Care centers, short term rehabilitative care units, as well as community based day centers. E-mail: rneeman@lwda.com
Samantha Bernstein’s childhood summers were spent in a co-housing “situation” in Otis, Massachusetts that was founded by all four of her grandparents. She has a BA in Anthropology, a BS in Nursing, and an MA in American Studies, and is currently working on her MS- Nursing at University of New Hampshire. Sam became academically interested in co-housing and voluntary simplicity during college and her master’s thesis “Buy Less, Be More: The Transcendentalist History of Anti-consumerism” devoted an entire chapter to cohousing. She moved into Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm with her family in 2015 and has recently moved out of the ‘hood.
Shelly Parks left a nationally recognized sales and marketing career in the retirement living industry to focus on sharing her professional skills and experience with cohousers. Shelly completed the 500 Communities Program in 2017 and is now an affiliate of Cohousing Solutions. She is also a member of Skagit Cohousing, a developing community in Anacortes, WA. To learn more about Shelly and her work, go to her website: www.covisionconsulting.com
Stowe Farm Community will have 11 families when complete, it has 8 families now.in a rural cohousing community on ~80 acres in Colrain, MA
Zachary Belfer-Shevett grew up in community and now attends Hampshire College here in Amherst. They are a dedicated musician who plays guitar-like instruments and have sung in a variety of choruses, and are an avid contra dancer. Zachary recently finished a course in Ethnomusicology.
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Pre-conference Intensives on Friday Sept 21st (optional)
Pre-conference Intensives held at Pioneer Valley Cohousing – 120 Pulpit Hill Road, Amherst, MA 01002
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Participants will learn and practice 5 simple tools that increase connection and make conflict more productive and more easily resolved in any community
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This hands-on intensive will mirror the participatory design process used to create cohousing, and will delve into creative living solutions for particularly tight sites. In addition to presentations on cohousing site design and case studies of dense urban living, you will be working directly on to-scale models to generate site plans.
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Interested in learning more about menu planning for diverse eating needs, explore the culture of eating together, how to organize meal sign ups/payment AND cook fun appetizers together that will be served at the conference? Then join us!
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We’ll help you craft your “elevator speech” summarizing your story so it is quickly understandable and then provide you some low / no cost ways you can get your information out there to your targeted market through online media.
Having a compelling online media presence is increasingly important. It’s crucial to outline who you hope to attract to your community, so your message reflects that. We’ll outline tools and best practices for finding your future neighbors via your website, newsletter, facebook, twitter and Meetup pages, as well as Coho/US’s resources.
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The Common House is the heart of every cohousing community. How can you design your common house to enhance your community? What spaces should you include? What spaces can be combined to achieve economy? What will your kitchen and dining room feel like? How will kids and adults enjoy the building simultaneously? This workshop will answer these and many other questions.
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Whether you are just beginning to form your group, need to re-energize your efforts, or you just need those last few members, this intensive will give you tried and true marketing and sales tools to ensure your community’s launch. Topics covered will include a broad range of best practices including how to create a strategic marketing plan and how to turn interested people into committed members.
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When people hang out with other people, conflicts arise. Even in cohousing. Maybe especially in cohousing. This workshop will explore how to put together a community support or conflict resolution team, who should be on the team, and how to work as a team.
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Sociocracy is an increasingly popular governance and decision-making method based on the values of transparency, equivalency, and effectiveness. Through verbal, visual, and hands-on physical demonstrations and practice exercises, we will demonstrate the consent decision-making process, including proposal generation and selection of people to roles. We will explore organizational structures for cohousing communities and the feedback processes that keep communities from going stale.
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In this pre-game show, you will learn why senior cohousing is such a big deal today and how to get them started. Become aware of current challenges, including the influx of an aging society, and learn why cohousing is a successful model to combatting this challenge. Learn how you can become the tipping point in your area, becoming an active voice for seniors in local government and culture (Spoiler alert: It’s actually not that difficult.)
BE THE GENERATION TO TAKE ACTION.
Global Citizen is calling on YOU to take a stand, use your voice to make change and Be the Generation to Take Action.
From Sep 22 – 29, we are turning NYC into an arena of advocacy, with dozens of events and activations. We are uniting Global Citizens to learn, take action, and see world leaders commit to achieve the Global Goals for Sustainable Development and a world without extreme poverty by 2030.
Global Citizen Week coincides with the annual leaders meeting of the United Nations. We kick off at the historic Riverside Church on the Upper West Side celebrating the human rights leaders and movements who spoke up against injustice, and culminate at the iconic Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on Saturday, Sept 29.
Join us at conferences and concerts, on the streets, in shops, and in churches to show our leaders that the movement for change has never been stronger.
Be sure to check back as we add more events and opportunities for you to get involved!
SEE events already listed on website!
30+YEARS
STANDING WITH FAMILY FARMERS
Farm Aid works year-round to build a system of agriculture that values family farmers, good food, soil and water, and strong communities. Our annual music and food festival celebrates farmers, eaters and music coming together for change.
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Part of Climate Week NYC 2018
Doors open at 6:15
Mon, September 24, 2018
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Join us for a presentation and panel discussion on The New York Times Best Selling Book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. Moderated by Bill McKibben (founder 350.org) the event is sponsored by The New York Society for Ethical Culture, 350NYC and Pachamama Alliance.
Featuring:
Moderator: Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org
Lynne Twist, Co-Founder, Pachamama Alliance
Katharine Wilkinson, Senior Writer, Drawdown; VP of Communication and Engagement, Project Drawdown
With Panelists:
Chad Frischmann, VP of Research, Project Drawdown
Karen Washington, food justice activist and urban farmer
Dan Zarrilli, Senior Director, Climate Policy & Programs and Chief Resilience Officer, New York City Office of The Mayor
Lauren Zullo, Director of Sustainability, Jonathan Rose Companies
Scientists have done an extraordinary job detailing the current and future impacts of global warming. What humanity has lacked is a comprehensive, convincing path forward to reverse it. Project Drawdown brought together an international collaborative to create that blueprint of possibility—Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, the bestselling environmental book of 2017. As a living research and communication effort, Project Drawdown continues to map, measure, and model the most substantive climate solutions, and to advance the understanding, imagination, and conviction needed to reverse global warming.
New York, NY 10023
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Our historic building is on West 64th Street at Central Park West, two blocks east of Lincoln Center and five blocks north of Columbus Circle.
By Subway:
- 1 train to 66th Street and Broadway
- A, B, C, D or 1 trains to Columbus Circle
By Bus:
- 10 or 20 to 64th Street and Central Park West
- 7 or 11 South to 66th Street and Columbus Ave.
- 7 North to Broadway and 63rd
- 11 North to Amsterdam and 65th
- 104 or 5 to 66th Street and Broadway
- 66 to Central Park West and 66th (West) or 65th (East)
Please note: Our 100-year-old building is accessible for most wheelchair users with prior arrangements. For events in our Auditorium or Social Hall, please call ahead (212-874-5210 x1107) for set-up of our portable lift system and plan to arrive one hour before event start time.
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Making Waves 2018
About Us
Our mission is to protect and restore Santa Monica Bay, San Pedro Bay, and adjacent waters through enforcement, fieldwork, and community action. We work to achieve this goal through litigation and regulatory programs that ensure water quality protections in waterways throughout L.A. County. Our Litigation, Advocacy, Marine, and Water Quality teams conduct interconnected projects that serve this mission.
Los Angeles Waterkeeper is an Organization of Waterkeeper Alliance, the world’s fastest growing environmental movement. Along with hundreds other Waterkeeper Organizations, our movement works for swimmable, drinkable and fishable waterways worldwide.
History
In 1993, Terry Tamminen and his team first started Santa Monica Baykeeper while patrolling the Santa Monica Bay-on a single houseboat no less- identifying sources of pollution and taking action to stop it. Twenty years later our organization has grown by leaps and bounds, and is now called Los Angeles Waterkeeper, recognized as the defender of all waterways throughout Los Angeles. However, despite our growth in size and prominence, our principles have remained fundamentally the same.
Since 2004, sewage spills that foul our rivers and beaches have decreased by 83%–a direct result of our successful lawsuit against the City of LA under the federal Clean Water Act. More recently, we have reached a $6.6 million dollar settlement with the City of Malibu, requiring the City to clean up some of Malibu’s most frequented spots including the world famous Surfrider Beach. Whether it’s protecting ocean habitats, endangered species, addressing the impacts from oil drilling, sewage and trash collection, or advocating on statewide policies related to our issues, we are there. And not only do we use the law to achieve our goals, we also work to restore creeks and rivers, and our volunteer scientific diver team works tirelessly to reduce the impacts of invasive species along our shoreline.
Recent Accomplishments
Protected local waterways from 3,000+ Clean Water Act violations at industrial facilities. We were victorious in 2 lawsuits against facilities that released toxic levels of pollutants into our waterways. We filed 5 more lawsuits just this year, and we continue our relentless campaign to ultimately eliminate polluted stormwater discharge from entering LA’s waterways.
Engaged hundreds of students and community volunteers in monitoring the health of the region’s most impaired waterways. We revamped our stormwater assessment teams and spearheaded a collaborative project to empower volunteers to steward the LA River. In 2016 alone, we’ve trained 300+ volunteers in an effort to support communities monitoring their local waterways.
Challenged the State Water Board’s plan to weaken pollution standards for the LA River. We filed a lawsuit against the California State and Los Angeles Regional Water Boards over their decisions to relax regulations on lead and increase limits for copper by up to 1000% in the LA River and its tributaries.
Launched a new underwater research project to utilize our volunteer scientific diver corps to assess and address the emerging threat of invasive species. We recruited and trained nearly 50 volunteer scientific divers to help us investigate the growing threat of invasive species in our coastal ecosystems. We established sites in Palos Verdes to begin monitoring, and we’re set to begin testing removal methods early next year.
Secured $4 million from LA County for clean water projects in LA’s most impacted communities. Our settlement with the County will result in $2.8 million for a Green Streets project in Watts and $1.2 million for stormwater capture systems across the county—efforts that will help address the toxic mix of pollutants found in billions of gallons of annual stormwater runoff.
Empowered underserved and at-risk youth in helping enforce No Fishing zones along our coast. We completed 60 survey trips through LA’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and reported 43 violations to the Department of Fish and Wildlife. We provided MPA education to 32 violators and brought onboard 150+ new volunteers.
Contact Us
Mailing Address
LA Waterkeeper
120 Broadway, Suite 105
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Email: info@lawaterkeeper.org
Phone Number: 310-394-6162
Fax Number: 310-394-6178
Directions:
Our office is located in Downtown Santa Monica. We are on the 1st floor of the Brian Cave building facing Broadway. Free public parking is available for the first 90 minutes adjacent to Santa Monica Place in public parking structure 8, 1571 2nd St. Santa Monica, CA (Colorado Ave. and 2nd St.)
Women’s Environmental Institute presents:
September 29 @ 8:00 am – September 30 @ 3:30 pm
The New Will Allen Farmer Training Weekend –
Farm, Eat, Sleep: All Four Seasons
Overview:
The weekend workshops will provide participants with hands-on knowledge for building a low-cost hoop house, growing microgreens, growing mushrooms, herbalism workshops, soil building through composting and vermiculture, keeping bees, and growing fish and greens together through aquaponics. The Saturday night bonfire discussion with Will Allen will focus on cold climate farming, community sustainability and climate change – a very popular capstone event which brings environmental, agricultural and food justice together.
CLICK THIS LINK FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION
Registration Info: $275/person
Deadline is September 19, 2018 at 12:00pm
Meals: All meals, snacks and beverages included.
Overnight Accommodations at WEI: Limited camping space is available, please reserve your camp space upon registration.
Instructor Name: Will Allen, Will Allen Farms, LCC Milwaukee, Former Founder Growing Power, Inc., Urban Farmer Hero
REGISTER HERE or SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION
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THE WOMEN’S ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE
The Women’s Environmental Institute (WEI) is an environmental research, renewal and retreat center designed to create and share knowledge about environmental issues and policies relevant to women, children and identified communities affected by environmental injustice; to promote agricultural justice, organic and sustainable agriculture and ecological awareness; and to support activism that influences public policy and promotes social change.
Our mission brings together agricultural, food and environmental justice, one community at a time; one farm at a time, one person at a time and all of us together.
Amador Hill Farm and Orchard
15715 River Road
North Branch, MN 55056
Mailing Address:
WEI
P.O. Box 128 (55056)
St Paul Office –
550 Rice St
St Paul, MN 55103
Email: wei@w-e-i.org
September 29–30, 2018
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles
Note that times are for Pacific Coast Time Zone
jotff@anewwayoflife.org
323-563-3573
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Note: Last movie – SURVIVORS GUIDE TO PRISON – with Q&A to follow with producer DAVID ARQUETTE
September 30 | 3:30 PM (RunTime: 102 minutes) – at MAYER THEATRE
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Film Synopses & Trailers
Saturday, September 29
(Screenings will be followed by Q&A with filmmakers)
RT: 30 minutes
September 29 | 11 AM
Life Sciences Building Auditorium Theatre
Q&A to follow with writer/director Tiffany Johnson and producer/animator Jonathan Clark
The Real Background Check
This animated short film is based on the real life story of Tiffany Johnson, who survived life-altering trauma caused by early childhood abuse. “The Real Background Check” breaks down what happens to people before they enter the criminal justice system.
RT: 57 minutes
September 29 | 1:30 PM
Life Sciences Building Auditorium Theatre
Q&A to follow with Johnny Perez (Director of U.S. Prison Programs, National Religious Campaign Against Torture)
Rikers: An American Jail
From Bill Moyers comes the first film to focus exclusively on former detainees who were held at Rikers Island. Their searing testimonials about the deep-seated culture of systemic violence and corruption that has plagued the notorious NYC jail for decades add a powerful authentic voice to investigative journalism that has reported on violence and abuses at the jail.
RT: 68 minutes
September 29 | 1:30 PM
Seaver 100 Theatre
Q&A to follow with writer/director/producer Saffron Cassaday
Returning Citizens
“Returning Citizens” focuses on a passionate group of individuals who are looking for a second chance – or perhaps a chance they never had to begin with. Set in Southeast Washington, DC, the film offers a humanizing perspective on a community that has been negatively impacted by mass incarceration.
RT: 40 minutes
September 29 | 1:30 PM
Seaver 200 Theatre
Knife Skills
What does it take to build a world-class French restaurant? What if the staff is almost entirely men and women just out of prison? What if most have never cooked or served before, and have barely two months to learn their trade? Oscar-nominated Knife Skills follows the hectic launch of Edwins restaurant in Cleveland. In this improbable setting, with its mouth-watering dishes and its arcane French vocabulary, we discover the challenges of men and women finding their way after their release.
RT: 45 minutes
September 29 | 3:05 PM
Life Sciences Building Auditorium Theatre
The Bail Trap: American Ransom
Money bail is one of the main causes of mass incarceration in the United States. Yet, few people know what the money bail system is, let alone how it all works or why we need to do away with it. This short film compilation from Brave New Films explains America’s broken bail system.
RT: 22 minutes
September 29 | 3:00 PM
Seaver 100 Theatre
Q&A to follow with producer/director Terrell Wormley
Wild Roots
Hakeem, a reformed gang member, gets out of jail and wants to change his life around, but the hood won’t left him go easily. He knows how senseless gang banging is, but what do you do when your past catches up to you?
The Talk
After an unarmed black teen is killed, James & Maddie argue about whether they should warn their 9-year-old son about police brutality.
RT: 16 minutes
September 29 | 3:40 PM
Seaver 100 Theatre
Q&A to follow with Marlon Perrier, writer/director/star of “The Talk”
Sunday, September 30
(Screenings will be followed by Q&A with filmmakers)
RT: 60 minutes
September 30 | 11 AM
Life Sciences Building Auditorium Theatre
Q&A to follow with director/producer Ultan Guilfoyle, Craig Webb (Gehry Partners) & Leonard Noisette (Justice Team Director, Open Society Foundations)
Building Justice
At the invitation of George Soros and his Open Society Foundations, architect Frank Gehry arranged two ‘masters’ studios, one in SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, the other at the Yale School of Architecture, to investigate prison design as a subject for the best architecture students in the US. Partnering with Susan Burton of A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project in
Watts, Gehry and his students explored all aspects of prison design, learning first hand the design flaws of prison living from women who have been incarcerated in America’s worst prisons and visiting what are considered to be the world’s most successful prisons, in Norway.
RT: 60 minutes
September 30 | 1:50 PM
Life Sciences Building Auditorium Theatre
Q&A to follow with director AJ Ali
Walking While Black: L.O.V.E Is the Answer
“Walking While Black: L.O.V.E. Is The Answer” presents proven action steps
to bridge the painful gap between peace officers and the communities they serve. Featuring interviews with peace
officers, faith leaders, educators, activists and others, the film offers an inspiring blueprint to end racial profiling and heal our communities.
RT: 73 minutes
September 30 | 1:50 PM
Seaver 200 Theatre
Q&A to follow with director/executive producer Rahiem Shabazz
Elementary Genocide III: Academic Holocaust
Elementary Genocide: Academic Holocaust adds more statistical proof of the scholastic inequalities faced by Original people around the country. The documentary revisits the importance of education and its impact on self-image, family structure, financial freedom and the collective future of African/indigenous people in America and abroad.
RT: 16 minutes
September 30 | 1:50 PM
Seaver 100 Theatre
Let My People Vote
Filmed in Tampa, two days before the 2016 presidential election, this verité short covers a day-in-the-life of civil rights activist Desmond Meade. His mission? Assisting people in voting — something our “forefathers marched and died for.”
What begins as an upbeat day of faith in our democratic process, ends with a heartbreaking realization: Jim Crow is not dead.
RT: 102 minutes
September 30 | 3:30 PM
Mayer Theatre
Q&A to follow with producer David Arquette
Survivors Guide to Prison
Follows the stories of two innocent men, Bruce Lisker and Reggie Cole, who spent decades behind bars for murders they did not commit. With gripping testimony from formerly incarcerated people, guards, cops, lawyers and reformers, “Survivors Guide” exposes the failed “punishment model” and examines the programs proven to work.
On Saturday, September 29, the Courier-Post will partner with the Farm & Fisherman Tavern in Cherry Hill, the Center for Environmental Transformation (CFET), and other community organizations to offer a special tasting, farm tour, and community conversation about reducing food waste. With a menu orchestrated by Chef Todd Fuller of Farm & Fisherman, the event will include Scrap App tastings, live music and tours of urban farming spaces by Farmer Jon of CFET. Event includes coffee courtesy of Revolution Coffee Roasters, wine from Auburn Road Vineyards, and an exclusive beer brewed specifically for the event by Tonewood Brewing Company.
Tickets are $40 or two for $75 in advance. At the door, if available, tickets are $45. For residents of the City of Camden, tickets are $20. Proceeds will benefit The Center for Environmental Transformation. The event will feature chefs from The Food Bank of South Jersey, Cathedral Kitchen and the Neighborhood Center of Camden.
‘GRANDMOTHERS ON THE MOVE’ Podcast Episodes
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NO START TIME and NO END TIME – LISTEN to past and current podcasts!
Grandmothers To Grandmothers Campaign
The Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign exists to support the indomitable African grandmothers who are caring for the millions of children who have been orphaned by AIDS. Members of the Grandmothers Campaign share three goals. They work to:
- Raise funds to meet the needs of African grandmothers and the children in their care;
- Listen to African grandmothers, respect their expertise and amplify their voices, in order to promote authentic and substantive responses to the epidemic in Africa;
- Build solidarity among African and Canadian grandmothers in order to motivate and sustain the vital work of turning the tide of AIDS in Africa.
Canadian grandmothers groups are tremendously active in their communities. They put on concerts, organize card tournaments, and sell jewellery. They visit countless schools and community organizations. They bake, cook, sew, knit, paint, write, organize cycle tours, walks, and even ride motorcycles – all to raise funds and awareness for grandmothers in sub-Saharan Africa through the Stephen Lewis Foundation.
To learn more about how you can get involved in the Campaign, write to Ilana here.
Articles About The Campaign
What started as a conversation around a kitchen table has grown to become a movement to empower women, especially grandmothers, in Africa.
The Grandmothers Campaign, an initiative of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, is known as Grandmothers 4 Grandmothers in Regina, which was among the very first places in Canada where women took on projects to support families in Africa.
‘We know the power of women’s organizing in Canada and older women have an extraordinary amount of vigour and energy.’– Ilana Landsberg-Lewis
As Ilana Landsberg-Lewis explains, the movement arose in response to the human crisis, observed by her father Stephen Lewis during his time as a special envoy for the United Nations, afflicting the African continent during the HIV and AIDS pandemic.
Millions of children were orphaned by the deaths of their parents. Their grandmothers were left to raise them, with little or no support.
“Grandmothers were just in an agony of loss,” Landsberg-Lewis said. “Death was everywhere. They were left with no income and often isolated by the terrible stigma surrounding HIV-AIDS.”
Landsberg-Lewis recalled how requests seeking aid referred to the grandmothers as “caregivers” and when she asked why, she learned there was a strong bias in play.
“Nobody wants to fund them because they’re older women and nobody sees them as a meaningful investment,” she learned.
“We decided if Canadian grandmothers knew what was happening on the [African] continent then it would surely resonate with them and boy did it ever,” Landsberg-Lewis said.
“I wish I could say that I was prescient but it would be overstating it,” she said, talking about how the success of the organization, which quickly grew from a handful of activists brain-storming at a kitchen table (her own) to over 250 chapters across the country.
Since 2006 they have raised about $25 million.
“It was really extraordinary but I can’t say that I’m surprised,” she said. “Older women in our communities, we know the power of women organizing in Canada and older women have an extraordinary amount of vigour and energy.”
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The Campaign currently boasts more than 240 grandmothers groups across the country. Many of the groups have organized into regional and national networks in order to support each other’s efforts in solidarity with African grandmothers and the children in their care.
Resources from the Grandmothers Campaign go to grassroots organizations that support African grandmothers with food, health care, school fees and school uniforms for their grandchildren, income-generating programmes, counselling, social support, essential shelter, and other necessities. Throughout Africa, grassroots organizations run by and for grandmothers are sharing insights, deepening their expertise, collaborating with other local organizations, and building their capacity to turn the tide of AIDS at community level.
These calls are designed to
bring together Pachamama Alliance
participants, leaders, and supporters who are actively engaged
in creating a shift in humanity to a worldview
that honors and sustains life
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By coming together and grounding in this vision, you will:
*Feel supported in your work.
**Be inspired and energized in your unique role in a worldwide
network committed to a new future for all.
***Strengthen your connection to like-hearted people and to the spirit
that has inspired Pachamama Alliance since its inception.
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GO TO: https://www.pachamama.org/events
to reserve your space for the conversation.
Fill out the online form and submit.
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In Conversation With Mother Jones
Mother Jones is bringing its fearless reporting and in-depth conversation to a city near you. Our In Conversation series features timely discussions with writers, thinkers, and changemakers who are pushing the national conversation forward.
Our latest event featured the Rev. William J. Barber, a preeminent civil rights leader and co-founder of the Poor People’s Campaign, in conversation with our senior reporter Ari Berman about voter suppression, civil rights, and the upcoming midterm elections.
Watch the Facebook Live stream of the event.
Join Us for Our 2018-19 Events Lineup
(Current topics and dates are tentative. More details to be updated shortly.)
February 2019: California leads the way (Part 1 – San Francisco)
April 2019: Women leading the way (New York)
June 2019: Food security and politics (Los Angeles)
August 2019: The future of education (Washington, DC)
October 2019: California leads the way (Part 2 – Los Angeles)
If you are interested in sponsoring future events, please contact the Mother Jones sales team.
Jazz and classical piano for four hands (two pianos) featuring Victor Dizon and Racquel Borromeo, two amazing young pianists from the Philippines, plus a guest appearance by Will Galison, virtuoso harmonica player.
Program:
Ritual Fire Dance by M. de Falla
Points on Jazz by D. Brubeck
Libertango by A. Piazzolla
Danzon no. 2 by A. Marquez
Imagine by John Lennon
Awakening Humanity at Work
CCARE and Whirling Chief are excited to bring this unique leadership development retreat to California at the Allegretto Vineyard Resort. In this powerful three-day program we will explore the latest in neuroscience, the bio-psycho-physiology of compassion, and dynamic practices that support the development of compassion, wisdom, and well-being at work. A significant body of evidence shows that when people in power adopt a human-centered view of business and promote a culture of respect, trust, compassion, and wisdom, the performance of the organization rises along with individual wellness.Join us to expand your capacity for this kind of leadership.Reach out to us if you are interested in participating.
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The rise of artificial intelligence, robotics, and “smart” technologies powers change faster than ever. For some, this new era has ushered in prosperity and the potential to address some of humanity’s most vexing challenges in creative new ways. For others, however, this era of technological and social change has ushered in isolation, loneliness, and fear.
Humanity Needs a New Form of Leadership
A significant body of research shows that when people in positions of power adopt a human-centered view of business that emphasizes a culture of respect, trust, compassion, and wisdom, the performance of the organization rises along with individual well-being. Rigorous evidence from multiple disciplines demonstrates that organizations can recruit more talented people, retain them longer, draw out higher quality service, and engage in more rapid innovation when performance goes hand-in-hand with human thriving. Where people thrive, business thrives.
Audience
Corporate executives, organizational leaders and those in influencing roles who want to immerse in the new science of compassion and well-being and explore the strategic value of human-centered leadership to create stakeholder and shareholder value.
Program Objectives
In this powerful three-day program, we will use the latest research in neuroscience, the bio-physiology of compassion and well-being, and dynamic findings from organizational behavior and psychology to learn the skills of resilience and creating thriving organizations.
We will explore how a neuroscientific and physiological approach to building an organizational culture of compassion and well-being changes what you think you know about the basics of human and organizational psychology. Along with like-minded fellow travelers on a journey of evolution, we will participate in a discussion about how to develop new qualities within ourselves and within the organizational ecosystems where we live and create action plans that inspire our own compassion and well-being.
Some of the benefits you will experience through a combination of classroom learning, experiential work, discussion, and case study include:
- Gain a better understanding of the scientific basis for an emphasis on compassion and well-being in the workplace and the motivators for compassion in business,
- Increase consciousness and build skill in managing the physiology and psychology of human well-being,
- Recognize thinking habits and biases that work for you and against you as you endeavour to cultivate compassion, wisdom, and well-being,
- Learn about and experiment with some new taxonomy of ‘being’,
- Use scenario planning to envision future states of ‘doing’,
- Develop methodologies to lift self and others into new states of thriving and vitality in your organization
- Develop approaches to reducing and responding to suffering at work that may otherwise be invisible or unaddressed in order to build collaboration and enhance working relationships.
Agenda
The three days of this program will emphasize a blend of classroom-style learning, expert presentations, and discussion with experiences that help you fully internalize and practice the skills and ideas that will change your life and your workplace.
Day 1: What is the new world of work and how shall humanity respond?
Day 2: Awakening humanity in leadership: The crucial element of success in the new world of work
Day 3: A new kind of being, a new kind of business
Program Facilitators
Developed as a collaboration between Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) and Whirling Chief, the program will bring together best-selling author and renowned neurosurgeon Dr. James Doty with leadership expert and business guide Sesil Pir, principle of Whirling Chief.
Other facilitators include Monica Worline, research scientist at CCARE with expertise in compassion science and the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship; Aslı Aker, global leadership and organizational development expert; and Sinan Canan, neuroscientist and co-founder of Açık Beyin Academy.
Venue
Allegretto Vineyard Resort, Paso Robles, California.
Pilot Pricing Info
Discounted rate 6,000 USD / person, plus travel costs.
Facilitators: Dr. James Doty & Sesil Pir
Where: Allegretto Vineyard Resort, Paso Robles, California
When: October 21–24, 2018
An Online Summit Celebrating 10 Years of Transition in the US!
On Saturday, October 27th, Transition US will host our first-ever national online summit, bringing together Transition US community members and organizers from across the country for a day of education, inspiration, and celebration. Both groups and individuals are invited to join in the fun!
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
We will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Transition Movement in the US with an inspiring full-day program, including:
– Keynote sessions featuring international Transition Movement founder Rob Hopkins and world-renowned author, educator, and activist Margaret J. Wheatley.
– Engaging panel discussions focused on sharing some of the greatest success stories from our national network and deepening connections with the wider movement for community resilience.
– A live, interactive session with a talk by Transition US staff about the state of our movement and the presentation of several awards nominated by you, the community.
Scroll down for schedule and program details, and additional information on how to participate! Tickets available here.
HOW TO REGISTER
Registration is now available here, with flexible pricing options available for groups and individuals.
We encourage Transition groups to use this Online Summit as the basis for hosting local gatherings. Click here to download a PDF guide for how to host a local watch party for your Transition or other community resilience-building group.
Please email info@transitionus.org for more information or if you’d like to join our planning team.
Here’s to another decade of building thriving, resilient community for all!
DETAILED SCHEDULE
Below are approximate times for our livestream of this event, which requires online registration and will take place via our Zoom video-conferencing platform. Please note that if you’re planning to host a watch party in your community, all of these times (except for our live, interactive session) are flexible. Suggested schedules for organizing an event in all four North and South American time zones are included in our downloadable “How to Host a Watch Party” guide.
– Arrival and welcome: 12:45-1:00pm Eastern Time (9:45-10:00am Pacific)
– Rob Hopkins keynote: 1:00-1:45pm Eastern Time (10:00-10:45am Pacific)
– Replicable examples panel: 1:45-2:30pm Eastern Time (10:45-11:30am Pacific)
– Margaret Wheatley keynote: 2:30-3:15pm Eastern Time (11:30am-12:15pm Pacific)
– Wider movement panel: 3:15-4:00pm Eastern Time (12:15-1:00pm Pacific)
– Live, interactive session: 4:00-5:15pm Eastern Time (1:00-2:15pm Pacific)
– Visioning, discussion, and closing: 5:15-6:00pm Eastern Time (2:15-3:00pm Pacific)
PROGRAM DETAILS
Below is a list of session titles, descriptions, and presenter bios. More information will be posted here as it becomes available.
KEYNOTE 1
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON “THE TRANSITION MOVEMENT: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE”
In this lively keynote session, Transition Movement Co-Founder Rob Hopkins, Sarah McAdam, Delivery Director for Transition Network, and Don Hall, Co-Director of Transition US will explore a wide variety of themes that have emerged from the practice of Transition internationally and here in the US since its inception over a decade ago. In addition to pointing out successful strategies and common challenges, we’ll also look forward from this reflective moment to consider how the movement might continue to broaden, deepen, and scale-up its reach and positive impact over time.
Rob Hopkins: I’m a co-founder of both Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network. I’m also a serial blogger, author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff and 21 Stories of Transition, and I tweet as @robintransition. I previously wrote The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion, and was awarded a PhD by the University of Plymouth – and more recently – Honorary Doctorates by the University of the West of England and the University of Namur. In 2012, I was voted one of the Independent’s top 100 environmentalists and one of “Britain’s 50 New Radicals.” I have appeared on BBC Radio 4’s “Four Thought” and “A Good Read,” appear in the French film phenomenon “Demain” (“Tomorrow”), have spoken at TED Global once, and at three TEDx events. I am an Ashoka Fellow, a keen gardener, one of the founders of New Lion Brewery in Totnes, and a Director of the Totnes Community Development Society, the group behind Atmos Totnes, a very ambitious community-led development project. If you’re wondering why I’m now writing a book about imagination, you can find out here.
Sarah McAdam: I play a coordinating role for Transition Network, paying attention to the overall health and strategic direction of our organisation. I’m currently working with people across the international network of Transition Hubs to design and implement innovative governance models and projects which support the sharing of power, resources, and learning across and beyond the Transition movement. I’m also a Council member for ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability.
Don Hall: I have had the good fortune to participate in the Transition Movement in a variety of capacities over the past decade. Initially serving for two years as the Education and Outreach Coordinator for Transition Colorado, I went on to found and direct Transition Sarasota from 2010 to 2016. A certified Transition Trainer and experienced facilitator, I was named Co-Director of Transition US in 2017. I hold a Master’s degree in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University and currently live in Sarasota, Florida.
KEYNOTE 2
INTERVIEW ON “CREATING ISLANDS OF SANITY: LEADING WELL IN THIS TIME OF INCREASING TURBULENCE”
Margaret (Meg) Wheatley is dedicated to awakening us to be leaders for this time of profound disruption, to reclaim leadership as a noble profession that creates possibility and humaneness in the midst of increasing fear and turmoil. She summons us to use our influence and power to create Islands of Sanity, to commit ourselves to engaging with compassion and insight amidst the increasing turbulence of our world.
Meg is especially interested in bringing the concept of Islands of Sanity to Transition Towns. Building on the strong identity of community that’s been established, sane leadership is the necessary next step. Sane leadership is the unshakable confidence that people can be generous, creative and kind. At this time when fear and polarization predominate, and people find it increasingly difficult to work well together, how do we create the conditions for people’s best qualities to manifest within the community on behalf of the issues we most care about?
Since 1966, Margaret Wheatley has worked globally in many different roles: a speaker, teacher, community worker, consultant, advisor, formal leader. From these deep and varied experiences, she has developed the unshakable conviction that leaders must learn how to evoke people’s inherent generosity, creativity, and need for community. As this world tears us apart, sane leadership on behalf of the human spirit is the only way forward. She is a best-selling author of nine books, from the classic Leadership and the New Science in 1992 to her newest book (June 2017) Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity.
COST
To cover the costs of producing this event while ensuring that no-one is turned away for lack of funds, we are offering a variety of different registration options for individuals and groups. Please click here to register as soon as you’re ready.
For Individuals: $15 covers our cost per person to produce this event, $5 is our minimum suggested donation, and $30 covers our cost per person while helping another person to attend on scholarship. Those who are unable to afford the $5 minimum donation are welcome to attend for free.
For Groups: We are offering a sliding scale from $20 to $200. If your group is well-resourced or you have a member who can afford to pay $200, we’d greatly appreciate it! If not, consider taking up a collection at your next meeting – just four people contributing $5 each will provide a basic level of support and you should be able to easily make this back (and then some) by turning your local event into a fundraiser for your initiative!
WATCH PARTY HOSTING GUIDE
We strongly encourage Transition groups of all sizes to use this historic summit as an opportunity to host local gatherings and watch parties. We’ve prepared this PDF guide to support you in facilitating a live event with your local community resilience-building group to celebrate 10 years of Transition in the US.
In the weeks leading up to the event, we’ll publish a listing of local Online Summit Watch Parties and other live events here on our website. If you’re planning something, let us know!
If you have any questions, or if you’d like us to list your local watch party here on our website, please email info@transitionus.org.
PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!
This movement is fully organic and 100% people-powered. Please help us make it irresistible by sharing this excellent opportunitywith your local and extended network of change-makers and resilience-builders.
Please RSVP and Share our FB event page here.
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~The Transition US Team
We’ve all had that hunch, that intuition, that knowing. And many of us have seen it materialize in what we call “the future”. But what is time really? And how does science interface with these parapsychological, virtually metaphysical kinds of ideas, some say the farther reaches of the mind & human potential?
This evening, out-of-the-box, holistic therapist, host of A Better World Radio & TV, Mitchell Rabin, conducts a fun & far-reaching, public conversation with neuro-scientist, co-author of The Premonition Code, Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Julia Mossbridge. Come join us & learn something about how to reach into the future ourselves.
Requested Donation: $10/person in advance or $15 at the door.
Get tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-the-future-mitchell-rabin-interviews-neuroscientist-julia-mossbridge-tickets-50769523010
For more information, mjr@abetterworld.net or 212 420-0800
THE ALCHEMY OF WOMEN’S COLLECTIVE WISDOM AND POWER Pre-Parliament Women’s Sacred Circles On November 1, 2018, 9- 12 PM EST, a collaboration of women’s organizations will host a circle with a sacred center for 200 women and girls attending the Parliament of The World’s Religions in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, www.parliamentofreligions.org.
We hope you will host a local circle anytime on Nov. 1st, and connect with us in prayer and through this Group. We will live-stream the opening, speakers, water ceremony and the closing. We will have reflection questions that empower and unite us as a mighty force of feminine energy. The questions and other information will be posted here. We will have a water ceremony and encourage you to have one also. Each person adds water from their source to a common bowl and blesses the water.
Please connect as local circles of women, men, youth gathering to give each one a voice in a circle with a sacred center that supports, encourages and empowers the collective feminine wisdom and power. Please spread the word to organizations, circles, groups and individuals. Please put in your newsletter, newspaper, FB groups and Timeline.
Basic Circle Principles and information on how to start a circle found on www.millionthcircle.org and www.gatherthewomen.org
SEE more on Facebook — Alchemy of Women’s Collective Wisdom & Power
Print, Customize, and Post #HonorNativeLand Art
Imagine going to a local coffee shop, music venue, grocery store, or town hall, and finding a sign on the wall acknowledging traditional lands. Sound far-fetched? It doesn’t have to be! As part of this campaign to #HonorNativeLand, we partnered with Native artists to create downloadable signs that you can print, customize, and post in your community.
After Downloading the Guide, Take the Pledge
We urge organizations, collectives, institutions, and agencies to publicly commit to practicing traditional Native land acknowledgment.
Those who have taken the Pledge:
- Artist’s Laboratory Theatre
- Arts in a Changing America (ArtChangeUS)
- ArtSpark
- ArtWell
- California Indian Culture & Sovereignty Center
- Dancing Earth
- Democracy at Work Institute
- Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles
- Indigenous Women Rise in Gallup
- Ink People, Inc.
- IU First Nations Educational & Cultural Center
- Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
- Marietta Ohio Arts Innovation Lab
- National Council for Science and Faith
- Native American Music Awards
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
- New Economy Coalition
- SOMArts
- Women of Color in the Arts (WOCA)
- Artivists LA
- Kamiah Community Library
- Peñasco Theatre Collective
- Self Help Graphics & Art
- The Field
- YWCA Olympia
As a step toward honoring the truth and achieving healing and reconciliation, our organization commits to open all public events and gatherings with a statement acknowledging the traditional Native lands on which we stand. Such statements become truly meaningful when coupled with authentic relationships and sustained commitment. We therefore commit to move beyond words into programs and actions that fully embody a commitment to Indigenous rights and cultural equity.
DECEMBER 3 at 9:00 to DECEMBER 4 at 9:00 pm
24 Hours of Reality: Protect Our Planet, Protect Ourselves
Tune in and learn how we can make a healthy future a reality: http://bit.ly/-24HoursOfReality #24HoursofReality
Hosted by Climate Reality
24HoursofReality.org
It’s a fact: Fossil fuels are driving a climate crisis and threatening our health. On December 3 – 4, Climate Reality and former Vice President Al Gore will be joined by an all-star line-up of artists, thought leaders, and scientists for 24 Hours of Reality: Protect Our Planet, Protect Ourselves.
GO TO:
https://www.climaterealityproject.org
Find out to become a Citizen Producer!
Empowering Women through Writing, Weaving and Sharing
Be heard, connect with your inner resources and cultivate courage to create change.
Our Mission
To create a woven tapestry based on the stories of 1,000 women globally by 2020 that will be exhibited internationally to shine a light on the creative accomplishments of women while calling attention to the challenges women currently face world-wide.
To foster a culture of self-knowledge and sharing that builds courage and fosters a sense of power in women everywhere to contribute to their communities in positive ways.
To allow women to tell the story of their lives, as a catalyst for change, particularly by opening up discussions about issues of domestic violence and sexual abuse in a safe and supportive way.
To promote resilience, compassion, open communication, healing and peace in individuals and communities.
Intro to the Project
Participating in Woven Voices is a journey that starts with self-reflection and writing, and transforms into a woven tapestry, a visual storyboard of women’s lives from around the globe. The 3 elements of the Woven Voices project work together as tools to access, claim, and celebrate our power as individuals and together as a global community of women.
The Artist
Brecia Kralovic-Logan is a passionate champion of creativity who has spent the last 40 years helping people of all ages to embrace and express their unique individuality.
Brecia Kralovic-Logan
4164 Mount Hukee Ave
San Diego, Ca 92117
Mobile: 805-896-3287
breciakl@gmail.com
breciacreative.com
thespiralofcreativity.com
Too Hot to Handel: The Gospel Messiah
Original Concept by Marin Alsop
Co-Arranged by composers Bob Christianson & Gary Anderson
The United Palace brings a new holiday tradition to Washington Heights with Too Hot to Handel: The Gospel Messiah. Infused with Latin rhythms, jazz improvisation, and gospel harmony, Too Hot to Handel has been hailed as “ingeniously re-imagined” by the Chicago Tribune and “perhaps the jazziest, most soulful reinterpretation of Handel’s Messiah you’ll ever hear” by The New York Post. The United Palace adds a unique uptown vibe to the mix in a production that features the colorful and electric sounds of the Heights. Guest soloists include Angela Birchett (The Color Purple, Smokey Joe’s Café), Anwar Robinson (American Idol finalist, Rent) and up-and-comer Yancy Garcia. They will be joined by composer/conductor Chris Whittaker, the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, the Fort Washington Community Choir, and friends.
Militarism, violence, and war are pervasive in pop culture and the entertainment industry. The mainstream news media largely refuse to critique skyrocketing military spending and the vast negative impacts of perpetual warfare. Join World BEYOND War for our next free webinar featuring experts on the strained relationship between militarism and the media.
Militarism is the “elephant in the room,” says FAIR founder Jeff Cohen. Former TV pundit for MSNBC, CNN, and Fox, Jeff was fired for shedding light on the perils of U.S. interventionism and in particular, for opposing the invasion of Iraq on the air.
Rose Dyson, President of Canadians Concerned About Violence in Entertainment, expresses concern about the culture of war that is perpetuated by TV, music, video games, and social media. Popular culture glamorizes the use of guns, normalizing violence and conflict.
Tune in to our Militarism in the Media webinar with experts Rose Dyson and Jeff Cohen to discuss the role of media in promoting war and violence, and how, in turn, we can be peaceful advocates for a world BEYOND war.
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and movements working for the common good
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UNITY EARTH LIFT OFF
http://www.unity.earth/lift-off
AN INTERACTIVE CONCERT & BROADCAST
IN CELEBRATION OF UN WORLD INTERFAITH HARMONY WEEK
The United Palace
A Magnificent Landmarked Urban Treasure
4140 Broadway at 175th Street in Manhattan New York City
Featuring Performances By
BELLA GAIA – an unprecedented NASA-powered immersive experience that blends live music, dance and large screen NASA imagery into a breathtaking planetary journey.PATO BANTON – a Grammy-nominated artist whose audiences become participants as the beat keeps them on their feet, and Pato delivers a message that is food for the mind and soul.
KRISTIN HOFFMANN – a Juilliard trained multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and recording artist with a transcendental ability to take audiences on a journey of deep awakening to Spirit.
AKIM FUNK BUDDHA – a Zimbabwe-born legendary urban performer known for his holistic approach to Hip Hop, rhyming, beat-boxing, mouth percussion, story-telling, Mongolian throat-singing, and martial arts.
MYSTIC VOICE – her soothing and meditative chanting stems from a deep spiritual connection to the ancient texts such as the Tao Te Ching, the Buddhist Sutras, the Sanskrit Vedas and the poetry of Rumi.
PLUS Appearances By indigenous leaders, diplomats, artists, scientists, peacemakers, interfaith and faith-based activists in an unprecedented celebration of our common humanity
& Other Special Guests to be announced!
General Admission Tickets: $20
VIP Reserved Orchestra Seating Tickets: $100
(includes Pre-Concert Recepton with the Artists + VIP admission to the After Party!)
