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“Your mind is right now filled with old thoughts. Not only old thoughts, but mostly someone else’s old thoughts. It’s important now, it’s time now, to change your mind about some things. This is what evolution is all about.” ~Neale Donald Walsch
“As I contemplate the impacts that Fracking is having across the globe, the success and the losses – I realize the only way to stop this destructive act of extracting resources from our precious Earth is by building and uniting a stronger movement around the globe. The people who know what is happening must unite, and must educate and inspire others to join our movement by showing them what truly is at stake. Only when we get the masses out on the front lines will we have a chance to conquer this beast that threatens the very fabric of our future and those to follow. When I was in Pennsylvania and saw some of what has happened to their state, the rivers that have been poisoned the land that has been destroyed and the fight that continues on, I felt deeply saddened by the ignorance of the human race. Their fight has been strong in Pennsylvania, with some success, but with more destruction as the industry continues to drill on. We are drilling our way to a place of no return as our planet continues to warm and climate extremes become more and more common. Fracking is not a safe bridge away from fossil fuels! Robert F. Kennedy just came out and said again that natural gas is a catastrophe! When will the corporations promoting this harmful extraction wake up and realize that the future of our children is more important then their profits?” ~Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, a 13 year old indigenous environmental activist from Boulder, Colorado.
Xiuhtezcatl’s deep connection with the Earth inspired him to become a voice for protecting the Earth at a young age, giving his first speech at a climate change rally when he was six years old. Xiuhtezcatl is the youth director of Earth Guardians, a non-profit environmental organization that is committed to protecting the water, air, earth, and atmosphere. So inspiring to see such amazing activism from someone so young. It’s time for us all to take a stand and fight for what is right in whatever way we can.
“I love humanity and have so much faith that we will co-create a world that reflects our heartfelt magnificence. Despite our blind spots, growing pains and harsh lessons, we are love. All else, disguises. I know it looks bleak sometimes, but we are an unstoppable force of (good) nature that cannot be stopped. We have many more challenges to come, but we are going to find our way through them. We just are. Our spirits are just so beautiful. We won’t rest until all the shrouds fall away, and we are exposed as the heart beings that we are. Such love, such love…” ~Jeff Brown
“In my experience, everyone will say they want to discover the Truth, right up until they realize that the Truth will rob them of their deepest held ideas, beliefs, hopes, and dreams. The freedom of enlightenment means much more than the experience of love and peace. It means discovering a Truth that will turn your view of self and life upside-down. For one who is truly ready, this will be unimaginably liberating. But for one who is still clinging in any way, this will be extremely challenging indeed. How does one know if they are ready? One is ready when they are willing to be absolutely consumed, when they are willing to be fuel for a fire without end.” ~Adyashanti
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would also be free.” ~ Rosa Parks
Women’s suffragists parade down Fifth Avenue, New York, October 1917, carrying the signatures of a million women. So amazed by all the ass kicking women who came before us and risked so much for our freedoms. Forever inspired and grateful!!
Thanks to Women’s Rights News for this post.
“We are first and foremost citizens of the Earth.” ~Vandana Shiva
This is an awesome and short video where Vandana Shiva explains her concept of an Earth democracy. Love her!
“Let us fall in love again and scatter gold dust all over the world. Let us become a new spring and feel the breeze drift in heaven’s scent. Let us dress the earth in green and like the sap of a young tree let the grace from within us sustain us. Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to Love. The glance of Love is crystal clear and we are blessed by its light.” ~Rumi
Art by Rio Bagoes Nugroho
Abby Martin from Breaking the Set highlights a number of communities around the world that have risked life and limb to force out corporations who are pillaging their land and resources citing cases like Dole in the Philippines and McDonalds in Bolivia. Power to the people!!
“The global corporatocracy—composed of a few giant industrial-financial oligopolies—makes a striking 75 percent of all profits in the third world today. Giant corporations based in the world’s richest countries—the Triad of the United States, Western Europe, and Japan—control the world’s technology, natural resources, finance, communications and information, and weapons of mass destruction. These powers now substitute, for the ancient privilege of the exclusive industrialization of the West, in ensuring the worldwide dominion of this super-elite.”
~Ravi Bhandari
Under The Blue Door 