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Happiness Ninjas Have a
"In the process of helping the earth to heal, we help ourselves." ~
Wangari Maathai [April 1, 1940 - September 25, 2011]
House
Leah Pearlman and John Grader
In India, banyan trees are called trees of knowledge and trees of
life, a fitting symbol for our October theme, sustainability, which
by definition is "the capacity to endure."
In a world out of balance we have to rediscover equilibrium in
areas that seem bereft of money, spirit, wisdom, social
consciousness, etc. It may begin with trees, or forgiveness; with
the capacity to see ourselves in others, or finding patience; with
taking a stand or taking care of the earth beneath our feet. For
Wangari Maathai trees represented that endurance. To date her
organization, the Green Belt Movement, has helped to plant 47
million trees in Kenya, reviving the environment as well as helping
folks living in poverty.
In October, celebrate both Latino and LGBT history months.
found a way to physically set up
a space based on the gift
[image: courtesy The
Happiness Institute]
economy--a place that people
could come to realize their own
individual gifts, their own individual happiness. Less
than 3 months old, this is a brand new organization
that....
Read more...
The Happiness Institute
in SIGHT
Howard Rheingold | Who Said Collaboration Wasn't
Sustainable?
"Charging Bull" Wall Street, New York City.
No video? Click:
http://www.ted.com/talks/howard_rheingold_on_collaboration.html
As humans--being extremely complex, very intelligent,
and oftentimes, narcissistic creatures--we often forget
where's YOUR wall street?:
that we are animals. Looking back at a time in which
taming the raging bull
against each other, we are now beginning to realize...
INcite with angel Kyodo williams
survival of the fittest meant that humans competed
In this month's in Sight, Howard Rheingold elaborates
on the biological forces of collaboration, and how the
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At first it was just a whisper that spoke
more to what wasn't happening than to
what was: mainstream media was shutting
out coverage of the thousand or so people
that had begun to gather starting
September 17th at the unfortunately
named Zuccoti park. Even when 2,000
mostly black folks ended their march at the
reclaimed and renamed Liberty Plaza to
protest the great state of Georgia's sanctioned execution of Troy
Davis, the media eye remained mostly blind. But the whispers
turned to grumbles and those closed same eyes were pried open
when police arrested eighty people and maced a woman.
From there, Facebook posts and Twitter tweets multiplied and
#OccupyWallStreet staked its flag firmly in the public sand.
I'm no reporter so it's fortunate that in an era when hashtags (#)
are the in-fashion symbol and symbolism, you can Google an
education and Wiki the timeline. What you most need to know
though, in case you didn't, is that no matter where you are,
#OccupyWallStreet is the movement made for you.
The only question is whether you'll choose make it yours.
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on the biological forces of collaboration, and how the
Internet is continuing to speed up our
interconnectedness...
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WEST COAST
fearlessMeditation I |
Practice of the Body
22nd Annual Bioneers
Conference
3rd Annual Bay Area
Leadership & Social Justice Conference
Spirituality & Social Justice | The Intersections of
Personal Spirituality, Organized Religion & Social Work
2011 Washington Appleseed Community
Connections Luncheon
EAST COAST
Digital Media Conference | Grassroots Use of
Technology Conference
Body Ecology | Creativity & Transformation
Residency
With decisions made by the General Assembly, "a horizontal,
autonomous, leaderless, modified-consensus-based system with
roots in anarchist thought," OWS seeks to stand for "the other 99
percent" of Americans that are on the stinky end of the economic
shitstick that's been beating the crap out of us all, while the 1% at
the top of the food chain get fat eating off the plates we made for
minimum wage.
No matter that it once looked like mostly disgruntled and
disheveled white kids camping out because they could. Forget the
fact that the initial call for this possible American Spring came out
of Canada. Ignore the pundits that dis it for not having demands.
By defying definition, flattening leadership and both utilizing and
transcending organization as we've known it, shifting from spider
to starfish, OWS creates within it's morphing boundaries the one
thing so many of our uber-defined efforts at movement-building
have inadvertently managed to quash: opportunity. You only need
to bring your voice, show up and choose to be who you are. By
doing so, you cause this emerging movement to be yours. That
choice, my friend, is freedom. Liberty Plaza, indeed.
Hip-Hop Loves October 12th After-Work
Fundraising Event
SOUTHWEST
DMC Disability Hiring Expo 2011
Colorado Bioneers 2011
MIDWEST
Break the Silence on Relationship Violence
EcoViva 15th Anniversary Gala
7th Annual Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Conference
SOUTHEAST
Open Dharma Deep Rest Retreats
Hunger Huddle 2011 Conference
Sacred Embodiment Center Re-Emergence Party &
Fundraiser
in the MONEY
Fetzer Institute | Love &
Money
Fetzer Institute provides funds
Not enough women, you say? Call CodePink and now there are
more. Want gays and blacks? Elders and immigrants? Grab your
AfroCuban-born lesbian granny and go. Where are the gender
queers? If you show up, they are there.
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for projects that support
forgiveness, love, and
[image: Kevin A Connors]
compassion and that make a
profound impact on people's
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lives. "[They] seek to understand the motivations and
Having grown up in downtown Manhattan, I'm no stranger to the
bizarre Wall Street world of high stakes gambling where the losers
don't even get to play the game. I've even ridden the back of the
7100 pound raging bronze bull that has come to epitomize the
same financial aggression that has driven the economy into the
ground. With each passing day, I am more certain that when I get
back to my hometown next week, the protesters will still be there
for me to join them. If it gets exceptionally cold or exceptionally
rough, I'll have the luxury of walking just a few blocks to return
home.
preconditions of exemplary cases of love and
forgiveness in the world..."