The Concert Livestream plus Interviews and Special Features
will be Broadcast on multiple platforms including
We, The World’s Facebook Page: Facebook.com/TheWeCampaign
We, The World
is excited to be partnering with Unity Earth for this remarkable concert and broadcast event! We invite you, your friends and families to join us for UNITY EARTH LIFT OFF February 2nd – in person, if you are in New York City, or via Online Broadcast. Tickets are available at www.unity.earth/lift-offNOTE: Do you have an organization that might be interested in joining our Road To 2020 Coalition? Are you available to attend a special high-level organizing meeting in Manhattan NYC the day before the concert, on Friday Feb. 1st from 11AM – 4PM? If so, please reply to this email as soon as possible since this free Leadership Conference is by invitation only and is nearly at capacity. Please include information about your organization and a link to your website.
I would be thrilled if you can join us in person or online for the UNITY EARTH LIFT OFF CONCERT February 2nd. Together let’s grow this worldwide movement for unity and peace!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events for a global audience!
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
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You are invited to participate in the FIRST ANNUAL International Women’s Day Drumming Circle.
Our planet needs healing. One way we can help it to heal is by raising its vibration and a great way to do that is through drumming. So you are being invited to form and/or participate in a drumming circle on March 8 and 9, 2019 wherever you are on the planet.
This is an experiment! We want to see if we can get the whole world drumming during the same 2-day period of time, what positive healing effect it will have on our beloved Mother Earth.
We would like to keep track of how many circles are participating throughout the world, so we ask you to register your circle on this site. When we receive your registration, we will post the name of your circle and your circle’s location on this site. We hope you will participate!
Note: A drumming circle can consist of any number of participants. If you are drumming by yourself, that counts. Simply visualize yourself adding your energy by joining in the Global Drumming Circle!
There has never been a more important time to learn, find hope, connect with each other, and discover new ways to make a difference as we advance sustainability initiatives in our greater Portland region and beyond. Highlighting cutting-edge academic and community research and sustainability projects, we will focus on collaboration, diversity, innovative problem-solving, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Check out our 2019 Sustainability Symposium Program at www.gpsen.org!
Join opening and closing keynote speakers to celebrate regional innovation and International Women’s Day:
* Judy BlueHorse Skelton, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Nations Studies Program, Portland State University
* Leaders of the Clean Energy Initiative, from CCC, NAACP, OPAL, and NAYA, with moderator Jenny Lee
* Suvira Chaturvedi, a UN Adviser in international development and women’s empowerment
We also have a great slate of speakers, including faculty, student, and community leader presentations, workshops, a poster session, an art exhibit, table exhibits, our award ceremony, and a networking reception and celebration. Plus, we have a pre-conference Student Summit, hosted by our College Network.
Come join us to learn about and celebrate the amazing, innovative sustainability education work in our region and beyond!
Climate Change is the most important thing going on today. Women collaborating toward solutions can be extremely effective. We’re gathering women from a variety of approaches, from saving rainforests to local food sustainability to carbon offset programs, political action and workshops to help you connect more personally with Nature. We hope to continue expanding to include lots more women!
MARCH 2-MAY 8, volunteers invited to participate in workshops working with the community to create spectacular visual art, giant puppets, and costumes for the Ecological City procession celebrating climate solutions.
-Costume Workshops: WEDNESDAYS, 6-9:30pm with artist Yelaine Rodriguez
-Puppet Workshops: SATURDAYS, 12-4pm with artist Lucrecia Novoa
Workshops are free of cost and take place every week at Two Bridges Neighborhood Council (Community Room) 82 Rutgers Slip (between FDR and Cherry St. -LES)
Please register here: http://earthcelebrations.com/register-ecological-city-workshops-2/
ECOLOGICAL CITY PAGEANT, on Saturday May 11, 2019 (Rain date- May 12), is a climate action, ecological urban pilgrimage and performance art event featuring a spectacular 7 hour procession of visual art, giant puppets and costumes with 20 site performances of dance, music, theater and poetry celebrating sustainability solutions throughout the community gardens, neighborhood and East River Park waterfront on the Lower East Side of New York City.
CONSCIOUS COLLEGE ROAD TOUR 2019
The CCRT is a unique, interactive opportunity for students to become mobilized around sustainable solutions on college campuses. We’re preparing for the 8th Annual Conscious College Road Tour, a cross country journey from March 18 – May 2, 2019. The tour stops at up to sixteen college campuses to educate about conscious living through a sustainability themed exhibition and Town Hall dinner. The goal is to empower students to create tangible change in their own lives and campus community and with the TG team, develop a student-led action project.
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OCTOBER 1-30, 2019
ABOUT
Beginning on October 1, 2019, Project Green Challenge (PGC) seeks to inform, inspire and mobilize high school, college, and grad school students globally. This powerful and diverse call to action features 30 days of environmentally–themed challenges. PGC aims to touch lives, shift mindsets, and equip students with knowledge, resources and mentorship to lead change on campuses and communities worldwide.
Through conscious living, informed consumption, and individual and collective action, PGC participants are challenged to envision and work toward a healthy, just, and thriving planet.
Since launching in 2011, PGC has built a movement of young leaders, engaging over 40,000 students directly and tens of millions indirectly on 4,000 campuses, 50 states and 56 countries.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Each day throughout the month of October, a uniquely themed challenge will be delivered to registered PGC participants by email at 6 am Pacific Time. Each challenge will be live for 24 hours inviting participants to complete actions and upload deliverables to acquire points and prizes. Deliverables include photos, videos, and text uploaded on the PGC site, as well as across TG social platforms; Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube. Twenty incredible prize packages will be awarded daily based on outstanding content.
WHO WE ARE
Turning Green (TG) is a student led global movement devoted to education and advocacy around environmentally sustainable and socially responsible choices for individuals, schools, and communities.
We operate under the belief that when students understand that they can directly affect small and large scale change, they are motivated to carry this sense of responsibility, purpose and stewardship for the rest of their lives.
Our hope is to engage youth in the transition from conventional to conscious living, empowering this generation and mobilizing action to sustain a healthy, just and thriving planet.
Turning Green is a global student-led movement devoted to cultivating a healthy, just and thriving planet through education and advocacy around environmentally sustainable and socially responsible choices. We inform, inspire, and mobilize a global network of students to become visionary catalysts for sustainable change in their lives, school campuses, and local communities.
WE ARE TURNING GREEN
to inform
We are young people with a passion to change the world. We speak our minds, and value ethics. We stand for environmentally sustainable and socially responsible choices, practices and communities. We assess our surroundings and investigate the impacts of what we do and think. And then we share solutions.
to inspire
We believe that a conscious mindset and thoughtful perspective are critical in today’s society. We remain aware of the effects of our actions on the earth and those around us. We choose wisely and lead with purpose and passion. We empower peers to grow our global voice because together we thrive.
to mobilize
We see individuals as catalysts for the change that our world needs at every level. We learn from innovation and living in the moment. We push for transparency, challenge injustice, and shake up systems that oppress, poison, or fail. No is not an option. Inspiration is everything.
We dream and do.
“The World Is My Country” Sat 4:45 is the amazing true story of World Citizen #1 Garry Davis. It is getting standing ovations at film festivals because finally here is a film with hope, introduced by Martin Sheen as “a roadmap to a better future.”
The Twelfth Annual New York Peace Film Festival (NYPFF) is a two-day festival co-hosted by The Peace & Justice Task Force of All Souls Unitarian Church screening
10 films: five full-length documentaries and 2 documentary shorts, 2 anime shorts, and In This Corner of the World, winner of the Japanese Academy Film Prize for Best Animated Film. See www.NYpff.com. Director Arthur Kanegis is flying out from the West Coast for a Q & A following the showing of his film “The World is My Country”. Kanegis was the producer of the Paul Newman film “War Without Winners.”
FACT: The 57 Senators who voted against the #GreenNewDeal took more than $55 MILLION dollars in contributions from #fossilfuel companies. Want to learn more about what’s really going on here? Join us on Thursday, March 28th at 8 p.m. ET for our first webinar with “People of Faith for a Green New Deal”!
RSVP for THURSDAY >> https://bit.ly/PeopleofFaith4GND
Learn more about how #BigOil buys and owns our elected officials (thanks to Oil Change USA) >> http://bit.ly/2YoYaMw
For over 25 years, we’ve inspired, educated and activated thousands of communities and organizations through our solutions-focused programs and ready-to-use social and digital tools. Together, they provide the launchpad for emerging generations and sustainability leaders to experience “ah-ha” moments that lead to extraordinary environmental and social change.
- a 21-day engagement program focused on carbon reduction;
- a challenge taking place April 3-24 and;
- following actions highlighted in Drawdown, a book based on meticulous research that maps, measures, models, and describes solutions to global warming that already exists and;
- where participants track and share their progress online in a robust platform and earn points for taking action and;
- the combination of collective action, camaraderie, and friendly competition makes change a little easier — and a lot more fun and;
- providing tools and inspiration to turn intention into action, and
- giving participants a fun and social way to think about and act on proven solutions to reverse global warming!
Over eighty actions within seven challenge categories
provide participants with diverse options to reduce carbon usage.
The EcoChallenge Platform is a signature offering of EcoChallenge.org (formerly Northwest Earth Institute), a sustainability organization that provides innovative social and digital tools designed to be a launchpad for emerging generations and sustainability leaders to experience “ah-ha” moments that lead to extraordinary environmental and social change. EcoChallenge.org also hosts a global October EcoChallenge which is free and open to everyone, everywhere. Over 73,500 people from 101 countries have used the EcoChallenge Platform and the organization has engaged over 250,000 people throughout its 25-year history. The EcoChallenge Platform can also be used to create custom Challenges that meet the engagement and action goals of your workplace, college, or community.
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In 1969 the Loew’s 175th Street Theatre faced an uncertain future as the era of the single screen movie houses was ending and the building was falling into disrepair. The theatre was rescued when a spiritual center, now known as the United Palace of Spiritual Arts (UPSA), purchased the building and began restoring its timeless grandeur. Ever since then it has continued to hold Sunday services, serve the community, and provide best in class entertainment. We’ll celebrate 50 years of spiritual artistry with a live pre-show theatre organ performance and special screening of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the last movie shown in 1969.
Following the movie will be an anniversary service that explores the ongoing power of 2001, honors the Palace’s last 50 years, and kicks-off the countdown to February 2020 when the United Palace turns 90. The ceremony will be led by UPSA Board Chair Jean Houston, Ph.D., renowned visionary, scholar, author, and one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement, with music by inspirational singer/songwriter Karen Drucker. Then the festivities continue with an after party on stage with hors d’oeuvres and drinks.
Support the Movies at the Palace program by purchasing tickets to the after party on stage, buying a year-long movie pass to all movies at the Palace through 2019 (not including screening by outside promoters), or making a donation.
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Before smartphones, before the internet, before Alexa, there was 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Helmed by Stanley Kubrick, the film explores the vast scope of mankind’s eternal curiosity and desire to decipher the secrets of the universe. We invite you to journey back with us to the dawn of man, this legendary film, and spiritual artistry at the United Palace.
Brief Synopsis: After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer HAL 9000.
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Length: 2 hrs, 44 mins
An evening of chants and songs to heal, inspire and empower.
Very few people can say that they have been a singing mermaid, a singing casket, and was literally “elevator music” when she was hired to sing and play piano in a moving elevator. Meet Karen Drucker.
Karen has recorded 15 CDs of her original inspirational music, and is the author of an inspirational book, “Let Go of the Shore: Stories and Songs That Set the Spirit Free.” Among her many accomplishments, she has been a professional comedienne, led her own band for corporate events, and has been the music director of New Thought Churches, as well as music director and “music weaver” for many spiritual conferences and retreats. Karen has been honored with an Honorary Doctorate of Music for her work within the Religious Science Community, and a “Grace Note” award for her work within the Unity Movement.
In following her passion, Karen sings, speaks and leads workshops at women’s retreats, mind-body & health conferences, and various churches around the country, as well as working with authors like Joan Borysenko, Alan Cohen, and many others.
Karen Drucker has been called “a master of communicating presence and spirituality through music.” She loves making music, making a difference, and touching hearts.
Metamorphic Convergence – A Journey of Planetary Stewardship is a streaming film series that shines a light on the path from the present to the future, while weaving together regenerative solutions and fresh perspectives from artists, scientists, activists, authors and philosophers. Through poetic imagery, visual meditation and timely interviews – the series delves into how our environmental crisis is an opportunity for radical personal and planetary transformation. Artists and filmmakers guide us on a journey to reconcile what they perceive as a crossroads for humanity.
Since ancient times, indigenous cultures have understood the importance of living in balance and harmony with the earth and cosmos. Because of this, shamanic living has been a source of empowerment, healing and fulfillment for a millennium.
Now, Hereditary Tuvan Shamaness ChokBar will bring ancient wisdom, practices, and rituals to the community in an intimate setting.
This exploration of the ethereal world and subtle realities will introduce you to spirit guides, ancestors, and power animals and awaken the interconnectivity that supports our healing, transformation, and life purpose. Shamanic work has been known to remove deeply rooted fears, attachments and unhealthy patterns that keep you from reaching your highest potential and finding personal fulfillment. Shamans have utilized the power and perfection of nature to facilitate healings for centuries.
In our monthly circle, you will journey to alternate esoteric realms through drumming, rattling, meditation and movement to remove obstacles, merge with spirit, and connect to the core of your being.
Join us to come into energetic alignment with the highest vibrations of the Universe and create positive change in your life and the world at large. The time for transformation is upon us.
Requirement:
Any type of a rattle, could be self made with a glass jar filled with rice, beans, or corn.
Drums if you have them.
Piece of fabric of your choice, and/or one or several ribbons.
Optional:
Power objects from your altars, such as stones/crystals to charge on our altar and then take back home.
Flower(s)
Join us for a monthly celebration of the ancient, mystical tradition of mantra music. Elevate your spirit and cultivate community through the joyous, sacred sound of kirtan at the all-inclusive United Palace of Spiritual Arts.
Chant UP with Gaura Vani is a monthly world-music experience of kirtan. It is true spiritual artistry – it’s about connecting to the sacred – whatever that means for you – through participatory performance art and the ancient practice of communal singing. Kirtan is a musical form of storytelling, shared recitation and call-and-response that opens the heart and allows a glimpse of the beauty that lies in our human and spiritual connections.
Come experience a celebration of music, spirit and community led by Gaura Vani. Raise your voice and vibration!
PURPOSE AND INTENTION
Climate Change & Consciousness: Our Legacy for the Earth, April 20-26 2019, will be a collaborative and participatory investigation into how we can steward a sustainable future on what has already become a radically changed planet Earth. We have travelled to this ‘new’ planet on a burst of carbon dioxide. A new planet requires new ways of living.
The conference will bring together eminent scientists, wisdom keepers, business people, activists, artists, entrepreneurs, young people and others, to envision and begin to inhabit our joint future. It will be an international, inter-generational and multi-disciplinary gathering. This is the principle of ‘the big tent‘, borrowed from party politics, whereby diverse viewpoints, backgrounds and interests (the ‘voices in the room’) are brought together to engage and dialogue.
Floor plan of the Universal Hall, the main conference venue, with
a symbolic representation of the diversity of ‘voices in the room.’
Through interactive, embodied and experiential means, participants will access intuitive, intelligent and innovative insights into how we will meet the demands of this new world. Each individual will be invited to invoke their ‘Legacy for the Earth.’ Our combined roles and commitment will represent a global mission of stewardship. Everyone will be part of this love story.
Participants will collaborate in exploring:
- The science and truth of climate change in language that we can all comprehend;
- Ways to embody our longing to connect with the Earth and hear Her voice;
- How we can build and rebuild communities as functional entities;
- Political, legal and social activism, and networking for social change;
- How do we nurture children and support youth to restore our environment;
- Soil restoration, organic food production and community-scale agriculture;
- Alternative energy sources and appropriate technologies;
- Biodiversity and the intrinsic preciousness of all species;
- Racism, misogyny and gender bias – how they deepen the environmental crisis;
- Contemporary and traditional resources to address the trauma of climate change;
- What can we learn from indigenous cultures, activists and wisdom keepers;
- Healthcare and the detoxification of environmental pollutants and toxins; and
- How to generate inspiration for a grassroots upsurge to reclaim our future.
THREE MAJOR ORIENTATIONS
Three major threads running though the conference will be:
- AWAKE: Facing the truths of climate change.
- CELEBRATE: Using the arts to express our love for the Earth and all life.
- ACT: Developing our response, locally and globally.
TEN GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF CCC19
These principles were received along with the guidance for the manifestation of CLIMATE CHANGE & CONSCIOUSNESS on November 8, 2016:
1. That the gathering be a grassroots representation of diverse global populations;
2. That the gathering be held at the Findhorn Foundation due to its origins and because it represents and embodies community and sustainability;
3. That indigenous environmental leaders be represented;
4. That youth play a significant role and that their voices be heard;
5. That all participants, both at the conference and online, be encouraged to connect, engage, contribute and network.
6. That everyone at the gathering have an opportunity to establish and cultivate a direct, intimate and personal relationship with Nature;
7. That the gathering be infused with art as one of the key celebrations of human creativity and resiliency;
8. That the outcome of the gathering be the creation of networks of innovation and communities of inspired action;
9. That these networks and community initiatives be seeded before the conference begins; and,
10. That they be effectively supported to grow and flourish after the conference ends, in order to accelerate the generation of sustainable, life-serving responses to climate change.
WHY THIS CONFERENCE IS UNIQUE
While words like ‘climate change’ and ‘sustainability’ are in the popular parlance, the truth about the magnitude of our environmental predicament is not well understood. This is in part because the language used to deliver the science is frequently infused with acronyms that deter engagement. This conference will translate scientific jargon into language that is accessible to anyone. In addition, we intend a celebratory response to climate change that emphasises human resilience and creativity, which is key to coping with the scientific reality. These two sides of the coin (environmental science and celebratory resilience) will be linked at every juncture of this gathering.
This conference will be led by some of the most knowledgeable and highly regarded voices of the climate change movement. The key contributors are recognised internationally for their expertise, their commanding presence, and their proven capacity to identify practical and optimistic strategies for sustainability action. Joining these voices with those of artists, healers, parents and youth has seldom been attempted in quite such a way.
YOUTH
We are planning (although it’s funding dependant), a separate youth programme that will run parallel to the conference. Youth aged 16 – 20 will form a contingent that will join with, and present to, the entire assembly. Their ideas will be woven into an action plan that is developed for follow through after the event. The intention will be to permeate schools and social media with viable options for surviving and thriving in a climate-changing world.
LIVE STREAMING
There will be live streaming from Findhorn of most of the conference programme (details to follow). Aside from individual subscriptions to the streaming, we are encouraging organisations (such as community groups, non-profits, institutions and companies) to subscribe to the streaming as a collective, or hub. Hubs will take the opportunity to do much more than just passively watch the streaming. We will encourage them to self-organise a mini-conference of their own, whereby they hold their own in-house discussion groups, panel sessions, workshops and so on. We envisage these hubs becoming cells of impassioned and empowered activists who sustain their climate activism into the future.
Interested in forming a hub? Please contact us or email: CCC19@findhorn.org.
WHY FINDHORN?
The Findhorn Foundation and Community are a renown ecovillage, spiritual community and learning centre (See blog post here). This conference comes at a time when the art of community building is badly needed. Findhorn famously demonstrates the potential of community to develop low-impact settlements and lifestyles. Further, Findhorn’s deep roots in the natural world and 50 years of ‘co-creation with the intelligence of nature’ makes it the perfect host for this event.
The central intention of Climate Change & Consciousness is to encourage the participants (including thousands watching by live-stream) to prioritise their love for the Earth, putting the environment first in order to steward for the children of the future. This epitomises the role that Findhorn has long played in raising consciousness for the good of the whole. This conference fulfils Findhorn’s essential purpose as a lighthouse beaming forth messages from Mother Nature.
The Universal Hall at Findhorn, the main conference venue.
PRESENTERS
ANGAANGAQ ANGAKKORSUAQ
Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq is an Eskimo-Kalaallit Elder from far North Greenland. He is a shaman, healer, storyteller and bearer of the Qilaut (wind drum). Angaangaq has been a keynote speaker at international conferences on climate change, environmental and indigenous issues. His beliefs and practices are deeply rooted in the wisdom and traditions of his people. www.icewisdom.com
Quotes: “The greatest distance in the existence of Man is not from here to there nor from there to here. Nay, the greatest distance in the existence of Man is from his mind to his heart. Unless he conquers that distance he can never learn to soar like an eagle and realize his own immensity within.”
“The Ancient One’s say that One Day, when the World needs it most, the Sacred Fire will come home to the people on the Top of the World.”
CHARLES EISENSTEIN
Charles Eisenstein is an extremely popular philosopher, author and internationally renowned speaker and program facilitator. His books include The Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics and most recently, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. His forthcoming book, to be released in 2018, addresses the impacts of climate change. www.charleseisenstein.net
Quotes: “Humanity is meant to join fully the tribe of all life on Earth, offering our uniquely human gifts towards the wellbeing and development of the whole.”
“Enlightenment is a group activity.”
“The path of service is a path of self-realization.”
“Our salvation must come from recovering a direct relationship to what is alive in front of us.”
POLLY HIGGINS
Polly Higgins is founder of Ecocide Law, the Earth Community Trust and co-founder of the Earth Law Alliance. She holds the Arne Naess Chair at Oslo University and won the 2016 Polarbröd‘s Utstickarpriset prize for Future Leadership. Ecologist Magazine have named her one of the top ten visionary thinkers in the world. www.pollyhiggins.com
Quotes: “The shift in consciousness required here is an espousal of our collective responsibility for the ecology of our planet. Once we have that shift we will have true social progress.”
“Without the wellbeing of the ecology of our planet, our wellbeing suffers.”
“Calls for public and environmental justice are about securing peaceful life for future generations, the aspiration for a better world. To me, this is the ultimate altruistic act; to give your life in service for a greater good. My rallying call is for life for all who inhabit this planet, not just humans. It can be your call too if you so choose. I ask you to join me.”
XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is a 17 year old indigenous climate activist who has spoken at the Rio + 20 Summit and the UN. With beauty, flare and music he reachs out to youth to invite them to be advocates for the Earth. He received the Peace First Prize in 2015 and the Children’s Climate Prize in Sweden in 2016. www.earthguardians.org/
Quotes:“My generation faces a total systemic collapse on every level of our planet. Never before has there been such an intergenerational opportunity to shape the world we serve.”
“Every young person in the world has the potential to lead. There is nothing holding us back…Whether it is on the local level or it is about the entire world, we can take on the leadership role. We deserve a healthy environment to live in.“
“I have to do something with the sadness I feel about what is happening to my world. I am totally in love with this planet and it is falling apart. I have to use my voice and my passion to make a difference. I have to education, empower and inspire.”
BILL MCKIBBEN
Bill McKibben is a pioneer of the climate change movement, best-selling author, journalist, environmental activist and founder of 350.org, a global grassroots climate change movement. Bill has won the Gandhi and Thomas Merton Prizes. He is a Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College. The Boston Globe calls him “America’s most important environmentalist.” www.billmckibben.com, www.350.org
Quotes: “We must step up the fight to keep climate change from getting even more powerfully out of control, and to protect those people most at risk, who are almost always those who have done the least to cause the problem.”
“We will build the architecture of the world that comes next. We will create the dispersed and localized societies that can survive the damage that we can no longer prevent. We still must live on the world we’ve created and we will do that lightly, carefully, and gracefully.”
JONATHON PORRITT
Jonathon Porritt CBE is founder and Director of Forum for the Future, the UK’s leading sustainable development charity. He was co-chair of the British Green Party (1980-83); Director of Friends of the Earth (1984-90); and Trustee of WWF UK (1991-2005). Jonathon received a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection. www.forumforthefuture.org
Quotes: “Imagine the good world we are going to be living in – massively improved by smart, clean technology, and committed to a much fairer, more sustainable model of economic growth.”
“Practically everything we need to fashion a sustainable world for nine billion people is either out there, on the drawing board or in the lab. And the pace of change is extraordinary, the wealth creating potential quite staggering.”
VANDANA SHIVA
Vandana Shiva PhD is a world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, physicist, feminist, philosopher of science, science policy advocate and author of 20 books. She has taken on what is likely one of the greatest challenges of climate change – feeding a growing population without further harming the Earth. Vandana was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. http://vandanashiva.com/
Quotes:“Soil teaches us how to be earth citizens.”
“We will either make a democratic transition from oil to soil or we will perish.”
“Soil is the metaphor of decentralized and deep democracy.”
“Living economies are grounded in the soil; literally and metaphorically. They are localized, which reduces our ecological footprint on the planet while enhancing our wellbeing. Economies rooted in the soil are centered on nature and people.”
“Earth democracy grows in the fertile soil shaped by the earth, the human imagination and human action.”
ADDITIONAL PRESENTERS
Margaret Elphinstone is one of Scotland’s foremost writers who has written extensively about the crises in which we now find ourselves. Margaret contributes to Dark Mountain, a British based project that seeks, through the arts, to elicit urgently needed myths that reflect our times. She is Emeritus Professor of Writing at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literary Studies. www.margaretelphinstone.co.uk
Mumta Ito is founder of the charity Rights of Nature and the International Centre for Holistic Law. A former financial lawyer in the City of London, she was an adviser to governments, multi-national corporations and investment banks. She is now a public interest environmental attorney. She initiated the European Citizens Initiative to put the rights of nature on the legislative agenda of the EU. www.rightsofnature.eu
Deborah Jay Lewin is an energy worker disguised as a dance teacher. She is a senior practitioner in her field having trained with Gabrielle Roth in 1994 and as a co-founder of Open Floor International in 2014. Her knowledge of and respect for the wisdom of the body is incisive and contagious. Deborah is devoted to utilising embodied movement to harness creativity for the benefit of all beings and the Earth. www.vitalmoves.co.uk
Rachelle McCabe, concert pianist and Professor of Music at Oregon State University, enjoys an international career as an artist-teacher and as a solo recitalist and highly respected chamber musician. She has performed extensively in the United States, Canada, Southeast Asia and England, and has been heard on NPR’s Performance Today, the CBC, and PBS television. http://www.riverwalking.com/a-call-to-life.html
Stephanie Mines is a neuroscientist, psychologist and author of five books on the treatment of trauma and shock. Stephanie first went to Findhorn in 2011 when she was a keynote speaker at the Conscious Medicine Conference. She has returned every year since and has a strong love for the community and the place. Stephanie lives in Portland, Oregon and is married to environmental attorney Robert E. Yuhnke. www.Tara-Approach.org
Kathleen Dean Moore is a moral philosopher, nature writer, and veteran climate advocate best known for her ability to weave science, ideas, and emotions in her spoken-word performances and books. She is the author or co-editor of a dozen books, including Great Tide Rising, Moral Ground, and the newest, a novel, Piano Tide. http://www.riverwalking.com/a-call-to-life.html
Dave Rock is a spoken word artist, storyteller and Authentic Speaking coach. He works with communities, co-creating rites of passage, ritual and celebration; and with stage performers and change makers to help them embody and express their message as a way of being. As a performer he finds ways to speak all voices and remember life into being whole again. www.speakingrocks.life
Joey Walters is the Founder of Awakening Feminine Leaders. Her work is a soulful, authentic pathway to allow feminine leadership to emerge. She is gifted in inviting the power of ritual to accompany her gentle, clear and focused leadership. Joey is completing her first book based on her successful international series “A Call to Stand.” She lives close to nature in the woodlands of Scotland with her partner and two wee sons. www.awakeningfeminineleaders.com
Robert E. Yuhnke has been an environmental attorney and policy consultant for forty-five years. He co-authored the Clean Air Act in the US and has worked tirelessly for its enforcement. His ability to explain the science behind climate change and how communities must respond to survive and thrive will add significantly to this conference. Robert lives in Portland Oregon and is married to Stephanie Mines. bob.yuhnke@prodigy.net
Climate Change & Consciousness 2019 Live-streaming
20-26 April 2019
Connect with a worldwide community of people who are willing to face Climate Change and are committed to creating a sustainable future for all beings on earth.
Breaking News:
Attending the livestream of the Climate Change and Consciousness Conference now qualifies for CPD certification!!
By registering, you can:
- Access the conference through livestream
- Engage with other livestreamers through livechat during the event
- Access our social network CCCnet where you can share inspiration and meet all other participants
Access recordings:
- Streamed sessions are available about 30 minutes after the end of each live session to watch in your own time.
- You have lifetime access to all livestreamed sessions.
Findhorn livestream provided me with an exciting, heartfelt, inclusive and sublime experience – very close to actually being there in the Universal Hall.
EW, Tallahassee, USA
Click here for detailed information on speakers and workshops etc.
Click here for the livestream schedule.
Click here for the CCC19 website.
Create your own mini-conference (CCC19 hub)
We invite you to use the livestream as a basis to create your own mini-conference. Imagine if groups all over the world come together in a single week to take responsibility for their part in Climate Change. Our vision is that these hubs will stay connected after the conference and keep working towards a sustainable future for all beings.
Do you feel called to be that person in your community, company, city? Read our hub-guide and see the growing list of hubs.
If you need help with setting up a hub, please email: ccc19.hubs@findhorn.org.
Pricing & Registration
Subscription prices are self-selected on the basis of personal income levels, the size and type of group as well an organisation’s profitability.
Come join us in NYC for A Very Special Evening with our Conscious Community as we Gather in Unity Honoring Mother Earth!
Listen to Inspirational Talks with Spiritual, Interfaith, Indigenous and Environmental Leaders, Experience Live Music Performances, Guided Meditations, Qigong and more! Plus a
Special Tribute to Grandmother Lygia DeCastro
There will be Vendors (including Healthy Food & Drinks), Celebrations & Prayers for World Peace, Planet Earth & All Inhabitants. There will also be inter-active participation throughout the day! Opening Ceremony and Procession with the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team!
All Are Welcome! We Are One!
“Every day is Earth Day where Peace Within Brings Peace on Earth ” – ReAwakennd
Planet Heart
Produced by Andrew Kaen in Association
with WE, The World (fiscal sponsor), World Yoga Community and
@ The Vigil 4 Peace & Ecology
presents
12th Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration Community’s Annual WORLD PEACE EARTH DAY CELEBRATION AND BENEFIT 2019
“Awakening Humanity’s Consciousness as One,
“Celebrating Our Planet, Healing our Heart”
Save the Date!
SUNDAY APRIL 21, 2019
3:00 PM – 8:00 PM
4 West 43rd Street, Social Hall
New York, NY 10036 – Near 5th Ave.
Cost: $15 (advance) or $20 cash only at door.
Email: EarthDay@WeTheWorld.Org,
Call: 212-222-5432
Meet your Presenters:
MC HOST – Mitchell Jay Rabin, International speaker/Workshop Leader, Holistic Coach and Host/Producer of A Better World Radio and TV A Better World Radio & TV – http://abetterworld.tv/
Fabien Cousteau – Aquanaut, Oceanographic Explorer, Environmental Advocate and Founder of the Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center – http://www.fabiencousteauolc.org/
QUEEN MOTHER DR. DELOIS BLAKELY
Goodwill Ambassador To Africa, Community Mayor Of Harlem
Celebrating 50 Years as a Global Humanitarian and working with the UN and around the world – http://newfuturefoundation.org/
Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, the World, The WE Campaign and 11 Days of Global Unity – https://we.net/
Rev. Susana Bastarrica
Founder/Organizer, The Vigil 4 Peace & Ecology – http://www.vigil4peace.org/
Dileepkumar Thankappan internationally known as Avadhuta H. H. Jagat Guru Dileepji Maharaj (Spiritual Name) and otherwise known as “Guruji” is a world renowned Yogi , Founder and President of World Yoga Community and International Gurukula Community International Gurukula Community;
on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – http://guruji.us
Rev. Toshikazu Kenjitsu Nakagaki – Author, President/Founder, Heiwa Peace and Reconciliation Foundation of New York
Patricia Anne Davis, MA Choctaw-Navajo/Chahta-Dineh Wisdom Keeper – https://nativeamericanconcepts.wordpress.com
Visionaries David Giller and Helene Abrams are Founders of Think Positive World, a movement to accelerate positive change and greater well-being in cities and communities worldwide
Kathryn Davis, Host of Heart Of Mind Radio (on WBAI and The Progressive Radio Network), facilitator of Meditation and Relaxation Techniques; a Master Teacher of Qigong Form; an Energy-Vibrational Healer – http://kathryn.one/
Sah D’Simone – Author|Transformational Coach|Meditation Teacher
http://sahdsimone.com/
Jodi Serota – Metaphysical Educator, Channel, Vibrational Healer, Professional Artist, META Center New York- https://www.jodiserota.com/
Susana Koehler- Founder and CEO of Sustainable Global Network(SGN), Ambassador For Peace; on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – http://sustainableglobalnetwork.org/
Andrew Kaen (ReAwakennd)
Executive Producer and Founder/Organizer of Planet Heart’s Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration
Vibrational Sound Healer/Channel/Poet/Singer-Soulwriter/Ambassador For Peace, on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – http://www.planetheart.org/
Lisa Roma – Singer-Songwriter, vocalist, songpoet, musician and composer, writer, publisher, and visionary – Creative Women’s Network http://www.creativewomensnetwork.com/
RoseMary Wereley and Dainah Wereley – Will be performing some wonderful Indigenous Traditional Songs, and in Ceremony
lead us all to connect, celebrate, and sing in Unity and Love.
Kevin Nathaniel is a visionary musician who, with voice and ancient Afrikan instruments, channels sound as a universal healing force – he will lead us in inter-active ceremony with sound, celebration, Unity & Love – http://kevinnathaniel.com/
Shiang-Jiun Chen, Ed.D. Columbia University is an educator, photographer, singer, songwriter and dancer; on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – https://peacekiteproject.wixsite.com/site1
Christine Marie – iMov – “Conscious Pop” Healing and Recording Artist, Healer and Mentor – https://soundcloud.com/christinemarieakaimov
Marsha-Ramdask Silvestri – multi-disciplined artist, writer, yogi and dancer, creator of Pure Life Planet , on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – https://purelifeplanet.com/
Portions of the Proceeds support We, The World (www.we.net)
All donations are tax deductible. If you would like to make a larger donation, and help support us, please do!
The Vigil For Peace and Ecology will return to Central Park Bandshell Sunday, Sept 15 from 9AM-5PM
We are pleased to have the Vigil Team part of this year’s festivities!
This event and Planet Heart/We the World is a co-sponsor of the Vigil and a part of 11 Days of Global Unity
For Volunteer Opportunies and to be a Vendor, contact us at EarthDay@WeTheWorld.org or call Andrew Kaen at 646-765-7890.
CoSponsor/Partners: A Better World Radio and TV, Inner Realm Magazine, Creations Magazine, Wisdom Magazine, Natural Awakenings Magazine, Heart of Mind Radio with Kathryn Davis, Good News Planet, Hugg-A-Planet (Peacetoys.org), WBAI, Talking Alternatives Radio, Cafecito Break Podcast, One Love Rising Radio with Heidi Little,Global Kindness Going Viral/Spirituality Gone Wild with Karen Palmer, Age of New Beginnings with Ellen Pellegrino, FIONS, and more.
What if everything you knew about reality is about to be transformed?
What if, instead of experiencing consciousness at different levels of self-awareness, you understand that consciousness is what we and the whole world are?
What if science finally catches up with universal spiritual truths to provide scientifically-based evidence of the unified nature of the whole world?
What if you’re about to be presented with more compelling confirmation that we’re microcosmic co-creators of our Universe, that evolves as a coherent entity?
You are.
Join Dr. Jude Currivan, cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist and author, for an afternoon that explores a scientific revolution that connects me to we, and everyone. Increasing evidence across many fields of research from cosmology and physics to biology and social studies are reconciling with spiritual experiences and ‘supernormal’ phenomena, such as telepathy, remote viewing and synchronicities, to show that we are interconnected and interdependent.
Instead of the apparent separation of the manifest world, we invite you to understand, experience and embody the unified reality of this wholeworld-view. This transformational shift invites you to celebrate and value your individual uniqueness and our collective diversity. It empowers us to live, love and evolve together in our universal oneness.
Join us to harness our communal wisdom to transform our current global emergency into the emergence of our conscious evolution.
Music will be provided by Kristin Hoffmann, a Julliard trained singer-songwriter-musician with extraordinary artistic range. Her music has been heard on major record labels, film and television, and she has performed throughout the world, collaborating with musical luminaries on projects ranging from individual albums to grand symphonic productions.
Join us for a monthly celebration of the ancient, mystical tradition of mantra music. Elevate your spirit and cultivate community through the joyous, sacred sound of kirtan at the all-inclusive United Palace of Spiritual Arts.
Chant UP with Gaura Vani is a monthly world-music experience of kirtan. It is true spiritual artistry – it’s about connecting to the sacred – whatever that means for you – through participatory performance art and the ancient practice of communal singing. Kirtan is a musical form of storytelling, shared recitation and call-and-response that opens the heart and allows a glimpse of the beauty that lies in our human and spiritual connections.
Come experience a celebration of music, spirit and community led by Gaura Vani. Raise your voice and vibration!
ECOLOGICAL CITY PAGEANT, on Saturday May 11, 2019 (Rain date- May 12), is a climate action, ecological urban pilgrimage and performance art event featuring a spectacular 7 hour procession of visual art, giant puppets and costumes with 20 site performances of dance, music, theater and poetry celebrating sustainability solutions throughout the community gardens, neighborhood and East River Park waterfront on the Lower East Side of New York City.
For more information: http://earthcelebrations.com/ecological-city-project/
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – SIGN UP – PARTICIPATE IN THE ECOLOGICAL CITY PAGEANT
PAGEANT DAY: Volunteers are needed to participate for various roles. Sign up today!
-Wear a spectacular ecological costume, direct puppets, marshal parade, direct make-up/body painting, photograph/video document and more…
-Marshals/ Key Performers needed: 8am-6pm / Make-Up artists 8am-12pm
Sign up here: http://earthcelebrations.com/volunteer-ecological-city-sign/
Since ancient times, indigenous cultures have understood the importance of living in balance and harmony with the earth and cosmos. Because of this, shamanic living has been a source of empowerment, healing and fulfillment for a millennium.
Now, Hereditary Tuvan Shamaness ChokBar will bring ancient wisdom, practices, and rituals to the community in an intimate setting.
This exploration of the ethereal world and subtle realities will introduce you to spirit guides, ancestors, and power animals and awaken the interconnectivity that supports our healing, transformation, and life purpose. Shamanic work has been known to remove deeply rooted fears, attachments and unhealthy patterns that keep you from reaching your highest potential and finding personal fulfillment. Shamans have utilized the power and perfection of nature to facilitate healings for centuries.
In our monthly circle, you will journey to alternate esoteric realms through drumming, rattling, meditation and movement to remove obstacles, merge with spirit, and connect to the core of your being.
Join us to come into energetic alignment with the highest vibrations of the Universe and create positive change in your life and the world at large. The time for transformation is upon us.
Requirement:
Any type of a rattle, could be self made with a glass jar filled with rice, beans, or corn.
Drums if you have them.
Piece of fabric of your choice, and/or one or several ribbons.
Optional:
Power objects from your altars, such as stones/crystals to charge on our altar and then take back home.
Flower(s)
Join Rev. Arda Itez and Rev. Dr. Jose Roman for a very special Open Heart Conversation to explore the path of Bhakti-yoga with one of its most beloved spiritual leaders and NY Times best-selling author, his holiness Radhanath Swami, with music by Jahnavi Harrison and friends.
Introduced to the West as The International Society For Krishna Consciousness in 1966 by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhakti-yoga has traceable roots to the 1st millennium, BCE. What came to be known as the “Hare Krishna Movement” developed into one of the most influential and important spiritual and social reformations in US history.
Sometimes referred to as “love for love’s sake,” Bhakti is one of the four yogic paths to enlightenment and the essence of spiritual perfection, which is to awaken ecstatic love for God.
What was it about the Bhakti tradition that inspired so many people to embrace it as their own?
Who are the Hare Krishnas?
What are the Bhakti tenets, spiritual practices and beliefs?
Discover the beauty behind one of the oldest, most well-known and often misunderstood spiritual traditions, and what led to his life of devotion directly from Radhanath Swami himself.
Note that time listed is PST – Please adjust for your time zone!
This spring, Grist is teaming up with the Peoples Climate Movement to host a series of discussions about the potential impact of a Green New Deal on communities that are on the front lines of climate change, including communities of color, rural communities, low-income communities, displaced workers and indigenous peoples.
On May 21st, we’ll be hosting a virtual town hall discussion, moderated by Grist journalist Zoya Teirstein, about what a Green New Deal could mean for workers. We’ll be joined by Matt Schlobohm, Executive Director of Maine AFL-CIO, Alison Hirsh, Political Director of 32BJ SEIU, and April Sims, Secretary Treasurer of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, who will be taking your questions on the challenges that workers face around the transition to a green economy, and what something like the Green New Deal could do to address them. We’ll also discuss how a Green New Deal done correctly could create opportunities for workers, and what a ‘Just Transition’ would really mean.
Tune in online to ask questions and hear how the what the Green New Deal really is and what it could mean for workers — what’s exciting, and what the debate over it means for our vision of a just and equitable future for climate, jobs and justice.
Register today to save your spot in our live chat. There is limited availability so act fast!
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Faith & Climate Series | Webinar 2: The Ten Green Commandments
Public · Hosted by Parliament of the World’s Religions and Interfaith Power & Light
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM CDT
Parliament of the World’s Religions
70 E. Lake Street Suite 320, Chicago, Illinois 60601
Tickets
register.gotowebinar.com
Details:
The Parliament’s Climate Action Program and the Security and Sustainability Forum are working together to produce the new Faith and Climate Webinar Series.
The second webinar in the Faith and Climate Webinar Series will be a discussion with Fr. Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, author of The Ten Green Commandments of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’s second encyclical, “On Care for Our Common Home,” which asks “every person living on this planet” to begin a dialogue about the future of our world. The webinar is hosted by the Parliament of the World’s Religions.
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The Faith and Climate webinars will bring faith leaders and climate activists from all sectors and faiths together to address our increasingly urgent and collective responsibility to act on behalf of the natural world and all humanity to change the catastrophic impact we are having on our planet.
Visit parliamentofreligions.org/drag-and-drop-page/faith-and-climate-webinar-series for more information.
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Join ONE vision council members Pam Montgomery, Jen Frey, and Lauren Valle for this dynamic weekend of coming home to our first and true Mother as we heal our relationship with her.
At this time in our evolution we have the privilege of being present here on Earth as she is in rapid transformation. As the Earth shifts, we are asked to adapt and, more importantly, to evolve into the Earth Stewards we are meant to be, taking up our rightful place as part of Nature. When we accept our role as co-creative partners with Nature, a new world emerges where all life can thrive. We continuously have access to support and guidance from Nature and our allies and realize that we are never alone. We move into the flow, working with Nature. Often overwhelming tasks become easy or perceived impossibilities become possible.
During this weekend we will engage in the process of becoming co-creative partners with Earth as we delve deeply into the ways to create good partnership:
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Healing separation
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Effective communication
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Self-love
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Trust
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Joyful encounter
From within co-creative partnership we rise to walk in balance, coming home to ourselves and our Mother Earth, while we experience the interconnected web of life.
About Sweetwater Sanctuary
Sweetwater Sanctuary, our venue for this weekend, sits at the base of Marble Mountain and is surrounded by 10,000 acres of conserved land. Heart Spring, just outside our back door, brings forth from the Earth “wild water” which nourishes all your cells as you drink the most delicious water you can imagine. The lifeblood of the land is the mountain stream that flows centrally through the Sanctuary. It is this life-giving water that we listen to as we settle into our hearts and go into depth perception. The gardens are full of medicinal herbs, beautiful flowers and nourishing food. Wander amongst the wild plants and forest full of mixed hardwoods and evergreens while being touched by the embrace of nature. This land has received many ceremonies over the years and prayers are made on a regular basis. Your experience here goes beyond information exchange touching into your heart, soul and spirit for core integration, assimilation, and connection with yourself and nature. The Nature Beings of Sweetwater Sanctuary know how to live in community and want to welcome us back into co-creative partnership so that we all may thrive. As you are held in the nurturing fold of Sweetwater Sanctuary transformation is not only possible but probable.
