Peace & Human Rights
Quinoa became popular because of its health value, yet the quinoa-growing region is the most malnourished in Bolivia because farmers cannot afford to eat their own crops. They sell their high-value quinoa and buy cheaper, less nourishing foods instead.
The youngest power player in American politics, millionaire John Ramsey is a new breed of libertarian. He works to expand personal freedoms, sees all business as charity, espouses growing one’s own food and despises crony capitalism.
Humanity has been on a historically long journey to finally arrive at a world that is complex and interdependent. We are at a point in human history where we are leaving behind one age and entering the next. The epoch we are leaving behind is the modern age. The epoch we are about to shift into has been given many names – digital, post-modern, new age, etc – yet has so far suffered from lack of true and genuine foresight.
Gandhi was right. We will only find true freedom through non-violent means. Victory won at the barrel of a gun will prove short-lived. If we cannot find a way to change the system without resorting to violent means, we will merely rearrange the pieces on the game board. The rule of force and coercion will remain. Violence begets violence.
Piper Kerman, on whom the Netflix blockbuster series Orange Is The New Black is based, is speaking out for humane prison reforms, especially for low-income women snared by the system.
Chris Hedges Speaks in support of the NOW BANNED “Students for Justice in Palestine” chapter at Northeastern University.
Across the country and around the world, it’s springtime for movements for social, economic and environmental justice that are connecting their struggles. It is an exciting time – join us!
As consciousness expands, the heart opens, and we begin to feel. I know many of us feel the suffering of family and friends, and of the collective… the earth, the animals, the people.
Forgiveness is the most powerful thing that you can do for your physiology and your spirituality. Yet, it remains one of the least attractive things to us, largely because our egos rule so unequivocally.
In a raging virtual war against Crimean separatists, the Kremlin and NATO, “Denial of Service” attacks overwhelm web servers and make their websites unusable.
Activism can take many forms. Popular Resistance is a movement for social, economic and environmental justice. Today you can support activist art, learn about economic democracy, or support others who face imprisonment for their courageous acts.
We live in a universe where humanity is slowly waking from a deep slumber. A faction of elites exist in our world with the sole intent of control, to harness and direct our energy in the direction that they please. For too long, the agents of decay have cast a spell of mass hypnosis upon our people that has effectively enslaved us within our own egos.
Inspiring new video featuring recent commentary by Russell Brand about the global shift in consciousness, the problems of the current corporate and political elite system, the philosophy of the Occupy movement and the need for a global spiritual awakening.