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Have restorative time immersed in the vibrant nature of Sweetwater Sanctuary
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Connect deeply with your Nature Ally
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Uncover the roots of separation hindering a deeper relationship with Earth
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Gather in community around a Fire circle
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Develop a personal path for moving forward in co-creative partnership with Nature
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE STUDIED WITH PAM BEFORE: This is not Plant Spirit Healing or Plant Communication. This workshop focuses on co-creative partnership and it’s various aspects with an emphasis on healing our separation from nature. Pam has never taught this class before so this is not work you have done before.
Details:
Date and Time: 10:00 am July 27 – 3:00 pm July 28
Location: Sweetwater Sanctuary in Danby, Vermont
Cost: Sliding scale of $250 – $500
The Organization of Nature Evolutionaries is a non-profit run by an all-volunteer Vision Council. We offer a sliding scale to make this weekend affordable for those who are in need. Please consider a higher donation if you are able so that we can continue to grow the work of O.N.E.
Deposit: $100 non-refundable will hold your space (nonrefundable). The remaining balance of the sliding scale you choose is due by July 1st.
Includes: all instruction, indoor accommodation or tenting, and vegetarian-friendly, locally-sourced, delicious meals
Contact: Pam Montgomery at pam@wakeuptonature.com
After paying the deposit, you will be directed to our registration form. Please take a moment to fill it out so we have your contact you and can share retreat information.
Monthly gathering in many towns and villages to share information and raise awareness of environmental issues related to pesticides in particular. François Veillerette, president of GF, will be in the castle at Carnville in Normandy. There is an ongoing national petition calling on the government to take action to protect the environment.
Honoring the Past • Healing the Present • Celebrating the Future
A CELEBRATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN ART, MUSIC AND CULTURES
Thank you Joanne and Monte for this inspiring, hope-infused interview.
Tickets: www.sheatheater.org
Note that the concert is at the Shea Theater at 17 Avenue A in Turners Falls at 7:30 pm on Saturday and tickets are available before the event at a reduced rate and also available at the door.
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Festival details and schedule: www.nolumbekaproject.org
P.O. Box 285, 91 Main St., Greenfield, MA 01302
The mission of the Nolumbeka Project is to promote a deeper, broader and more accurate depiction of the history of the Native Americans/American Indians of New England before and during European contact and colonization;
To protect and preserve sites sacred to, and of historic value to, the Native Americans/American Indians of New England; to create and promote related educational opportunities, preservation projects and cultural events; and to work in partnership, as much as possible, with the tribes.
We will strive to exemplify the Native American/American Indian peoples’ respect for Mother Earth and all living beings; to be mindful of our role as caretakers for future generations; and to honor our connection to the Earth and Sky and to the Creator.
The Nolumbeka Project, Inc. is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of Native Americans/American Indians of New England through educational programs, art, history, music, heritage seed preservation and cultural events. We are actively building, maintaining and expanding an historical archive research library for use by the Tribes and Educators of the Northeast and beyond.
Our Board of Directors is comprised of volunteers who have been active for more than 40 years in a number of other preservation, historical research, environmental and social justice organizations.
The Convergence
Archives Available on VoiceAmerica Empowerment Channel
In a world inevitably going global and multicultural, what becomes of religions and spirituality? What becomes of activism towards real global change? In THE CONVERGENCE, global Interspiritual pioneer and scientist Dr. Kurt Johnson joins interfaith leaders Ben Bowler of Australia and Doug King of America in engaging women and men who are inspiring leaders and change agents around our world. Spiritual and cultural leaders, sacred and secular activists, scientists, artists, writers, economists, politicians and even shamans join in this discussion of a world trying to wake up and grow up. What is at stake and what are the technologies and cosmologies creating a world that can work for everyone? If you are concerned for our world’s future and sincere about your commitments to bold and world-serving ideas, you’ll want to tune in to The Convergence on the VoiceAmerica Empowerment Channel.
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Episode Description
VoiceAmerica presents this Evergreen Special detailing major 2019 and 2020 global events upcoming from UNITY EARTH partners Standing for Peace Campaign, Road to 2020 Events, and Caravan of Unity across America. The five sections of the Special spotlight, now and for months to come: United Nations mandated global holiday events like the International Day of Yoga and the International Day of Peace, the vision and work of Light on Light Magazine and VoiceAmerica in covering all these events, UNITY EARTH and its partners month to month activities and initiatives 2019-2020, and the roles of partner groups like Transformation365, We, the World, URI, UNIFY, EcoPeace and The Evolutionary Leaders. Featured are global leaders from the UN, UNITY EARTH, Light on Light Magazine, Transformation365, We, and The Evolutionary Leaders. Lets share this Special, ongoing, as a resource and PR instrument pointing toward all of these global events and gathering a global constituency for their success!
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Da FUNctioneers make everything golden.
Everyone loves Da FUNction but it wouldn’t exist without our amazing brigade of creative volunteers. Do you love clean food? Do you know how to paint, saw, hammer or organize? Are you gangsta? We need you!
Join us this week and next as we prepare to create, play and dig! Click here to enter your availability.
Da FUNction is a one-day community fun fest full of art, activities, music and workshops designed to bring a wide range of LA communities together around a lifestyle that is beautiful, healthy and full of life-giving culture. Da FUNction is a free, family-friendly event. All you have to do is RSVP. |
Da FUNction is the brainchild of Ron Finley, one of LA’s most widely known artivists and a disruptive innovator in the healthy food movement. “Change your food! Change your life!” is one of Ron’s most well known phrases, but Da FUNction is about more than changing your food, it’s about changing culture. It’s about redesigning lives and taking back our community. A mission at the core of the Ron Finley Project (RFP).
Supported by Nell Newman Foundation, Thug Kitchen, Community Coalition, LA Department of Parks and Recreation, The Fand dozens of community members and volunteers, Da FUNction will offer many activities including:
* A special performance by Tommy the Clown!
Art Installations
Circus Performers
Custom T-shirt Printing
Dancing
Drumming
Face-Painting
Food Trucks
Kid-Friendly Crafts
Jump Rope / Double Dutch
Live Painting
Make-Your-Own Sustainable Household Products
Mosaics
Natural Body Care Workshop
Soil & Gardening Workshops
Weaving
Woodworking
Yoga
RFP is committed to creating and sustaining positive and lasting changes in Los Angeles. A safe, healthy, thriving LA is the What. Da FUNction is the How.
Bring the whole family and come out to the Vermont Square Park on August 10, 2019 to be a part of it all!! We’ll see you there.
AREI Inc. | PO Box 7784 | Aspen, CO 81612
970.930.8002 | info@areday.net
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The mission of the American Renewable Energy Institute (AREI), is to advance the rapid implementation of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency at the speed and scale necessary to provide solutions of both the environmental and economic crises currently facing humankind and the planet.
AREI, Inc. is a registered 501(c)3 public charity not-for-profit corporation.
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AREDAY
America’s premier renewable energy summit is a deep immersion into topics designed to precipitate an historic and necessary transition to an environmentally and economically sound future.
Speakers and attendees include world leaders from both the public and private sectors in science, finance, investment, government and diverse technology development and deployment. We will cover Solar, Wind, Biofuels, Geothermal and other trail-blazing approaches to sustainability.
AREI presents the 16th Annual AREDAY Summit
“The Politics of Change: Creating the New Hydrogen-Carbon Economy”
DATE: August 14-17, 2019
LOCATION: Viceroy Snowmass
130 Wood Rd, Snowmass Village, CO 81615
REGISTRATION: Registration is now open. Click here to register.
Full passes include entry to receptions, concert, expo and Impact Film. Passes available for students and locals, non-profit and small business.
Additional Community Programming:
- IMPACT FILM
Click here for more information.
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Startup Green
Startup Green is a two-day accelerator platform for cleantech entrepreneurs, providing professional one on one mentorship, access to investors, and the opportunity to present at the 2017 AREDAY Summit.
Startup Green, now in its third year, is an essential program of the American Renewable Energy Institute initiated to strategically utilize our 1,000+ alumni network. Top leaders have been gathering at the AREDAY Summit for 13 years. The Startup Green program opens this network to startups creating an environment that facilitates introductions, fosters relationships and provides knowledge essential to kick start companies and grow the low carbon economy.
Startup Green Programming
Five to ten teams, will be carefully selected to convene in Aspen/Snowmass, June 19-21st, for three full days of programming vital to taking a clean technology business to the next level. This will include classroom-style sessions and one-on-one mentorship meetings specific to company needs. Topics will include, but are not limited to, business refinement, industry, market, and sales analysis, access to the mentors networks, strategies for approaching venture capitalists, perfecting the “art of a pitch” and advice on intellectual property and patent law.
All companies will have the opportunity to present the night of June 20th at the Startup Green Evening Showcase. On June 21st, entrepreneurs will attend the AREDAY Summit and the top 3 businesses will present on the AREDAY Summit main stage.
Click here for more information.
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ACELI
Since 2004, American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY) has been bringing top leaders and educators together to promote the rapid deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency strategies via demonstrations, presentations and dialogue. Each year, AREDAY has hosted nationally and internationally renowned speakers and attracted attendees from across the globe – resulting in unique, powerful cross-sector collaborations and a call to action around the issue of climate change. In 2012 AREDAY became a project of the newly formed not-for-profit, American Renewable Energy Institute, Inc. (AREI). The development of the American Climate and Energy Literacy Initiative (ACELI) moves the AREDAY Summit beyond a yearly conference in order to build clean energy job training and public education on climate change solutions.
The ACELI Mission
“To accelerate the partnership between industry, community colleges and public education to create core curriculum, both online and classroom, that results in the implementation of jobs in the clean technology sector.”
We recognize the urgent need to prepare for global change, as a result of the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere that is impacting ecosystems, economies, and energy use. ACELI is positioned uniquely to respond to the urgent need and will serve as a public-private collaboration to foster resiliency and sustainable practices in connected communities across the country. ACELI projects and curriculum will enhance existing programs and initiatives, fostering synergistic activities and opportunities between educational and industry partners. We are creating and implementing publicly accredited programming for community colleges and K-12 public schools with a turn-key model that adheres to national core standards.
ACELI educational programming is being developed and will be available in four different formats:
- Public Education Curriculum of accredited coursework offered through various Community Colleges
- A series of Speakers Programs offered throughout the year both for public attendance, in K-12 and Community College Classrooms
- Junior Climate Ambassadors K-12 Classroom Projects and Programs to promote climate and energy literacy while advancing science and math standards. Online curriculum development, including an interactive platform for students to share and collaborate on projects.
- AREDAY Video library archive of prominent Keynotes, Panel Discussions, and Power Point Presentations of nationally recognized experts and business leaders in the Renewable Energy and Sustainability fields from the AREDAY Summit programs.
Click here for more information.
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RENEW
The newest program of AREI, RENEW is the retrofit of the built environment to a carbon neutral or net zero standard, moving toward the ultimate goal of carbon or net positive buildings. With approximately 120 million residential homes and 60 billion square feet of commercial real estate constituting the greatest national use of fossil energy, RENEW is designed to reduce energy use while increasing economic savings.
“There is more money to be made in saving energy than producing it.”– Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute.
RENEW creates awareness of climate change solutions through net zero retrofitting projects in critical areas of high energy consumption. From resort communities, like Snowmass Village, Colorado, to retrofits in urban areas such as Detroit, Chicago, and Denver, the goal of RENEW is to stimulate job creation in renewable and energy efficiency sectors, while creating measurably reduced energy use in each retrofit. Demonstration projects will include local, regional, and national educational outreach and awareness campaigns, policy initiatives based on a project overview, as well as a tandem effort of on-site job training with our educational branch, The AmericanACELI.
RENEW’s pilot project, began in Jan 2013, at the Goodwin residence, in Snowmass Village, CO. This home is typical of high energy use homes in the Aspen and Snowmass area, and represents a real energy consumption issue in the Roaring Fork Valley. While this home is a year round residence, many like it are vacant for many months of the year, yet require heating and cooling even when unoccupied. Through a coordinated effort with local energy contractors, trades, and renewable energy experts, our team redesigned the energy systems of this home, implemented air sealing and weatherization of the building shell, and added renewable energy after significant energy efficiency measures were taken. As a result of these improvements, this project is reaching its NET ZERO goal.
NET ZERO: A building produces as much energy as it uses, bringing it to a carbon neutral operating level.
CARBON/NET POSITIVE: A building produces more clean energy that it uses, delivering clean energy back to the grid.
The further goals of RENEW are to recommend policy and initiatives on both local and regional levels that will support the overall vision of the RENEW program.
Click here for more information.
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Sustainability News & Entertainment™
“We are all in this together!” Hosted by Diana Dehm. We are crossing the nation, and heading around the globe to bring each of you to the table to tell your story on how you have made a green difference. This is all in an effort to share information we can learn from, and create a global collective for a sustainable planet – One shared idea, one solution, one conversation, and one laugh at time!
Our goal is to bring awareness around the new green economy, and drive improvement towards social and environmental impact on the planet. Diana believes “People are the heart of driving change” and that your innovative voices, ideas, and solutions will drive the green difference. We are turning up the volume and putting a voice behind green consumer products, green partnerships, sustainable technologies, renewable energy options, green jobs and so much more, with a focus on our next generation. You will walk away with a better understanding of opportunities, risks, choices, and the tools for making a green difference on the planet
“If we can walk on the moon, we CAN create a global collective for a sustainable planet”.
– Diana Dehm,Sustainability News & Entertainment for the Planet™ Host.
Stay tuned for more information and please visit sustainabilitynewsandentertainment.com.
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2019 Summit Agenda
The Summit will include Keynotes, Panels, Armchair Conversations, IMPACTFILM, Networking Sessions and Concert
Viceroy Snowmass Resort
August 14-17, 2019
Agenda subject to change.
AREDAY SUMMIT 2019 – 16th Annual Event
“The Politics of Change: Creating the New Hydrogen-Carbon Economy”
Wednesday, August 14th
Grand Ballroom, Viceroy Hotel
Evening Program
Hosts for the Evening: Chip Comins and Salley Ranney AREI
5:00 pm | Pre-Registration Open Until 6:00pm |
6:00 pm | Networking Welcome Reception Appetizers and Cash Bar Hosted by AREI Welcoming Remarks Chip Comins and Sally Ranney AREI |
7:00 pm | Opening Keynote Address 2020: The Most Important Political Year in History Gen. Wesley Clark Wesley Clark and Associates |
7:15 pm | Keynote Address Framing the Hydrogen Carbon Economy: Opportunities and Hurdles to Going to Scale Ellen Stechel Lightworks ASU |
7:45 pm | Keynote Address The HERO Breakthrough Andrew Horvath Planet Power Systems Q & A |
8:30 pm | Keynote Address Hydrogen Aircraft for Poaching Surveillance Skipper Darlington Africa ASAP |
8:45 pm | Keynote Address The Hydrogen Moonshot Kunal Sood NOVUS |
9:00 pm | IMPACTFILM The Hydrogen Age Narrated by Leonard Nimoy |
10:00 pm | Evening Program Concludes |
Thursday, August 15th
Grand Ballroom, Viceroy Hotel
Morning Session: Burning Up The Biosphere: Will New Energy Technologies Save Us?
Host for the Morning: Elizabeth Halliday Grace Richardson Fund
7:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
8:00 am | Opening Remarks Chip Comins AREI Sally Ranney AREI Daily Blessing Phyllis Bald Eagle Lakota Sioux Elder |
8:15 am | Keynote Address Bring Back the Wolf: Bring Back the Balance Delia Malone RMWP |
8:30 am | Keynote Address The HERO Breakthrough Andrew Horvath Planet Power Systems |
8:45 am | Keynote Address The Hydrogen Space: An Update Mary-Rose de Valladares International Energy Agency |
9:00 am | Panel Discussion Accelerating the Transition to ZERO Carbon Moderator: Brian Goldstein Energy Independence Now Andrew Horvath Planet Power Systems Mary-Rose de Valladares International Energy Agency Ellen Stechel Lightworks ASU |
9:45 am | Keynote Address Energy Economies: What Does 100% Renewable Look Like? Lori Smith Schell Empowered Energy |
10:00 am | Panel Discussion Blue Hydrogen: Profit from Capturing Methane Emissions Moderator: Wiley Rhodes One Step In Foundation Amory Lovins Rocky Mountain Institute Alice Madden Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources |
10:45 am | Keynote Address PCs, iPhones and Hydrogen Ed Davis Blue Earth, Inc. |
11:00 am | Keynote Address Where the Currents and Tides are Taking Us Jim Dehlsen Aquantis |
11:15 am | Keynote Address What Does it Really Take to be Energy Independent? Brian Goldstein Energy Independence Now |
11:30 am | Panel Discussion The Big Leap Over Fossil Fuels: Renewables In the Developing World Moderator: Tom King Borincana Foundation Inc. Luka Powanga, Ph.D Energy Africa Conference Colonel William Wyatt United States Army Steven Conger P4P |
12:00 pm | Armchair Conversation It Will be Done! 100% Renewable by 2045 Melissa Miyashiro Blue Planet Foundation Henk Rogers Blue Planet Foundation |
12:15 pm | Luncheon Break Quickly select from a variety of delicious, nutritious buffet food served with reusable items and return to seats. |
12:30 pm | Lucheon Keynote Address New Frontiers in Energy Efficiency Amory Lovins Rocky Mountain Institute |
1:15 pm | Luncheon Keynote Concludes |
Afternoon Session: New Energy Economies: Security for Our Life Support Systems
Host for the Afternoon: Hutch Hutchinson Resilient Analytics
1:30 pm | Keynote Address What We Think About When We Think About Global Warming Per Espen Stoknes Centre for Green Growth at the Norwegian Business School |
2:00 pm | Keynote Address Beyond Coal and Other Game Changing Campaigns Michael Brune Sierra Club |
2:15 pm | Keynote Address Recovering Wildlife in Crisis and Repairing Natural Systems Collin O’Mara National Wildlife Federation |
2:30 pm | Panel Discussion Alarms, Alliances & Acceleration of Solutions Sally Ranney AREI Chip Comins AREI Michael Brune Sierra Club Collin O’Mara National Wildlife Federation Bruce Stein National Wildlife Foundation |
3:00 pm |
Armchair Conversation Carbon Pricing = Taxes or Dividends Moderator: Chip Comins AREI Ryan Costello Americans for Carbon Dividends Jonah Kurman-Faber Climate XChange |
3:30 pm |
Keynote Address Economically Sustainable Carbon Capture Brent Constantz Blue Planet Ltd |
4:15 pm | Armchair Conversation Utilities Must Take the Lead Moderator: Dave Munk Holy Cross Energy Bryan Hannegan Holy Cross Energy Jon Goldin-Dubois Western Resource Advocates |
4:45 pm | Panel Discussion Large-Scale Efficiencies in the Built Environment Moderator: Chip Comins AREI Juan Grobler Fridgwise Brian Black ProStar Energy Solutions Heidi VanGenderen University of CO Boulder |
5:15 pm |
Keynote Address Quantifying the Cost of Adaptation Hutch Hutchinson Resilient Analytics |
5:30 pm |
Armchair Conversation Adaption: Efficiency & Supply Chains James Goudreau Novartis Business Services Hutch Hutchinson Resilient Analytics |
5:45 pm | Closing Remarks Chip Comins AREI Sally Ranney AREI |
Evening Program
Hosts for the Evening: Chip Comins and Salley Ranney AREI
6:30 pm | Networking Dinner Buffet and Cash Bar Sponsored by Ted Turner, Ocean Elder and Turner Enterprises, Inc. |
7:00 pm | Dinner Keynote Address Passion In Action Capt. Paul Watson Sea Shepherd |
7:30 pm | Keynote Address Video Revolutionary Ocean Project Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest Fortescue Metals Flourishing Oceans and Minderoo Foundation |
7:45 pm | Keynote Address Turning Passion into Purpose: Mobilizing the Adventure Sports Community in 2020 Mario Molina Protect Our Winters |
8:00 pm | Keynote Address Ocean Health: Strategic Solutions for Governments and Society Doug Woodring Ocean Recovery Alliance |
8:15 pm | Keynote Address Source Points: Solutions to Plastic Pollution Improve the Planet Dianna Cohen Plastic Pollution Coalition With Video – Don’t Throw It Away By Keb’Mo’ with Taj Mahal |
8:30 pm | Armchair Conversation The Blue Heart George Cummings Mission Blue Project Partner Melody Saunders Brenna Reef Life Restoration and Foundation |
8:45 pm | IMPACTFILM Watson Intro and Q & A with Captain Paul Watson Sea Shepherd |
10:30 pm | Evening Program Concludes |
Friday, August 16th
Grand Ballroom, Viceroy Hotel
Morning Session: Sustainable Finance and Business – A New Lens
Host for the Morning: Bud Wilson Deep Nature Journeys
7:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
8:00 am | Opening Remarks Chip Comins AREI Sally Ranney AREI Daily Blessing Phyllis Bald Eagle Lakota Sioux Elder |
8:30 am | Opening Keynote Address Breaking the Mold Maggie Cutts Prime |
8:45 am | Panel Discussion Innovative Finance Powering Solution Moderator: David Levine American Sustainable Business Council Robert Levin Emerging Star Capital LLC Maggie Cutts Prime Sandra Kwak 10 Power |
9:30 am | Panel Discussion Accelerating the Transition to ZERO Carbon Moderator: Bill Brandt ASU Lightworks Klaus Lackner Center for Negative Carbon Emissions Ellen Stechel ASU Lightworks Cheryl Martin Harwich Partners |
10:15 am | Armchair Conversation Reinvested Divestment: Can It Help Achieve Climate Stability? Moderator: Timothy Wirth United Nations Foundation Thomas Van Dyck SRI Wealth Management Group at RBC Ellen Dorsey Wallace Global Fund |
10:45 am | Panel Discussion Block Chain: Creative Finance for Good Moderator: Hanieh Sadat Genesys One Capital Ben Goertzel Singularity NET Christian Shearer Regen Network |
11:15 am | Panel Discussion Climate Philanthropy Moderator: Chip Comins AREI Trammell Crow EarthX John “Spike” Buckley Earth’s Call Henk Rogers Blue Planet Foundation John Powers Alliance Center |
12:00 pm | Armchair Conversation Impact Investing: Real or Imagined? Moderator: Inge Relph Global Choices Julie Muraco TBLI Group Holdings B.V. Rachel Payne FEM.Inc |
12:30 pm | Armchair Conversation New Green Banking and Sustainable Finance Sally Ranney AREI Ilmi Granoff Climate Works |
12:45 pm | Luncheon Break Quickly select from a variety of delicious, nutritious buffet food served with reusable items and return to seats. |
1:00 pm | Luncheon Keynote A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life Hunter Lovins Natural Capitalism Solutions |
1:30 pm | Luncheon Keynote Concludes |
Afternoon Session: INNOVATION and POLITICS of CHANGE
Host for the Afternoon: Elizabeth Halliday Grace Richardson Fund
1:45 pm | Keynote Address Where the Votes Are Gene Karpinski League of Conservation Voters |
2:00 pm | Keynote Address 2 Trillion Trees? No Problem Tom Chi Google X |
2:15 pm | Keynote Address Innovative Collaborations and Strategies for Waste Stan Emert Green EnviroTech Holdings |
2:30 pm | Keynote Address The Blixt Breakthrough Charlotta Holmquist Blixt |
2:45 pm | Panel Discussion Entrepreneurs Leading Innovation Moderator: Frank Rukavina Sustainable Innovations Operative, LLC Gail Levy HFactor Water Dan Powers CO Labs Charles Erdman Ideas by Nature Brenna West Ethique |
3:30 pm |
IMPACTFILM – Trailer Point of No Return Noel Dockstader Far West Films |
3:45 pm |
Panel Discussion Wind Energy: 100 Gigawatts and Counting! Moderator: Larry Flowers G4 Wind Susan Innis Invenergy Edward Zaelke McDermott Will & Emery LLP |
4:15 pm |
Keynote Address Politics of Change Bill Becker Presidential Climate Action Plan |
4:30 pm |
Keynote Address The New Green Deal Demond Drummer New Consensus |
4:45 pm |
Armchair Conversation In the Disguise of Democracy Moderator: Timothy Wirth United Nations Foundation David Orr Oberlin College Jena Griswold Secretary of State, CO |
5:15 pm |
Panel Discussion Digital Democracy: Reinventing Politics with the Iowa Caucus Moderator: Inge Relph Global Choices Tracy Vasaturo Traces Consulting Merlin Yockstick Blue Planet Village Sen. Jack Hatch Former Iowa State Senator and Hatch Development Group Joe Conte The Strategy Agency |
5:45 pm |
Keynote Address Climate and Social Justice Brad Markell AFL-CIO |
6:00 pm |
Panel Discussion The Teddy Roosevelt Factor: Conservatives are Conservationists Moderator: Elizabeth Halliday Grace Richardson Foundation Colin Finnegan CRES Benjamin Backer American Conservation Coalition Captain Robin Tyner Deploy/US |
6:30 pm |
Closing Remarks Chip Comins AREI Sally Ranney AREI |
Evening Program
Special Guest Presidential Candidate Tom Steyer
Hosts for the Evening: Chip Comins and Salley Ranney AREI
7:00 pm | Networking Dinner Buffet & Cash Bar Sponsored by World Ethics and Leadership Foundation and Cambridge Global Conversations |
7:30 pm | Dinner Keynote Address Tom Steyer 2020 Presidential Candidate |
8:15 pm | Q & A |
8:30 pm | Armchair Conversation Greening the Bridge to China: The G-2 Moderator Chip Comins AREI Daniel Fung Cambridge Global Conversations Bill Mundell IKM |
8:45 pm | IMPACTFILM Better Angels Q & A |
10:15 pm | Evening Program Concludes |
Saturday, August 17th
Grand Ballroom, Viceroy Hotel
Morning Session: Science + Nature-Based Solutions = Sustainability
Host for the Morning: Bud Wilson Deep Nature Journeys
7:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
8:00 am | Opening Remarks Chip Comins AREI Sally Ranney AREI Daily Blessing Phyllis Bald Eagle Lakota Sioux Elder Rev. Jane Quiat Methodist Minister |
8:30 am | Opening Keynote Address The World’s Water: Status, Challenges, Solutions Peter Gleick Pacific Institute |
8:45 am | Panel Discussion What Does Water Resiliency Look Like in a Changing Climate? Moderator: Peter Gleick Pacific Institute Ravé Mehta Water Ledger Jerry Mallett Colorado Headwaters |
9:15 am | Panel Discussion Enough is Enough: Cleaning Up Compton’s Water Moderator: Chip Comins AREI Riggs Eckelberry OriginClear, Inc. Fred Martin Compton Kidz Club Cederic Cebbalos Former LA Lake |
9:45 am | Armchair Conversation Can Science Lead the Way in Biodiversity and Climate Policy? Michelle Wyman National Council for Science and the Environment Tiina Kurvits EcoSystem Management. Grid Arendal |
10:15 am | Armchair Conversation Sustainable Land Use Planning John McBride Sopris Foundation Harry Teague Teague Architects |
10:30 am | Keynote Address Community Supported Agricultural and Resilient Living Eden Vardy Farm Collaborative |
10:45 am | Panel Discussion Go Smart Go Safe Go Sustainable: Regenerative Agriculture Moderator: Eden Vardy Farm Collaborative Jerome Ostentowski Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute Bobby Gill Savory Institute |
11:15 am | Panel Discussion In Wildness is the Preservation of the World Moderator: Amy Lewis WILD Foundation Vance Martin WILD Foundation Eli Weiss WildiZe Foundation Eric Schmidt Wildlife Protection Strategies James Brundige Nature Needs Half and First Light Films |
12:00 pm | Keynote Address Big Win for Biodiversity: The Bonobo Peace Forest Sally Jewell Coxe Bonobo Conservation Initiative |
12:15 pm | Luncheon Break Quickly select from a variety of delicious, nutritious buffet food served with reusable items and return to seats. |
12:30 pm | Luncheon Armchair Discussion Ethics of Climate Change: Cambridge Global Conversations Moderator: Sally Ranney AREI Marjorie Layden World Ethics and Leadership Foundation Daniel Fung Cambridge Global Conversations |
1:00 pm | Luncheon Armchair Discussion Concludes |
Afternoon Session: Rising Up! The Urgency is Now!
Host for the Afternoon: Elizabeth Halliday Grace Richardson Fund
1:15 pm | Keynote Address and Trailer WeRiseUP Kate Maloney WeRiseUP |
1:30 pm | Keynote Address Beware: Do Not Ignore the Next Generation’s Voice Julia Olson Our Children’s Trust Armchair Conversation Moderator: Julia Olson Our Children’s Trust Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Earth Guardians Xiye Bastida Fridays for the Future |
2:00 pm | Keynote Address Y On Earth Aaron Perry Y On Earth |
2:15 pm |
IMPACTFILM – Trailer Youth Unstoppable Slater Jewell-Kemper Youth Unstoppable |
2:20 pm |
Panel Discussion Youth Eco-Warriors Take On Climate Justice Moderator: Henk Rogers Blue Planet Foundation Alec Loorz Circle of Fire Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Earth Guardians Xiye Bastida Fridays for the Future Slater Jewell-Kemper Unstoppable Youth (Skype) |
3:00 pm | Armchair Conversation Millennials Moving the Needle Katie Hoffman NEXUS Sandra Kwak 10 Power Matt Myers EarthX |
3:20 pm | Armchair Conversation Incognita Incognitum: Moving Towards Solutions in the Climate Crisis Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) Musician and Author Tom Chi Google X |
3:45 pm | Keynote Address EarthX: Bridging the Divide Tony Keane EarthX |
4:00 pm | Armchair Conversation Captain Planet: 1.5 Million Kids Later Leesa Carter-Jones Captain Planet Foundation Charles Orgbon Captain Planet Foundation |
4:15 pm | Panel Discussion Films Open Your Mind and Change Your Heart Moderator: Daniel Shaw Author and Catto Shaw Foundation Beverly Camhe Beverly Camhe Productions Kate Brooks The Last Animals Michael Cain EarthxFilm Jean-Francois Cavelier True Media Company Rex Wong fliqsmedia |
5:00 pm | Armchair Conversation Nexus: Next Gens’ Conservative Case For Clean Energy Aaron Berger Asymmetrical Solutions Sarah Hunt Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy |
5:15 pm | Keynote Address Consequences of the Apocalyptic Myth Andrew Scott Open Mind Project |
5:30 pm | Keynote Address A Time for HEROs Andrew Horvath Planet Power Systems |
5:45 pm | Closing Conversation Generation to Generation Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Earth Guardians Xiye Bastida Fridays for the Future Chip Comins AREI Sally Ranney AREI |
Evening Program
Hosts for the Evening: Chip Comins and Salley Ranney AREI
6:30 pm | Networking Dinner Buffet & Cash Bar |
7:15 pm | Dinner Keynote Address Flourish or Perish: Time for a Progressive Reality Jonathan Granoff Global Security |
7:30 pm | Dinner Armchair Conversation The Nature of Consciousness: How Do We Accelerate the Shift Needed Lawrence Ford Conscious Capital Sally Ranney AREI |
7:45 pm | Panel Discussion Practical Wisdom: Indigenous Knowledge Guides the Way ‘Home’ Moderator: Lawrence Ford Conscious Capital Osprey Orielle Lake Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network Anita Sanchez Pachamama Xiye Bastida Fridays for the Future |
8:15 pm | AREI AREDAY Awards Ceremony |
8:30 pm | Concert Valle Musico & Aponi Kai Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Earth Guardians |
10:00 pm | Evening Program Concludes |
Agenda subject to change.
Any questions please contact us.
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Viceroy Snowmass
130 Wood Road
Standard Mail: PO Box 6985
Snowmass Village, CO 81615
Guestroom Reservations:
877.235.7577
Phone: 970.923.8000
Viceroy Snowmass Resort
With interior design by Jean-Michel Gathy of Denniston International—renowned for his luxurious approach to ecologically conscious design—and its all-season pool café, bar and terrace created by tastemaker Kelly Wearstler, Viceroy Snowmass reveals such unexpected Rocky Mountain details as reclaimed timber, textural stone and embossed metals, all while embracing sustainably minded, next-generation building standards that earned Viceroy for inclusion among the nation’s rare LEED®* Gold certified resorts.
*Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
To Book a Room:
Viceroy Snowmass Resort
For room reservations, please contact the Viceroy Snowmass Hotel at 877.235.7577 and reference the AREDAY Summit for special rates, or reserve online (CLICK HERE) using group code: AREDAY (with code type “Promotion”). A limited number of rooms are available with special rates. Our room block always sells out, so make sure to reserve your room ASAP. There is also a Pre-Pay option available to help save even more, but must book before July 15thand this has a no cancellations policy.
Also, if you are flying into Denver and looking to rideshare to the Summit visit our carpool page: https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/g7ah0u
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AREDAY Pass Options:
- Full AREDAY Summit – $1,250
- Government AREDAY Pass – $850
- Nonprofit and NGO AREDAY Pass – $750
- Student AREDAY Pass – $450
- Single Day AREDAY Pass – $400
- AREDAY Speaker Pass – $250
- AREDAY Locals Pass (ID Verification) – $350
- AREDAY Media Pass (Credentials Required) – Contact kristen@areinstitute.net for information.
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Join the makers of the Emmy Award-nominated film DAWNLAND for a special screening of the 86-minute feature edition.
For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to save them from being Indian. In Maine, the first official “truth and reconciliation commission” in the United States begins a historic investigation. DAWNLAND goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for state and tribal relations.
After the movie please stay with us
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Learn more about the film and watch the trailer at dawnland.org
120 minutes
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Adam Mazo is the director of the Upstander Project and co-director and producer of First Light, and the feature-length film, Dawnland. Adam also directed and produced Coexist (WORLD Channel, Africa Movie Academy Award Nominee). He co-founded the Upstander Project in 2009. He is originally from Minnesota, graduated from the University of Florida, and now lives in Boston with his wife and son.
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Mishy Lesser, Ed.D., is the learning director for the Upstander Project and Education Fellow at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut. She is director of the Upstander Academy, a weeklong professional learning experience for teachers and museum educators that focuses on genocide and human rights education and the skills of upstanders. Currently Dr. Lesser spends much of her time researching and writing the five-inquiry Teacher’s Guide for Dawnland. Mishy authored the Coexist Teacher’s Guide to promote learning about the complexity of reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda. She is a Circle Keeper and has been featured on WBUR (Boston) and PRI/BBC’s The World. Mishy was a Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador and spent 12 years learning and working in the Andes.
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Tracy Rector (Choctaw/Seminole) is the impact producer for Dawnland and the Upstander Project. She is a mixed race filmmaker, curator, community organizer, co-founder of Longhouse Media. She has made over 400 short films, and is currently in production of her fifth feature documentary. Her work has been featured on Independent Lens, Cannes Film Festival, ImagineNative, National Geographic, Toronto International Film Festival, and in the Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian. She is a current Firelight Media Lab Fellow, WGBH Producer Fellow, and Sundance Institute Lab Fellow. Raised in Seattle and Albuquerque, Tracy lives in Seattle and sits as a City of Seattle Arts Commissioner.
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Compassion Camp
August 15-18, 2019
at Earthaven Ecovillage | near Asheville, North Carolina
Compassion Camp is a four day event for adults and children where we create a community of people who learn, play and celebrate together, empowered to then send each other back into the world to spread these seeds of justice and love. Our time together is designed to foster community among the growing number of people in Western North Carolina and beyond who are passionate about living and promoting compassionate consciousness. Located at Earthaven Ecovillage, it is an opportunity to have fun, enjoy ourselves, learn together, and connect deeply in a beautiful natural setting.
Compassion Camp is inspired by the life and work of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, the creator of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). We believe that the theory and practice of NVC is a life-changing tool for cultivating compassion in our hearts, communities, and the world. In addition to NVC, other topics may include: social justice, ecology, circling, restorative circles, healthy relationships, feminism, families and children, eco-sexuality, community, economics, and authentic movement.
Compassion Camp combines experiential and traditional approaches to learning, including professionally led classes, small-group conversations, hands-on practices, movement, self-reflection, and interactive activities, to provide an intimate, well-rounded, and powerful experience. Through both pre-planned presentations and Open Space sessions, Compassion Camp seeks to concentrate the creativity and inspiration of participants into an ongoing, life-serving energy for the community and create networks among affinity groups such as educators and social activists. Compassion Camp also features relational activities centered around singing, dancing, storytelling, and silence, which cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien has identified as the four most common ways that humans create wellness, community, and connection.
Compassion Camp participants will likely experience:
- Increased connection to self, others, and nature
- A deeper commitment to being of service
- A broader understanding of the ways you can live compassion
- More skill in creating supportive community in your life
- More practical tools and resources to inspire yourself and others
Schedule
Compassion Camp hosts a broad selection of topics to explore through the combination of pre-planned presentations and group-selected open space offerings. Connection and movement activities, meals, and rituals also contribute to a rich and nourishing experience.
More about schedule and Open Space technology
About the Co-Directors
For over thirty years, Steve Torma has gently guided our culture toward cooperation and regeneration. He is the former President of Earthaven Ecovillage, where he continues to live his passion for community and sustainability. Trained in Nonviolent Communication, and other healing modalities, Steve co-founded The REAL Center in 2007. Through his compassionate presence and guidance, Steve has helped countless people to find healing, direction, and meaning in their lives.
Terrie Lewine focuses her work on deep self-awareness, communication and relationship work. She currently resides in Philadelphia, PA where she owns and manages her private teaching/coaching practice and the Back to Life Wellness Center. She offers classes, workshops and trainings for individuals and couples, and supports organizations by developing and supporting best practices regarding collaboration, team building and effective conflict resolution.
Steve and Terrie have been deeply enriched by using NVC in their own lives, relationships, communities and with the people they serve. Having felt the power of NVC to transform lives they are excited to create a gathering where people can come together to learn from each other, celebrate, and network.
While deeply inspired by NVC, their vision of a compassionate world includes many other aspects of creating the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. With that in mind, they’ve brought together a group of leaders in WNC to share their wisdom at Compassion Camp.
More Facilitators and Class Descriptions
Location, Travel, and Accommodations
Location
This program takes place at Earthaven Ecovillage. This permaculture-based community offers a unique living classroom where participants will engage with the natural world, eco-infrastructure, and the intimate experience of rural community living.
Accommodations
Camping is included. Private indoor lodging at Earthaven is available for an additional cost.
Shared indoor lodging
Cost per person: 1 night $20, 2 nights $40, 3 nights $60, 4 nights $75
Private indoor lodging
Cost for 1 person: 1 night $50, 2 nights $85, 3 nights $105, 4 nights $120
Cost for 2 people (shared bed): 1 night $75, 2 nights $130, 3 nights $160, 4 nights $175
Off-site options
Various options in Bat Cave, Black Mountain, and Asheville.
Travel
Earthaven is nestled in the heart of the rural Southern Appalachian Mountains, 30 miles outside of Asheville, NC on curvy mountain roads and within two hours of three airports.
Food
Delicious, omnivorous meals are prepared by talented culinary artists from the Earthaven community. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options available. Snacks and beverages (tea, coffee) are provided. Participants are invited to help with meal clean-up. Many hands make light work.
As much food as possible is sourced from Earthaven and its surrounding farms and gardens, with some ingredients sourced from local grocery stores. Our meals are created with seasonal, local, fresh, wildcrafted, humanely-raised, and organic ingredients.
Children and Families
We welcome families with children to attend and will do our best to support you and your children. The village setting of Earthaven offers a safe and fun place for people of all ages and stages to explore. Much of the content involves focused, sit-down presentations, so attending with a young child will likely mean being less able to participate fully in the program.
Children ages 0-3 ($0 includes food and camping)
Young children are welcome to attend with parent/guardian at no cost. We do not offer a program or childcare for this age group. If you decide to bring your young child(ren) to sessions, please understand that you and your child may need to step outside if your child is crying or playing loudly so that others may participate fully.
Children ages 4-12 ($100 includes food and camping)
Children are welcome to attend with parent/guardian. For this age group we offer a youth program that runs during open space sessions and will include games, crafts, and nature connection activities. Parents are responsible for their children during all other times.
Teens ages 13-17 ($100 includes food and camping)
Teens are welcome to attend with parent/guardian. We do not offer a program for this age group. Teenagers may attend sessions, but parents should be aware that there may be adult content, and parents are responsible for them and what they attend.
Compassion camp was an emotionally nourishing environment where I was able to sink into my relationship with my partner and our children. ~ Angel Trail, 2018 Participant
Cost
Registration includes instruction, all materials, food, and three nights of camping. Private indoor lodging at Earthaven is available for an additional cost (see above).
Adults
Registration Sliding Scale: $220-400
Payment available in $60 increments
Youth
Infant and Toddlers ages 0-3: Free
Children ages 4-12: $100 (youth program available)
Teens ages 13-17: $100 (no program available)
Work Trade: We offer a few partial work trade opportunities to individuals who are available and qualified for the following service areas, and who would otherwise not be able to afford to attend. Our partial work trade positions cost $50-90 depending on the position, require about 11 hours of service, and include food, camping, admittance to camp, and materials.
Scholarships: We offer limited partial scholarships of $100 to individuals who otherwise would not be able to afford it. We prioritize scholarships for people of color and single parents with financial needs. We understand that people of color experience more financial and institutional barriers to participation, and we want to counteract that by offering scholarships.
Work trades and scholarships do NOT cover transportation or indoor lodging.
Please contact us at info@schoolofintegratedliving.org to receive a work trade or scholarship application.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~ Dalai Lama
Welcome to the Self-Study version of Living the New Story Series 1
Our live journey ran from August 2017 to March 2018 and each of the 8 videoconferencing sessions were recorded.
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Welcome to the Self-Study version of Living the New Story Series 2 !
Our live journey ran from September 2018 to April 2019 and each of the 8 videoconferencing sessions were recorded.
Throughout the eight sessions, we are inviting you to take an experiential journey into what needs to change in us, and in the human story. Each session will explore, at increasing levels of depth, what it is to live the new story personally, and accelerate it collectively, through:
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Understanding our own personal journey inside of our larger, collective story of human evolution.
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Awakening to ourselves as dynamic, inspired agents of change and learning how to powerfully cocreate the future of our world in a way that is uniquely ours.
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Catalysing our growth and evolution beyond the patterns and core beliefs of our past to make way for the new story to unfold.
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Honouring the best of the old story and integrating it into the new.
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Connecting with, and beginning to harness, the power of the collective field to carry the new story forward.
As we change our story, we change our world
We humans find our way by story. Our stories shape us, hold us and give meaning to our lives. Every so often it becomes clear that a prevailing story is no longer serving. Now is such a time. Humanity needs a new, inspiring picture of the future to live into.
This website is designed to support the emergence of a coherent new story for humanity and the production of practical, collaborative ways to live this new story.
We invite you to help us accelerate our collective understanding of what the ‘world in waiting’ holds for us, what is already emerging and what needs to change, both in us and in the human story.
As a first step in this journey already begun by others, the Findhorn Foundation gifted to the world – The New Story Summit: Inspiring Pathways for our Planetary Future –which was held from 27 September to 3 October 2014…a gift economy gathering of the human family to experience planetary community, draw on our collective intelligence and co-create a story to inspire us all.
The Summit was more than full so we know there is huge support and longing for a new way to live together – a way which honours ancient wisdom and the interconnected whole living system of which we, the Earth and the cosmos are all part. It’s all connected and we are all accountable. To find out more, visit our Summit page.
This online hub will continue to be just that – a hub for people from all over the world to meet, engage, collaborate, share information, dream, synergise and inspire each other to live a new story.
If you would like to join this wave of collaborative action to shift consciousness and build on the threads of a new story already being lived and experimented with, you are very welcome. We invite your engagement, transparency, trust, compassion, innovation, entrepreneurship and generosity of spirit
You can also contact us by post:
Visitors Centre
Findhorn Foundation
The Park
Findhorn
Forres, IV36 3TZ
Scotland, UK
For general enquiries tel: +44 (0)1309 690311
Email: enquiries@findhorn.org
Bookings office contact details:
Bookings
Findhorn Foundation
The Park
Findhorn
Forres, IV36 3TZ
Scotland, UK
For booking and workshop information tel: +44 (0)1309 691653
Email: bookings@findhorn.org
Media and Public Relations
Public Relations
Findhorn Foundation
The Park
Findhorn
Forres, IV36 3TZ
Scotland, UK
For media enquiries tel: +44 (0)1309 690605
Email: pr@findhorn.org
Scottish charity No. SC007233, registered offices at the address above.
VAT registration No. 0957.68.506B01
The Findhorn Foundation is a Non-Governmental Organisation associated with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations.
CREATING COMMUNITY
Boulder, CO
Free
August 22, 2019
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM MDT
Join Loam on August 22 for a Loam Home strategizing session and sweet summertime picnic. We’ll gather together in the garden to break bread, savor herbal tea, and talk about tangible next steps for Loam Home.
Loam Home is an emerging community center and creative co-working space in Boulder, CO committed to serving as an intentional container for climate adaptation and eco entrepreneurship. From hosting permaculture workshops to farm-to-table suppers, we envision Loam Home as a vibrant hub for our community to explore regenerative living in practice. We want Loam Home to be a true collaboration and hope you’ll bring your radical skills and big dreams to share with us.
Location will be e-mailed to registered participants the day before.
We’re so excited to connect with you all!
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Loam is a movement of compassionate and creative activists who strive to support one another as we find our footing in the heart of the climate crisis. Our community is passionate about seeding regeneration, resilience, and joy through embodied experiences that inspire the cultivation of sustainable activist practices, foster inter-sectionality across movements, and help each one of us to heal our connection to our earth.
From publishing vibrant print publications to facilitating immersive workshops, Loam’s constellation of creatives is committed to building a better world through arts-as-activism.
We are endlessly grateful to the Kalliopeia Foundation for supporting this work. Loam would not be possible without our community!
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Reconnecting Ecology, Culture, and Spirituality
Kalliopeia Foundation is responding to a need—a global challenge—to take spiritual as well as physical responsibility for our common home. Our programs and those we support engage with contemporary issues at their root, with the understanding that ecological, cultural, and spiritual renewal are interdependent.
We envision a future rooted in fundamental values, such as compassion, respect, dignity, reverence for nature, and care for each other and the Earth. Our work strives to embody the following core principles:
- Life Is Sacred: Honoring all life as sacred; expressing reverence for one another, the Earth, and life as a whole.
- Interconnectedness: Approaching ecology, culture, and spirituality as inextricably interdependent.
- Innovation: Generating creative ideas and outcomes through simple, meaningful engagement with others and the Earth.
- Service: Embracing an ethic of care—the essential and natural aspiration to respond to needs beyond our own.
Kalliopeia’s Story
In 1997, Kalliopeia was founded as an independent private foundation to help support people and organizations who are working to bring spiritual values into institutions and systems of everyday life and work. The name “Kalliopeia” means beautiful voice and refers to the first of the nine Greek muses. She is associated with heroic poetry, justice, and transforming lower qualities into higher.
https://kalliopeia.org
MOBILIZERS:
supporting one another, supporting the movement.
Be with a community That is facing climate truth during our monthly calls:
Meditation for Climate Emergency
Our monthly Meditation calls explore the personal work that helps us develop as agents of change and maintain a healthy, burnout-free balance. We weave meditation instruction and practice with themes from Margaret Klein Salamon’s work on the psychology of climate change and concepts from essays like The Transformational Power of Climate Truth. Click below to register for the next call:
Take Action with Creation Justice Ministries This September
Check out these different ways for you and your congregation to get involved. Come back every month for new ways to take action!
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#CareForCreation: September 2019
Share the Word
September 1, 2019
Online Prayer Service for Creation Day/World Day of Prayer for Creation
Creation Day, also called the World Day of Prayer for Creation, opens the Season each year. Pope Francis, Patriarch Bartholomew, the World Council of Churches, and many other leaders have called the faithful to celebrate it. Christians from around the world are invited to join an online prayer service to come together in a joyful celebration of our common cause.
September 16, 2019
Webinar
Learn more
10:00 Eastern US / 15:00 London / 21:00 Manila
Please join us for a webinar to explore the connection between biodiversity and Christian spirituality. Speakers include Rev. Dr. Dave Bookless or A Rocha International / Lausanne Catalyst for Creation Care, Rev. Dra. Neddy Astudillo of GreenFaith Latino America, and Celia Deane Drummond of the University of Oxford. The conversation will be moderated by Rev. Rachel Mash, Environmental coordinator for the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and Green Anglicans.
September 20, 2019
Global Climate Strike
Young people from around the world will come together for a remarkable day of strikes from school to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. Their parents, neighbors, teachers, and families will stand alongside them. The climate strikes were galvanized by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, and each strike to date has sent more than a million people into the streets. Learn more at Laudato Si’ Generation, the climate initiative by and for young Catholics.
September 21, 2019
International Coastal Cleanup Day
For over 30 years, communities have come together to remove trash from coastlines and waterways including ponds, lakes, and rivers. Together, these volunteers remove and catalogue mountains of litter every year. Your community is invited to join. To learn more, please visit the Ocean Conservancy.
September 23, 2019
United Nations Climate Action Summit
The UN Secretary General is hosting a summit devoted to climate change, with the aim of calling the world’s attention to the urgent need to implement the Paris Agreement. The Paris pact has been agreed to by every country–only the United States has said it intends to leave it. But countries have not made policies to meet its goals. Of the 197 countries in the agreement, only seven are on track to keep warming below 2 degrees celsius, and only two are on track to keep warming below 1.5 degrees celsius. Science tells us that every fraction of a degree in warming means more hunger, more sickness, more conflict. The UN Secretary General’s summit is a chance for the people of the world to rally around real, ambitious policies to solve this crisis.
September 23, 2019
6th International Conference on Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics, Orthodox Academy of Crete Chania, Crete, Greece
Learn more
This conference will engage theology on key ecological concerns from a variety of religious traditions and perspectives. This year’s theme is “Ecological racism and prophetical voices for ecological crisis.” The conference will be a blend of learning and discussion, while attending to the magnificent Earth and cultural context of this region of Crete.
Guide 2019 – Season of Creation Theme – Web of Life
October 4, 2019 St. Francis Day Many traditions view St. Francis as an inspiration and guide for those who protect creation. October 4 is his feast day and the last day in the Season of Creation. Faith leaders from around the world will come together to reflect on how St. Francis has informed their spiritual journey and to celebrate our month-long journey together.
Tackling Climate Change
Goal 13 calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It is intrinsically linked to all 16 of the other Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To address climate change, countries adopted the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius. Learn more about Goal 13, and for the latest United Nations climate news, visit un.org/climatechange.
Quicklinks
2019 Climate Summit | IPCC Climate Report 2018 |
ActNow.bot (Climate Action via Facebook Messenger) | Paris Agreement FAQ
Why we need action
Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives, costing people, communities and countries dearly today and even more tomorrow.
People are experiencing the significant impacts of climate change, which include changing weather patterns, rising sea level, and more extreme weather events. The greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are driving climate change and continue to rise. They are now at their highest levels in history. Without action, the world’s average surface temperature is projected to rise over the 21st century and is likely to surpass 3 degrees Celsius this century—with some areas of the world expected to warm even more. The poorest and most vulnerable people are being affected the most.
A race we can win
Affordable, scalable solutions are now available to enable countries to leapfrog to cleaner, more resilient economies. The pace of change is quickening as more people are turning to renewable energy and a range of other measures that will reduce emissions and increase adaptation efforts.
But climate change is a global challenge that does not respect national borders. Emissions anywhere affect people everywhere. It is an issue that requires solutions that need to be coordinated at the international level and it requires international cooperation to help developing countries move toward a low-carbon economy.
To address climate change, countries adopted the Paris Agreement at the COP21 in Paris on 12 December 2015. The Agreement entered into force less than a year later. In the agreement, all countries agreed to work to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, and given the grave risks, to strive for 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Implementation of the Paris Agreement is essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and provides a roadmap for climate actions that will reduce emissions and build climate resilience.
Climate Action Summit 2019
The Secretary-General will convene a Climate Action Summit in September 2019 to bring climate action to the top of the international agenda. Mr. Luis Alfonso de Alba, a former Mexican diplomat, will be his Special Envoy to lead its preparations.
The Summit will focus on the heart of the problem – the sectors that create the most emissions and the areas where building resilience could make the biggest difference – as well as provide leaders and partners the opportunity to demonstrate real climate action and showcase their ambition.
To read about the commitments that regions, cities, businesses, investors and civil society pledged during the Global Climate Action Summit in California, September 2018, click here.
Watch for announcements for our 2020 program!
You can attend one day: Saturday or Sunday, or both days!
(Registration includes community activities and meals)
Special pricing available for Seniors and Students
Creative Arts, Spirituality, Body/Mind/Spirit Healing,
Self-transformation, Manifestation, and so much more…. in a sacred space
and inspirational speakers & performers
during our shared meals and interactive group activities as we:
Share our stories . . . Build nurturing community
Empower each other . . . Transform our world
Build nurturing community . . . Transform our world
“This conference is a life expanding experience – a time of reflection, rejoicing, renewing and connecting with other fabulous women.”
If you believe in raising the Feminine Spirit and transforming our world, please consider contributing to Women of Wisdom. We desire to create the new WOW, for the next generation of women to know their power and the importance of their voices. As each of us grows into our power, there’s a ripple effect around the world.
Consider donating to our Crowdfunding Campaign
to support the WOW Conference this year and for the future!
We appreciate any donations you can gift us – Thank You!
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Nicole Sangsuree Barrett. She was hit by a car when she attempted to cross the Chiang Mai superhighway in Thailand on foot. It was determined that Nicole died instantly from the collision. She had friends with her who witnessed the accident and were grieving heavily by the time the emergency services arrived. After rescue teams helped calm Nicole’s friends, the women asked everyone to sing the Thai song “Deuan Pen” as it was her favorite song. Nicole will be missed at Women of Wisdom. She was a dynamic performer and an amazing activist and woman. Here is a video she finished just before her death. She performed this on our stage for the 2014 Women of Wisdom conference to the delight of many. It is an amazing tribute of her talent, beauty, and passion. We will miss you Nicole but know that your light continues to shine and your journey continues.
WOW Watering Wholeness Community Call on the third Wednesday of every month – next one is August 21st at 6:00pm. It’s a live video call (if you don’t have a camera on your computer you can call in from your phone) where you can meet other women in the community and discuss important issues for women. Read below how you can register for this call. It’s been great to connect with women from other parts of our country!
Looking for connections with other women? Join our monthly circles where you connect with other women year round!
We are a volunteer organization – 100% and WOW needs some assistance in these areas:
Please contact us if you are interested in supporting WOW through volunteering!
Take advantage of the variety of free webinars posted in this enewsletter – from Celtic Shamanism, Egyptian Shamanism, Thriving in your 40’s, 50’s and beyond, Reuniting Science and Spirituality and more! ************************************************************************************************
RIVERKEEPER EVENT:
Hudson River Day at the Croton Yacht Club
- WHEN:
- September 7, 2019: 11:00AM to 4:00PM
- WHERE:
- Croton Yacht Club, 6 Elliot Way, Croton-On-Hudson, NY 10520 map
The Croton Yacht Club will be sponsoring its annual “Hudson River Day” celebration on Saturday, September 7th, from 11 AM – 4 PM at the Croton Yacht Club located at 6 Elliott Way in Croton-on-Hudson. The mission of the event is to promote interest in the history and ecology of the river, to cultivate future local environmental leaders and to promote, enhance and protect river related recreational resources.
There will be events and exhibits throughout the day targeting both children and adults, focusing on the history and ecology of the river, including a seining exhibition; hands-on exhibits for children such as toy sailboat making, fossil making; sailboat rides, and local artist displays and sales. Also, educational seminars will be conducted by NYSDEC Fisheries Biologist, Amanda Higgs on the Hudson River Sturgeon and Riverkeeper’s Nicholas Mitch who will speak about the ecological impact of the controversial proposal to build storm-surge barriers at the mouth of the Hudson River.
Free sailboat rides, will be offered by Ferry Sloops aboard their 22’ sloop-rigged Catboat the “Whimbrel” on a first-come-first-served basis. The sails will depart at 11AM, 12PM, 1PM, 2PM and 3PM. Guests can sign up at the Ferry Sloops table in the tent beginning at 10:00AM for any of the day's scheduled sail times. Limit of 4 passengers per sail. Passenger age requirement: must be at least 12 years old, under 18 years old must be accompanied by parent or adult guardian.
There will also be a youth fishing clinic and contest sponsored by the Hudson River Fisherman’s Association and the Yacht Club. Volunteers will be present during the hours of 11:30 PM and 3:30 PM and provide the use of fishing equipment and bait, free of charge. Fishing rod and reel combinations will also be awarded as prizes. All youths wishing to fish at the Yacht Club must be accompanied by an adult.
For additional information please contact Dennis Kooney at dennis@kooney.net or call 914-271-6384.
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The Islands
Upriver, channels diverge and a unique habitat of small islands and wetlands cry out for preservation. Here, mink, otter, and beaver live along the shore. Though huge container ships plow through the dredged, deep-water channel, this slow, low-lying stretch of the river is a link back to an earlier time. It offers a chance to re-discover our intimate relationship to the natural world.
It’s in the quiet of the river that we get an inkling of how Native Americans lived: trapping fish, building small disposable dwellings, carefully observing the plants and wildlife. We no longer weave fishnets out of bark or make hooks out of deer bone, but just as the Lenape survived by adjusting their lives to the river’s, we’re beginning to understand that we need to respect, not dominate, the environment around us.
The decline of the bald eagle in the Hudson Valley was a direct result of human interference: from the use of pesticides to the destruction of habitat. And it’s humans who are helping to bring the eagle back. Riverkeeper works with scientists and government agencies to reduce pollution, preserve nesting sites, and protect the eagle’s main source of food, fish.
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Enjoy a full day music festival centered around Climate action and ways you can reclaim the power of your every daily action. Also enjoy local & sustainable craft and food vendors, non-profit organizations, green technology demos, inspirational talks and info on climate action programs, a kid’s craft area, silent auction, and more! LEARN MORE about the event, Bands, and Presenters on our Concert page under the Support tab on our main menu.Bands preforming:
Rupa and the April Fishes
The Coffis Brothers
The Highway Poets
Dusty Green Bones Band
The Real SarahsPresentations by:
Brock Dolman – Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, Trathen Heckman – Daily Acts, Supervisor Lynda Hopkins, Sunrise Movement – Youth Climate Leaders, Trashion Fashion Show – CREDO High School + more to be announcedAll proceeds will benefit Daily Acts’ climate action programs
When: Sunday, September 8th, 2019 1pm – 7pm
Where: SOMO Village Event Center (Sonoma County’s 100% Solar Powered Venue)
Cost: $30, buy your tickets on our Eventbrite page here.
Please note that we have a new registration platform and if you have not done so already, you will be prompted to create a Daily Acts username and password. We are here to help by email or by phone (707) 789-9664.
Hudson River Maritime Museum 2019 Pilot Gala
- WHEN:
- September 8, 2019: 4:00PM to 8:00PM
- WHERE:
- Hudson River Maritime Museum
- TO ATTEND:
- Tickets
As part of its 2019 Pilot Gala, the Hudson River Maritime Museum will honor John Lipscomb, Riverkeeper Patrol Boat Captain and Vice President of Advocacy, with the annual Roger W. Mabie Award. The award is named after the museum’s founder and former president Roger Mabie, recognizing individuals who exemplify service to the Hudson
Valley and its history.
Enjoy cocktails along the historic Rondout Waterfront and an elegant buffet at sunset. Live and silent auctions benefit the museum’s education programs.
John Lipscomb became Riverkeeper’s boat captain in 2000. Having grown up in Irvington and Tarrytown, he learned to swim and sail in the Hudson River. In the early 1970’s, he apprenticed for “old time” WWII-era boat builders to learn wooden boat maintenance and repair at Petersen’s Boatyard in Nyack. In September of 2000, John began patrolling the Hudson for Riverkeeper aboard the “R. Ian Fletcher”, a 36-foot Chesapeake Bay style wooden vessel. He travels between New York Harbor and Troy, and on the Mohawk River, searching out and deterring polluters, monitoring tributaries and waterfront facilities, and taking regional decision makers and media out on the river so that “the river has a chance to advocate for itself.”
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New York Harbor
A modern journey upriver begins with the churn of ferry boats, the cry of gulls circling garbage barges and the roar of traffic. Millions of New Yorkers have discovered the pleasures of the harbor; now we all share the responsibility of restoring its natural abundance.
Riverkeeper leads the battle to rescue Newtown Creek, a near-dead waterway on the border between Brooklyn and Queens. Contaminated by a colossal 17 million gallon oil spill and on-going illegal pollution, the creek was neglected for years. Residents of the area have some of the highest rates of asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema in the city. Riverkeeper’s efforts have brought the matter not only into the courts, but to the attention of the government, which owes its citizens the basic right of clean air and water.”
The marshes and forests that used to grow throughout the New York City region have long since been replaced by skyscrapers, loading docks, and parking lots. One result is that even medium-sized rains overwhelm the city’s antiquated sewage systems and cause polluting run-offs. By “green”planting on street corners and rooftops, we can capture excess stormwater and significantly reduce the amount of raw sewage now being diverted into New York Harbor.
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COURSE OVERVIEW
We CAN do this! We can rebuild soil, replenish water cycles, and reverse global warming.
Humans have been living in a degenerative relationship with nature, expecting our world to be “used up” to provide our needs and now, the majority of the solutions to the biggest global crisis have been incomplete because we are stuck in a reaction to our degenerative relationship and focused on “doing less harm” in the personal or policy measures.
Sustainability alone will not save the planet because we’ve already caused too much degradation. Our solutions must match the scale of the problem, we must become regenerative. The good news is, we can.
When we begin to make global changes that affect grand inflection points, like the way our food is grown and sourced, we can start to heal our world from the soil up, sequestering carbon as we go, replenishing water sources, and healing our communities.
But the movement begins with you
and your advocacy…
The journey to healing our planet
MEET YOUR TEACHER
Finian Makepeace is the co-founder of Kiss The Ground and a renowned presenter, media creator, and thought leader in the field of regenerative agriculture and soil health. His dedication to Kiss the Ground’s mission of “inspiring participation in global regeneration, starting with soil”, has motivated him to develop training programs, workshops, and talks designed to empower people around the world to become confident advocates for this growing movement.
As part of the Kiss the Ground media team, Finian has worked with leading experts, farmers, and businesses to bring the ideas of regenerative agriculture and soil health as hopeful solutions to the world’s problems in clear, comprehensible and thought-provoking formats to audiences everywhere.
Simply, he has helped Kiss the Ground succeed in sharing this message across the globe. His background as a leader of a band and lifelong activist has given him the unique opportunity to blend his artistic vision with his ability to organize and advocate for this growing, global, and diverse community.
His “calling” is that people experience being a part of making history
and he believes that with enough new advocates promoting the ancient wisdom and new science of regenerative agriculture and ecosystem restoration
WE CAN HEAL OUR PLANET!
Join this all-levels advocacy course for free from September 9-25.
Sustainability is no longer an option.
We have to DRAWDOWN the carbon in our atmosphere. We have to REGENERATE our land back to health. Regenerative Agriculture, which blends modern discoveries in soil biology with indigenous wisdom, is one of the biggest solutions of our time. And yet, it is just starting to come into the conversation.
This course will teach you how to be a knowledgeable, inspiring advocate for this powerful solution!
Our mailing address is:
Commune Media, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA 90093
Our mission is to create a global wellness community around the ideas and practices of the world’s greatest teachers.
The true beauty of our community here can be summed up in that very word. Living in community allows us to grow in our connection to ourselves, to our world, and to each other — but it also comes with challenges. How do I smooth over disagreements? How do I see the other side of the situation? How do I serve the greater good, when that means denying myself?
Surrender to the situation, lean into acceptance.
My perspective may not be your perspective, but both are essential parts of our shared happiness, joy, and success. By embracing the truth of what is and who we are, from all angles, we can honor each other with clear and open minds.
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THE NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO AT SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA
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SOW TRUE SEED OF ASHEVILLE, NC
(417)924-8917
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243 Haywood St, Asheville NC 28801
community@sowtrue.com
Mon-Fri : 9am-6pm | Saturday: 10am – 4pm
Seeds and Garden Supplies
FOR SAMA
TUESDAY, September 10, 2019
4:00pm – 6:30pm
Konover Auditorium
Dodd Center
University of Connecticut
FREE ADMISSION
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Sponsored by
Department of Digital Media and Design
Human Rights Institute
Huskies for Human Rights
Middle East Studies
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Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
SUPPORTING FOOD SECURITY AND SEED DIVERSITY SINCE 2009
Sow True Seed has a collection of over 500 varieties of vegetable, herb and flower seeds. We are proud to carry heirloom, organic and small-farmer grown varieties. It is central to our social mission to support and encourage a seed saving community for resilience in agriculture and our food systems.
OUR SEED DONATION PROGRAM OFFERS UP OUR LEFTOVER SEED AT THE END OF EACH SELLING YEAR UP TO PUBLIC & PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY GARDENS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO USE THE SEED DIRECTLY TO FEED AND EDUCATE THEIR COMMUNITY.
Who we are: Sow True Seed provides open-pollinated, heirloom, and organic vegetable, herb, and flower seeds to home gardeners and small market farmers.
We ask that all of our growers fill out the Grower Questionnaire.
You can do so here
.For more information, contact: Angie Lavezzo, Agriculture Manager
E-mail: Ag@sowtrue.com Phone: (828) 254-0708
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Location: Sow True Seed, 243 Haywood St, Asheville NC 28801
Date: Tue Sept 10 2019 from 6 -7:30 PM
Cost: $10 class (includes a milkweed plant and your choice of flower seed packet!). $5 of each ticket will be donated to the “Bring the Hive Alive” initiative to raise awareness of pollinators by painting a bee mural in downtown Hendersonville – http://handsonwnc.org/hive.
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Need additional income on your farm? Sow True Seed is always looking for more farmers to grow seed for us!
Hope on the Hudson Series Screening and Q&A with Jon Bowermaster
- WHEN:
- September 10, 2019: 7:00PM to 9:00PM
- WHERE:
- Bedford Playhouse – 633 Old Post Road, Bedford, NY 10506 map
- TO ATTEND:
- Learn More and Purchase Tickets
Join Bedford Playhouse for a special installment of their Environmental Series in partnership with Bedford2020 and the Weeden Foundation. National Geographic filmmaker Jon Bowermaster will screen three short films (“Hope On The Hudson” Series, part of hudsonriverstories.com) that explore his passion for conservation in the Hudson Valley and the important work of non-profit environmental organization Riverkeeper and others who help restore life within our majestic Hudson River. Following the films, guests will enjoy a panel discussion and audience Q&A with Mr. Bowermaster, Ned Sullivan of Scenic Hudson and a representative from Riverkeeper. Don Weeden of the Weeden Foundation will moderate the panel.
Films to be screened:
Growing With the Grain
A Living River
Carbon Farming
(total run time 52 min)
Regular ticket pricing begins at $14.
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Basics
The Hudson River is not your typical river. In fact, most of the Hudson is actually a tidal estuary where salt water from the ocean combines with freshwater from northern tributaries. This “brackish”, or mixing, water extends from the mouth of the Hudson in NY Harbor to the Federal Dam in Troy, approximately 153 miles.
The salt front of the estuary, where the freshwater runoff meets the saline water, can range from the Tappan Zee Bay near Tarrytown/Nyack in the spring to Newburgh Bay in Poughkeepsie/Newburgh in the late summer or during droughts.
Because the Hudson River is a tidal estuary, meaning it ebbs and flows with the ocean tide, it supports a biologically rich environment, making it an important ecosystem for various species of aquatic life. For many key species, it provides critical habitats and essential spawning and breeding grounds.
To learn more about the unique regions of the Hudson River take A Hudson River Journey.
History
More than nine million people living in New York City, Westchester, Putnam, Orange and Ulster Counties enjoy clean, unfiltered drinking water from the Croton, Catskill and Delaware Watersheds. The 6,000-mile network of pipes, shafts and subterranean aqueducts carries approximately 1.2 billion gallons of pristine water each day from 19 upstate reservoirs.
It is a remarkable engineering achievement and the single largest man-made financial asset in New York State. But, today the city’s reservoir infrastructure is in serious trouble, as is its ability to continue supplying New Yorkers with water.
Many of the nation’s water systems are over 100 years old and in a state of grave neglect. Between 23,000 and 75,000 combined sewage overflows occur each year as a result of failing infrastructure, spilling out 1.26 trillion gallons of untreated sewage annually and incurring $50.6 billion in clean up costs.
Protection
Riverkeeper believes that access to clean, affordable drinking water must be a human right. In the interest of protecting human health and preserving freshwater ecosystems, filtration of public drinking water supplies should be considered as a last resort to be employed only when an unfiltered water supply poses an imminent threat to public health. Sound watershed protection programs not only safeguard human health and aquatic life but also are vastly more economical than filtration.
Public Access
Riverkeeper generally supports expanded opportunities for low-impact, passive recreation that is compatible with watershed protection goals on water supply lands. It is through use and enjoyment of our shared resources that people become invested in their long-term protection.
Our Story
In 1966, the Hudson River was dying from pollution and neglect. Run-down factories choked it with hazardous waste, poisoning fish, threatening drinking water supplies, and ruining world-class havens for boating and swimming. Sadly, America’s “First River” had become little more than an industrial sewer.
At that time, the Hudson River fishermen decided they had enough. Because their catch reeked from oil spilled daily into the river, they banded together to use a decades-old federal law to the tide from ruin to recovery.
This was the founding of the Hudson River Fishermen’s Association – now Riverkeeper. Today, Riverkeeper continues its fight, seeking out polluters and teaming with citizen scientists and activists to reclaim the Hudson River. And, we also work to ensure that over nine million New Yorkers have clean, safe drinking water. Today, pollution levels are down, and swimming and boating are back.
But the Hudson’s recovery is still fragile, still incomplete. Some fish species have not recovered, and many remain too toxic to eat; pollution levels spike with every rainfall. Mammoth cuts in government spending threaten to reverse a half-century of water quality gains, and we face the challenges of antiquated power plants, climate change, and emerging, harmful pollutants.
Riverkeeper’s vision is of a Hudson teeming with life, with engaged communities boating, fishing and swimming throughout its watershed.
Here’s what Riverkeeper stands for:
- Guarding your waterways. Riverkeeper holds polluters accountable, making the Hudson safer and cleaner each year. We patrol the river, inform the public, and go to court whenever it’s necessary, to eliminate illegal contamination.
- Defending clean drinking water. Community water supplies are increasingly threatened by pollution and shortage. Riverkeeper empowers citizens to make their voices heard and assure that their precious drinking water resources stay clean and plentiful. Our locally-based “water democracy” approach gets results.
- Finding solutions. Riverkeeper fights threats to clean water like destructive power plants, reckless development and decrepit infrastructure. We also specialize in solutions: we improve wildlife habitat, foster sustainable energy, increase investment in water supply/sewer systems, and rally thousands of volunteers to restore their local river fronts.
“Our strategy for success hasn’t changed much since we started out as the Hudson River Fishermen’s Association in 1966: Support the grassroots. Be data driven. Don’t flinch when the going gets tough.” – Paul Gallay, President and Hudson Riverkeeper
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New York Harbor
A modern journey upriver begins with the churn of ferry boats, the cry of gulls circling garbage barges and the roar of traffic. Millions of New Yorkers have discovered the pleasures of the harbor; now we all share the responsibility of restoring its natural abundance.
Riverkeeper leads the battle to rescue Newtown Creek, a near-dead waterway on the border between Brooklyn and Queens. Contaminated by a colossal 17 million gallon oil spill and on-going illegal pollution, the creek was neglected for years. Residents of the area have some of the highest rates of asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema in the city. Riverkeeper’s efforts have brought the matter not only into the courts, but to the attention of the government, which owes its citizens the basic right of clean air and water.”
The marshes and forests that used to grow throughout the New York City region have long since been replaced by skyscrapers, loading docks, and parking lots. One result is that even medium-sized rains overwhelm the city’s antiquated sewage systems and cause polluting run-offs. By “green”planting on street corners and rooftops, we can capture excess stormwater and significantly reduce the amount of raw sewage now being diverted into New York Harbor.
Alaska Interfaith Power & Light (AIPL) and the United Religions Initiative-North America are excited to present:
“One Planet, One Family: Facing Our Environmental Challenges & Finding Solutions Together,”
a gathering on climate change in Juneau, Alaska from September 12-15, 2019.
World-renowned climate scientist and public speaker Katharine Hayhoe will be
the key speaker of the conference and participants will have ample time to spend
working collaboratively on finding solutions to our shared concerns.
Alaska is on the front lines of dealing with climate change.
Because of this, Alaska Interfaith Power and Light and the United Religions Initiative North America are hosting a gathering for environmentally-concerned URI members from across the US and Canada to:
- learn about—and see—the climate crisis in Alaska,
- understand how it affects those of us working on environmental issues outside of Alaska, AND
- work together to identify solutions!
The gathering will take place in Juneau, Alaska from September 12-15, 2019.
World-renowned climate scientist and public speaker Dr. Katharine Hayhoe will be the key speaker of the conference and participants will have ample time to spend working collaboratively on finding solutions to our shared concerns.
Let us bring together our knowledge, wisdom, and energy to fan the flame of caring for Our Common Home!
For more details about the gathering, follow this link: https://urinorthamerica.org/web/one-planet-one-family-gathering/
If you are a member of a URI North America Cooperation Circle/Affiliate and need financial assistance to travel to Alaska, please fill out the travel assistance application: https://forms.gle/SeNhRpSDkHj
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Planet Home is a convergence of leading scientists, renowned visionaries, and executives alongside eco-forward brands and organizations that will focus on accelerating the mass adoption of actionable solutions to protect the health of our planet. It will offer powerful immersive experiences and be housed at the historic Palace of the Fine Arts in San Francisco September 13-15. Buckminster Fuller Institute is partnering with EQ in designing the event to foster maximum action for our planetary home.
Campaign Nonviolence was created to help unite movements and build peace by working to end war, poverty, racism and environmental destruction.
Since 2014 tens of thousands of people have joined Campaign Nonviolence (CNV) every September marching for peace, racial justice, economic equality and environmental healing. Now, we are gearing up for another powerful nationwide mobilization September 14-22 — please join us!
Over 2,660 marches, rallies, workshops and other public events took place in all 50 states and 25 countries last September. This year we will build on this growing movement by bringing all of our issues together in the same week coast to coast and around the world — and calling with one voice for a nonviolent culture that works for everyone.
Event: Empowered Youth Transforming Humanity:
Photography Exhibition & Videos
Picture 16©, is the most recent exhibition by 21 year-old Canadian award-winning photographer/filmmaker/author & social entrepreneur, Kasha Sequoia Slavner. The 16-piece exhibition is inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #16, Peace, Justice and Strong institutions. As a young global leader and traveling peace ambassador, Kasha explores the intersectionality of goal 16, what we can learn from each other’s stories, and how peace informs the actions we take in our own lives, communities and the world at large.
About the photographer/filmmaker:
Kasha is a Gen-Z filmmaker/photographer/writer, passionate global youth leader & social justice advocate. At 14 she founded the The Global Sunrise Project – a youth-led social enterprise that creates positive impact media. She uses her storytelling platform to inspire youth to become civically engaged and conducts educational outreach with screenings & workshops. Her feature documentary, The Sunrise Storyteller, has screened at 60+ international film festivals and won 28 awards, including the Ron Kovic Peace Prize and Women Transforming Media Award.
She is the first recipient of the Kim Phuc Youth Peace Award. Most recently this committed changemaker became a Diana Award Holder, for sustaining positive social change in the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. She is an 7x UN Youth Delegate with The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and an accredited expert for the Women’s Media Center. In addition, Kasha tours with a 32 piece photography exhibition “Travels into the Heart”. At 17 Kasha published her first 200+ page book of photography “Reflections of the Sunrise Storyteller – A Journey into the Heart as a Global Citizen”. She’s a frequent public speaker, has been commissioned by National Geographic Learning, and a contributor to Thrive Global, The Huffington Post, and several publications.
The Great Wallkill River Race
- WHEN:
- September 14, 2019: 10:00AM to 3:00PM
- WHERE:
- Sojourner Truth Park, Plains Road, New Paltz map
- TO ATTEND:
- Register
As part of the Hudson River Valley Ramble, join the Wallkill River Watershed Alliance for this first-of-its-kind race on the Wallkill River. Enjoy the river’s scenic beauty and the serenity of being on a flat water, slow-moving river. Children are welcome with adult supervision. There will be different race categories, such as recreational kayak, canoe, racing kayak, or other craft. Racers will launch from Sojourner Truth Park in New Paltz. The race will begin at the Route 299 bridge, head downstream 1/2 mile to the River to Ridge site, and return to finish at the same starting point.
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In 1609, Henry Hudson entered a lush estuary studded with rocky islands, fringed with marshlands, and crisscrossed by Native Americans in dugout canoes. He discovered then what we still find today: a majestic river and the people who depend upon it.
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Riverkeeper is the leading defender of an ecosystem as complex as it is fragile. As the river struggles to recover from four centuries of abuse, our boat makes regular patrols, our lawyers fight polluters in court, and our members act as watchdogs to preserve the beauty we’ve inherited.
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Art Exhibition – Christie Sheele: Atlas /Forms of Water
- WHEN:
- September 14, 2019: 5:00PM to November 17, 2019: 5:00PM
- WHERE:
- Albert Shahinian Fine Art – 22 E Market St, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 map
- TO ATTEND:
- Learn More
Join Albert Shahinian Fine Art for an exhibition of Christie Scheele’s Atlas/Forms of Water, running from September 14 – November 17, 2019. Scheele’s work in this exhibition focuses on water, and its environmental, political, and personal meanings.
Riverkeeper is pleased to join for the opening reception (9/14) and Benefit Gala for Regional Conservation Organizations (10/12).
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The First People of the River
People have lived along the shores of the Hudson River since the last ice age, bathing in its waters, living off its bounty, caring for its future. The Lenape tribe balanced the needs of man and the needs of fish and fowl, plant and animal.
Henry Hudson ‘discovered’ what the Lenape called Muhheakunnuk, The River that Runs Both Ways.
There were six to twelve thousand widely dispersed people — both Lenape and Algonquin — living in small bands on the lower estuary. The river connected them and was a major source of food. Travelling in dug-out canoes that held forty people, they’d visit and trade with each other. In smaller dug-outs, they’d set and pull fishing nets, harpoon the whales and seals that often came upriver, and shoot duck with bow and arrow.
Knowledge of and respect for the river was essential for survival. The Lenape believed in a single creator and a series of gods who looked after both people and animals. While women planted maize along the shore, and men hunted deer, Lenape children were taught to take only what they needed from the environment.
If the thousands of years of Lenape history seems to have been erased from the Hudson Valley, that’s partly due to the disease and intolerance that European settlers brought with them. But it’s also a result of how lightly the Lenape lived on the soil: generations of river dwellers left little more environmental change than some ancient oyster middens, rock drawings, and scattered arrowheads.V
Before European contact, whales swam where the Manhattoes tribe lived, the Sinsink band fed off huge oyster beds that grew in the bays, and the upriver shallows provided shad, sturgeon, smelt, and crab for the Iroquois nation.
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OJAI, Calif — Planet Earth is not a star but it rises to outright star status in one of the most fascinating film documentaries of 2019.
In “The Earthing Movie,” produced by award-winning filmmakers Josh and Rebecca Tickell, the curtain rises to demonstrate − to very unsuspecting audiences – that our planet packs surprisingly huge healing properties.
The film relates the discovery of the healing power of the planet’s electrically charged surface, a natural, perpetual energy shown in multiple studies over the last 20 years to significantly reduce inflammation, pain, and stress, produce deeper sleep, more energy, and improve circulation.
Earthing, also known as grounding, refers to accessing these major health benefits by walking outdoors on natural surfaces or using commercially available grounding products indoors while you sit or sleep.
In short, Earthing is a simple lifestyle addition that connects you to the Earth’s healing touch. You get the benefits without effort or dieting.
The Earthing movie debuted at the Sedona International Film Festival earlier this year to a packed audience of 750 people. It subsequently won the Audience Award at the Dances With Films Festival at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood in June.
The movie features actresses Amy Smart and Mariel Hemingway, integrative medicine pioneer Deepak Chopra, and an array of physicians, who, along with Earthing pioneer Clint Ober, describe the unique science and benefits of Earthing.
September showings include Palm Springs, London (The Health Optimisation Summit), Los Angeles, and Santa Monica, and at the Yoga’s Research Society’s annual convention on November 16 in Philadelphia.
For showtimes, screening locations, and a short trailer of the film, see www.EarthingMovie.com
The film is currently doing a festival circuit after which it will be available on major digital platforms both in the U.S. and internationally.
You can read a review of the film here: http://crimsonkimono.
Previous films by Josh and Rebecca Tickell’s Big Picture Ranch Production Company, based in Ojai, California, have won multiple awards for social and environmental documentaries, including awards at Sundance, Seattle, Gaia, and Sustainable Planet film festivals.
For more information about Earthing, refer to the Earthing book and the Earthing Institute website
Whether you practice Earthing outdoors or indoors, make sure you do it routinely. Stay connected to the Earth’s healing power! Indoor grounding products developed by Earthing pioneer Clint Ober are available at earthing.com and www.
The Earthing Institute
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The Vigil for Peace & Ecology
www.vigil4peace.org
In cooperation with the WE-Energime-Global Cooperation Turtle Island International Civil Society Organization and in support of peaceful interfaith dialogue, especially in light of Laudato Si, the recent message from Pope Francis on “Care for Mother Earth”, Drawdown Markham will be assisting Global Cooperation Day (GCD, New Zealand) to Celebrate the 800 year Anniversary (in 2019) of the meeting between Saint Francis of Assisi and Sultan Al Kamil in the year 1219 by planting a *Commemorative Tree of Peace* on a property in the East end of Markham (Locust Hill) on Sunday, September 15th.
This event is being done in support of the DD Markham CCAH Collaborative Exchange Project (CEP) and the “Spark for Humanity” project by We Are Mother Earth! (WAME) and GTI Enterprises (cooperative corporation), and for the eventual establishment of our “Go Local” Campaign for community resilience and adaptation, supported by our local Drawdown Markham Interfaith Neighborhood and Business Collaborative (which is part of the EncounterCanada collaborative, which is intended “to localize the Sustainable Development Goals to build ‘Climate Smart’ safe and sustainable communities and cities, pursuant to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction”).
Climate Change Theatre Action: Setting the Stage for a Better Planet
September 15 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT
$15
2019 Festival Tickets & Passes
Tickets & passes are now on sale of the 2019 Global Peace Film Festival
Sept. 16-22, 2019
About the Festival
The Global Peace Film Festival, established in 2003, uses the power of the moving image to further the cause of peace on earth. From the outset, the GPFF envisioned “peace” not as the absence of conflict but as a framework for channeling, processing and resolving conflict through respectful and non-violent means.
People of good faith have real differences that deserve to be discussed, debated and contested.
GPFF works to connect expression – artistic, political, social and personal – to positive, respectful vehicles for action and change. The festival program is carefully curated to create a place for open dialogue, using the films as catalysts for change.
Don’t miss out on our Online Global Peace Film Festival, which goes live Monday, Sept. 16. Visit peacefilmest.org to watch the films in our online festival wherever you are, on whatever device you want!
CONTACT US
Global Peace Film Festival
P.O. Box 3310
Winter Park, FL 32790-3310
Schedule is up; Tickets & Passes now available
Tickets & Passes for the 2019 Global Peace Film Festival, Sept. 17 to 22, are available now. Browse the film catalogue, check the schedule, or dive right in and start buying passes or tickets.
Festival Venues
Bush Auditorium/SunTrust Auditorium/Tiedtke Concert Hall/Bush 176, @ Rollins College
Fairbanks Ave. & Interlachen Ave., Winter Park, FL 32789
Parking: SunTrust Parking garage on E. Lyman Ave. or there is 3 hour street parking. Parking on the Rollins campus is extremely limited.
The Orlando LGBT+ Center
946 N. Mills Avenue, Orlando, FL 32803
Parking: On site or street parking
CityArts
39 S. Magnolia Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801
Parking: The Rogers-Kiene Building validates a portion of the fee in the Chase Plaza building parking lot. Patrons must enter CityArts to receive validation.
Enzian Theater & Eden Bar
1300 South Orlando Avenue, Maitland, FL 32751
Parking: On site
Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center
851 N. Maitland Avenue, Maitland, FL 32751
Parking: On site
Mount Dora Plaza Live
2728 Old Highway 441, Orlando, FL 32757
Parking: On site
Orlando City Hall rotunda
400 South Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801
Parking: City Commons Parking Garage (across the street from City Hall)
Ten Thousand Villages
329 N. Park Avenue, Suite #102, Winter Park, FL 32789
Parking: Street parking or North Park Avenue garage offers free parking
Winter Park Public Library
460 E. New England Ave., Winter Park, FL 32789
Parking: on site
FILM LISTINGS
Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066
65 minutes | USA | 2018
Documentary
At Arm’s Length
15 minutes | USA | 2018
Documentary Short
Blue Goes Green: Net Zero Police Station
26 minutes | USA | 2019
Documentary Short
Catching Giants
50 minutes | USA/South Africa | 2018
Documentary
Changing the Game
95 minutes | USA | 2019
Documentary
College Crucible
41 minutes | USA | 2019
Documentary
Community First, a Home for the Homeles
65 minutes | USA | 2018
Documentary
The Condor & the Eagle
80 minutes | USA/Canada/Ecuador/France/Peru | 2019
Documentary
Decade of Fire
75 minutes | USA | 2018
Documentary
Eating Up Easter
76 minutes | USA/Chile | 2018
Documentary
For They Know Not What They Do
91 minutes | USA | 2019
Documentary
FusionFest Shorts
90 minutes | 2019
Documentary Short
The Gathering
24 minutes | USA | 2016
Documentary Short
heartbeat Iowa
USA | 2019
Documentary Short
Incompatible Allies
43 minutes | USA | 2019
Documentary
JFK: The Last Speech
58 minutes | USA | 2018
Documentary
Keepers of the Future: La Coordinadora of El Salvador
24 minutes | USA/El Salvador | 2017
Documentary Short
King Bibi
87 minutes | Israel/USA | 2018
Documentary
LIKE
49 minutes | USA/Hong Kong | 2019
Documentary
A Living Earth
52 minutes | Belgium | 2018
Documentary
Marching Forward
60 minutes | USA | 2018
Documentary
Nailed It
60 minutes | USA | 2018
Documentary
The New Gatherers
2 minutes | USA | 2019
Documentary Short
New Homeland
93 minutes | USA | 2018
Documentary
Plant the Seed
11 minutes | USA | 2018
Documentary Short
Planting Seeds, Growing Justice
13 minutes | USA | 2018
Documentary Short
The Plummery
8 minutes | Australia | 2019
Documentary Short
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
56 minutes | USA | 2018
Documentary
The Public
119 minutes | USA | 2018
Narrative Feature
The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion
67 minutes | USA | 2019
Documentary
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
79 minutes | USA | 2019
Documentary
Right to Harm
75 minutes | USA | 2019
Documentary
The Robo Con
16 minutes | USA | 2019
Documentary Short
The Sequel
61 minutes | UK/Greece | 2018
Documentary
Travel Ban: Make America Laugh Again
84 minutes | USA
Documentary
Undeterred
75 minutes | USA | 2019
Documentary
The Uterati, Fighting Back in the War Against Women
51 minutes | USA | 2012
Documentary
Walk in My Shoes
60 minutes | USA | 2018
Documentary
Documentary Feature
What Will Become of Us
72 minutes | USA/Australia | 2019
Documentary
The Worst Thing
84 minutes | Germany/USA | 2019
Documentary
For the first time, the youth plaintiffs behind the landmark constitutional climate lawsuit, Juliana v. United States and Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, will come together to address the Nation and the world’s leaders at a press conference in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
When: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 from 9:30 – 10:30 am EST
Where: United States Supreme Court, 1 First St NE, Washington, DC 20543 Press Conference will take place in front of the steps
Who: Seven of the Juliana plaintiffs, including Kelsey Juliana and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Greta Thunberg, and members of the U.S. Congress.
Earth Guardians is galvanizing our crews and tens of thousands of people around the world to take part in the historic Global Climate Strikes this September 20-27. In collaboration with Future Coalition, 350.org, Extinction Rebellion and our other partners, we are planning to bring our message to the world that it’s time for our leaders and policy makers to enact change, NOW.
For the past two decades, Earth Guardians has empowered youth leaders so that their voices can be heard. These youth leaders – GRETA THUNBERG AND XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ – have led school walkouts, organized climate strikes, and have sued the U.S. government to demand meaningful action on climate change.
Now, Earth Guardians crews and youth around the world are calling on people of all ages to join them the streets on September 20th.
Will you be joining them?
SIGN UP!
Why We Are Walking?
We are walking out to step up efforts to keep fossil fuels in the ground
We are walking out for an immediate and rapid shift to renewable energy
We are walking out to support and highlight
frontline communities who are most vulnerable
to the impacts of climate change
Pledge to join tens of thousands of people around the world
who are stepping up on September 20, 2019
to demand climate action.
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Earth Guardians
3980 Broadway #103-229
Boulder, CO 80304
303-955-6936
reachout@earthguardians.org
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THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, WE ARE THE RESCUERS
This is a teenage riot – kids across the world are changing the planet’s future through peaceful protest and a demand to be heard. Click to watch video.
Starring: Greta Thunberg, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, and Jamie Margolin
Press Conference – Livestream – Facebook – JULIANA vs UNITED STATES – SEPTEMBER 18 – SIGN UP AND TUNE IN – WASHINGTON D.C.
This month will be the dawn of a new era in the climate movement. With glaciers melting at unprecedented rates and fires burning across the Amazon, young people are going all out to fight for our future and our elders are rising in solidarity with us.
Sign up for a reminder to tune in to the September 18 press conference featuring the Juliana plaintiffs and Greta Thunberg.
https://www.youthvgov.org/livestream
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AND THEN – DON’T FORGET;
On Friday, September 20, young people, workers, activists, politicians and many more will strike to demand immediate climate action in what will likely be the largest climate mobilization ever. We will strike to demand transformative action to address the climate crisis. Building on the recent surge of the youth climate movement, adults will join us to send a clear, intergenerational message to governments that they must act decisively in the face of climate chaos.
Join my co-plaintiffs and me at strikes across the country, from New York City to Alaska, to show solidarity with the broader youth climate movement and demand our day in court.
Grateful for all you do to support the brave young people in this movement.
Thank you for rising with us,
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Juliana v. United States plaintiff and Earth Guardians Youth Director
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#strikewithus
On September 20, three days before the UN Climate Summit in NYC, young people and adults will strike all across the US and world to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis. Millions of us will take the streets to demand a right to a future, and we’re inviting you to #strikewithus
Find a strike near you to attend on September 20 on the map below. If you don’t see an event in your area, organize one! We’ll provide everything you need to get started in planning something in your community so no experience is necessary.
Whether you’re 7 or 777, you’re invited to join the movement.
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PO BOX 5181 EUGENE, OR 97405 | INFO@OURCHILDRENSTRUST.ORG
https://strikewithus.org
https://www.youthvgov.org/congress4julian
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KELSEY JULIANA, 23
EUGENE, OREGON
XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ, 19
BOULDER, COLORADO
MIKO VERGUN, 18
BEAVERTON, OREGON
LEVI D., 12
INDIALANTIC, FLORIDA
ISAAC V., 17
BEAVERTON, OREGON
JAIME BUTLER, 18
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA
NATHAN BARING, 19
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
HAZEL V., 15
EUGENE, OREGON
NICK VENNER, 18
LAKEWOOD, COLORADO
TIA HATTON, 22
BEND, OREGON
JOURNEY ZEPHIER, 19
KAPAA, KAUA’I, HAWAI’I
ZEALAND B, 15
EUGENE, OREGON
AJI PIPER, 19
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
AVERY M., 14
EUGENE, OREGON
JACOB LEBEL, 22
ROSEBURG, OREGON
VIC BARRETT, 20
WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK
KIRAN OOMMEN, 22
EUGENE, OREGON
JAYDEN F., 15
RAYNE, LOUISIANA
SAHARA V., 15
EUGENE, OREGON
SOPHIE KIVLEHAN, 21
ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
ALEX LOZNAK, 22
OAKLAND, OREGON
MUSIC BY JULIANA V. US PLAINTIFF XIUHTEZCATL
VIDEO PRODUCED BY ROBIN LOZNAK
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IF YOU’RE A LEGISLATOR AND READY TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT, GO HERE.
While we wait for the decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, we must call on Members of Congress to publicly support Juliana v. United States and the constitutional rights of young people to life, liberty, and property free from government endangerment. We have been calling on the judicial branch to help hold the executive branch of our federal government accountable for its role in causing the climate crisis, and we need the legislative branch to step up as well.
Let’s make this happen.
~ Vic Barrett, Juliana v. United States plaintiff
Remember to do all three – tweet and email and call
The Grandmothers are getting ready to travel to New York next month to celebrate the Grandmothers Wisdom book launch and then we will travel to upstate New York for a historical event at Menla, LIFT THE EARTH, where we will be joined by other spiritual leaders.
Are you being called to action to support Mother Earth and world peace? Many have requested guidance on how to respond to the chaotic state of the world. Join us in traditional dialogue, ceremonies and circles, and participate in indigenous wisdom on these topics.
In love and peace,
Grandmother Mona Polacca
Book Launch
September 18, 2019
Tibet House US, New York, NY
Our much-anticipated book promises to be a ground-breaking portrayal of traditional spiritual women in history and will be an inspiration for all. These stories are ageless wisdom of earth-based cultures that can benefit all people in today’s climate of disconnection.
Please join the Grandmothers and special guests in New York City for the book launch of Grandmothers Wisdom: Reverence for All Creation.
Tickets are selling fast!
September 18, 2019
4:00 – 7:30 pm
Tibet House
22 West 15th Street
New York, NY 10011
Join the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, Dr. Henrietta Mann, Nena Thurman and other special guests for the book launch of“Grandmothers Wisdom: Reverence for All Creation”.
The Earth is our loving grandmother. For all time, Cheyenne storytellers, generation after generation, have repeated this belief with both their minds and their hearts. As they say, The Great One, Everywhere Spirit, created the universe and all life with power so vast it defies human imagination. Entirely with the force of thought, the four powerful spirit beings came into existence to witness creation and to eventually safeguard and shelter all life, especially human beings. Next came the water of life, the fire and light of the sun, the infinite sky air, and compassionate Earth. The Great One, Everywhere Spirit, contemplated creation and thought the Earth to be the most beautiful of all, then declared that the Earth be known as our grandmother.
Grandmother Earth is also, more commonly, referred to as Mother Earth. Indeed, she is first woman, first mother, first teacher, oldest mother, and oldest grandmother. The Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers whose magnificent lives are encapsulated in the work of this book represent Earth’s titanic spirit, power, beauty, and love. Individually and collectively, they are rooted in the Earth and carry her wisdom as a perpetual trust. They are committed to sustaining their Earth home and to educating and defending the hearts of all the world’s children.
Please join us in celebrating the manifestation of “Grandmothers Wisdom: Reverence for All Creation”, life and the continuation of this movement of peace, spiritual activism, honoring Mother Earth and future generations.
Seating is first-come, first-served.
Reception and book signing to follow. To join the signing line, we ask that you please purchase a copy of the book available at the event.
Bringing Peace to Our Ancestors
September 19-22, 2019
Menla, Phoenicia, NY
Join us on World Peace Day and the Fall Equinox for LIFT THE EARTH: Bringing Peace to Our Ancestors; a four-day gathering which includes the participation of the Grandmothers Council, Alice Walker, Dr. Henrietta Mann, Chief Phil Lane Jr, Dr. Robert Thurman, Jussara Korngold and other spiritual leaders and activists from around the world.This gathering will include interactive dialogue, prayer circles, and teachings on ancestral healing, water and land issues, and the future of the generations to come.
Register now before we sell out – join us for this special event and participate in this world-wide collective prayer for outer and inner peace.
GRANDMOTHER AGNES BAKER PILGRIM
GRANDMOTHER BERNADETTE REBIENOT
GRANDMOTHER CLARA SHINOBU IURA
GRANDMOTHER MONA POLACCA
GRANDMOTHER RITA BLUMENSTEIN
GRANDMOTHER RITA LONG VISITOR HOLY DANCE
ALICE WALKER
DR. HENRIETTA MANN
CHIEF PHIL LANE
ROBERT A.F. THURMAN
JUSSARA KORNGOLD
DAY SCHILDKRET OF MORNING ALTARS
OIA Sustainability Boot Camps are designed to help small to mid-sized brands establish their organization’s sustainability strategy and program, accelerate sustainability improvements and meet (or exceed!) customer expectations. Any brand, whether an OIA member or not, is welcome to attend. We encourage teams of 2 per company, representing different functions (e.g. product, sustainability, marketing, and sales). While the content will primarily be tailored to apparel and footwear, all product types are welcome. For more information, please visit: https://outdoorindustry.org/event/2019-oia-sustainability-boot-camp/
UPCOMING BOOT CAMP STOPS
STOP 3: NEW YORK CITY, NY
September 19 & 20, 2019
STOP 4: COSTA MESA
December 5, 2019
OBJECTIVES:
- Get up to speed. Understand how global sustainability challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss and water scarcity relate to your products and supply chain — and impact your business.
- Be strategic. Learn how to develop and execute a focused sustainability strategy that will give your brand the most bang for your buck.
- Make a plan. Gain step-by-step guidance on how to implement best practices in priority areas such as climate change, chemicals management and social responsibility, use best-available tools like the Higg Index, and create your own customized improvement plan.
- Become an effective champion. Be prepared to communicate the business value for action and gain buy-in for sustainability initiatives.
- Establish your support system. Connect with industry peers and access an expansive network of experts, tools and resources that will support your sustainability improvement journey for years to come.
BOOTCAMP TESTIMONIALS
“Great! Exceeded expectations, less daunting now, inspired, learned a lot, LOVE this industry! We are so fortunate.”
“I’m coming away from this with renewed enthusiasm and specific actions to bring to the sustainability team. It felt like the information was tailored to my questionnaire responses which means people are going through similar challenges.”
“Beyond sustainability, it was very refreshing to be with other employees from brands on a level playing field without sales or any other implications/promotions.”
KNOW BEFORE YOU GO!
1. Only two registrants per company maximum. Register together, and you’ll get discounted pricing for the second participant!
2. Your company email is required. Non-validated email addresses will not be accepted.
3. Existing OIA Members and SWG Contributing Members get preferred pricing. If your organization belongs to both, please select SWG Contributing Membership when registering to receive the best deal.
4. Interested in joining us for the first time? Contact membership@outdoorindustry.org to sign up for OIA or SWG Contributing membership in order to receive discounted Boot Camp pricing.
Registration closes once capacity is reached.
Space is limited.
Don’t delay, sign up today!
Venue location and details coming soon.
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WE, THE FUTURE GENERATION, ASK YOU TO CHOOSE US
On September 20, three days before the UN Climate Summit in NYC, young people and adults will strike all across the US and world to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis. Millions of us will take the streets to demand a right to a future, and we’re inviting you to
#strikewithus
Whether you’re 7 or 77, you’re invited to join the movement.
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From Bill McKibben:
Dear Friends,
“Last week I ended up in jail for a little while, because I’d sat down in a Congress member’s office to protest the deadly confluence of climate and immigration policy. You can read about my day in the New Yorker1 story shared on the bottom of this email, but my point in sharing it with you is not to say that I acted nobly or that it was a big deal.
Instead, my point is simply that sometimes you have to act even if you’re not entirely sure what the effect will be. We’re coming up on the next great moment in the climate movement, the global all-ages climate strike on Sept. 20. Years of sustained resistance from Standing Rock to the school strikes and beyond, particularly from youth of color, have led us to this moment. So let’s make the most of it.
Whatever you do that day — whether you walk out of work or school, close down your business, or join a protest, it will help build the groundswell that is now clearly rising.
When you strike, you’ll be striking for justice above all — it’s one thing you can do on behalf of those who are incarcerated at the border, or who are living so close to the margin that taking a day off is not possible. If you have some flexibility in your life, it’s time to put it to work. If you don’t, sign up anyway, we’ll find other ways for you to participate and show your support.
The UN’s best guess is that unchecked climate change could produce a billion climate refugees this century. Think about that for a moment — a billion people whose lives would be utterly, permanently, devastatingly upended. Then think about whether you can take a day to do something real about it, even without knowing exactly what change it will produce.
Together we build movements, and when those movements get big enough they change history. You change history. Thank you for being a big part of it –
Let’s make change, “
Bill McKibben
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For more information, please visit strikewithus.org.
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ABOUT
We, as a global society, are at a crossroads. We have a decision to make. Are we going to choose money or power or are we going to choose the future? The September 20 strike is an invitation to everyone to choose us. Choose the kids, choose humanity, choose the future.
Led by a diverse coalition of youth-led and adult-led organizations,
September 20 is an intergenerational day of striking
that will launch an entire week of climate action across the world.
September 20 is only the beginning. We must carry this energy to the 2020 elections, and beyond to ensure real, bold action is taken to address the climate crises. This is history in the making, and it’s time we take back the narrative to save our futures.
The demands set forth by the youth coalition will be released soon.
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MEET THE STRIKE TEAM
YOUTH COALITION
MOVEMENT PARTNERS
Kasha from The Global Sunrise Project is Speaking about Climate Action for Peace at the UN’s Student Observance of International Peace Day.
Blue Deer Center 1155 County Route 6 Margaretville, NY 12455
(845) 586-3225
September 20 – 22, 2019
Fall Mushroom Retreat Fungi for food, health, cultivation and restoration
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Friday, 9/20, 6 pm to Sunday, 9/22 12 pm
Cost: $385 (includes lodging on Friday and Saturday, plus dinner on Friday through breakfast on Sunday)
A commuter rate of $225 per person includes meals as above and no lodging.
Please contact Linda at lindafelch@bluedeer.org with any questions about this program or registration.
Please plan to arrive at the Blue Deer Center between 4 and 6 pm on September 20th.
Transportation options can be found by clicking on the link on your registration confirmation or by clicking here.
We offer the option of special meals for those with certain dietary restrictions (gluten-free, dairy-free, gluten- and dairy-free). If you have other dietary restrictions, please email catering@bluedeer.org to discuss your needs.
Cancellation Policy: Cancellation of your reservation more than 14 days prior to arrival entitles you to a full refund of tuition less a $25 processing fee. If you cancel 8 to 14 days prior to arrival, your program fee, less a $25 processing fee, will be held for you to use in another future program up to a year. If you cancel 2 to 7 days prior to arrival, your program fee, less a $25 processing fee and food costs, will be held for you to use in another future program up to a year. No refunds or credits will be issued for cancellations received less than 48 hours before a program’s start date. Refunds will be processed within 2 weeks of cancellation.
Learn About Our Center
The first North American Day of Sustainable Communities will be held on September 21, 2019. All individuals and communities who are catalyzing transformation in the face of ecological and climate breakdown are invited to host an event on the day.
Learn more and register your event at https://www.sustainablecommunitiesday.net/
ECOLISE
The European Network for Community-led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability, is the initiator and main organiser of the European Day of Sustainable Communities. We have 46 member networks and organisations across Europe
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A celebration of local communities taking action for a zero-carbon, regenerative and inclusive Europe.
This is an ECOLISE flagship event. #EDSC19 #SustainableCommunity
Become a co-creator of the day! For details see https://www.sustainable-communities.net/
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Global week of action on Peace, the Climate, SDGs and Nuclear Abolition
September 21 – September 27
The week of Sep 21-27 includes the following key events:
- Sep 21: UN International Day for Peace;
- Sep 23: UN Climate Summit;
- Sep 24-25: Summit on SDGs;
- Sep 26: International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
Together these dates comprise a Global week of action on peace, climate, SDGs and nuclear abolition.
Flyers on the Global Week: Taking action together
Abolition 2000 has established a working group to build cooperation between climate, SDG, peace and disarmament organisations to take action during the week. For more information see the Abolition 2000 flyer on the Global Week for Peace, the Climate, SDGs and Nuclear Abolition Sep 21-27.
Abolition 2000 is cooperating with Action for Sustainable Development (A4SD), Forus, Asia Development Alliance (ADA), the Korea International Cooperation Agencyand other sustainable develpoment organisations on Stand Together Now for a Just and Peaceful World: Seven Days to Save our Planet. See Stand Together for peace and sustainability Global Week of Action Sep 20-27 poster.
Connections between peace, climate protection, SDGs and disarmament
UN Charter (Article 26) recognises the connection between disarmament and sustainable development. Article 26 requires the UN to facilitate disarmament ‘in order to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world’s human and economic resources.’
More recently the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes that there can be no sustainable development without peace, and no peace without sustainable development. In addition, Securing our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament, the disarmament agenda released in 2018 by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, outlines the links between disarmament and many of the SDGs.
Key events and actions:
Sep 21: International Day for Peace
- UN event: International Day of Peace Student Observance, United Nations, 20 September 2019. Watch it on webtv.un.org
- Peace One Day event in London: with civil society leaders and celebrities that will be live-streamed globally.
- List your event at Peace One Day, a global platform to share, find out about or join actions for Peace Day.
For further information see the UN website on International Day for Peace. Share your ideas and activities through #PeaceDay and #ClimateAction.
Sep 23: UN Climate Summit
- UN Climate Summit, New York on 23 September
Action: Call on your government to commit in New York to deeper reductions in carbon emissions, a faster transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies, and reductions in military budgets in order to fund climate protection.
Sep 24-25: Summit on Sustainable Development
- Summit on the SDGs, September 24-25
Action: Call on your government to highlight at the SDG Summit the importance of peace and demilitarisation in achieving the SDGs, and support the proposal of Kazakhstan that all countries redirect 1% of their military budget to the SDGs.
Sep 26: International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
- UN High Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament, September 26. See International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. To register click here (registration deadline is August 23).
- List your action or event at UNFOLD ZERO: list of events for Nuclear Abolition Day .
Actions:
a) Encourage your Prime Minister/President to attend the Sep 26 UN High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament and call on all States to never launch a nuclear war, and to negotiate for the abolition and elimination of nuclear weapons;
b) Organise a screening of ‘The Man who saved the World’ or other action for Nuclear Abolition Day.
Climate Action Summit 2019
The Secretary-General will convene a Climate Action Summit in September 2019 to bring climate action to the top of the international agenda. Mr. Luis Alfonso de Alba, a former Mexican diplomat, will be his Special Envoy to lead its preparations.
The Summit will focus on the heart of the problem – the sectors that create the most emissions and the areas where building resilience could make the biggest difference – as well as provide leaders and partners the opportunity to demonstrate real climate action and showcase their ambition.
To read about the commitments that regions, cities, businesses, investors and civil society pledged during the Global Climate Action Summit in California, September 2018, click here.
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“Sunflowers instead of missiles in the soil would ensure peace for future generations”
U.S. Secretary of Defence William Perry, as he joined Russian and Ukrainian defence ministers to plant sunflowers on a former missile base
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Contact
Basel Peace Office
c/o Seminar für Soziologie
Universität Basel
Petersgraben 27
CH-4051 Basel
Switzerland
Our Harvest of Hope is a Multi Culture making Festival dedicated to sowing seeds of unity, awareness, and creative changemaking in the hearts of a diverse and growingly concerned community pf underheard peoples. Uplifting the beauty of diverse voices through performance art and creative artmaking, as well as a delicious Multicultural feast, Nuestra Cosecha de Esperanza crosses boundaries of race, class, and perception in its very existence and collectivizes a community story of hope.
Join the celebration of local communities taking action for a more regenerative, just, and inclusive world!
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OUR MISSION
To support and promote the development of intentional communities as pathways towards a more sustainable and just world.
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Published on Dec 19, 2018
Our mission is to protect the environmental, recreational and commercial integrity of the Hudson River and its tributaries, and safeguard the drinking water of 9 million New Yorkers. –
Riverkeeper
Restore & Protect NYC Waterways
NYC at a Glance
Over the coming years, New York City’s population growth will present both a challenge and an opportunity. The number of people living alongside the city’s waterfront is expected to continue to grow, so too will the risks those residents will face; from climate change, legacy toxins, and ongoing sewage pollution.
Meanwhile, New Yorkers are increasingly taking to the water, whether for fishing, kayaking, biking, and swimming. As more people play in or near our waterways, public concern and awareness grow, leading to increased community advocacy.
Around the city, Riverkeeper has been working to engage and activate communities along diverse waterfronts. We actively support and strengthen the work of organizations like the Guardians of Flushing Bay, Gowanus Canal Conservancy and Newtown Creek Alliance.
In the 50 years since Riverkeeper’s founding, we’ve been glad to see a sea of change in the way the city approaches clean water. Public access points, triathlons, ferry services, green infrastructure, esplanades, education centers, and restoration work has bridged the pollution-based divide that once separated New Yorkers from their Sixth Borough – the waters around them.
Much work remains, however — and Riverkeeper looks forward to helping steward the next 50 years of change in New York City.
Contact Us
Riverkeeper Address
20 Secor Road
Ossining, New York 10562
Directions
Phone:800-21-RIVER
Fax: 914-478-4527
Email: info@riverkeeper.org
To Report a Polluter
Phone: 800-21-RIVER ext 231
Submit a report online
Membership Inquiries
Monica Dietrich
Phone: 914-478-4501 ext. 222
Email: mdietrich@riverkeeper.org
For Journalists
Leah Rae
Staff Writer and Media Specialist
Phone: 914-478-4501 ext. 238
Email: lrae@riverkeeper.org
Request a Speaker
To request a speaker from Riverkeeper, please please contact Jen Benson at jbenson@riverkeeper.org
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September 21, 2019: 1:00PM to 10:00PM
Factoria at Charles Point, 5 John Walsh Blvd, Peekskill, NY 10566 map
Join us for Rally on the River, a brand new event to bring our community together for a common cause: The Hudson River. Run, paddle, revel and recreate on the banks of the River at the Factoria at Charles Point. This daylong festival will feature something for everyone including the Surf and Turf Challenge!
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Basics
The Hudson River is not your typical river. In fact, most of the Hudson is actually a tidal estuary where salt water from the ocean combines with freshwater from northern tributaries. This “brackish”, or mixing, water extends from the mouth of the Hudson in NY Harbor to the Federal Dam in Troy, approximately 153 miles.
The salt front of the estuary, where the freshwater runoff meets the saline water, can range from the Tappan Zee Bay near Tarrytown/Nyack in the spring to Newburgh Bay in Poughkeepsie/Newburgh in the late summer or during droughts.
Because the Hudson River is a tidal estuary, meaning it ebbs and flows with the ocean tide, it supports a biologically rich environment, making it an important ecosystem for various species of aquatic life. For many key species, it provides critical habitats and essential spawning and breeding grounds.
To learn more about the unique regions of the Hudson River take A Hudson River Journey.
History
More than nine million people living in New York City, Westchester, Putnam, Orange and Ulster Counties enjoy clean, unfiltered drinking water from the Croton, Catskill and Delaware Watersheds. The 6,000-mile network of pipes, shafts and subterranean aqueducts carries approximately 1.2 billion gallons of pristine water each day from 19 upstate reservoirs.
It is a remarkable engineering achievement and the single largest man-made financial asset in New York State. But, today the city’s reservoir infrastructure is in serious trouble, as is its ability to continue supplying New Yorkers with water.
Many of the nation’s water systems are over 100 years old and in a state of grave neglect. Between 23,000 and 75,000 combined sewage overflows occur each year as a result of failing infrastructure, spilling out 1.26 trillion gallons of untreated sewage annually and incurring $50.6 billion in clean up costs.
Protection
Riverkeeper believes that access to clean, affordable drinking water must be a human right. In the interest of protecting human health and preserving freshwater ecosystems, filtration of public drinking water supplies should be considered as a last resort to be employed only when an unfiltered water supply poses an imminent threat to public health. Sound watershed protection programs not only safeguard human health and aquatic life but also are vastly more economical than filtration.
Public Access
Riverkeeper generally supports expanded opportunities for low-impact, passive recreation that is compatible with watershed protection goals on water supply lands. It is through use and enjoyment of our shared resources that people become invested in their long-term protection.
Our Story
In 1966, the Hudson River was dying from pollution and neglect. Run-down factories choked it with hazardous waste, poisoning fish, threatening drinking water supplies, and ruining world-class havens for boating and swimming. Sadly, America’s “First River” had become little more than an industrial sewer.
At that time, the Hudson River fishermen decided they had enough. Because their catch reeked from oil spilled daily into the river, they banded together to use a decades-old federal law to the tide from ruin to recovery.
This was the founding of the Hudson River Fishermen’s Association – now Riverkeeper. Today, Riverkeeper continues its fight, seeking out polluters and teaming with citizen scientists and activists to reclaim the Hudson River. And, we also work to ensure that over nine million New Yorkers have clean, safe drinking water. Today, pollution levels are down, and swimming and boating are back.
But the Hudson’s recovery is still fragile, still incomplete. Some fish species have not recovered, and many remain too toxic to eat; pollution levels spike with every rainfall. Mammoth cuts in government spending threaten to reverse a half-century of water quality gains, and we face the challenges of antiquated power plants, climate change, and emerging, harmful pollutants.
Riverkeeper’s vision is of a Hudson teeming with life, with engaged communities boating, fishing and swimming throughout its watershed.
Here’s what Riverkeeper stands for:
- Guarding your waterways. Riverkeeper holds polluters accountable, making the Hudson safer and cleaner each year. We patrol the river, inform the public, and go to court whenever it’s necessary, to eliminate illegal contamination.
- Defending clean drinking water. Community water supplies are increasingly threatened by pollution and shortage. Riverkeeper empowers citizens to make their voices heard and assure that their precious drinking water resources stay clean and plentiful. Our locally-based “water democracy” approach gets results.
- Finding solutions. Riverkeeper fights threats to clean water like destructive power plants, reckless development and decrepit infrastructure. We also specialize in solutions: we improve wildlife habitat, foster sustainable energy, increase investment in water supply/sewer systems, and rally thousands of volunteers to restore their local river fronts.
“Our strategy for success hasn’t changed much since we started out as the Hudson River Fishermen’s Association in 1966: Support the grassroots. Be data driven. Don’t flinch when the going gets tough.” – Paul Gallay, President and Hudson Riverkeeper
Peace Lanterns Festival 2019
September 21, 2019
2:00-8:30pm
Gantry Plaza State Park
Long Island City 11011
Our next peace event that Heiwa Peace & Reconciliation Foundation is co-sponsoring will be annual Peace Lanterns Festival on Saturday, September 21 (UN International Day of Peace!!!) from 2pm – 8:30pm. It will be held at Gantry Plaza State Park in LIC, NY (along with East River, across the River from the United Nations) – Center Blvd & 49th Ave., LIC.
Schedule of Peace Lanterns Festival:
-Free Public Event. Donations are welcome. –
2:00 – 6:00pm Lantern Decorating, Origami, Face Painting, Henna Tattoos, Seedball Making, and African Dance.
2:30 – 5:30pm “Meditate NYC” – Public Meditation Day
Practice mindfulness and calming under the guidance of revered teachers from Buddhist and other traditions from across the globe.
3:00 – 6:00pm Public Paddling, organized by HarborLAB
6:15pm – 7:30pm Speakers and Interfaith Prayers for Peace
Music by Heiwa Peace Band
7:30 – 8:30pm Floating Peace Lanterns
108 lanterns with your words and images of peace and set them afloat with the setting sun.
Peace Lanterns Festival is co-sponsored by the HaborLAB, the Heiwa Peace Reconciliation Foundation of New York and the Buddhist Council of New York, in partnership with the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace, the Interfaith Center of New York, the Interfaith Center of USA, the Newtown Creek Group, the NY de Volunteers, the Origami Therapy Association, the Sikh Cultural Society, the TF Cornerstone, and the World Yoga Community.
We will have 3 full days of Ceremony and Celebration !! We will arrive and unpack at Sunday 22nd at 7PM because we will start very early in the morning on Monday 23rd. Our last Ceremony will be late in the evening of Wednesday 25th. At Thursday 26th we will leave and pack before Noon.
We have planted many seeds over the past months and have been aiming to achieve our goal of creating this very special event. Now has come the moment to invite you all to join. We celebrate on the Land of Jessica and Rogier, owners of ‘de Stille Kracht’, an Oasis of Nature, Beauty and Peace in Drenthe, (Northern part of The Netherlands)
During 3 beautiful days we will not only co-create this Gathering to pay respect to our Mother Earth, our Lands and Ancestors and the future of our next seven Generations to come, we also love to bring honor to Grandmother Flordemayo and TreeSisters and their Sacred work. Dorm (with ten separate beds)
Early dorm ticket: €315,-
Normal dorm ticket: €333,-
Room (private room, each with two separate beds. If you buy a ticket alone you can expect to sleep with another person in the room. If you want to be in the room with someone specific, let us know!)
Early room ticket: €333,-
Normal room ticket: €358,-
Order your ticket now by sending an email to info@eigentijdsnederland.com In that email state your first and last name and ticket type. From there we will inform you on how to secure your spot for this event.
September 23, 2019 – January 20, 2020
(Every other Monday. Nine online sessions via Zoom video conferencing)
Purpose of the Workshop
The term “sustainability” is used so freely, it’s difficult to understand what it can mean. At its essence, sustainability embodies hope for a healthy, just and bright future for us all. Choices for Sustainable Living provides participants with a powerful opportunity to explore sustainability more deeply and learn its unique meaning from individual, societal and global perspectives.
We will be using the inspiring workbook from the Northwest Earth Institute. It will be facilitated by an enthusiastic team and highly interactive for participants. You will discover new ways to make change more possible and powerful, both individually and in community.
The time to complete the course material in the two weeks between each session will be 2-3 hours, more or less, depending on personal circumstances.
Workshop Dates
All sessions are on Mondays at 9:00 – 11:00 am PT / Noon – 2:00 pm ET
Orientation September 23
Session 1 October 7
Session 2 October 21
Session 3 November 4
Session 4 November 18
Session 5 December 2
Session 6 December 16
Session 7 January 6
Session 8 January 20
For more information on sessions read here.
Registration
$70 – $85 (sliding scale)
You will also need to purchase Choices for Sustainable Living 2018 from Northwest Earth Institute (e-book $33/paperback $35).
Join your hosts Adam Avin founder of Wuf Shanti and the Kids Association for Mindfulness in Education and Helen Maffini, researcher, co-author of Developing Children’s Emotional Intelligence and creator of Thriving Kids and MindBe Education and host of the Preschool Mindfulness Summit and the Mindfulness in Education Summit
Helen Maffini is the host of the 2018 Mindfulness in Education Summit, she is a doctoral researcher, author and educator. Helen is the creator of the MindBE preschool curriculum used in schools across Asia. She is co-author of the book Developing Children´s Emotional Intelligence and creator of the course Thriving Kids -A Path to Compassion, Caring and Confident Children!
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Welcome to the first international Mindful Kids Peace Summit. The idea for this summit came because Adam was concerned about the violence in the world, and he wanted to help kids learn to live in health and wellness, and peace and positivity, so that they can grow up to live healthier and happier lives.
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Mindfulness is such an important topic in today´s busy world. Giving teens the best opportunities to use their natural skills in mindfulness, to develop happiness, calm, focus and confidence is a gift we all hope to give.
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Ken Hatfield Speaking About Copyright – legally protecting your creations. Understanding, securing and defending the most fundamental of all artists’ rights.
Date: Tuesday, September 24th, 2019
Time: 7pm to 8:30pm
Venue: Wingspan Arts (Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, between 44 & 45 St., Suite 602, NY, NY 10036)
Ticket: $15 Buy ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mfm-pres-make-music-your-business-9-workshop-w-ken-hatfield-tickets-72301472651.
No refund.
Seating: limited (up to 25 seats)
“What finally turned me into an activist for artists’ rights was the realization that no musician can afford to sit on the sidelines expecting others to fight for rights we ourselves are unwilling to defend.” Ken Hatfield
MFM Advisory Committee member Ken Hatfield will discuss what copyright is, its origins, its importance and why giant tech corporations are funding Astroturf campaigns to undermine it. He will also cover what individual artists need to do to secure and protect the ownership rights of their music under the recently passed Music Modernization Act (MMA).
About Ken Hatfield: the musician, author and activist
A leading proponent of jazz played on the classical guitar, composer KEN HATFIELD received ASCAP‘s prestigious Vanguard Award in 2006 for “innovative and distinctive music that is charting new directions in jazz.”
Ken’s the leader on 10 commercially released CDs, 9 featuring him performing his original compositions, as a soloist or with his ensembles. He’s published six books of his compositions. In 2005 Mel Bay published his comprehensive instructional book Jazz and the Classical Guitar: Theory and Application and in 2017 included two of his compositions in Contemporary Guitar Composers of the Americas.
Ken’s compositional experience ranges from jazz works for his own ensembles, to solo classical guitar works, choral works, and ballet scores for Judith Jamison, The Washington Ballet Company, and the Maurice Béjart Ballet Company, as well as scores for television and film, including Eugene Richards’ award-winning documentary but, the day came.
Ken continues to lead his own ensembles and be an in-demand sideman. In recent years he has also become an artist rights activist, serving as co-chair of the Artist Rights Caucus of Local 802 and as a member of the Advisory Committee of Musicians for Musicians (MFM). In April 2019 he participated in the United States Copyright Office’s fifth and final roundtable on reform of section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
About MFM
MFM seeks to bring together musicians from all disciplines, styles, traditions and localities in the cause of their mutual self-betterment. Whether through education, networking or political action, MFM’s ultimate goal is to elevate the work of all musicians to the level of a true profession, one which is recognized and appropriately rewarded by the society in which they live and work. MFM additionally advocates for the creation and maintenance of a fair and sustainable musical ecosystem, one in which participants share equitably in all forms of revenue generated by their work product, whether composed, recorded, or performed live. In the final analysis, we seek to promote all conditions which benefit the musicians’ community and the music created by it, while opposing all those which do them harm.”
Song Carriers Immersion
OVERVIEW
The Song Carriers Immersion is an initiatory experience for women called to awaken their natural wild essence and vitality through song and sisterhood. The immersion brings participants deeply into the way of the Song Carrier and provides guidance about how to gather, learn, hold, and offer sacred Earth Songs. Through a rich mix of communal singing, dancing and ritual along with solo visioning and wandering, women uncover the unique gifts of their voice and remember their original role as caretakers of life and dreamers of the mystery. The setting is the pristine wilds of Apache Canyon, NM where the music and medicine of nature powerfully present themselves and root the overall experience.
**The Song Carriers Immersion is a pre-requisite for the
Song Carriers Leadership Training.**
DATES & LOCATION:
Fall 2019 Song Carriers Immersion is
Tuesday September 24, 2:00 pm through
Sunday September 29, 1:00 pm at
Apache Creek Ranch near Santa Fe, NM
CORE ELEMENTS
- Nature Immersion
- Ancestral and New Song Lineages
- Dance as Prayer
- Earth-based Ritual
- Rhythm Making
- Solo Time in the Forest
- Sisterhood Weaving
- Conscious Visioning
THE HARVEST
- Enliven your wild essence
- Receive earth songs in original languages
- Awaken the gift of listening for and shaping songs from nature’s music
- Increase fluency with rhythm
- Deepen embodiment
- Develop ritual practices
- Cultivate relations with Mother Earth and beyond-human entities
- Enter a community of sisterhood
THE SETTING & ACCOMMODATIONS
Apache Creek Ranch is located 30 minutes from downtown Santa Fe and is surrounded by 400 acres of forest with a small creek that runs through the canyon. The breathtaking ranch has two sweet adobe casitas with loft spaces containing individual beds to share with two or more women and there is one room available with a king size bed to share with another woman. (This room is reserved for two women who are unable to climb a ladder into the loft spaces). Camping is also available for those that want more privacy. Each casita contains communal bathrooms with a shower. There is also a luxurious heated outdoor swimming pool. The retreat includes 3 nourishing meals a day, using locally grown and organic foods by our personal chef, Brigita Lacovara. (http://brigitaskitchen.com)
THE SESSIONS & SCHEDULE
The Song Carriers Immersion sessions will mainly take place outdoors with evening sessions indoors. Most days require an easy twenty minute walk to the forest for our gatherings. There will be one day devoted to a longer hike up the sacred mountain to make offerings and listen for nature’s songs.
Tuesday, Sept. 24
2pm-3pm Arrival & Registration
4pm-6pm Session
6pm Dinner
Wednesday, Sept. 25
8am Breakfast
10am Opening Ceremony
1pm Lunch
2pm-5pm Session
6pm Dinner
7pm-9pm Session
Thursday, Sept. 26
8am Breakfast
9am-4pm Pilgrimage to sacred mountain
6pm Dinner
7pm-9pm Session
Friday, Sept. 27
8am Breakfast
9am-1pm Session
1pm Lunch
2pm-5pm Session
6pm Dinner
7pm-9pm Session
Saturday, Sept. 28
8am Breakfast
9am-1pm Session
1pm Lunch
2pm-4pm Session
5pm-7pm Closing Water Lodge
7:30pm Feast
Sunday, Sept. 29
8am Breakfast
9am Check-out
10am-12:30pm Song Carriers Women’s Community Circle in Santa Fe
GUIDE
Madi Sato is a singer and women’s community leader of Japanese Ainu and Celtic roots. She is devoted to raising women’s voices for the benefit of all life. Madi has guided hundreds of women in awakening and empowering their authentic voices through the self-designed Song Carrier method of gathering in community. From a young age, she was immersed in indigenous ceremony and drawn to the feet of traditional grandmothers. She continues to compose original songs & chants consonant with nature’s music and is a lifelong dancer versed in an array of traditions and styles, both old and new.
Madi and her husband, poet Timothy P. McLaughlin, are co-founders of PRAISING EARTH, an organization devoted to rewilding the human heart through the traditions of song, story, dance and ritual to enliven all people’s essential belonging to Earth. She is the creative mother of the organization’s Singing Waters programs, which include Song Carriers Women’s Circles, Basket of Seeds Grandmother’s Alliance, Song Carriers Immersion, Song Carriers Leadership Training, and the 13 Moons Song Archive. She lives in Santa Fe with Timothy and their three children.
PraisingEarth.org
COST
$1600, includes all meals and shared lodging
$1475, includes all meals and camping
Song Carrier Immersion
Application
Thank you for your interest in the Song Carrier Immersion! This application allows you to articulate your desires and intentions for this program and helps us get to know you.
Before applying, please ensure you are able to commit to living on-site and fully engaging in every day of the immersion.
(Type into the spaces beside/beneath each question. Use whatever space you need. When complete, save and send to: Info@TheSingingWaters.org)
Name:
Address, Telephone, Email Address:
DOB:
Heritage(s):
Languages spoken or sung:
Health/Fitness Condition:
Express what draws your soul to the path of the Song Carrier.
Describe your connection and experience with song & wilderness.
What is your ceremonial background?
Are you comfortable in the elements and with hiking and spending solo time in the wild?
Please state your lodging preference. Loft bed, shared king bed, or camping?
Please list any food preferences or restrictions—
PRESS RELEASE: ‘CELEBRATING AMBASSADORS OF PEACE’ (AOP) EVENT SET FOR SEPTEMBER 26 IN LOS ANGELES
“Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), an organization made up of prominent members of the entertainment industry that’s dedicated to promoting the arts as a means to peace, will honor several music business executives at its second annual Celebrating Ambassadors of Peace gala. More than 200 top entertainment industry leaders are expected to attend the event, which will be held Sep. 26 at the Holmby Hills home of CCFP board advisor and noted entertainment attorney Gary Stiffelman, whose clientele has included Justin Timberlake, Eminem and Yo-Yo Ma.”
A limited number of tickets for this exclusive event are available for purchase at the following site, along with sponsorship opportunities: https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/gala/honorees/
Web: http://CreativeCommunityForPeace.com
Contact: Alexandra Greenberg
Direct: 213-216-1755
Email: agreenberg@falconpublicity.com
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On Thursday, September 26, Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) will hold its second annual “Celebrating Ambassadors Of Peace” (AOP) event at the Holmby Hills home of noted entertainment attorney and CCFP Advisory Board member, Gary Stiffelman, Esq. (whose clients have included Justin Timberlake, Eminem, Yo-Yo Ma, Trent Reznor, Maroon 5).
In 2018, CCFP honored Scooter Braun, Geffen Records President Neil Jacobson and Warner Music Group executive Aton Ben-Horin. This year’s honorees are: Aaron Bay-Schuck (CEO/Co-Chairman Warner Records); Jacqueline Saturn (President, Caroline Music/CMG); Troy Carter (Founder of Q&A and Atom Factory); Walter Kolm (former President of Universal Music Latino and now manages Maluma, Carlos Vives, and Wisin amongst others); and special artist honoree, Ziggy Marley (GRAMMY Award-winning artist).
The honorees were chosen for their commitment to championing artistic freedom and advancing the idea that music and the arts are a powerful force for building cultural bridges. Through their work and influence, they have advanced coexistence to create a better future for all.
As stated by CCFP Co-Founder David Renzer, and Director Ari Ingel, “Creative Community for Peace was founded by entertainment industry executives on the principal that music and the arts can be a unifying force to bring people of different backgrounds together. We also believe that a cultural boycott of Israel does not further the prospects for peace.”
The honorees shared their excitement to be recognized as Ambassadors of Peace and the importance of CCFP’s work, stating the following:
Aaron Bay-Schuck: “I am honored to be recognized as an ‘Ambassador of Peace’ by Creative Community for Peace and humbled to be receiving it alongside such accomplished industry executives and friends. The cultural boycott movement is detrimental to prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as to artistic freedom around the world, and I will continue to stand with my friends and colleagues who are dedicated to using music and the arts to bring people together.”
Jacqueline Saturn: “I’m honored to receive the Ambassadors of Peace award from Creative Community for Peace. Music and all creative art forms have the unique ability to pierce through cultural barriers, reshape perspectives, and create common ground. CCFP bridges divergent communities, enabling them to find a common voice. Now more than ever, the creative community must take a courageous stance against those that seek to divide rather than unite. I am proud to be in a position to empower artists from many different backgrounds to help us get to “higher ground.”
Walter Kolm: “It’s an honor for me to receive an Ambassadors of Peace award this year. I’ve always been a firm believer in the power of music to bring people together, which is why I support CCFP and their mission. The fact that so many incredible Latin artists I’ve worked with over the years, like Maluma, Carlos Vives and Wisin, have performed in Israel is a testament to this. Our artists are always embraced with enthusiasm and love in such a way that truly shows that music crosses all cultural and national boundaries to unite us.”
Troy Carter: “There is no better way to bring people of different backgrounds together than through the arts. This is why I share the vision of Creative Community for Peace and am proud to receive their Ambassador of Peace award.”
Ziggy Marley: “It is an honor to be one of CCFP’s 2019 Ambassadors of Peace. We all should use our voices, music, and art in the struggle for justice, love, and peace for all human beings of all races, religions, and ethnicities. I am thankful to be a part of this year’s ceremony. One Love”
More than two-hundred top entertainment industry leaders are expected to attend the event, which will feature special musical performances. Sponsors include Sony/ATV, EA Music, BMI, Epic Records, Atlantic Records and Warner Records among many others. Variety, which recently included CCFP honoree Jacqueline Saturn on their “Women’s Impact Report,” is the event’s official media sponsor.
A limited number of tickets for this exclusive event are available for purchase at the following site, along with sponsorship opportunities: https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/gala/honorees/
Web: http://CreativeCommunityForPeace.com
Video: https://vimeo.com/332545709
Contact: Alexandra Greenberg
Direct: 213-216-1755
Email: agreenberg@falconpublicity.com
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Transition Thrive Online Training
Thursday, September 26, 2019 – 11:00am – Thursday, November 21, 2019 – 12:30pm
All times Pacific. We are currently offering two registration options through this page: a $120 Standard Ticket to cover the basic costs of producing this course and a $180 Sponsor Ticket to help subsidize scholarships. If you would like to request a need-based scholarship or group discount, please contact don@transitionus.org
Transition Thrive can be thought of as the sequel to Transition Launch Training. While Launch focuses on the first few steps of the Transition process – understanding the global context, forming an initiating group, raising awareness, and cultivating partnerships with like-minded organizations – Thrive builds upon this foundation to provide answers to how to broaden, deepen, and scale up the impacts of local community resilience-building initiatives over time.
Over the course of eight weekly sessions, you will form mutually-supportive relationships with other participants, develop new abilities and knowledge, receive guidance for overcoming the specific challenges you are facing, and create a robust action plan to take your work to the next level.
Prior participation in a Transition Launch Training is recommended, but not required. This course is open to social change activists from all over the world, but is currently only available in English.
Sessions at a Glance
1. Maps for the Transition Journey (October 3): Identify your initiative’s current strengths and weaknesses using the Transition Healthcheck and explore how The Five Stages of Transition can provide an achievable path to thriving.
2. Cultivating the Collective Genius (October 10): In this session, we will look closely at our individual wholeness and unique collaboration styles while exploring ways of cultivating these so that the collective genius in our groups is more likely to emerge.
3. Running Successful, Practical Projects (October 17): This session will share design ideas for projects that bring tangible benefits to your community, engage and energize volunteers, and support working groups to be effective and rewarding.
4. Reaching Beyond the Choir (October 24): Learn how to create a tipping point of support for your initiative and cultivate strategic partnerships by telling your best stories, harvesting metrics, and designing value propositions.
5. Building Momentum and Capacity (October 31): In this session, we will cover running larger campaigns, forming diverse coalitions, taking a multi-faceted approach to fundraising, and establishing a healthy formal organization.
6. System-Changing Strategies (November 7): This session will explore the mindsets, practices, and structures that support community-wide and whole systems strategies, such as creating localized food systems or transforming local economies.
7. In It for Life (November 14): Here, we will discuss some of the unique challenges we encounter as long-term change-makers, and will suggest tools, mindsets, inner postures, and practices that help us stay inspired and prevent burnout.
8. Bringing It All Back Home (November 21): In this final session, we will circle back to the Transition Healthcheck to harvest key insights from this course, address major challenges, and create an action plan for your group to thrive!
How Does It Work?
Thrive Online consists of a series of eight pre-recorded presentations that will be made available for you to watch before engaging in weekly 90-minute live videoconferences exploring each of these topics in greater depth. We will also provide you with access to a private discussion forum that you can use to share resources and continue conversations in between sessions.
Please don’t worry if you don’t consider yourself to be tech-savvy. The platforms we use are designed to be easy to navigate, and we will provide personalized technical assistance throughout the course to ensure that your experience is as enjoyable as humanly possible.
While this online format enables you to participate in an international learning cohort from the comfort of your own home – at a lower cost and with a smaller carbon footprint than traditional face-to-face offerings – if you’d prefer to host a Thrive Training in your local community, please click here to learn more about how to do that.
Facilitation Team
Don Hall has had the good fortune to participate in the Transition Movement in a variety of capacities for more than a decade. Initially serving for two years as the Education and Outreach Coordinator for Transition Colorado, he went on to found and direct Transition Sarasota (Florida) from 2010 to 2016. Don was named Co-Director of Transition US in 2017. He holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University.
Michelle Colussi has worked in community and economic development for over 20 years with a focus on community resilience and organizational capacity-building and planning. She was a co-founder of Transition Victoria (BC) and their flagship programs: Building Resilient Neighbourhoods and Resilient Streets. She has delivered Launch Training since 2009 and chaired the University of Toronto’s Transition Emerging Research Advisory Group.
Rebecca Blanco completed a Master’s and a Doctorate and has been a psychotherapist for 40 years. Her interest in eco-psychology sparked her conviction that personal transformation within an ecological-social context is crucial for a regenerative world. She’s participated in a mentorship with Dr. Andy Fisher and The Work That Reconnects Training. Rebecca is a workshop facilitator at Forest Center.
Sally Ludwig is a co-founding member of Transition Guelph, with particular interests in inner dimensions of personal and community resilience, ecological and climate justice, effective collaboration, and social applications of Permaculture. She is a trainer for Transition and facilitator of the Work that Reconnects, educator, mentor and consultant. Secretly, she throws seed bombs and does guerilla planting of fruit trees and raspberry bushes.
A $30 donation per guest is highly appreciated.
New Moon Global Call to Action
Sacred Reciprocity: Learning to Live in Harmony with All of Life A FREE Interactive Global Conversation with Michael & Puma Fredy Quispe Singona Friday, August 30th, 9-10:30am Pacific There is so much that is affecting us, so much heavy energy, worry, stress, and fear that is affecting our physical bodies and sending us to the hospitals. We need to take care of our heart and mind in order to completely heal our physical bodies.
Puma Fredy Quispe Singona I am very excited to announce that our dear friend Fredy “Puma” Quispe will be joining us for this month’s new moon call. Puma, who lives in Cusco Peru, was trained by his grandfather from the age of 6. He has been walking the path of a traditional Andean Medicine Man and is recognized as a holder of ancient Andean wisdom.
Puma and Michael will be exploring the concept and application of Ayni, the sacred art of reciprocity, to our lives and human evolution. August is the month for celebrating Mother Earth in Peru, although it seems that this is true of every month with the indigenous people. Please join us as we explore how to meet the challenges of separation, alienation and divisiveness that are growing in our world today. Our separation from the natural world is not only killing us, we are taking the bulk of all the earth’s species with us in our quest for more of what we really don’t need. When we learn to think in terms of systems we recognize that everything is connected and plays a vital role in the balance of the energetic forces of the universe…
Michael Stone Fredy “Puma” Quispe is a prominent citizen within his local community and a member of the Elders Council in Chinchero, Peru as well as the co-founder of Cusi Huayna, a youth group focused on re-strengthening the community through the remembrance of traditional dance, story, and weaving. He is accredited to sharing the secrets of the Andes with hundreds of tourists each year as a guide on the Inca Trail while continuing to study with Quechua elders throughout the Sacred Valley.
Today Puma plays an active role in world affairs by sitting on several international and indigenous councils including the World Wisdom Council, whose honorary chair is Mikhail Gorbachyev. He was also featured in 4Real which began as a documentary television series that features young leaders who, under extreme circumstances, are affecting real change on some of the most pressing issues of our time, and has now expanded to include an online global community. Through this work, he is ensuring the contribution of indigenous wisdom toward strengthening the vision of global harmony and healing. Michael Stone is a multi-faceted leader in the realm of shamanism and spiritual development. He is the on the faculty of the Shift Network and is the host and producer of the Shamanism Global Summit. For the past 15 years he has hosted KVMR’s weekly Award winning show Conversations, which highlights leading edge thinkers, authors and activists in environmental restoration, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. As co-founder of Quantum Consulting he works with organizations to combine quantum theory with mystical shamanism to promote healing, wellness and belief change with his clients. Michael leads classes, tele-seminars and workshops on embodied shamanism, meditation and unity spirituality.
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Our annual People’s Ecochallenge is back to invite you to do more environmental + social good.From October 2 – October 23,create more environmental + social good alongside your peersand thousands of global changemakers.Connect the dots between your values and the impact of your actions.The People’s Ecochallenge harmonizes individual and collective action,camaraderie, and friendly competitionto create significant collective impact.Over 100 actions within nineChallenge categories await you. Register today! |
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The time is now more than ever to be the change and stand up for peace and nonviolence. Our communities deserve to live their daily lives peacefully and together we can strive to make that happen. As partners of #Gandi150 and believers in the power of peace, we invite you to be part of the movement on October 2. More information here.
How to get involved on October 2:
1. Nonviolence Champion – Nominate a faculty member from your educational institution, as the champion for the event.
2. Nonviolence in Action – On October 2, host a screening of the documentary film, “From India with Love”, followed by an interactive discussion to promote peace.
3. Nonviolence in Classrooms – Lead an experiential learning module on nonviolence in the classroom and promote peace.
Join us on October 2 and share your activity with us at The Peace Alliance. Find our Facebook page here and/or tag us on Twitter at @PeaceAlliance. Use #Gandhi150 and #RethinkPeace to join the worldwide social media conversation on peace!
Thank you!
In peace and partnership!
Jelena Popovic, Teaching Peace in Schools Council Lead
and The Peace Alliance Board of Directors and Leadership Council
About The Peace Alliance
Mission:
The Peace Alliance empowers civic action toward a culture of peace.
Who We Are:
We are an alliance of organizers and advocates taking the work of peacebuilding from the margins of society into the center of national discourse and policy priorities.
We champion a comprehensive, collaborative approach to peace and peacebuilding.
$475 – $595 sliding scale
Cost includes all meals and shared lodging at our beautiful private retreat center. All proceeds benefit the work of ONE. Deposit of $150 holds your place (nonrefundable). The remaining balance of the sliding scale you choose is due by August 25th.
You’re invited to enjoy a very special weekend of renewal and transformation on powerful Mount Shasta in Northern California. Long considered one of the seven sacred mountains of the world, Mount Shasta holds a vibrant transformative energy that seekers the world over travel to experience. Graceful and deeply profound, Mount Shasta is an immense energy center filled with opportunities to connect deeply with the Heart of the Living Earth. How long has it been since you listened?
Your guided journey begins at 4pm on Thursday October 3rd with a welcoming circle and delicious dinner, and ends on Sunday October 6th at 12pm with our closing circle. Throughout your experience you will enjoy opportunities to connect and communicate with Pachamama and the more than human beings that she nourishes. You will:
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·Travel to the Mountain for exploration and prayers
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Learn simple yet profound techniques to help you more easily hear the language of non verbal beings, including Heart Coherence, extra sensory perception, Grazing, and Earthing
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Experience communication with the Water People, Rock People, Animal People, Plant People, Tree People and the Mountain Herself
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Be transformed through earth based ceremony
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Feast in joyful communion in our Sacred Kitchen
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Make an alchemical sacred anointing oil that you’ll take home
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Enjoy lively discussions, laughter and heart-centered community connection
This will be a time of deeply connecting to oneself, the mountain, nature and the cosmic forces supporting our spiritual evolution. We live in a sacred world that is not just more complex than we think – it’s more complex than we can think. We’ll move out of the “thinking ball” on top of our bodies and settle deep into our hearts to learn a new language. We go to the mountain to listen. We go for new direction. We go to play. You’ll return home with a renewed sense of connection, gratitude, and deep appreciation for the unique and interconnected place you hold in life’s tapestry.
Lodging
Lodging opportunities at our retreat center include shared bedrooms in the main house, shared space in the smaller yurt (yurt spaces include a bed and curtains to separate your space from the rest of the yurt if desired), and “glamping” tent sites with two beds per tent. You might initially feel awkward about sharing sleeping rooms, but part of the weekend’s experience is to remember the gifts of community that come with sharing space in a world that supports increasing isolation. If you have a preference for a particular space, please indicate your preference when you register and we’ll do our very best to accommodate you. See slide show below for photos.
Things to Bring
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An item from your kitchen that has personal significance to you. These will be placed on our Sacred Kitchen alter, and you’ll take them home again at the end of the journey.
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A homemade gift for our giveaway. This could be a piece of art, a jar of jam, a poem – anything you’ve personally made with your hands and your heart.
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Folding camp chair and blanket for your outdoor comfort. The evenings can be chilly on the mountain in early October.
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Sunscreen
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Water Bottles. I recommend bringing extras to fill with fresh living spring water from the Sacramento River Headwaters so you can take some of this amazing water home with you.
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Paper or journal, with an extra pen.
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Drums, rattles, guitars, and other musical instruments – if you wish
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A walking stick (optional)
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A day pack
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Snacks or special foods you might need.
Meet Your Facilitators
Julie Caldwell, MA
Over two decades ago Julie opened the doors of Humboldt Herbals ~ a full service herbal apothecary located in the heart of the Redwoods on the pristine northern California coast. She and her staff of experienced herbalists now serve hundreds of community members each month who rely on Humboldt Herbals as a primary source of health care.
Originally from Alabama, Julie grew up with a plant talking granny, a pharmacist father, an artist mother, and loads of fiddle-playing, guitar picking relatives. Her first serious relationship with a plant began over 45 years ago at age 5, when she became great friends with a wild black cherry tree her granny called Crazy Doug. Julie’s “formal” education includes a BS in research psychology and biology, a MA in contemporary American poetry, and many, many herb classes including extensive studies with Pam Montgomery. The works of Pam, Stephen Harrod Buhner and Rosemary Gladstar have greatly influenced her herbal approach. She serves on the Visioning Council for the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries, and continues to enjoy a long history of spiritual exploration with wise ones from various traditions around the world.
Julie offers personal sessions, classes and herb walks in the Humboldt County area, and facilitates ongoing retreats in sacred Mount Shasta. To learn more about Julie’s classes, services, and herb shop, you can sign up for the Humboldt Herbals monthly newsletter at www.humboldtherbals.com.
Elyshia Holliday
In the spring of 2000 Elyshia left her thriving naturopathic practice in the Central Valley of California and moved to the mountains of New Mexico, where she co-founded a non-profit organization dedicated to healing the relationship between human beings and Mother Earth. She studied with many teachers and elders in the course of supporting this mission, who were called upon to guide and share their innate perspective of living as part of a whole earth system. Their wisdom and knowledge has had a profound influence on the way Elyshia views life, healing, and our basic guardianship of earth.
Growing up in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon created a unique opportunity to be close to the mountains, waters, trees and the wild in her everyday life. The quietness of the land allowed Elyshia to learn to listen to nature, to the wind blowing through the tall pines and currents of the river flowing across skin. It was good preparation!
Although it seems the most important things she learned came from elders, the cosmos and the Earth herself, Elyshia’s formal education includes a BS in Biology with concentrations in molecular biology and biochemistry as well as Master Herbalist, Master Iridologist and Naturopathy certificates from the School of Natural Medicine in Boulder, Colorado where she studied with Farida Sharan.
Much of the work Elyshia has done and continues to do is centered around community group facilitation, sacred nourishment, and helping people expand their relationship with Mother Earth. Since 2016 she has initiated and been engaged with a multi year regeneration project focused on healing the human-land-water relationship, especially in relation to erosion, desertification and the balance of the masculine and feminine. Elyshia continues to contribute in New Mexico and is the Executive Director of O.N.E..
Deposit and Registration
Deposit of $150 holds your place (nonrefundable). We will email registration form after we receive your deposit. The remaining balance of the sliding scale you choose is due by August 25th. Please email info@natureevolutionaries with any questions.
Photos of Retreat Center and the Mount Shasta Area
Come celebrate A Better World with Mitchell Rabin’s 26th Anniversary of alternative media on the air, with a Swami Beyondananda performance fun-raiser for A Better World, who has been a friend & supporter of ABW for decades. Swami will give a comedy performance followed by a dialogue between Mitchell & Steve about how to creatively create a better world. Your presence is desired.
Trial to Table is a chance to celebrate and share the food we’ve grown, and the diversity it offers. If you like food, get excited.
Date And Time
Sat, October 12, 2019
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Franny’s Farm
22 Frannys Farm Road
Leicester, NC 28748
Trial to Table: A Utopian Seed Project Fundraising Feast
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY |
Governor’s Mansion, One Mansion Drive, Santa Fe, NM |
Located in the ancestral Tewa homelands of Northern New Mexico, Tewa Women United is a multicultural and multiracial organization founded and led by Native women. The name “Tewa Women United” comes from the Tewa words wi don gi mu which can be translated as “we are one” in mind, heart, and in the spirit of love for all.
Learn more about our vision, mission, and history here.
Please Visit the Contact Us page for a list of program/staff emails addresses.
Come Celebrate Our 30th Anniversary With Us!
Please join us for this special evening
to celebrate Tewa Women United’s Past, Present, and Future
This event, on Indigenous People’s Day, celebrates 30 years of being in beloved community and showcases how Tewa Women United has created spaces for Indigenous women to uncover their power, strength, and skills.
Wo’watsi will feature…
- Pueblo Dances
- Blessings from the TWU Sayain/Grandmothers’ Circle
- Words from executive director Dr. Corrine Sanchez
- Indigenous-inspired appetizers from Chef Ray Naranjo
- Offerings of Poetry & Art
- And more….
All ticket proceeds will benefit the work of Tewa Women United.
This will be an evening to remember…we look forward to sharing it with you!
• NOTE: Tickets are limited and available until October 7 or until sold out
• To receive email updates about this event, sign up here
Contact Us
Tewa Women United
Phone: (505) 747-3259 | Fax: (505) 747-4067
Mailing Address:
Tewa Women United
PO B0x 397
Santa Cruz, NM 87567
Office: 912 Fairview Lane, Española, NM 87532
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About Us
About Tewa Women United
Located in the ancestral Tewa homelands of Northern New Mexico, Tewa Women United is a multicultural and multiracial organization founded and led by Native women.
The name “Tewa Women United” comes from the Tewa words wi don gi mu which can be translated as “we are one” in mind, heart and in the spirit of love for all.
Our Beginnings
Tewa Women United (TWU) started in 1989 as a support group for women from the Pueblos of the northern Rio Grande concerned with the traumatic effects of colonization, religious inquisition, and militarization leading to issues such as alcoholism, suicide, domestic/sexual violence and environmental violence. In the safe space we created, we transformed and empowered one another through critical analysis and by embracing and reaffirming our cultural identity.
In 2001 we transitioned from an informal, all volunteer group to a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
Tewa Women United was incorporated for educational, social and benevolent purposes, specifically for the ending of all forms of violence against Native Women and girls, Mother Earth and to promote peace in New Mexico.
Our Vision
TWU believes in strengthening and re-strengthening beloved families and communities to end violence against women, girls, and Mother Earth.
Our Mission
The mission of TWU is to provide courageous spaces for Indigenous women to uncover the power, strength, and skills they possess to become positive forces for transformative change in their families and communities.
Our Values
A’Gin – respect for self and others
Wina ta yay – Together we live these values
Seegi ma vay i – Loving, caring for each other
Kwee-wa seng-wa vi tuu – female/ male energy – ancestral knowingness
Nung Ochuu Quiyo – Our Mother, Mother Earth, multi-versity
Bin mah pah di – Letting go
Wowatsi – Our breath, our prayer, commitment to live life with purpose and good intentions
JOIN US IN CREATING ‘MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE;’ AND ASKING #WHATIF
WE KNOW THE TIME OF BUSINESS IS OVER, THAT WE MUST TRANSFORM THE
PRESENT IN ORDER TO CREATE A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
If we are to make the changes the climate emergency demands of us, the next 10-15 years will be a time of social, cultural, economic and political transformation almost without precedent. It will be a time when our imagination needs to be invited, valued and empowered. A time that future generations will sing great songs, and tell great tales about. A challenging yet amazing time to be alive!
What will help us build something so necessary and so remarkable will be our ability to tell rich and compelling stories of how the future could look, feel, taste, and sound. Stories that create a deep longing for a future very different from the present.
A future of clean air, children playing in the street, cities with food growing everywhere, more birdsong and wildlife, thriving local economies, homes and businesses powered by renewable energy, imaginative and playful architecture, and rewilded landscapes.
An age of connection, collaboration and community, with a sense of collective purpose. A more resilient, more diverse, more equal, more caring, fair world with zero emissions.
It will be a time of creativity, dreaming, and sharing. A space to explore our longings for what we want the future to be. Connecting us to each other and to a future worth fighting for.
WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US DURING 17-24 OCTOBER
Gather your community group, faith group, street, school, or organisation and spend time together generating ‘memories of the future’.
What this will look like is up to you, and you can find out more and download a resource guide here – https://transitionnetwork.org/popuptomorrow/
ALL NEW MUSIC VIDEOS!
All Music Videos are now posted on our website and on our Youtube Channel.
The 19th Annual Awards Show is set for Saturday November 2nd, 2019 at the Seneca Niagara Hotel & Casino in Niagara Falls, New York.
TICKETS GO ON-SALE: August 23, 2019 through all Ticketmaster Outlets.
Thank you to all our members who submitted music to the Nineteenth Annual Native American Music Awards.
Nominees will be announced in mid September.
WATCH AND LISTEN TO ALL THE NEW MUSIC VIDEOS HERE:
YOUTUBE CHANNEL
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CONGRATULATIONS TO ANDREAS GOBOR OF THE GREYWOLF BLUES BAND, ACTORS JONATHON JOSS AND ACTRESS IRENE BEDARD ON THE NEW NATIVE TALK SHOW AIRING THIS MONTH ON FNX
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We sincerely thank you for your contributions and continuing to be part of the world’s Leading Resource for Contemporary and Traditional Native American Music Initiatives!
Thank yoU!
Mailbox: PO Box 1705, Lindenhurst, NY 11757
Ph 212.228.8300 fx 646.688.6883
THE WISDOM OF THE ELDERS
Time of the Sixth Sun is an inspirational and uplifting documentary film about the shift in global consciousness and the emerging movement to find a new way to walk more lightly on this Earth. Our ancestors understood our symbiotic relationship to nature and the elements, and foresaw the collapse of an unsustainable world. Filmed predominantly in North America, Mexico, Peru, S.Africa, India, Egypt, Israel and Australia, this film is a synergy of ancient wisdom from the indigenous Elders and insights from pioneers of new energy consciousness, who collaboratively hold the vision of a new earth experience.
The film is introduced by Greta Scacchi and narrated by ‘Tobias’, an angelic being who has lived many lifetimes on Earth, channeled by Geoffrey Hoppe. Our crew flew to Colorado and whilst Geoffrey was in a trance state, we asked Tobias if he would tell our story. He called it ‘the biggest evolution of consciousness humanity has ever experienced’.
“You are witnessing the dissolving of old systems and the birth of new energy consciousness. It is time to re-member who you are and why you are here, at this time of the greatest change ever.” (Tobias)
The power of this film is carried in the transmission of both the narrator and the speakers, and is interwoven with ceremony and the visual journey of the film’s ‘everyman’, a modern day musical troubadour.
A montage of sound and visuals create a sonic tapestry, inviting the viewer into an intimate and authentic experience of a world in transition. A sensory feast that promises to be as impactful on the ear as it is on the eye, whilst an original soundtrack seamlessly weaves sacred songs, prayers and chants with the resonant strings of Estas Tonne, virtuoso guitarist and troubadour on his journey. A meditation for the soul.
11:11 STAR KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE
CEREMONY OF REMEMBRANCE
Estes Park, Colorado
NOVEMBER 8-9-10-11, 2019
FEATURING:
CHIEF GOLDEN LIGHT EAGLE
JENNIFER BLACK ELK
GRANDMA CHANDRA
LAURA EISENHOWER
ELIZABETH APRIL
BLISS PREMA
JAMES GILLILAND
JEN BERRYHILL
BRIAN BERRYHILL
MICHAEL LEE HILL
CHARLES BOLTA
BOBBIE JO KUHL
AMANDA KIMIMILA
SHIRLEY BOLSTOK
MEGAN RILEY
MARITZA VALDIOSERA
SYLINA “TWO BEARS”
AND MORE!
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED
11:11 STAR KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE EVENT DETAILS
JOIN US IN THE GLORIOUS MOUNTAIN SETTING OF ESTES PARK, COLORADO NEAR ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK FOR A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE. THIS IS A CONFERENCE LIKE NO OTHER. NOT ONLY DO WE BRING YOU THE TEACHINGS OF THE STAR WAYS, BUT WE ENLIGHTEN OUR GUESTS WITH KNOWLEDGE AND ANCIENT WISDOM OF THE GALACTIC STAR NATIONS THROUGH THE WISDOM KEEPERS, ALTERNATIVE HEALERS, AUTHORS, CHANNELERS, LIGHT LANGUAGE SPEAKERS, AND INSIDERS TO THE TRUTH OF WHAT IS HAPPENING ON A GALACTIC LEVEL…
ALL WITH A TOUCH OF CEREMONY.
Chief Golden Light Eagle –
Your Host and Founder of Star Knowledge Conferences
Teacher of The Star Ways, Chief Golden Light Eagle is one of the “original code carriers” of Turtle Island (North America). Nakota Sundance Chief Golden Light Eagle, is a member of the Nakota Ihunktowan Band of South Dakota, a spiritual advisor, and He is one of seven Sundance Chiefs for the Yankton Sioux Sungdeska Sapa Tiospaye. Through years of prayer and ceremony, with a group of spiritual teachers, he has brought forth interpretations of the Star Laws.
He co-authored four books titled, “MAKA WICAHPI WICOHAN”, “ANPAO WICAHPI WICOHAN”, IKTOMI WICAHPI WICOHAN”, and “CAN WAKAN WICOHAN”. The MAKA WICAHPI WICOHAN manual was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution during a formal ceremony on September 26, 1999 and the manual was also donated to the A.R.E. Library on September 22, 2002.
Chief Golden Light Eagle will be sharing about the 11:11, 12:12, and 13:13 teachings featured in the books that he authored through the guidance of spirit and ceremony.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2019
1:00 pm – Registration and Vendor Setup
2:00 pm — Opening Ceremonies/Conference Begins/Chief Golden Light Eagle/Jennifer Black Elk
2:30 — Jennifer Black Elk
3:30 — Sylina “Two Bears”
4:30 — Michael Lee Hill
5:30 — Elizabeth April
6:30 — 8:00 pm – Break for Dinner
8:00 pm – Laura Eisenhower
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2019
9:00 a.m. — Opening and Presentation with Amanda Kimimila
10:00 — Jen Berryhill – Blue Owl Woman
11:00 — Chief Golden Light Eagle Presentation
12:00 – 2:00 – Lunch Break
2:00 — Bliss Prema
3:30 — Grandma Chandra Via Skype
4:15 — Crystal Bowl Sound Healing with Caressa
5:00 — James Gilliland
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Break for Dinner
8:00 – 10:00 Live Entertainment/Music/Dance
CHIEF GOLDEN LIGHT EAGLE AND THE STARDUST JAM BAND
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2019
9:00 a.m. — Opening and Presentation with Brian Berryhill
10:00 – Megan Riley
11:00 – Bobbie Jo Kuhl
12:00 – 1:30 – Lunch Break
1:30 — Elliott Haines III
2:00 – Shirley Bolstok
3:00 – Light Language Panel (Garrett Duncan, Shakara Tosha, Yemanya Carey and friends)
4:00 – Charles Bolta
5:00 Special Panel to be announced!
6:00 – Closing Ceremonies
MONDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2019
11:11 CEREMONY
11:11 AM – Outdoors in Estes Park
(Free to All who want to participate)
Location to be announced
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STAR KNOWLEDGE HAS TEAMED UP WITH THE EAGLE HEART FOUNDATION FOR THIS YEAR’S NON-PROFIT BENEFACTOR
50% OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THE SILENT AUCTION AND RAFFLE WILL GO TO THE EAGLE HEART FOUNDAtion
TO DONATE ITEMS FOR THE SILENT AUCTION AND/OR RAFFLE, PLEASE CONTACT JOY GRAY
BOOK YOUR LODGING BY CALLING ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOTEL DIRECTLY
(970) 586-5363
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Join us: RootSkills Workshop
November 15th // WaterFire Arts Center // Providence, RI
For full event details, visit the event website – linked here. Including: agenda, workshop offerings, speakers, cost of registration, scholarships & stipends, carpooling & travel.
View event website View workshops & agenda Register to attend Apply for a scholarship
The Grassroots Fund’s RootSkills workshops are day-long gatherings where grassroots organizers, colleagues and supporters convene to network, share stories and dig into both issue- and process-based skills-building sessions. We work with a planning committee ahead of each event to ensure a broad range of lived experiences and perspectives weigh in as we set agendas, select workshop topics and invite speakers.
The Grassroots Fund is committed to participatory, democratic decision making processes across our grantmaking and skillsbuilding programs. We work to bring together a broad range of lived experiences as we plan and design the RootSkills Training Series. We invite community organizers, students, non profit colleagues, funder partners and sustainable business people to apply to be on the planning committee for each of our RootSkills in-person trainings.
Contact program manager Tess Beem with questions about this event: tess@grassrootsfund.org or 603-905-9915×2.
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In an effort to make the RootSkills Conference as accessible as possible, registration is on a self-identified, sliding scale from $35 – $150.
Teleseminar is 12 PST/3EST on Sunday, December 15th.
Join O.N.E. and Rina Kedem, environmental peace-builder, as we dialogue about peace, ecology, and communities. Rina believes in peace between people and the land, and is part of an international network of projects and communities that are involved in this work.
Rina Kedem has developed and directed cooperative projects with Palestinians, Israelis, and Jordanians for the past 16 years. Her work is guided by a holistic perspective that includes social-economic and environmental well-being of communities, as well as hands-on, long term peace-building opportunities that impact policy. She helped found a multi-cultural center for peace and ecology at the Almog- Jericho junction, an area accessible to Israelis and Palestinians, and was part of a volunteer team that has built a network of ecological villages in Israel (GEN- Israel).
Rina is currently working on her Ph.D. in Community Development and Environmental Conservation Across Borders in the Department of Geography at Hebrew University and resides with her family in the Israeli desert. She is part of the University of San Diego’s 2019 Women PeaceMakers program. and lives with her family in the desert of Israel.
How to Call into the Teleseminar
The call in number for all seminars is 1-805-309-2350 and access code: 5771624#. You can also access the the teleseminar through your computer here using the same access code (5771624). Click here to find the correct teleseminar time for your local time zone.
WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite
and amplify the efforts of people, organizations
and movements working for the common good
WE.net
Will you join us?
Planet Heart Presents…
We, The World
&
Musicians For Musicians
CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO OUR END-OF-THE-YEAR
HOLIDAY PARTY!!!
SATURDAY DECEMBER 21, 2019
In the Heart of Times Square, Midtown Manhattan between 6th-7th Avenues!
Sliding Scale of Donations (You Choose!)
$10, $15, $20, $50 or $100 in advance
$15, $20, $25, $50 or $100 at the door
Space is Limited!
Buy Advance Tickets here:
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Please share with your network
(and let us know if you are going!)Enjoy wonderful food, drink, singing, dancing, fabulous musicians,
performers, activists, artivists, people working for a better world, and
f u n f o l k s l i k e y o u !
Please bring food or drink to share and instruments to play!
(NOTE: If you bring food to share for at least 4-6 people, we may discount your ticket cost.
Please Reply to this message with what you want to bring and then we will confirm.)
And we’ll livestream all the amazing performances too!
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Please subscribe to this page so you can be notified when broadcasts are starting
Featuring some of the finest musicians and singers in New York City including:
Roger Blanc – Guitar
Ken Hatfield – Guitar
Meredith Manna – Vocals
Joel Bluestein – Guitar
Rick Ulfik – Piano
Joe Berger – Guitar
Baba Don Eaton – Percussion
Lyndol Descant – Vocals and Piano
Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi – Sax
Dawoud Kringle – Dilruba
If you can’t make the party, will you support the work of We, The World and Musicians For Musicians with a tax deductible contribution? Here’s how:
Make a secure Online Donation for We, The World and the WE Campaign here: https://WE.net/give
Your support will help WE to continue and expand our global networks of collaboration and action for a peaceful, just and sustainabile world. Send checks payable to We, The World Here:
We, The World
P.O. Box 750651
Forest Hills, NY 11375
Make a secure Online Donation for Musicians For Musicians here: http://www.MusiciansForMusicians.org/your-support
Your support will help MFM to advocate for the benefit of all musicians, financially and other ways.
Thank you and see you Dec. 21st!
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
Now is the Time For WE Video (Narrated by Desmond Tutu and Jane Goodall for We, The World): WE.net/we-video
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
The 11 Days of Global Unity TeleSummit Features Hazel Henderson, Jonathan Granoff, Jamie Margolin, Chief Phil Lane Jr., Rev. Sylvia Sumter and many other Visionary Leaders and Activists
An Urgent Message from Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events for a global audience!
See our YouTube Channel: YouTube.com/WeTheWorldOrg
Check out the We, The World Song: https://wetheworldmusic.bandcamp.com
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
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7 DAYS OF REST and RADIANT DIVERSITY
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For 7 Days of Rest & Radiant Diversity January 1 – 7, 2020 individuals and groups across the world will create and participate in events dedicated to cultivating Harmony in Diversity – a core organizing principle of Codes for a Healthy Earth. Together we will co-create an experiential journey to cultivate peace and empathy with each other and with all of Life. The event offers a creative space for partners and supporters of the Codes to share their unique offerings and wisdom for nourishing a global culture that honors and celebrates the diversity of Creation.
Welcome to 7 Days of Rest
7 Days of Rest is an annual global event that takes place the first week of every year. The aim of the event is to begin the new year by co-creating a global unified field of intention and experience dedicated to the healing and replenishment of the planet and all its inhabitants.
The event provides an open, co-creative space for individuals and groups around the world to freely share and self-organize online and physical events such as retreats, webinars, meditations, ceremonies, sacred activism, artistic expression and more.
For 2020, 7 Days of Rest & Radiant Diversity, will be dedicated to exploring and remembering the essential nature of Life-enhancing diversity. Together we will cultivate our capacity to engage with ourselves, each other, and the world around us with greater empathy and wisdom, and learn about the vitalizing nature of our similarities, differences, and complementarities.
7 days of rest & radiant diversity january 1 – 7, 2020
An Invitation
During the first 7 Days of 2020
individuals and groups around the world
unite to co-create a global field of intention
dedicated to cultivating harmony in diversity.
We rest from our habitual patterns of how see
and relate to the world around us and within us.
Inspired by the foundations of Life,
we reconnect with the Language of Vibration-
the primal Language of Life.
Awakening our senses in new ways,
we remember a deeper capacity for communion
with Mother Earth and all Her Children
and recognize more and more of ourselves in the “other”
and the “other” in ourselves.
Each day we discover and befriend
diverse human and non-human perspectives,
nourishing our gratitude and empathy for all of Creation.
Together we honor and celebrate the multi-faceted,
mutually-enriching nature of existence.
and shine our unique colors
in harmony with each other and all of Life.
Introducing
Codes for a Healthy Earth
For the first time, the upcoming 7 Days of Rest will be directly connected with another global initiative called Codes for a Healthy Earth. Codes for a Healthy Earth offers a foundational whole-system framework to support citizens in working together across national, cultural and ideological boundaries for radical system transformation and rapid social and ecological regeneration. One of the core organizing principles for the “Codes” is cultivating harmony in diversity.
Previous Years of
7 days of rest
We will soon be updating this website for the 2020 event. To learn more about the inspiring events, wisdom offerings and learnings from previous years please follow the links below:
During the first 7 Days of Rest, we co-created a field of re-calibrating with the essential vibration of Rest from which the old can be shed, disease can begin to heal, and new healthy Life and Consciousness can be birthed.
During the second 7 Days of Rest & Reflection, we reconnected with the Foundations of Life in new ways so that we could learn to honor and protect these foundations within us and beyond us as an essential part of our collective healing.
(Re-)Discovering
7 days of rest & reflection, january 1 – 7, 2019
THANK YOU!
Thank you for contributing to making the 7 Days of Rest & Reflection all that it was.
We are moved and grateful that so many people across the world joined to co-create the event.
This second annual event brought together individuals and groups from over 80 countries and was experienced by many as a deeply healing and loving space of abundant diversity, generosity and creativity. Together we catalyzed a renewed connection with the foundations of Life, and co-created an purposeful sense of community with like-hearted people across the globe.
The website is still active, and you are invited to discover a rich diversity of offerings that were shared during the event on the daily Calendar Pages or in the Gallery.
For ongoing sharing, connecting and inspiration please join the social media channels Facebook Page, Community Sharing Space. and Instagram
With blessings and deep gratitude,
Shelley Ostroff, Yan Golding and Lidewij Marinissen
The 7 Days of Rest and Reflection is dedicated to cultivating Sacred Relationship with all of Life. Given this intention, we are delighted to dedicate this event to the White Lions and Lionesses of Tsau, and the work of Linda Tucker and Jason A. Turner, founders of the Global White Lion Protection Trust.
As we move into the 7 Days, we invite you to pass through the White Lion and Lioness Gateway of Sacred Relationship that has inspired this event and our ongoing work as Together in Creation.
We also encourage participants to join in the Gateway Meditations offered by Cynthia Jurs and David Nicol on the first and last day of the event, connecting with a global mandala grid of vases laid by the Earth Treasure Vase Healing Project over the last 30 years.
And most of all we invite you to enrich yourselves with the abundance of generous resources offered by the global community to create your own meaningful and replenishing journey through the 7 Days.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Given the co-creative, emergent nature of this event, this website will continue to evolve over the week with new events and updates.
Each individual and group is invited to honour these 7 days in ways that are most meaningful to them. We recommend that you prepare for the event by sensing into and clarifying your intention for this sacred time and doing what is possible to create the optimal conditions for you to manifest this intention.
While the journey through the 7 days is a very personal one, we will offer suggestions for each day that provide an opportunity to weave meaning and deepen your experience along different themes and through different gateways.
Calendar Pages are dedicated to each day – representing one of the Foundations of Life. On these pages you will find inspiration, resources, and local and online events specific for those days. New events and information will be added on a daily basis so please check the website regularly to enjoy the full range of offerings.
Gateway Pages are pages dedicated to different themes. These gateways are specifically chosen to enrich the field of reflective experience.
A Global Map shows the participants, communities and events that registered on this website.
Community Sharing Space: A community sharing space is available for participants to share, meet, inspire and be inspired. Please note that Facebook does not share widely from groups so you may not see the posts unless you visit the group.
Facebook Page: We will use our Facebook page to share inspiration for the day, and in some cases provide updates and useful information.
Facebook Event Page: will showcase local and online events offered by the global community. On this page you can find details and directly subscribe to the events.
OFFERINGS
We are deeply moved by the range of offerings already gifted to the collective space – from Sacred Ritual Holders holding ceremony on all continents, and the subtle activism offering of the Gateway Meditations with Cynthia Jurs and David Nicol, to the frontline activism of the nonviolent civil disobedience movement of the Extinction Rebellion.
Current offerings include:art, music, reflective groups, beach clean ups, nature walks, mind-body and contemplative practices, music, videos, ceremony, webinars, meditations and more.
Diverse religious and spiritual groups are participating, each bringing their unique tradition and gifts in service of all Creation.
Our own daily offerings of guided meditations and practices invite participants to experience a deeper sense of connectedness and communion with the foundations of Life, through intuitive and imaginative attunement to the different elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Climate, Biodiversity and the Web of Life,
Through an empathic leap of the imagination we sense into how these foundations exist within us and beyond us, their unique nature and qualities, and their interdependence and relationship with the other elements.
We explore reflective questions such as:
What do they reveal to us when we listen in, with all our sense and offer them our focused attention?
What can we learn from different forms of reflective engagement about how we can best protect and replenish these elements, nourish them and be nourished by them?
CREATE YOUR UNIQUE EXPERIENCE
Please consider this website as your evolving and dynamic guidebook, event calendar, and resource library for creating your own unique experience for the 7 Days.
This global event is rooted in the spirit of generosity and provides all participants and co-creators access to a wealth of offerings from around the world. This experiential field of diverse offerings contributes to personal growth, as well as our evolution as conscious protectors of Life on Earth.
Not all offerings speak to all participants. There may be those that are considered for some to be too spiritual, while by others too rational and pragmatic… too noisy or too restful, too wordy or too vague. Some are choosing to honour the event by immersing themselves in nature and disconnecting from all media and technology. This diversity is an integral part of the design that enables people from many different cultures and perspectives to unify in protection and reverence for all Life..
We invite you to choose that which feels vitalizing and accurate for you. And, if you cannot find among the offerings something that is aligned with your specific needs and ways of participating, we invite you to create and lead an offering which opens your unique window to enrich the good of the whole.
Honouring the Foundations of Life with Shelley Ostroff
For a deeper understanding of the vision and evolution of the 7 Days of Rest and Reflection Event – you can listen to this in-depth dialogue between Dr. Julie Krull and Dr. Shelley Ostroff as they explore what it means to develop a deeper connection with the foundations of Life through this event.
GRATITUDE
We look forward to co-creating with you a global field of inspiration, reconnection and replenishment – for the planet and all its inhabitants!
As a small team, during the event dedicated to Rest and Reflection, we may not be able to be available for questions and technological support. We hope to support the unfolding in whatever way we can and trust that the most powerful force at work is our individual and collective intention and practice during these days, in whatever form it takes.
We are deeply grateful to the Sacred Ritual Holders, Stewards, Partners and Co-creators who are contributing so lovingly and generously to the 7 Days of Rest Global Event. Thank you for helping this event become a powerful force for unity and healing in the world.
Blessings for a deeply healing and replenishing time for you and for all Life.
With Love and Gratitude,
Shelley Ostroff, Yan Golding and Lidewij Marinissen
The first week of 2018 brought together individuals and groups from over 60 countries in meditation, prayer, sacred ceremony and a range of creative initiatives dedicated to the healing and replenishment of the planet and all its inhabitants.
For January 1-7, 2019, the intention was to collectively seed the New Year with a global field of restful reflection on our interdependence with all of Creation. Together we will focus our intention on restoring sacred relationship of the Feminine and Masculine with each other and with the Foundations of Life – Air, Earth, Water, Fire, The Climate, Biodiversity and with the entire Web of Life.
ORGANIZED BY:
https://www.7days-of-rest.org/
https://www.togetherincreation.org/
with https://www.codes.earth/initiatives
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INITIATIVES
“The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.”
— Lynne McTaggart
7 Days of Rest & Radiant Diversity – January 1-7, 2020
Led by Starhawk, Charles Williams and friends.
Dates: January 5 – January 19, 2020: two-week intensive residential course
Location: Black Mountain Preserve and Golden Rabbit Ranch, Western Sonoma County, CA
Sliding scale:$1800-2300*
*includes all instruction, lodging, meals, and materials
WORK TRADE positions are currently full. Please feel free to apply for a spot on our waiting list ~ Limited Diversity Scholarships still available
Who is this training for?
We firmly believe that everyone can benefit from learning the tools and insights of permaculture to apply toward the broad goal of earth regeneration. Permaculture has solutions not just for landscapes and agricultural systems, but also for social design, public policy and survival strategies for these challenging times.
Topic and Projects Covered:
Hands-on projects vary with weather and needs, but may include mapping, water harvesting structures, graywater or roof catchment, compost, compost teas, sheet mulch, plant propagation, planting trees and shrubs, seed-starting, introductions to natural building concepts (including cob, straw-clay or plastering) and a collaborative design project. Our projects can be tailored to students of varied levels of physical ability and diverse ages and previous experience.
Our students include:
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- Young people looking for a career oriented around sustainability
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- People in mid-life looking for a new direction for existing or new work
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- Retirees wanting new fields to explore
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- Established professionals wanting to broaden and deepen their knowledge of sustainable alternatives
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- People involved with intentional communities, co-housing and eco-villages, or those who want to start or join one
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- Gardeners, farmers, ranchers, and land stewards of all kinds
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- Green business entrepreneurs who want to have a broader understanding of the possibilities
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- Teachers, environmental educators, and youth workers
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- Anyone involved in gardening, especially school gardens and community gardens
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- Architects and landscape designers
- Artists, musicians, poets, writers and dancers, and anyone who collaborates creatively
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- Community organizers and activists from many movements, including environmental justice, food justice, global justice, anti-oppression, human rights workers, and others
- Dreamers, visionaries, and more…
Show Info
Written, directed, and performed by Rick Miller
100 voices. 25 years. 1 man.
BOOM is an explosive solo performance that documents the music, culture, and politics that shaped the Baby Boomers (1945-1969).
Rick Miller takes us through 25 turbulent years and gives voice to over 100 influential politicians, activists, and musicians. BOOM is a mind-blowing experience for audiences of all generations.
New York, NY 10022
Kidoons and WYRD Productions
Kidoons and WYRD Productions seek to build connections through storytelling. Their mission is to create stories using integrated multimedia, blending hi-tech and low-tech techniques and technologies. They develop productions onstage and online that engage, entertain, enlighten, and empower people of all ages.
Read more at: http://kidoons.com/productions
Reviews
“BOOM will blow your mind! A triumph of clever writing, state-of-the-art production and remarkable performance” – Edmonton Sun
“Astonishing… This is your story told brilliantly. See it.” – CBC Radio
“A solo tour-de-force!” – Vancouver Observer
“Technically masterful”
“One of the most prodigiously complex solo shows I’ve ever seen.”
“You’ll experience Rick Miller detonating an H-Bomb of talent in BOOM.” – Theater Pizzazz
“Undeniably diverting”
“His dynamism grows accordingly” – NY Stage Review
“You can’t help but be impressed with BOOM.”
“Boggles-the-mind” – NY Stage Review
“An intriguing tale of three people that does much to illuminate the texture of lfie in the Baby Boom era.”
“More than enough for an engaging evening.”
“BOOM is never dull… it certainly will bring back memories for audience members of a certain age.” – Lighting and Sound America
“Rick Miller’s charm, versatile talents and energetic performance makes BOOM very dynamic.”
“Full of moments that will surprise, intrigue, and inform audiences of all ages.” – Broadway World
“But Rick Miller (a Gen X-er himself, who wrote directs, and stars) is a talented enough mimic, and his script is so briskly efficient, that it works. Miller’s wry edge keeps the piece from descending too far into a nostalgia fest, and the archival clips (projected on a nifty cylindrical screen, designed by David Leclerc) that he weaves through the show often lend a fresh spin to painfully familiar events” – The New Yorker
“A dynamic glimpse into the generation we call Baby Boomers.” – Manhattan with a Twist
“BOOM covers the time period in two humorous, thought-provoking, and delightful hours at 59E59 Theaters”
“Miller doesn’t disappoint”
“BOOM is a delightful trip through the Baby Boomer generation, on the arms and voices of the very talented Rick Miller” – Theater Scene
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Since 2004, Drama Desk Award-winning 59E59 Theaters has been dedicated to hosting the best theater from across the country and around the world to premiere in the heart of Midtown. This Off Broadway destination is a spectacular, modern theater complex boasting three performance spaces, presenting live performances 50 weeks a year.
Online
59E59 Members click here and log in to access your discount.
Need help buying tickets? Call the Box Office at 646-892-7999 for assistance.
By Phone
59E59 Box Office: 646-892-7999
Hours: 12 – 6PM daily
From one hour prior to performance start times, 59E59 Box Office phones will be closed and window sales are limited to same-day performances.
In Person
59E59 Theaters Box Office (Click here for a map.)
59 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
Hours: Opens 12PM daily. Closes at 6PM or at the beginning of the final performance.
From one hour prior to performance start times, 59E59 Box Office phones will be closed and window sales are limited to same-day performances.
General Phone inquiries: 212-753-5959
59E59 Box Office: 646-892-7999
E-mail inquiries: info@59e59.org
59E59 Theaters is committed to curating innovative and invigorating work never-before-seen by New York audiences. We provide a space for emerging and established not-for-profit theater companies to reach new audiences, partnering with these producing theater companies by giving them highly-subsidized rental rates, as well as production, marketing, and press support. Companies also receive 100% of their net box office sales.
History
The Elysabeth Kleinhans Theatrical Foundation was established by Founding Artistic Director, Elysabeth Kleinhans, to create a new, state-of-the-art theater complex to host original and innovative theatrical productions in East Midtown Manhattan.
In 2002, the building at 59 East 59th Street was donated to the Foundation. The building was then gut renovated, creating three brand new theaters, Theater A, Theater B, and Theater C, designed by architect, Leo Modrcin, who collaborated with the Foundation to create an inviting ambiance.
Under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Elysabeth Kleinhans and Executive Producer Peter Tear, 59E59 Theaters opened its inaugural season in February 2004 with a production of The Stendhal Syndrome produced by then resident company, Primary Stages, in the largest of its three spaces, Theater A. Shortly following, in April 2004, the other two spaces – Theater B and Theater C, opened their doors with productions of Sun Is Shining, by the ground breaking British-Chinese Mu Lan Theatre Company, and My Arm, Tim Crouch’s critically-acclaimed hour-long solo show from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, during the Theaters’ first annual Brits Off Broadway—a season dedicated to premiering new work by Off Broadway-style UK companies.
Since 2004, the theaters have been continuously occupied with shows running from three to seven weeks. For detailed information about past productions, please see our Archives.
In 2017, Elysabeth Kleinhans and Peter Tear stepped down from their roles, and Val Day, a longtime agent with William Morris and ICM, was appointed as Artistic Director. With the addition of a new Artistic Director, 59E59 Theaters moved to the final phase of transitioning from the founding team to a traditional theater management structure, begun in 2012 with the appointment of Brian Beirne as Managing Director
Start: Monday, January 13, 2020• 5:30 PM
End: Monday, January 13, 2020• 8:30 PM
Location:Cherokee United Methodist Church•2105 Cosgrove Ave, North Charleston, SC 29405
Host Contact Info: southcarolina@poorpeoplescampaign.org
Join the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in South Carolina for the eighth stop of the We Must Do M.O.R.E. national tour as we Mobilize, Organize, Register and Educate.
Click here if you’d like to volunteer and help make this tour a success!
The tour in South Carolina will culminate with a Moral Monday March and Mass Meeting on Monday, January 13th in Charleston, SC. This will follow a weekend of activities a community canvas to register people for a movement that votes and a community site visit.
Monday, January 13th | Charleston, SC
South Carolina Moral Monday March & Mass Meeting
5:30 PM – Gather for the march
6:30 PM – Mass Meeting begins
Cherokee United Methodist Church, 2105 Cosgrove Ave, North Charleston, SC 29405
**No large bags or umbrellas will be allowed in the mass meetings and small bags are subject to being searched.
At the Moral Monday, we will hear from South Carolinians directly impacted by systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the corrupt moral narrative. We will also hear from Rev. Barber and Rev. Theoharis, Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is organizing a 25-state We Must Do MORE national tour from September 2019 to May 2020. This tour will lead into the Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington, where thousands of poor people and moral agents will gather at the nation’s capitol on June 20, 2020 to demonstrate their power.
We will demand the implementation of our Moral Agenda and call all people of conscience to engage in deeply moral civic engagement and voting that cares about poor and low-wealth people, the sick, immigrants, workers, the environment, people with disabilities, first nations, the LGBTQ community, and peace over war.
Transition Declares a Climate Emergency
What: In more than 90 communities throughout the US, people and are coming together to build powerful coalitions that can push local governments to respond to the Climate Emergency. Join Ezra Silk and Rebecca Harris from The Climate Mobilization to learn more about this growing movement and how you can start a Climate Emergency push in your neighborhood, city, or county.
When: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 –
11:00am – 12:15pm, Pacific Standard Time
Where: Free Online Event
Please click here to register for this free webinar and receive a personalized link to join.
In more than 90 communities throughout the US, people and are coming together to build powerful coalitions that can push local governments to respond to the Climate Emergency. Join Laura Berry and Rebecca Harris from The Climate Mobilization, along with our friends at Post Carbon Institute, to learn more about this growing movement and how you can start a Climate Emergency push in your neighborhood, city, or county.
Presenters:
Laura Berry brings over a decade of experience in climate advocacy, organizing, and policy to her role as Research and Publications Director of The Climate Mobilization. Her previous work with groups including the Stockholm Environment Institute and 350.org has spanned international environmental politics, local climate change planning, and democratic public engagement, and she has published research on the intersections of activism and public engagement in facilitating environmental policy change. Laura now works to research and facilitate the development of emergency-speed climate policy and governance frameworks in support of TCM’s vision of WWII-scale Climate Mobilization.
Climate Mobilization Organizing Director Rebecca Harris is a dynamic organizer who has been working for social justice since the age of 15, when she became involved in the peace movement in her hometown of Salem, Oregon. Rebecca joined The Climate Mobilization in February 2018, bringing a background in facilitation, fundraising, and strategic communications. Most recently, Rebecca worked as Development and Communications Manager at Latino Union of Chicago, an immigrant’s and worker’s rights organization.
Don Hall
Des Moines Iowa Mass Meeting | We Must Do MORE National Tour
Start: Wednesday, January 15, 2020• 7:00 PM • Central Time (US & Canada) (GMT-06:00)
End: Wednesday, January 15, 2020• 9:00 PM • Central Time (US & Canada) (GMT-06:00)
Host Contact Info: iowa@poorpeoplescampaign.org
If you are interested in helping make the Iowa We Must Do MORE tour a success, visit: CLICK HERE to Volunteer
Need a ride or have extra seats to offer in yours? Please sign up here on our MORE Tour Mass Meeting Carpool system.
**No large bags or umbrellas will be allowed in the mass meetings and small bags are subject to being searched.
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is organizing a 25-state We Must Do MORE national tour from September 2019 to May 2020. This tour will lead into the Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington, where thousands of poor people and moral agents will gather at the nation’s capitol on June 20, 2020 to demonstrate their power.
We will demand the implementation of our Moral Agenda and call all people of conscience to engage in deeply moral civic engagement and voting that cares about poor and low-wealth people, the sick, immigrants, workers, the environment, people with disabilities, first nations, the LGBTQIA+ community, and peace over war.
Iowa is the eighth stop on this tour.
It’s not the waking, it’s the rising!
We must do M.O.R.E!
Manifesting the DREAM of MLK Jr.!
Sneak Peek Showing of “We Cried Power: A documentary of the PPC”
Dayton: January 19th at 12:00PM
College Hill Community Church
1547 Philadelphia Drive
Dayton, Ohio 45406
Looking forward to hearing your voices and making a change with you to mobilize,organize, register and educate Ohioans around poverty, racism,ecological devastation and the war economy!
Check out the newly designed website! Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Here is a link to a video that describes the tour during the 2nd stop in North Carolina.
PPC in NC, We Must Do M.O.R.E!
For those of you wanting to join us in DC for the Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington, June 20, 2020, please visit the site below and book your ride! The PPC Rally will also make stops along the way to fill the bus, so if you don’t see your city listed let us know and we can find a way to connect you. We will also need to do a tremendous amount of fundraising to send those that are impacted.
Here is the link to book your ride to DC, Click HERE
Register for the March on Washington Click HERE
Here is the donation link for those who would like to support those going to DC.
https://actionnetwork.org/ fundraising/ohio-poor-peoples- campaign/
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EXCITING NEWS FOR APRIL: The National Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering and Educating (M.O.R.E.) Tour, will be coming to Dayton, Ohio, with Campaign co-chairs Rev. Theoharis, and Rev. Barber on April 23, 2020—details will be coming in a few weeks!
It’s not the waking, it’s the rising!
We must do M.O.R.E!
Manifesting the DREAM of MLK Jr.!
Cincinnati: January 20th
A special collaboration with Public Allies from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Sneak Peek of “We Cried Power”, followed by an economic and panel discussion.
Cincinnati Public Library in the Tower Room
800 Vine St, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Looking forward to hearing your voices and making a change with you to mobilize,organize, register and educate Ohioans around poverty, racism,ecological devastation and the war economy!
Check out the newly designed website! Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Here is a link to a video that describes the tour during the 2nd stop in North Carolina.
PPC in NC, We Must Do M.O.R.E!
For those of you wanting to join us in DC for the Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington, June 20, 2020, please visit the site below and book your ride! The PPC Rally will also make stops along the way to fill the bus, so if you don’t see your city listed let us know and we can find a way to connect you. We will also need to do a tremendous amount of fundraising to send those that are impacted.
Here is the link to book your ride to DC, Click HERE
Register for the March on Washington Click HERE
Here is the donation link for those who would like to support those going to DC.
https://actionnetwork.org/ fundraising/ohio-poor-peoples- campaign/
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EXCITING NEWS FOR APRIL: The National Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering and Educating (M.O.R.E.) Tour, will be coming to Dayton, Ohio, with Campaign co-chairs Rev. Theoharis, and Rev. Barber on April 23, 2020—details will be coming in a few weeks!
It’s not the waking, it’s the rising!
We must do M.O.R.E!
Manifesting the DREAM of MLK Jr.!
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THE POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN AND WE THE WORLD ARE COLLABORATING
Visit OUR Facebook page to watch a virtual screening of “We Cried Power”.
There will be a panel discussion afterwards.
Visit the facebook page here – We, the World
to watch the live screening
of the PPC documentary on January 26th, at 6:00 pm.
Looking forward to hearing your voices and making a change with you to mobilize,organize, register and educate Ohioans around poverty, racism,ecological devastation and the war economy!
Check out the newly designed website! Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Here is a link to a video that describes the tour during the 2nd stop in North Carolina.
PPC in NC, We Must Do M.O.R.E!
For those of you wanting to join us in DC for the Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington, June 20, 2020, please visit the site below and book your ride! The PPC Rally will also make stops along the way to fill the bus, so if you don’t see your city listed let us know and we can find a way to connect you. We will also need to do a tremendous amount of fundraising to send those that are impacted.
Here is the link to book your ride to DC, Click HERE
Register for the March on Washington Click HERE
Here is the donation link for those who would like to support those going to DC.
https://actionnetwork.org/ fundraising/ohio-poor-peoples- campaign/
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EXCITING NEWS FOR APRIL: The National Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering and Educating (M.O.R.E.) Tour, will be coming to Dayton, Ohio, with Campaign co-chairs Rev. Theoharis, and Rev. Barber on April 23, 2020—details will be coming in a few weeks!
January National Call
January 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST
4th Tuesday of the Month
7PM (Eastern) | 4PM (Pacific)
Join us for the monthly
ELDER’S CLIMATE ACTION (ECA)
National Call with
Nathaniel Stinnett from the
Environmental Voter Project
Please RSVP for the call now.
All those who RSVP will receive the recording.
Nathaniel Stinnett is the Founder & Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project, a non-partisan nonprofit that uses data analytics and behavioral science to mobilize environmentalists to vote. Named one of five global “climate visionaries” by The New York Times in 2018, and dubbed “The Voting Guru” by Grist magazine, Stinnett is a frequent expert speaker on cutting-edge campaign techniques and the behavioral science behind getting people to vote. He has held a variety of senior leadership and campaign manager positions on U.S. Senate, Congressional, state, and mayoral campaigns, and he sits on the Board of Advisors for MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative. Formerly an attorney at the international law firm DLA Piper, Stinnett holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Boston College Law School, and he lives in Boston, MA with his wife and two daughters. |
Here are the ways to join us
Join by computer:
Join by phone:
Or Telephone: 669 900 6833
Webinar ID: 827 726 702
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We’re building a movement of elders to address the social and environmental crises of our time!
Within our society, elders’ talents and experiences are largely untapped; much of our collective wisdom gained over decades of living lies fallow. This is an unfortunate waste of invaluable human resources that could be applied to addressing the serious societal and environmental problems that we face in our nation.
As elders, we have the benefits of time, talent, experience and know-how to guide making the needed transformations. We can become catalysts of a social movement in which all generations collaborate in evolving changes for our common betterment. In so doing, we find a new and rewarding sense of meaning in our lives, and we create a new elder culture in the process.
Please explore our website to see where your talents and experience fit with what we are doing – and join us!
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Climate Action
Elders Climate Action (ECA) is building a non-partisan movement of elders committed to making our voices heard on the climate crisis. We are determined to change our nation’s policies while there is still time to avoid catastrophic changes in the earth’s climate. Because of this concern and because we vote consistently, elders are in a unique position to influence national policy. We are committed to using our voices, our votes, and our collective power to push for policies that will reduce greenhouse gases to a level consistent with life thriving on our planet.
Get inspired by the members of Elders Climate Action who are taking action on climate change. We are parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, just like you, hoping to make a difference on climate action. Join ECA and get informed about the climate crisis, learn more about Elders Climate Action’s core policies and principles, access the ECA Action Tool Kit, watch webinars and videos, find climate related links, and explore what you can do with your grandchildren. Get engaged, explore ways to take action with ECA. Learn more about ECA Chapters, find events, join our action projects, national calls and more.
ECA is a great way to build connections in your area and make new friends locally and nationally.
pictured above: Brooke Medicine Eagle
www.Spiritual-Wildfire-Summit.
com Joan D’Argo
I’m thrilled to invite you to a FREE global online Summit that starts Feb. 2-7 called:
Igniting the Worldwide Spiritual Wildfire We Need Now: A Call to Action
LINK TO: https://www.spiritual-wildfire-summit.com
I’ll be participating with 23 other featured speakers including Sandra Ingerman, Andrew Harvey, Nina Simons, Cynthia Jurs, Steve Farrell and Lyla June Johnston and I’d love for you to join us! Each of us will be offering inspiration, healing, and empowering practical tools to anyone who is ready to courageously use their own light to help ignite a worldwide spiritual wildfire.
The Spiritual Wildfire Summit is organized to address the fact that we live in epic times. In fact, we are experiencing nothing less than the reinvention of civilization. Yet as we dive into uncharted waters and move closer to a critical tipping, we see a worldwide awakening beginning to catch fire. The Spiritual Wildfire Summit offers inspiration, healing, and empowering practical tools to anyone who is ready to courageously use their own light to help ignite a worldwide spiritual wildfire.
To register for this free event click here. Link to: https://www.spiritual-wildfire-summit.com
Together we can create a new world based on compassion, wisdom, justice, and joy!
During this FREE 6-day global online summit, together we will experience & integrate profound ways to restore the Story of Our Awakened Hearts.
This transformational event is FREE to all registered attendees! You do need to RSVP in order to receive all of the info you need to participate in this unique and never before seen gathering of visionaries!
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Every day, Americans throw away tons of plastic “stuff.” But it doesn’t actually go away. Instead, it washes into our waterways, where it harms our wildlife and pollutes our oceans, rivers, and lakes.
The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act is the first comprehensive federal plan to protect public health, wildlife, and wild places from the plastic waste. It’s the kind of groundbreaking legislation we need to manage our plastic pollution crisis and put wildlife over waste.
Join us for the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act bill launch
to show your support for stopping plastic pollution.
– What: Bill Launch for the Break Free from Plastics Pollution Act
– When: Tuesday, Feb. 11, 11am (Speakers start at 11:30am)
– Where: U.S. Capitol East Front (House side)
-Speakers (list developing): Sen. Tom Udall & Rep. Alan Lowenthal
Hear from speakers, including the bills authors, Sen. Tom Udall and Rep. Alan Lowenthal, about their work to protect the environment and public health from plastic pollution. Listen to advocates and lawmakers talk about the need to reduce the amount of plastic we create and use. Take photos with some fantastic plastic pollution props at the U.S. Capitol to share on social media. Together, we can spread the word to stop plastic pollution.
(Rain location: Capitol Visitor Center, room SVC 215)
Learn more about the bill:
https://www.tomudall.senate.gov/news/press-releases/udall-lowenthal-seek-input-on-landmark-legislation-to-address-the-global-plastic-waste-crisis
Electricity. It’s essential to our modern way of life, from the phone in your pocket to the lights overhead. And yet right now we are relying on a dirty, outdated electricity system to deliver us the power we need. Our country’s electricity infrastructure is simply not keeping up with the times.
It’s time for an upgrade—to a better, cleaner, and more reliable electricity grid.
Webinar: State of the Grid |
The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a webinar on the state of our outdated electricity grid and the barriers and opportunities to a clean energy future.
Date: Wednesday, February 12
Time: 6:00–7:00 p.m. CST / 7:00–8:00 p.m. EST
Our current electricity grid is outdated and not equipped for the clean energy future we want. We need states to champion clean energy solutions and to upgrade to an electricity grid that supplies and powers the clean energy demands of the future.
The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science to work to solve our planet’s most pressing problems. Joining with people across the country, we combine technical analysis and effective advocacy to create innovative, practical solutions for a healthy, safe, and sustainable future.
Learn more at http://www.ucsusa.orgBecome a member at http://www.ucsusa.org/about/ways_to_give/
Take action at http://www.ucsusa.org/action
My Queer Valentine Reception
Hosted by Torpedo Factory Art Center and Target Gallery
Friday, February 14, 2020 at 7 PM – 10 PM
Next Week18–32°F Sunny
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Art in Person and in Progress. Located in Old Town Alexandria, the Torpedo Factory Art Center is home to 165 working artists, seven galleries, The Art League, and the Alexandria Archaeology Museum. Free admission.
My Queer Valentine Shows the Richness of LGBTQ Life
The warmth of recognition is strong inside the exhibition.
I took my girlfriend to see My Queer Valentine on a Monday morning; it was a date, I told her. We took the Metro down to King Street and walked to the Alexandria waterfront. Once we got there, we strolled into The Torpedo Factory Art Center’s Target Gallery, hands interlocked.
For My Queer Valentine, the contemporary gallery’s spring show, the small space is filled with large-scale photographic prints, paintings on both large and small canvases, and sculpture. Visually, the pieces cover a broad range of styles, including a digitally influenced take on Abstract Expressionism, geometric interpretations of fire, Basquiat-esque mark-making and writing over photographs, sculpture with few references to recognizable forms, canvases made three-dimensional by the attachment of glittery found objects, and small silkscreen prints. Thematically, they may at first seem to not cohere, but that’s only because My Queer Valentine’s juried works cover a diverse and rich swath of queer life.
As for taking my girlfriend, I had another motive that I didn’t say aloud, though she may have picked up on it. I wanted to enter that exhibition as a visibly gay person, and I wanted to see how that affected my experience of the art. It was the right choice. My Queer Valentine does more than curate work that examines what it means to be LGBTQ in the 21st century: It creates a queer space warm with the joy of recognition.
Some works speak directly to that joy, like artist Cat Gunn’s abstract canvases. Their dramatic patterns represent the harmony of being in a relationship where their partner sees them as their authentic, nonbinary self, they write in the wall text. There are glittering squares and wobbling lines moving back and forth across the plane, but things seem to be coming together the longer you look—parts that once made no sense have an internal logic that reveals itself with sustained attention and open mindedness. Recognition can be dangerous, and the closet offers safety, but it also means hiding behind a mask. The relief of dropping the charade and being seen is transcendent.
My Queer Valentine isn’t camp, not as a whole, but it’s full of artworks made by people who understand the humor and the wondrous pompousness of queer glamor. (That glamor and its high drama are knowingly self-important because there are still so many people who wish we didn’t have it.) The first pieces the viewer encounters play with the feminine trappings of artificial jewelry, glitter, plastic, and resin, all in bright, loud colors; one piece dripping with sequins invites viewers to “lick me until ice cream.” That kind of playful sexuality thrives in many of the works, even the more subdued ones. A beige canvas on the opposing wall asks the onlooker to “come (cum on my) back.” The half-joking, half-serious attitude toward sex is one of My Queer Valentine’s greatest strengths, highlighting the laughter and joy inherent in queer life and queer sex.
Linda Hesh’s “Kissing Booth” is another joyful artwork. It’s not a stunning feat of technique and construction; it’s just a wood and steel booth, like one you might see at a county fair in the ’50s. It advertises itself as, unsurprisingly, “KISSING BOOTH.” It’s not anchored to a wall. Instead, it stands out from a corner and beckons viewers to come in, where they might notice that its gingham pattern is made up of pictures of kissing same-sex couples. I’ll admit my biases here: I’ve always had a love for participatory art. But the booth’s standing invitation to come inside, to take a picture kissing underneath it, and to share that picture with the world is a brave act, even in 2020 in Alexandria—brave for the artist and the piece inviting those kisses, brave for the people who choose to do so. Even though queer desire is hypervisible in contemporary life, it’s not always recognized as a loving, human affect. By asking people to kiss, Hesh affirms the romance of the gesture and the genuine safety of the space around it.
The most striking pieces were by D.C.-based photographer Matt Storm, a transgender man. His work is challenging, cheeky, and hard to look away from. The two images on display come from his Act of Looking series, where he returns to the same studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the famous gay vacation spot, to photograph his body “to create an expanded lexicon of ways to see a body, inclusive of ways to see my body,” he writes in his artist’s statement. In the first image, we see him standing naked, in a pose that looks relaxed but requires him to hold himself in place with his own strength. His muscles are tense but not flexed. His face isn’t overly expressive, but there’s a spark of playfulness in his eyes and a hint of a smile on his mouth. And his arm drapes behind his back, coming to rest between his legs, where he holds his fingers playfully—an obvious commentary on how, as he says, “my body is incongruous with how we are taught to see bodies.” In another, he clasps his hands in front of his crotch, fingers crossed. We can’t see his face, but we can feel the humor. The piece is titled “Crossing my Fingers, Getting Away with Something.”
But a different series of works stopped me in my tracks. Aurele Gould’s photographs pulled my gaze from the moment I entered the gallery. When I saw her triptych of an athlete putting pre-wrap around another girl’s thigh, I felt a lump in my throat. “A moment of transference is constructed, a care and an intimacy among women,” she writes in the wall text. Immediately I thought of Barbara Kruger’s 1981 piece “Untitled (You Construct Intricate Rituals),” which famously says “You construct intricate rituals that allow you to touch the skin of other men” over an image of men roughhousing. But I thought of it less because of its artistic impact and more because, for years, queer kids on Tumblr have been using it as a memetic reference point for jokes about the forbidden, magnetic pull of another person’s skin. In the three images of the piece, we see hands grab the inner thigh, let go to wrap the tape around, and return to place both hands on the partner’s leg.
Likewise, I’d been primed to see Gould’s piece “Acrylic” before I walked in—it represents My Queer Valentine online—but I stopped myself from making a beeline to it. When I did make my way over and allowed myself to look, I noticed for the first time the two models’ sharp, long, matching acrylic nails gently cradling each other’s faces. That striking image is made more striking by those glittery nails. Gould knows this: “I like how thought processes can fold unto each other, like thinking about when stereotypes can be used and who they can be used by,” she wrote in the wall text. I felt a pang of recognition. I smiled. The two lovers in the photograph stared at me, nails shining, and I took my girlfriend’s manicured hand and stared back.
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WHERE: MGC 245
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 6 PMNext Week46–55°F Rain Showers
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4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington D.C. 20016
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Join us for a film screening and a discussion on how these industry plans put our drinking water at risk. We will explore the ways our community can work together to address these problems. Your RSVP is greatly appreciated bit.ly/Storyplastic
HOSTED BY OHIO RIVER GUARDIANS, GREEN UMBRELLA AND OHIO POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN |
This Pre-Release film was recently called “a tell-all on plastic pollution…one that is a must-see for people to understand where the problem of plastic really lies.” The New film that is currently touring the film festival circuit presents a cohesive timeline of how we got to our current global plastic pollution crisis and how the oil and gas industry has successfully manipulated the narrative around it. This film introduces audiences to the heroes and the villains behind one of the world’s most pressing environmental issues, from the extraction of fossil fuels to plastic disposal and the global resistance fighting back.
As cities like Cincinnati, numerous states, and entire countries act to reduce single-use plastic, global petrochemical companies are planning to build twenty-five petrochemical and plastic facilities in the Ohio River Valley.
Thank you for RSVP’ing to
The Story of Plastic Film Screening
Friday, February 21, 2020
Doors open 6:00 pm
St. John’s UU Church,
320 Resor Ave,
Cincinnati, OH 45220
The movie will begin at 6:15 pm. Snacks will be provided. Following the film, there will be a panel discussion on Petrochemical and plastics, and what Cincinnati is doing to reduce single-use plastic pollution.
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Become a member today and get involved with one of our seven action teams (Energy, Greenspace, Local Food, Outdoors, Transportation, Waste Reduction and Watershed) or three staffed initiatives (Tri-State Trails, Greater Cincinnati Regional Food Policy Council and Cincinnati 2030 District).
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If you are interested in volunteering in any way to mobilize your community, help us with phone banking or sharing your gifts with the OHPPC, please email ohio@poorpeoplescampaign.org or call (513) 202-3458 and we will find a way to plug you in.
The Ohio Coordinating Committee
Forward Together, Not One Step Back!
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The Poor People’s Campaign
A National Call for Moral Revival
Rev. William Barber, Rev. Liz Theoharis, Other Leaders
and a Growing Coalition of Organizations
Drawing on the unfinished work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s
1967/68 Poor People’s Campaign
Panel Discussion and Interactive Online Broadcast
Sunday February 23rd at 6PM Eastern Time
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Featured Speakers Include:
Karen Palmer (Host) is a Global Kindness Leader and a Livestream / Social Media Expert who co-produces several popular online talk shows. She is a best-selling author and is Coordinator of We, The World’s Campaign for Women. She helps change agents and peacemakers find their voice, and share their message and gifts globally. Find her at http://www.globalkindnesstv.
Rick Ulfik (Co-Host) is the Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net. Rick is the Co-Creator of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Change the World linking local awareness and action campaigns into an inspiring international movement with participants including Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Eve Ensler, Bill McKibben and many others.
The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is Co-Chair with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival which has organized the largest and most expansive wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in US history. She is the Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary and is a Founder and Coordinator of the Poverty Initiative.
Rev. Janelle Bruce, Esq. is a National Organizer with Repairers of the Breach and the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She is also the Founder and Pastor of the Church Without Walls, Global Reach. Her life, ministry and work is guided by Micah 6:8, “He has told you O’ mortal what is good and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with the Lord”.
Njimie Dzurinko is the founder and co-coordinator at Put People First and the Pennsylvania Poor People’s Campaign. Njimie studied Urban Studies at Temple University and English Literature/Poetry at University of Pennsylvania.
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Rethinking Race: Film Screening & Discussion
Hosted by Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology and The University of Akron
Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 11 AM – 8 PM
73 S College St, Akron, Ohio 44325
Call (330) 972-7285
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Visit the National Museum of Psychology to view the film, “The Negro and the American Promise”. The film will run continuously throughout the day beginning at 11am. The last showing will begin at 6pm with a discussion following at 7pm. The film is an hour long and is FREE.
In the spring of 1963, Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, a professor of psychology at the City College of New York, interviewed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Minister Malcolm X, and author James Baldwin, respectively, in order to examine and discuss the racial climate of America. The resulting program, “The Negro and the American Promise”, is a thought-provoking film depicting the varying perspectives of three passionate, powerful leaders in the Black community.
Regular museum rates apply to tour the Museum and Institute galleries. Museum admission is free for The University of Akron students, faculty, and staff with a valid ZipCard.
This event is part of Rethinking Race at The University of Akron. See the full list of events: https://www.uakron.edu/race/calendar/.
Info: manosunidasorg@gmail.com, kmcardot@gmail.com, mariamorengo2019@gmail.com
(413)-841-0298, (413)-464-6485, (413)-310-8944, se habla espanol
“I Have A Dream” / “Yo Tengo Un Sueño”
Four Kings Community Event
The Whitney Museum of Art,
42 Wendell Ave,
Pittsfield MA
February 28, 2020
5-8:00 pm
In the Latino culture , Three Kings Day is a very important event to celebrate the coming of the Three Kings to the Christ child, falling on January 6th, which includes re enactment and gifts for children. Additionally, the “ I Have a Dream” Four Kings event will promote the values of love and equity of the “King of Social Justice”, Martin Luther King.
“To inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization”- MLK JR.
“Para inyectar una nueva dimension de amor dentro de la venas de nuestra civilizacion”- <MLKJR.
Manos Unidas announces a collaborative community event with Roots and Dreams Coop and other dedicated collaborators, to shake off the winter blues! Come learn how to dance a dance from Central America, help create a giant mural on themes of peace and justice, add your dream to the Community Dream Tree, eat delicious Puerto Rican food, witness a colorful Mexican dance troupe, hear songs of peace, *ta gift sharing for our community children.
There will be concurrent tabling and a silent auction, as well as a material donation area for our *Unidos con Puerto Rico” project, which is seeking support again for our Puerto Rican brothers and sisters affected by the recent earthquakes.
At 7:00 pm, we will do a staged reading of our community bilingual play “I Had a Dream,” written by David Detmold, and performed by a dedicated group of Manos Unidas members. Connect with a diverse array of community members in this second annual “I Have a Dream” Four Kings Day tradition in the spirit of community generosity and love.
The event is free to all peoples, but there is a suggested donation of $10 per plate of food, and a suggested donation of $20 for the food and event per family, to raise money for the Hopeseed Empowerment Cooperative of Manos Unidas, which is helping build a multi-class, multicultural movement that assists in building cooperative business visions, as well as raising the capacity of our community to the next level of greatness.
Four Kings/ Cuatro Reyes Performance lineup
The Whit, 42 Wendell Ave, Friday Feb 28th, 2020
Concurrent 5-630: Puerto Rican Food by Gustitos Boricuas
Concurrent 5-7pm: Multicultural Muralmaking with Kristina Cardot of Funky Phoenix and Manos Unidas
Concurrent: Silent Auction and Info Tabling
5-5:30- background music and intros, readings by Manos team and TBA
5:30-6:
Tyramisu- soul music
Indigo and Anaelisa- songs for justice
Chris Stix- drumming
Imaran and Anu- spoken word
6pm: Sandra Bonilla- Salvadorean dance
6:20- Living through the Arts Multicultural Youth Initiative of Manos Unidas children sing
6:30- Hoping Machine
7:00pm staged reading of “I Had a Dream”, a bilingual play about border crossings and the struggles of our times. written by David Detmold and performed by Manos Unidas members and supporters with a special vocal and musical performances by Living through the Arts project children/ Manos team and the Gauadalupenas, a Mexican dance troupe
7:30- 7:50- words and generosity/giftsharing/ concurrent music
7:50 closing and musica
Info: manosunidasorg@gmail.com, kmcardot@gmail.com, mariamorengo2019@gmail.com
(413)-841-0298, (413)-464-6485, (413)-310-8944, se habla espanol
P.O Box 112, South Lee, MA 01260
and popup locations in Pittsfield, MA 0120
http://manos-unidas.wix.com/
For more information about a list of desired items for Puerto Rico or for gift signups for your children or those you know, please text or email one of us above!
Para mas informacion sobre las donaciones para Puerto Rico, para agregarse a la lista de los regalos de los ninos, o cualquier pregunta, porfavor comunicarse con nosostros en los correos electronicos o telefonos arriba!
WORLD INTERFAITH HARMONY MEET
City: Mount Abu
+919079295525
Organizer: Brahma Kumaris
Location:: Gyan Saroval – Academy for a Better World, Mt.Abu, Rajasthan, India
Email: ecoshanti@brahmakumaris.com
World Interfaith Harmony Meet is being organized by Brahma Kumaris at its international Head Quarter Complex Gyan Sarovar, an academy for a better world.
This event is being celebrated during the Silver Jubilee celebrations of Gyan Sarovar. Many spiritual, religious and faith leaders will be participating in the meet. The aim and objectives of this event are to share common interests and to also come to common understanding regarding actions that could be taken to mitigate climate-related issues, inter-regional harmony, and value-based education systems. The list of the invited guests include:
HH Dalai Lama Ji,
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Ji,
Sri Ravi Shankar Ji,
Dadi Janki Ji, and many others.
Gyan Sarovar
The Academy for the Better World, known in Hindi as Gyan Sarovar, offers residential programs and courses on development and practical implementation of human, moral and spiritual values and principles.
The Brahma Kumaris started building the campus for the Academy for a Better World, an institution of higher learning established by the Brahma Kumaris along with its sister institution, the World Renewal Spiritual Trust, and Rajyoga Education and Research Foundation, in 1991. The aim was to provide a training facility for the institution’s outreach to all sections of society. Within a few years, 28 acres of land near the institution’s headquarters in Mount Abu was transformed into a modern village complex in a quiet, rural setting.
The campus includes Universal Harmony Hall, an auditorium that can seat 1,600 people and has facilities for simultaneous translation in 16 languages; the International Spiritual Art Gallery housing sculptures, murals, audio-visual and laser displays and other works of art from around the world; the International Center for Higher Learning comprising 13 seminar and training rooms; accommodation for up to 1,500 people; kitchen and dining facilities that can cater to 1,200 people at a time; three man-made lakes that irrigate the 15,000 trees planted to provide fruits and vegetables and a rural retreat atmosphere; and a solar water heater for cooking. The telephone exchange, computers and emergency lighting systems are powered by solar and wind energy, and a unique waste treatment plant is capable of treating 200,000 liters of washing, kitchen and bathroom waste water daily, of which nearly 80 percent is available for re-use.
In 1996, the Academy was presented to Habitat II, the second UN Conference on Human Settlements held in Istanbul, Turkey. It was recognised as part of the Best Practice Initiative for Human Settlements.
“When you increase the number of gardens, you increase the number of heavens too!”
A Four Week Online Course with Dr. Kenneth Rose
Virtual Reality, Māyā,
and Yoga’s Virtual Bodies
Tues, Mar 3, 10, 17, 24 (7-9:00 pm EST)
Course Description
Everyday life is rapidly going virtual, and we are experiencing the vaporization of physical reality as technology rapidly evolves. Apps are displacing shopping malls, and crude single-player video games have morphed into massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). This rapid virtualization of physical reality leads MIT computer scientist Rizwan Virk to suggest in The Simulation Hypothesis that we may be living in an MMORPG without knowing it.
If we are living in a hypnotic simulation controlled by beings greater than us but unknown by us, can we develop a powerful video game to break through to reality? Perhaps, but we would remain dependent upon machinery to awaken—like always needing a meditation app to meditate. Humanity’s mystical traditions teach that we are master simulators of our own experience—with or without machinery—and that it is our choice to sleep or to wake up.
In this course, we will unfold the classic Panchakosha, or Five-Bodies Teaching, from the Upaniṣads to realize the mystical depth in human life. This ancient teaching shows us how to perceive the multiple subtle or virtual bodies that cover up our ordinary consciousness. As we enter more deeply into this teaching over the four weeks of this course, we will also learn how to dismantle these virtual bodies and return to our inborn standpoint of natural enlightenment.
Students who take this course will learn:
The difference between virtual, augmented, and simulated reality
How Hinduism’s Five-Bodies Teaching uncovers the multiple bodies that cover our naturally illumined consciousness
How to use the natural technology of meditation
How the Simulation Hypothesis mirrors ancient teachings about māyā and illusion
How to enter deeper stages of meditation
How to perceive and pass beyond the five bodies that enclose our true Self
COURSE INCLUDES:
4 Live, Interactive Zoom Sessions
4 Q&As with Kenneth
4 Downloadable Videos & MP3s
Course Readings
10 Embodied Philosophy Credits
10 Yoga Alliance Cont. Ed. Credits
Private Pop-Up Facebook Group
Course Outline
Kenneth Rose, Ph.D., has been a professor of Philosophy and Religion for three decades. His degrees include an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University. He developed and lead the online course, “Wisdom from World Religions,” which is funded by a Templeton World Charity Foundation grant (https://wisdomfromworldreligions.com).
His books include:
Yoga, Meditation, and Mysticism: Contemplative Universals and Meditative Landmarks,
Pluralism: The Future of Religion,
The Light of the Self: A Memoir of a Spiritual Awakening,
Edge of Awakening: Poems from the Borderline of Mind and Awareness.
These books and his three Audible programs are available at:
https://smile.amazon.com/Kenneth-Rose/e/B00B5J3ANO?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1574093203&sr=8-1
2020
New York City at Sony Hall
Get ready to celebrate!
Join us in New York on March 9, 2020 as No Bully celebrates our partners and friends at our annual Broadway Against Bullying event. This annual one-night-only cabaret show, featuring stars from some of Broadway’s biggest musicals, benefiting No Bully’s mission to eradicate bullying and cyber-bullying worldwide.
Calling all New York area Friends who LOVE Broadway. March 9th: Broadway Against Bullying, a one-night-only cabaret featuring stars from some of Broadway’s biggest musicals. Lexi Lawson (Hamilton), Telly Leung (Aladdin) and Kevin Duda (Book of Mormon). A wonderful organization, committed to a kinder world, No Bully has teamed up with Broadway Stars,(Year 2) for an evening supporting bullying prevention school programs and positive action initiatives. Entertainment and Doing Good! Get your tickets for March 9: www.nobully.org/broadway2020 and join the movement to end bullying! #broadwayagainstbullying #nobully #bullying #kindevolution, #nobullyingperiod
IGNITING COMPASSION
Words that come to mind when describing our team include: compassionate, kind, inclusive, strong, and has a generosity of spirit.
Each one of us has our own personal story around bullying and we hold this work near and dear to our hearts. We are constantly trying to live out our mission on a day to day basis, both igniting compassion around the office and also the world!
No Bully takes a holistic approach to partnering with schools and districts by involving the administration, staff, parents, and students in the process.
FIND OUT MORE
No Bully is the most comprehensive professional development program proven to combat bullying and enhance school culture.
There are so many ways to become a part of No Bully’s mission to dramatically reduce bullying. Consider yourself invited to tell us how you’d like to connect.
Phone:
(415) 767-0070
Mailing Address:
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Fourth Annual “Everyday DC” Photography Exhibition: Opening Reception
Please join us for an opening reception of the 4th annual
“Everyday DC” exhibition
at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery
in Washington, D.C.
on the evening of Wednesday, March 11, 2020
from 5:30-7:30pm.
Remarks will begin at 6:00pm, and will be followed by live music and snacks.
“Everyday DC,” a photography exhibition on view at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery from March 10, 2020, through March 20, 2020, presents a visual narrative of everyday life in Washington, D.C. through the eyes of more than 150 public middle school students from all four quadrants of the city. The exhibition is the culmination of a unit designed by the Pulitzer Center in collaboration with D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) and facilitated by over a dozen DCPS visual arts teachers. Images from 14 middle schools are represented in the exhibition.
The Everyday DC project was inspired by the Everyday Africa project, founded by Pulitzer Center grantees Peter DiCampo and Austin Merrill to visually represent a more accurate understanding of what the majority of Africans experience on a day-to-day basis: normal life. Like Everyday Africa, Everyday DC challenges students to consider how Washington D.C. is portrayed in the media, and how they can compose images that more accurately visualize their everyday experiences.
The Everyday DC project is funded in part by the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also supported by the Pepco Edison Gallery, which generously donated the space for the exhibition. For more information about the unit plan and exhibition, contact education@pulitzercenter.org.
Gallery opens to the public every Tuesday to Friday, March 10 through March 20, from Noon to 4 p.m. The space will also be open on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Free admission.
The climate crisis is the greatest challenge we face – already excacerbating injustices and environmental health disparities.
The good news? Leading medical journals and experts confirm that climate change poses the “greatest health opportunity of the 21st century.” Taking action to reduce fossil fuel pollution and address the crisis can save lives, improve our air quality, and address inequality.
Health professionals are essential messengers to inspire action.
Will you join us in Vancouver, WA on March 22nd for this
free education and advocacy training event
focusing on the latest on climate change and health,
and how to effectively promote solutions?
The climate crisis is big, but we know we can achieve meaningful solutions through dedicated advocacy. To do so, we need to build upon our movement and engage more health professionals to drive action. Join us in Vancouver to learn more and get plugged in!
Featured speakers include Dianne Glover, MD, a WPSR Climate & Health Task Force pediatrician, Don and Alona Steinke, RN, of Southwest Washington Climate Action, and Lluvia Merello, Energy Justice Organizer for Oregon PSR.
Vancouver Public Library, 901 C Street, Vancouver WA
RSVP: Vancouver Climate Change & Health Event
This is a FREE event, and lunch will be provided.
See you there!
Sarah Cornett
WPSR Climate Program & Advocacy Manager
sarah@wpsr.org
206-547-2630
Community Resilience & COVID-19: A Community Discussion
Join us!
, Thursday, April 2, 2020
4:00pm – 5:30pm PST
5:00pm – 6:30pm MST
6:00pm – 7:30pm CST
7:00pm – 8:30pm EST
Learn about inspiring and impactful ways that
Transition Initiatives are responding to the pandemic
in their local communities,
Share your own ideas and experience with community responses
to COVID-19, and
explore how to deepen the resilience of your own community
during these challenging times.
In this virtual gathering, we’ll learn about:
Please register for free here through Zoom to receive a link to join. Limited to the first 100 people who sign up. If you sign up and then realize you cannot attend, please cancel your registration promptly using the link in your confirmation email it o make space available for someone else who is able to participate. Following these brief presentations, we will break into small group discussions to learn the nuts and bolts of these models, as well as how to implement them in our own communities. Organizer:
Marissa Mommaerts |
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
JOIN THE VIRTUAL CLIMATE RISE
APRIL 18, 2020
We are a community of adventurers dedicated to protecting the planet. Since 2008, we’ve donated 6,108,135 to support conservation, climate, sustainability, and active transportation.
Climate Ride is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that organizes life-changing charitable biking and hiking events to raise awareness and support sustainability, active transportation, and environmental causes. Visit our events page for more information on the latest bike and hike event offerings.
Climate Ride creates opportunities for you to engage in a way that is uniquely positive, life-affirming, and transformational. Climate Ride participants take on a challenge much bigger than themselves and share their journey with their personal networks helping to amplify support for the cause. Climate Ride is the only organization taking this approach in the environmental sector.
Our Mission
“To inspire and empower citizens to work toward a sustainable future. By using personal challenge as a means to change lives, Climate Ride is building an effective, citizen-based sustainability movement.”
Climate Ride empowers participants to actively engage in the fight against climate change by completing multi-day bicycling and hiking events to fundraise for the organizations they value most and take action together for the planet.
Immersive outdoor experiences and personal challenges are powerful tools for generating behavioral change to help ignite activism on climate policy, raise critical funds, and influence public opinion.
At a Glance:
- Climate Ride has raised over $6 million for climate, clean energy, and bicycle/pedestrian advocacy grantees
- Over to 3,500 people have participated in Climate Ride events since 2008
- On average, a participant reaches out to more than 200 people about climate and sustainability
- 30% of Climate Ride participants are 30 years old or younger
- Climate Ride participants are a diverse group from 47 states and 12 countries
Climate Rise Overview
Climate Rise will take place on Saturday, April 18, 2020, at 8 AM PT | 9 AM MT | 10 AM CT | 11 AM ET.
Join Climate Ride for a Virtual Kick-Off at 8 AM PT. You will receive a link to this online gathering after registration. Bill McKibben will join us for brief remarks. Then begin your self-designed event at any time. Please actively share your personal event page and hashtag #climaterise #climateride. Need ideas on how to spread your good efforts? We will provide a social media guide so you can make the most of connecting your community! |
Pittsburgh Earth Day 2020
APR22
24-Hour Youth Climate Strike on Instagram
Public:
Hosted by Pittsburgh Earth Day 2020
MissionPittsburgh is marking the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day by reigniting our dedication to our planet, to each other and to our collective future here on Earth. We call on everyone to unite, stand and act for a healthier, safer, more just and sustainable world. |
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A Citizen Science Initiative
EARTH DAY IS EVERY DAY, AND ANYWHERE YOU ARE
ON APRIL 22, EARTH DAY GOES DIGITAL
OUR VISION FOR CHANGE
Our world needs transf-ormational change. It’s time for the world to hold sectors accountable for their role in our environmental crisis while also calling for bold, creative, and innovative solutions. This will require action at all levels, from business and investment to city and national government.
That’s where you come in: As an individual, you yield real power and influence as a consumer, a voter, and a member of a community that can unite for change.
Don’t underestimate your power. When your voice and your actions are united with thousands or millions of others around the world, we create a movement that is inclusive, impactful, and impossible to ignore.
As the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day approaches, the time is long overdue for a global outpouring of energy, enthusiasm, and commitment to create a new plan of action for our planet. Earth Day 2020 can be the catalyst that galvanizes an unparalleled global collaboration.
1970
THE WORLD’S FIRST FIRST EARTH DAY
1 billion INDIVIDUALS MOBILIZED FOR THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET
75K+ PARTNERS WORKING TO DRIVE POSITIVE ACTION
OUR MISSION:
To build the world’s largest environmental movement to drive
trans-formative change for people and planet.
Earth Day Network’s mission is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Growing out of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network is the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with more than 75,000 partners in over 190 countries to drive positive action for our planet.
IN 1970, 20 MILLION AMERICANS MOBILIZED TO CALL FOR GREATER PROTECTIONS
FOR OUR PLANET
Discover the history of the Earth Day movement
Come join us on EARTH DAY Wednesday April 22, 2020 Globally Online for A Very Special Evening with our Conscious Community as we Gather in Unity Honoring Mother Earth
and the 50th anniversary of Earth Day!
Wednesday April 22nd, EARTH DAY
6-9:30PM EST
FREE globally online
Watch LIVE or the Recording HERE:
https://www.facebook.com/thewecampaign
https://www.facebook.com/compassiongames
Like these pages to get notified for the Event and please share!
They will be on other pages as well,
Including https://www.facebook.com/planetheartorg/
For more information: www.planetheart.org
Listen to Inspirational Talks with Spiritual, Indigenous, Peace and Environmental Leaders, and Experience Live Music Performances!
There will be Celebrations & Prayers for World Peace, Planet Earth & All Inhabitants. All Are Welcome!
Due to the coronavirus we will be hosting our event online this year!!
Presenters:
HOST/MC Mitchell Rabin: International speaker, Holistic Coach and Host of A Better World Radio & TV https://abetterworld.tv
Rick Ulfik: Founder of We, the World, We Campaign, co-creator of 11 Days of Global Unity, https://we.net/
Andrew Kaen: Executive Producer, Poet, Singer-Songwriter, Vibrational Healer and Ambassador for Peace
Jonathan Granoff: President of Global Security Institute, Attorney, Author and Advocate for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Guy R. McPherson: American scientist, professor emeritus at the University of Arizona
Elly Lessin: Long time Environmental Advocate
Jackson Madnick: Founder and President of Pearl’s Premium Lawn Seed
Envita Rose: Transpersonal Coach/Healer, Soul Plan Activator, Author and Artist
Angelica Cubides: Ordained Minister, Indigenous Elder
Two Feathers: Indigenous Teacher, Co-Founder, Cherokee Language and Cultural Circle
Bill Garrett: Founder/Chairman, Harlem Climate Caucus
Evan Pritchard: Indigenous Speaker, Author, Musician
Kathryn Davis: Host of Heart of Mind Radio, Master Teacher of Qigong Form; an Energy-Vibrational Healer
Premik Russell Tubbs: Composer, Arranger, Producer and an accomplished Multi-Instrumentalist
Michael Fitzpatrick: World-renowned Cello Soloist
Heidi Little: International award-winning Singer-Songwriter, Self-Love and Empowerment Educator
Lisa Roma: Singer-Songwriter, Poet, Writer/Editor, Artist, Interfaith Minister
David Young: Musician, Author, Speaker, Artist
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THE STORY OF STUFF PROJECT
THE STORY OF PLASTIC takes a sweeping look at the man-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on the health of our planet and the people who inhabit it. Spanning three continents, the film illustrates the ongoing catastrophe: fields full of garbage, veritable mountains of trash, rivers and seas clogged with waste, and skies choked with the poisonous emissions from plastic production and processing.
THE STORY OF PLASTIC features interviews with experts and activists on the front lines of the fight, revealing the disastrous consequences of the flood of plastic smothering ecosystems and poisoning communities around the world, and the global movement that is rising up in response. With engaging original animation, archival industry footage beginning in the 1930s, and first-person accounts of the unfolding emergency, the film distills a complex problem that is increasingly affecting the planet’s and its residents’ well-being.
Mission
Donations to The Story of Stuff Project are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law in the United States.
The Story of Plastic, our first feature-length documentary,
has been years in the making.
Now, we’re just weeks away from its global premiere.
Learn about the three ways to watch the film – including
virtual community screenings.
Finally, action items for you, and
what to expect from us!
Let’s get down to it!
THREE WAYS TO WATCH
Here’s how you can watch The Story of Plastic, whether you’re an individual viewer or a group interested in organizing around the film:
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- BROADCAST (US) – Tune in on Earth Day, April 22, at 2:00 pm on Discovery Channel (same local time on both coasts).
BROADCAST (International) – The Story of Plastic will be broadcast on Discovery network affiliates in 134 countries and territories. Each of those affiliates makes independent programming decisions and announcements. We are working with Discovery to compile those programming details, and will publish them at storyofplastic.org/watch as they come in. You can also check your local Discovery Channel’s programming schedule directly. - DIGITAL – The Story of Plastic will pre-premiere on the DiscoveryGo subscription streaming service on April 15. It will also be available to rent on video-on-demand services like iTunes and Amazon following the April 22 television broadcast.
- VIRTUAL COMMUNITY SCREENINGS – We hope and expect that many members of The Story of Stuff Project community will watch the film by JOINING a virtual screening organized by a group in their region or by HOSTING a virtual screening for your own community. Keep reading for more details about these online events!
- BROADCAST (US) – Tune in on Earth Day, April 22, at 2:00 pm on Discovery Channel (same local time on both coasts).
VIRTUAL COMMUNITY SCREENINGS
Why virtual? The coronavirus pandemic has halted in-person gatherings for most of the world. However, it hasn’t put a stop to our work as a movement to shift the narrative about plastic pollution and work for solutions to this crisis. Virtual screenings will make it possible to achieve both reach and impact while staying home.
How do virtual screenings work? Virtual screenings will be free to organize and attend. Screening hosts register their event and will be provided with a secure link to stream the film online. This secure link will expire at the end of the viewing window set by the host, or after a maximum of 200 views. Subtitles will be available in Arabic, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Croatian, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Mandarin (simplified and traditional), Polish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese. To volunteer to create subtitles in a language not listed here, please contact Brett at <brett@storyofstuff.org>.
Screening hosts will manage invitations and RSVPs for their event, and will provide the streaming link to “attendees.” We also ask that hosts also facilitate a discussion, panel, Q&A, or call to action via a group video platform like Zoom. We’ll provide hosts with a more detailed virtual screening organizing guide after they register their event – plus additional resources including Promotional Graphics, an Action Guide, FAQ & Industry Myths, Social Media Toolkit, and Press Kit.
Who can organize a virtual screening? Virtual community screenings are open to everyone! Individuals can organize a virtual screening for their friends and family. Groups can hold a virtual screening for supporters and stakeholders. Teachers can create a virtual screening for their students.Together, we can spread this film’s important messages far and wide!
When will these occur?
Virtual community screenings begin on Earth Day, April 22.
We are focusing our efforts around a “push period”
from Earth Day until World Oceans Day on June 8.
Community screenings will also continue after that date.
What are my next steps?
If you are interested in HOSTING a virtual screening, please fill out *this form*. You’ll get a response with more info and next steps from our partners at PictureMotion, a documentary impact agency helping us with the logistics of these virtual events.
If you want to JOIN a public, virtual screening organized by another group, stay tuned! We’ll be publishing a directory of virtual events that you can tune in to at storyofplastic.org/watch before April 22!
ACTION ITEMS
What you can do
- WATCH AND SHARE the brand-new trailer, featuring a new single by Jackson Browne! It’s on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
- Start making plans to HOST a virtual community screening and fill out the intake form when you’re ready to move on to the next step!
- STAY TUNED for more updates via email, on our social media channels, and at storyofplastic.org
What to expect from us
- More details about international broadcasts as soon as we receive them
- Invitations to JOIN a community screening in your region
- Remote learning curriculum for educators from our partners at Algalita
JOIN THE CONVERSATION!
The Story of Stuff Project runs on donations from people like you. Please make a one-time contribution, or better yet, sustain our work by signing up to be a monthly donor. Any amount makes a difference!
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Awakening Humanity’s Consciousness as One,
“Celebrating Our Planet,
Healing our Heart“
The13th AnnualWORLD PEACE EARTH DAY CELEBRATION 2020Planet Heart Logo © Elana Stanger,
a.k.a. St. Angel www.diversityarts.com Come join us on EARTH DAYWednesday, April 22, 2020, at
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Portions of the Proceeds supportWe, The World andPlanet Heartto produce these events.“We hear Mother Earth’s call to simultaneously become more heart centered and action oriented. Feeling Mother Earth’s sacredness in our hearts can be profound motivation to act on Her behalf. Many actions are needed now, from calling legislators to attending rallies … art making, creative planning, spreading the word, writing letters to the editor … advocating for clean water, renewable energy … as well as social, racial, and economic justice issues that are inseparable from co-creating a sustainable, thriving world that works for all. We believe these actions are most effective, and most beautiful, when they are inspired by and carried out with love and respect for this beautiful planet, all who reside here, and whatever divine energies are loving us and encouraging us through this Great Turning. This feeling of connection, love, and inspiration is what we seek to create through Planet Heart’s Annual World Peace Earth Day. Please join us, be inspired, keep your heart open, and channel that love into action. ”
Ellen Osuna, Environmental and Peace Activist
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Earth Day Live will feature a three-day livestream where millions of people can join activists, celebrities, musicians, and more in an epic moment of community and hope for the future.
STRIKE, DIVEST, AND VOTE
FOR OUR FUTURE!
From April 22 – the 50th anniversary of Earth Day – to April 24…
The fights against the coronavirus and the climate crisis go hand-in-hand, and as we work to flatten the curve of this pandemic, we must strive toward the longer term goal of building a society rooted in sustainability and justice.
FIND A LOCAL LIVESTREAM
https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/
The Earth Day Live stream will be viewable on this website and will be the full user experience. In addition, it will be simulcast across major streaming platforms such as Facebook Live, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Twitch to engage with broader audiences. Partner organizations and an extensive network of major websites will be embedding the live stream as well.
PARTICIPANTS
Featuring Al Gore • Amanda Palmer • Amber Valletta • Angela Rye • Angelique Kidjo • Bill McKibben • Chef Alexandra Shrader • Chef Dominique Crenn • Daniel Fernandez • David Wallace Wells • DJ Spooky • Dr Michael Greger • Dr. Sweta Chakraborty • Ed Begley Jr. • Emily Wells • Ilyasah Shabazz • Jack Johnson • Jameela Jamil • Jason Mraz • Joaquin Phoenix • John Kerry • Kathryn Budig • Lil Dicky • Lisa Edelstein • Local Natives • Louie Schwartzberg • Luke Baines • Madame Gandhi • Margaret Klein Salamon • Mark Ruffalo • Mary Heglar • Matt McGorry • Megan Boone • Michael Franti • Moby • Monica Dogra • Mustafa Santiago Ali • Nahko the Bear • Ndaba Mandela • Patricia Arquette • Patrisse Cullors • Questlove • Rep. Lauren Underwood • Rep. Ted Lieu • Reverend Dr. William Barber II • Robby Romero • Rosanna Arquette • Secretary John Kerry • Sharon Carpenter • Shepard Fairey • Soul Clap • Stacey Abrams • Talib Kweli • The Both -w- Aimee Mann and Ted Leo • Tim Heidecker • Tony Revolori
And many more to be announced soon!
STRIKE – Earth Day and Youth Climate Strikes – April 22
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we will demonstrate our collective power and unity through community building and storytelling. This first day will focus on amplifying the voice of indigenous leaders and youth climate activists who are leading the movement to halt the climate crisis
DIVEST – Divestment and Climate Financing – April 23
Led by Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition, during this day of action we are calling for a global reset. We want to reprogram the economy so that it works for people and the planet, not polluters and politicians.
VOTE – Voter Registration and Political Engagement – April 24
We need leaders who will address this existential threat. It’s critical for all of us to show up at the polls this year and vote for our future. So the final day will focus on the importance of voting through a nationwide youth voter registration day.
The US Climate Strike Coalition and Stop The Money Pipeline Coalition, who together are made up of over 500 organizations, have come together to organize Earth Day Live.
The US Climate Strike Coalition is a coalition of over 400 organizations that formed ahead of the September 20, 2019 climate strikes. Led by the leading youth-led climate organizations in the US, the coalition works intergenerationally and collaboratively to coordinate the Climate Strikes in the US.
Stop the Money Pipeline is a coalition of over 100 climate, environmental and Indigneous rights groups that is demanding that the financial sector stops funding the fossil fuel industry and deforestation, and starts respecting Indigenous sovereignty and human rights.
Global Online Release
INNER CLIMATE CHANGE documentary
Friday 24th April 2020
Watch the trailer
About INNER CLIMATE CHANGE
How do we navigate the intensity of emotions and reactions stirred up by climate change, or COVID-19 for that matter? How do we come to a place of peace, compassion, forgiveness and life-affirming action?
Both leading edge science and ancient wisdom traditions point us inwards for the answer.
In this documentary you will go with us on a journey to see how our inner climate relates to the topic of climate change. And how changing from within will create the change we need.
The INNER CLIMATE CHANGE documentary focuses on the very personal experiences, insights and responses to the climate crisis, of people who participated in the Climate Change and Consciousness conference (CCC19) held in 2019 at the Findhorn Ecovillage in the northeast of Scotland. Conference participants included 350 youngers and elders of multiple ethnicities and diverse genders from 45 countries.
Watch Parties and Sharing Circles via Zoom
We invite you to join us to watch the film together (60 minutes) followed by a post film sharing with break out groups to explore your inner response evoked by the film. Experience yourself in – and offer your listening to – a community of like-minded people all around the world.
Submit your email address to receive a reminder when the film is released and the Zoom link through which you can access the Watch Party and Sharing Circle of your choice.
You can also contact us by post:
Visitors Centre
Findhorn Foundation
The Park
Findhorn
Forres, IV36 3TZ
Scotland, UK
For general enquiries tel: +44 (0)1309 690311
Email: enquiries@findhorn.org
There are three opportunities to join a viewing party and 100 places available on each. You need to sign up to receive the Zoom link. You will be able to enter the Zoom room later if you have seen the film already before and don’t want to watch it twice.
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- 24th April 2020 6pm-8.30pm BST
Hosted by Robin Alfred and Kosha Joubert, hosts of the CCC19 conference
7pm CET / 1pm EDT / 10am PDT / 3am AET (25th)
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- 25th April 2020 10am-12.30am BST
Hosted by Sue Miles, long term community member of the Findhorn Foundation.
11am CET / 5am EDT / 2am PDT / 7pm AET
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- 25th April 2020 7pm-9.30pm BST
Hosted by the film director Lorenz Gramann and Lucy Thomas: Findhorn community member and facilitator
8pm CET / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT / 4am AET (26th)
About the filmmaker
The man behind the INNER CLIMATE CHANGE documentary is the independent filmmaker Lorenz Gramann. This is Lorenz’s third feature-length documentary. His last one A New Story for Humanity has been seen over 200.000 times.
Lorenz’s background includes a variety of healing and psychotherapy modalities. He brings the sensitivity garnered in these fields to his film making. Since 2014 he has offered his skills in the northeast of Scotland and currently lives in the Findhorn Foundation Community.
Webinar Registration
Apr 26, 2020 at 1:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Link to register for this: https://zoom.us/webinar/
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Global Love Day
The Vision
We honor each May 1st as a symbolic day of unconditional love and call upon all people and all nations to gather together in the wisdom of peace and love.
Global Love Day is the universal recognition of our innate oneness through love. It is our vision to unite one and all in a celebration of love and compassion. Join people around the world in celebrating and expanding LOVE.
We are one humanity on this planet.
All life is interconnected and interdependent.
All share in the Universal bond of love.
Love begins with self acceptance and forgiveness.
With respect and compassion we embrace diversity.
Together we make a difference through love.
When we come from this limitless love we naturally and easily embrace ourselves and our fellow humanity. Opening our heart, we allow unconditional love to be our guide and compassion to be our gift to life.
We invite you to celebrate with us by consciously focusing on love and what it means to you throughout this day. We hope that by practicing love in all areas of your life, you will find it easy to love unconditionally all year long. Our main themes explain it best…”Love Begins With Me” and ‘Celebrating Our Humanity.”
Be a part of it. Spread the word. Share your love.
Think: Global Love Day;
Feel: Love Begins With Me;
Remember: May 1st
We Celebrate our Humanity
As we continue to connect with people and organizations around the world, we are amazed at how much is being done in efforts to positively assist humanity. There are so many wonderful people and associations that are actively working on behalf of a community, nation and even in global proportions.
As we often remind ourselves, what is presented by mainstream information sources is frequently a narrow and negative perspective of what is happening upon this planet right now. To the contrary, we see and know that good and right is occurring everywhere. Look for love and you will see it all around you.
This simple reminder changes the very nature of our experience. We are what we place our attention upon. When we allow love to be our focus of life, we expand this in our everyday activities. It is as simple as changing each perspective and allowing the negative and limiting views to be released and replaced by a higher, more loving understanding.
We appreciate and are grateful for the courage each of you express. In a world that has historically revered the negative and fear-based aspects, it takes strength to be and share love. It is time for love to become our common vision.
Please join us. Be a part of this global day by choosing love, compassion, peace, and unity. Share this information with your friends, relatives and coworkers. Love locally and spread it globally.
Participate
Our first Global Love Day was presented on May 1, 2004. A variety of celebrations and events were held by individuals and groups around the world that initial year and the day was recognized with over a dozen proclamations from prominent Governors, Mayors and Councils. Since then we have continuously expanded each year to include many more communities and nations and now have over 580 proclamations honoring the day with thousands participating individually and at events. We are into our second decade of sharing love and celebrating our humanity – will you join us?
We have a special section dedicated to Global Love Day here on our site filled with ideas of how you can get involved and host your own local event on May 1st. Follow the dropdown tab above and find some suggestions of how you can participate and also find examples of what other creative events have been held before. You can find our Global Love Day social site pages too.
Our annual Art, Essay and Poetry Invitational is held in conjunction with Global Love Day each year and encourages anyone young at heart to submit their art, essay or poetry based on the tenents and vision and theme of the day. See our Guidelines for more information on this special related program.
The Global Love Day Flyers have been translated in over 37 languages so far and all are available to download and print right from your desktop.
The Initial Vision
(An open letter from Founder Harold Becker in 2004)
The Love Foundation is delighted to announce the first annual GLOBAL LOVE DAY on May 1, 2004 with this year’s theme of Love Begins With Me. Join people from around the world as we acknowledge, celebrate and share the love we have within. This is a special day of recalling that love is the link that binds us all. It is also the awesome power that heals and transforms everything it contacts.
Each of us is a potent force of love when we allow this energy to express itself. There is nothing we have to ultimately do, rather we need only allow ourselves to feel and be love. It is that simple. Global Love Day is merely our way of saying let’s remember love is ours to be and to share every moment of our lives.
We understand this day is a symbol of what we can do every day of the year. Our intent is to join together in a conscious recognition that love is always present. For so many, love is often hidden under layers of hurt, trauma, drama, pain and suffering. Emotional memories, unspoken doubt, fear, resentment and a multitude of old beliefs often keep us from realizing these thoughts and feelings have no real power over us. We give them power by living in the past and being afraid of the future. We ignore the love that is present every moment while embracing limitation. It is time to change that. It is time to release ourselves from our own self created bondage.
You and I have the opportunity to make a difference. Together we can embrace our unlimited self, the part of us that knows love and expresses it naturally and simply. It is when we accept ourselves just for who we are that we transform the moment into peace, security, joy and love. This process begins with releasing our limiting beliefs, past mistakes, lack of self worth, pride and ego through the conscious act of forgiveness. It is up to us as individuals to undertake this journey. We begin the transformation when we turn within and accept our self. We change the world when we change our perspective.
As we come to know who we are and why we act and react the way we do, we start to see ourselves in the faces of humanity. The reflection of hurt is our hurt, their pain is our pain, another’s anger is our anger. It is also seen in the face of nature. Her destruction is our destruction. These seemingly random expressions are our past thoughts seeking manifestation. It is our constant reminder that love is the answer. We build a new reality in this current moment when we let go. When we choose love over fear, kindness over hate, integration over separation, and peace over war, we bring a new reflection to humanity… our loving selves.
So, please accept our invitation to love. Join us hand-in-hand as we share our love on this planet once again.
Love, light, and peace,
Harold W. Becker
Founder/President
Founder’s Address 2019
Welcome Dear Friends to Global Love Day 2019,
We join our hearts this day in celebration of life itself. Coming together around the globe, we unify our highest intention and collective potential, igniting the creative spark that lights our shared journey forward on this precious planet we call home. Realizing our magnificence as loving beings, each of us holds the key to our brightest futures. Compassion, kindness, joy and peace are our natural expressions when we recognize that love begins with me.
As one humanity on this planet, we have a common heritage and universal destiny. With each unfolding moment, we are comprehending the grandness of our personal and combined opportunities to evoke our heart-felt wisdom. It is a simple knowing that all life is interconnected and interdependent and our gift to the world is appreciating one another with grace and dignity.
We all share in the Universal bond of love and, from this essential understanding, we build fresh, new realities that infuse the very best of who we are. In this way, we consciously manifest for the greatest benefit of all. We begin with self-acceptance and forgiveness as the cornerstone to a foundation built solidly on love. This ensures we inspire, nurture, cultivate and express our dreams of a better world for our children and the earth herself.
There are infinite possibilities before us to explore as we walk in harmony with everyone and everything around us. It is with respect and compassion that we embrace diversity. We learn and grow through our countless interactions and expand far beyond the sum of our parts when we allow ourselves to evolve beyond our present perspectives. The majesty of life reveals itself within and about us when we open our hearts. Together we truly do make a difference through love.
With happiness, delight and love, I welcome you to our sixteenth Global Love Day celebration.
Love, light and peace,
Harold W. Becker
Founder and President
The Love Foundation
The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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GOOD OF THE WHOLE
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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GOOD OF THE WHOLE
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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GOOD OF THE WHOLE
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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GOOD OF THE WHOLE
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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GOOD OF THE WHOLE
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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GOOD OF THE WHOLE
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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MAY 19, 2020 3:00 pm EST
The Intersection of the Climate Crisis and Social Justice
Join the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and The Climate Reality Project for our upcoming webinar highlighting the intersection of climate and environmental justice, the history of the #PoorPeoplesCampaign, and the upcoming digital mass march and assembly.
The webinar will feature Campaign Co-Chairs Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Dr. Liz Theoharis, as well as Dr. Robert Bullard, Climate Reality board member, Texas Southern University distinguished professor of environmental policy, and to many, the “father of environmental justice.”
The only way to solve the climate crisis is by working together. And to build a winning coalition, we need to understand how this crisis intersects with social inequities like racial discrimination, poverty, and environmental injustice.
Register here: bit.ly/ClimateRealityPPC-
The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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GOOD OF THE WHOLE
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ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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TODAY.
Where have we been?
Where are we going?
What might be possible together?
https://peopleshub.org/
https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesHub-1695905997109684/
The Circle may be over but the workshops are coming up!
It’s time to sign up!!
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This weekly call is for those of us who are terrified of the climate emergency and determined to be part of a movement to claw back our future from the jaws of extinction.
You will learn about The Climate Mobilization’s strategy for transforming our economy in the next ten years, and how you can take action locally and be part of this plan.
You will make contact with an excellent team of organizers who will offer support and coaching in your journey to push back and win a just and inclusive future.
- In 2020, the climate emergency threatens to take our future away from us.
- YOU
- The solution is to organize.
- YOU
- This session is designed to show you how.
The session is open to anyone, whether you are part of an organization or not, whether you have experience of organizing or not. We support over 100 different campaigns!
To Join the Call:
SIGN UP HERE –> https://secure.everyaction.com/dSlTBlrtZUWt8okpc256ig
You will learn:
- What YOU can do to respond to the Climate Emergency
- How to get plugged in to a team or a Climate Emergency campaign in YOUR community
- How we’re planning to make the Climate Emergency the key issue of the 2020 election
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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Virtual Rites of Spring 2020
We gather in May for our 42nd time to celebrate the sacred Earth and the turning of the seasons in the mountains of western Massachusetts.
Join us online, (and in person in September) – as together we:
Weave the web of community;
Share in ancient traditions and new rituals;
Look forward to what we can become;
Learn through workshops and dialogue;
Light the Sacred fire;
Feel the rhythms of life in our drums and dance to raise our spirits;
Form lasting friends and see families grow as we come together in community – learning, sharing music, celebrating with ritual, and fueling our joy.
Register now for virtual Rites of Spring programming!
We are terribly sad not to be able to be together for the first time in 42 years, but we are excited to be able to still offer a substantial program. Zoom links and program details will go out to everyone who registers.
Please spread the word!
Virtual Rites of Spring 2020 – EarthSpirit
We gather in May for our 42nd time to celebrate the sacred Earth and the turning of the seasons in the mountains of western Massachusetts. Join us online.
Saturday
- 8 – 8:30 AM Family Program – Seasonal Stories and Creative projects with Andrew Coate, and Sarah Rosehill
- 11:00 AM Workshop: Pagan Perspective Permaculture Primer with Martin Bridge
- 3:00 PM Web Ritual
- 8:00 PM Bardic Circle Sign Up Sheet
- 11:00 PM DJ Meow Meow
Sunday
- 8 – 8:30 AM Family Program – Seasonal Stories and Creative projects with Andrew Coate, and Sarah Rosehill
- 11:00 AM Workshop: Anamanta: a Pagan Practice for Troubled Times with Andras Corban Arthen
- 3:00 PM EarthSpirit FUNdraising Kickoff with Billy Bardo, Anya, Arianna (and maybe Patrick)
- 6:00 PM The Feast at home
- After Feast: DJ Dawn Dance Party! with Dawn Flatt
Monday
- 11:00 AM Closing Ritual with Deirdre and Andras Arthen
Plus Recorded Programs on YouTube
- Healing Ritual
- Building a Sacred Shrine
- Maying!
- Preparing your own Feast
Register Online
If you are registered and paid for Rites of Spring 2020 (May or September), please follow this link to get your virtual Registration number. This program is an included add-on to your registration.
To register if you are not already signed up for Rites of Spring: Admission for the week is a sliding scale $50 – $100. Please pay what you are able, to help us keep going through this time of crisis. No one will be turned away for serious financial hardship, as long as you pay something. Additional contributions are appreciated.
Once you are registered, close to the date of the virtual events, you will receive a registration code, an accessible link and password for the Zoom sessions, and a link to the Facebook Virtual Dining Hall. Please save that registration number for access to the Virtual Dining Hall or for any questions on your registration.
We look forward to seeing you all online.
The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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Thursday, May 28, 2020 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
An Anishinaabe Prophecies, this time is known as the 7th Fire. The prophecy says that to move to the 8th Fire, we face a choice between two paths. One path is well-worn, scorched, and leads to our destruct.ion. The other path is new, green, and leads to Mino-Bimaadiziwin (the good life)
Join us as internationally-renowned activist and author Winona LaDuke – an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) member of the White Earth Nation – discusses how the pandemic provides us with an opportunity to walk a new path, taking care of each other, and our Mother Earth.
Crisis can bring out the best or the worst in communities. Winona will discuss what it’s going to take to herald in a restorative, regenerative, and just society, one where we appreciate each other, localize our economy, get cleaner, and healthier.
Let us put our minds and hearts together to make a good future for our children!
Winona LaDuke is one of the world’s most tireless and charismatic leaders on issues related to climate change, Indigenous rights, human rights, green and rural economies, food justice, alternative sources of energy, and the priceless value of clean water over a career spanning nearly 40 years of activism. She is Program Director of Honor the Earth, the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, and Winona’s Hemp and Heritage Farm. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she is the author of five books, including Recovering the Sacred, All our Relations and a novel, Last Standing Woman.
TICKETS ARE SLIDING SCALE $5 – $25 to benefit speakers and artists impacted by the cancellation of events due to the pandemic. All who register will receive a link to watch live or later at their own convenience.
Closed caption version will be available 3-4 days after the live event.
Structuring an Economy for People and Planet
In the Time of Climate Crisis and COVID-19
Thursday, May 28, 2020
11:00 am PST/ 2:00 pm EST USA time
Please check your own time zone to coordinate!
Registration is required – register at this link
This webinar is part of WECAN’s Advocacy and Solutions Series: A Just and Healthy World is Possible, an ongoing dialogue series lifting up women’s leadership as we continue to collectively build a powerful movement founded on principles of justice, love, and a fierce dedication to our planet and each other.
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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GOOD OF THE WHOLE
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The Connection Field is an ever-expanding field of love and resonance for the good of the whole. This is a loving, inclusive space, to be authentic and expand in heart resonance, embodied wholeness, and meaningful connection. JOIN US. Create online community and coherence for the good of the whole.
The Connection Field is a global service project initiated by our community of Mentoring Stewards to provide online community, support and connection during these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We may be asked to self-quarantine, social distance, and stay home, but that doesn’t mean we are alone! Join us in the Connection Field. We will be LIVE daily on Zoom from Noon to 5:00 pm Eastern/9 am to 2 pm Pacific.
JOIN THE CONNECTION FIELD: Click on the link below to receive the log-in information in our Weekly Digest. When you register you will also receive the link in an email sent directly to your inbox.
CLICK HERE FOR YOUR WEEKLY DIGEST WITH ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS
DO YOU WANT TO HOST AN HOUR OR OFFER A SPECIAL PROGRAM? EMAIL US AND INQUIRE AT SUPPORT@GOODOFTHEWHOLE.COM.
DIGEST OF EVENTS
GOOD OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CALLS:
- Monday, 11:00 am Eastern: Public Global Heart Resonance Call
- Wednesday, 11:00 am Eastern: Mentoring Stewards Public Coherence Call (May 6th: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
DAILY OFFERINGS:
- Daily, 9:00 am Eastern/1:00 pm UTC: Mayan Calendar and Fire Ceremony
- Daily, 10:00 am Eastern: Morning Heart Coherence Meditation
- Monday – Friday, Noon – 5 pm Eastern: Resonance Lounge
- Daily, 10:00 pm Eastern: Evening Japa Mala Meditation
- NEW Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00 pm Eastern: Heart Coherence Awareness Meditation
- NEW Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Song and Prayer
“Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there’s a field.
I’ll meet you there.” ~ Rumi
WEEKLY OFFERINGS:
- Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern: Gathering of Indigenous Grandmothers of Europe
- NEW Sunday, 11:00 am Eastern: Healing in an Urban Context with Multi-ethnical Tensions
- Sunday, 6:00 pm Eastern/10:00 UTC: Teachings of Sacred Tree
- NEW Sunday, 9:00 pm Eastern: Staying Healthy
- NEW Monday, 8:00 am Eastern: Divine Heart Meditation
- Monday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Global Heart Team
- NEW Monday, 7:00 pm Eastern: The Trust Frequency Embodied
- Monday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Men in Connection
- NEW Tuesday, 11:00 am Eastern: The Hoop of Many Hoops
- NEW Tuesday, 5:00 pm Eastern: Inspiration from Revelation
- Tuesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Radical Earth Resonance
- NEW Wednesday, 8:00 am Eastern: Soul Voice Embodied Intuition
- NEW Wednesday, 5:00-7:00 pm Eastern: Four Worlds International Women’s Circle
- Wednesday, 7:00 pm Eastern: We Are a Rising Tide
- Wednesday, 8:00 pm Eastern: The Healing Field
- Thursday, 11:00 am Eastern: Giving Voice to the Heart
- Thursday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Rumi’s Field
- Friday, 8:00 pm Eastern: Sound Connection
- NEW Saturday, 11:00 am Eastern: Modern Toltec Purification Ceremony
- Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern: 24/7 Couples
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GOOD OF THE WHOLE
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ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDER’S CLIMATE ACTION – ECA ECA is mobilizing elders throughout the United States to address climate change while there is still time to protect the well being of our grandchildren, future generations, and all life. We are dedicated to using the power of our caring, our wisdom and our numbers to push for policies that will reduce greenhouse gases in our atmosphere to a level consistent with life thriving on our planet. Join Us for Climate Tea & Talk – 2nd Tuesday of the Month at 6:00 PM (ET) | 3:00 PM (PT)Make yourself a cup of tea and connect with us for a “elder hour” of casual discussion about climate change.
We can make new friends across the country and learn ways to engage from each other. For this call you will see the other participants as it is an open discussion format.
We hope you will join us for climate tea & talk!
~ NO RSVP NEEDED ~ *as this is casual conversation, these calls are not recorded Join from Computer: https://zoom.us/j/185337579 Or Telephone: 669 900 6833 Meeting ID: 185 337 579 |
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Indigi-Aid, a live-stream event benefiting indigenous communities as a response to the Covid-19 crisis, will take place Thursday, June 11th from 5 to 9 pm eastern time. Artists and musicians from diverse indigenous and other communities around the United States will offer songs, dance, and storytelling.
As the Coronavirus has ravaged the Indigenous communities and threatened to inflict severe health casualties in Navajoland and many other Indigenous Nations, the Indigenous Ministries of the Episcopal Church has partnered with the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan and scores of many Episcopal communities to raise money for food, basic need items, water, and medical supplies to aid our Indigenous communities across the Episcopal Church.
In addition to the performances, we ask our friends to share a 15 to 30-second message of hope and support to our Indigenous communities with the hashtag #indigi-aid. You can message us your support short support video.
Intertribal Food Summit
Connecting intertribal food and agriculture
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THE UPSTANDER PROJECT
Adam Mazo & Mishy Lesser Upstander Project Co-Founders <adam@upstanderproject.org>
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ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
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Join the Next Pulse – SUMMER SOLSTICE Sunday, June 21st at 12pm PT, 3pm ET, 7pm GMT Timezone ConverterThis month’s theme: Celebrating Our Coherence Featured Organization: Earthdance Global Featured Musician: Miranda Macpherson
Followed by the Earthdance ConcertReserve My Space
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The 8th Annual Children’s Global Wave Of Love
June 21 at 1:11 pm in your heart and time zone.
We collectively come together to cultivate and
send forth our mission
“Children Across the Planet in Love, Care, and Respect.”
Since everyday is children’s day, we create a year-long, free, activity platform for children, families, communities, schools, organizations and YOU to empower
heart space and help transform the world!
Our Mission Statement: Our mission is to provide complete and total support to all children with an entire month of activities that enhance all aspects of a child’s life.
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Plus three more workshops are offered end of June and two in July
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ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
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ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDER’S CLIMATE ACTION – ECA ECA is mobilizing elders throughout the United States to address climate change while there is still time to protect the well being of our grandchildren, future generations, and all life. We are dedicated to using the power of our caring, our wisdom and our numbers to push for policies that will reduce greenhouse gases in our atmosphere to a level consistent with life thriving on our planet. Join Us for Climate Tea & Talk – 2nd Tuesday of the Month at 6:00 PM (ET) | 3:00 PM (PT)Make yourself a cup of tea and connect with us for a “elder hour” of casual discussion about climate change.
We can make new friends across the country and learn ways to engage from each other. For this call you will see the other participants as it is an open discussion format.
We hope you will join us for climate tea & talk!
~ NO RSVP NEEDED ~ *as this is casual conversation, these calls are not recorded Join from Computer: https://zoom.us/j/185337579 Or Telephone: 669 900 6833 Meeting ID: 185 337 579 |
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDER’S CLIMATE ACTION – ECA ECA is mobilizing elders throughout the United States to address climate change while there is still time to protect the well being of our grandchildren, future generations, and all life. We are dedicated to using the power of our caring, our wisdom and our numbers to push for policies that will reduce greenhouse gases in our atmosphere to a level consistent with life thriving on our planet. Join Us for Climate Tea & Talk – 2nd Tuesday of the Month at 6:00 PM (ET) | 3:00 PM (PT)Make yourself a cup of tea and connect with us for a “elder hour” of casual discussion about climate change.
We can make new friends across the country and learn ways to engage from each other. For this call you will see the other participants as it is an open discussion format.
We hope you will join us for climate tea & talk!
~ NO RSVP NEEDED ~ *as this is casual conversation, these calls are not recorded Join from Computer: https://zoom.us/j/185337579 Or Telephone: 669 900 6833 Meeting ID: 185 337 579 |
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDER’S CLIMATE ACTION – ECA ECA is mobilizing elders throughout the United States to address climate change while there is still time to protect the well being of our grandchildren, future generations, and all life. We are dedicated to using the power of our caring, our wisdom and our numbers to push for policies that will reduce greenhouse gases in our atmosphere to a level consistent with life thriving on our planet. Join Us for Climate Tea & Talk – 2nd Tuesday of the Month at 6:00 PM (ET) | 3:00 PM (PT)Make yourself a cup of tea and connect with us for a “elder hour” of casual discussion about climate change.
We can make new friends across the country and learn ways to engage from each other. For this call you will see the other participants as it is an open discussion format.
We hope you will join us for climate tea & talk!
~ NO RSVP NEEDED ~ *as this is casual conversation, these calls are not recorded Join from Computer: https://zoom.us/j/185337579 Or Telephone: 669 900 6833 Meeting ID: 185 337 579 |
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDER’S CLIMATE ACTION – ECA ECA is mobilizing elders throughout the United States to address climate change while there is still time to protect the well being of our grandchildren, future generations, and all life. We are dedicated to using the power of our caring, our wisdom and our numbers to push for policies that will reduce greenhouse gases in our atmosphere to a level consistent with life thriving on our planet. Join Us for Climate Tea & Talk – 2nd Tuesday of the Month at 6:00 PM (ET) | 3:00 PM (PT)Make yourself a cup of tea and connect with us for a “elder hour” of casual discussion about climate change.
We can make new friends across the country and learn ways to engage from each other. For this call you will see the other participants as it is an open discussion format.
We hope you will join us for climate tea & talk!
~ NO RSVP NEEDED ~ *as this is casual conversation, these calls are not recorded Join from Computer: https://zoom.us/j/185337579 Or Telephone: 669 900 6833 Meeting ID: 185 337 579 |
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDER’S CLIMATE ACTION – ECA ECA is mobilizing elders throughout the United States to address climate change while there is still time to protect the well being of our grandchildren, future generations, and all life. We are dedicated to using the power of our caring, our wisdom and our numbers to push for policies that will reduce greenhouse gases in our atmosphere to a level consistent with life thriving on our planet. Join Us for Climate Tea & Talk – 2nd Tuesday of the Month at 6:00 PM (ET) | 3:00 PM (PT)Make yourself a cup of tea and connect with us for a “elder hour” of casual discussion about climate change.
We can make new friends across the country and learn ways to engage from each other. For this call you will see the other participants as it is an open discussion format.
We hope you will join us for climate tea & talk!
~ NO RSVP NEEDED ~ *as this is casual conversation, these calls are not recorded Join from Computer: https://zoom.us/j/185337579 Or Telephone: 669 900 6833 Meeting ID: 185 337 579 |
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
ELDER’S CLIMATE ACTION – ECA ECA is mobilizing elders throughout the United States to address climate change while there is still time to protect the well being of our grandchildren, future generations, and all life. We are dedicated to using the power of our caring, our wisdom and our numbers to push for policies that will reduce greenhouse gases in our atmosphere to a level consistent with life thriving on our planet. Join Us for Climate Tea & Talk – 2nd Tuesday of the Month at 6:00 PM (ET) | 3:00 PM (PT)Make yourself a cup of tea and connect with us for a “elder hour” of casual discussion about climate change.
We can make new friends across the country and learn ways to engage from each other. For this call you will see the other participants as it is an open discussion format.
We hope you will join us for climate tea & talk!
~ NO RSVP NEEDED ~ *as this is casual conversation, these calls are not recorded Join from Computer: https://zoom.us/j/185337579 Or Telephone: 669 900 6833 Meeting ID: 185 337 579 |