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Sign the Charter for Compassion
Learn about Shamatha Meditation
in the CENTER
27 Days of Change | Fall
2011 Practice Period
But you need not have lived on the doorstep of the corrupt capital
of Capitalism to smell something rotten in Denmark, not to
mention DC, San Francisco, Chi-town and Everytown, USA. If not
you yourself, you know someone who knows someone who lives
on Main Street and was bummed out while Wall Street was bailed
out:
someone who hasn't been able to find a job for two years
someone pushed out of their home because they couldn't
pay a falsely inflated mortgage
someone who watches institutions of education fall while
institutions of incarceration rise
someone whose grandparents or parents helped build this
country but their family fears being torn apart and kicked
out.
someone whose people picked cotton, built railroads or had
their lands taken away, yet to this day have insufficient
clothes, transportation or security of their own.
and all the while, politicians play footsies with all our futures.
Thirty-three people from
around the world participated
in the 27 Days of Change | Fall
2011 Practice Period. There
were a number of local Bay
Area participants, many on the East Coast, and one as
far away as Thailand. Some were veteran participants,
and some were brand new.
Read more...
from the FIELD
Peter Forbes | Start with the
Land
Not all that long ago, our
ancestors drew their identities
from the land that they lived
on, whether they were farmers
[image: Fred Fokkelman]
or sharecroppers or laborers
who came in seasonally to harvest wheat, corn,
Whatever you used to believe, what's coming into plain sight—if
you're not the 1%, that is—is that this system has failed us all. And
we each deserve to Thrive. On October 6th, DC's K street gets
occupied and a feverishly-growing number of inspired cities are
determined to Occupy Together. So wherever you are, there's a
Wall Street near you and there's never been a better moment to
take it over and make this a movement for you.
Who knows? Perhaps one day, we will look back on September
17th as the beginning of the New American Revolution in which we
finally captured not just votes but the imagination of the entire
"US" as a People. But for now, it's sufficient to seize the
opportunity of this moment, by finding the raging bull of
determination and riding it out to #OccupyYOURWallStreet today.
—your in truth, aKw
soybeans, or strawberries. Even those who lived in
towns had a more direct relationship with the land than
most of us...
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inner PRACTICE
Into the Light of the Dark
Black Night
Editor's Note: Written by Soha AlJurf, a new contributor to
transform.
I arrived at Deer Park Monastery for a Thanksgiving
Weekend Retreat, intending to stay for three months. I
spent the first few days following the retreat practice
dedicated to the 99%. —aKw.
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schedule: morning sitting meditation, walking
meditation, dharma talks and discussions...I was
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meditation, dharma talks and discussions...I was
angel Kyodo williams, the "change angel," is Founder
Emeritus of the Center for Transformative Change. She now
serves as a Senior Fellow and Director of Vision. A social visionary
and leading voice for transformative social change, she is the
author of the critically-acclaimedBeing Black: Zen and the Art of
Living With Fearlessness and Grace .
starting to feel the slightest glimpse into a possibility
of finding a path toward peace in my heart...
Read more...
outer ACTION
Majora Carter Group | Gone
Green
Blog: new Dharma: live, love & lead from the heart
Facebook: Like angel here
The Bronx River, the only fresh
water river in New York City,
Twitter: Follow angel for tweets of wisdom on Change
Web: http://angelkyodowilliams.com
angel Kyodo williams' next public talk:
Thursday, October 20th @ CXC
has over the past few years
undergone tremendous change.
From about the 1840s up until 2007, industrial waste
and sewage was regularly dumped into the river--a
river previously considered so pure that the New York
City Board of Aldermen were interested in using it for
newDharma Talk
newDharma TALK | The Value of Effort &
Release
As social change agents, we try to do too much
because there is so much to do, and the need to
get things done never seems to stop. But that
endless action of doing, doing, doing begins to
create imbalance in our lives and unsustainable work, action, etc.
quickly follows. This dharma talk will remind you that we're not
meant to go all of the time, that rest rejuvenates, that taking care
of ourselves is as important as any protest or any cause...after all,
whatever we're doing needs our best selves not the half self we so
often give it.
"[Effort and release are] the antidote for much of what plagues our
movements for social justice and social change. We have this
imbalance overall on the practice side, the effort side for good
reason, right? The world is in a mess as far as we can tell. And so
those of us who have made the decision to apply ourselves to the
cleaning up of this mess become very fixated on the practice, the
abhyasa (the effort), the what-needs-to-be-done, and there's no
room for the vairagya (the release). You wouldn't even think such a
thing. You are applauded the more hours you work; the more
city residents' drinking water.
Read more...
Learn about the Marjora Carter Group
social CHANGE
Bioneers | A Vision of the
Future
On the Bioneers Web site there's
a quote from poet David Orr that
reads,"Hope is a verb with its
[image:Thomaz
Scalquo Cia]
think of the Bioneers conference
in that way, as hope ready to dig into a huge cross
section of viable solutions toward sustainability...
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Register/Learn about Bioneers 2011 Conference
Download the Bioneers 2011 brochure
Bioneers 2011 programs
in the MIND
The Environmental
Connection | Psychology &
poorly you eat; the less you take care of your body. Haven't seen
your partner or family in weeks? Good. You're changing the world."
Sustainability
Our impact on the earth and on
one another has long been
Listen to The Value of Effort & Release
Read The Value of Effort & Release
sleeves rolled up." You could
[image: Juan Arreo]
acknowledged. The fairly young
field of ecopsychology looks at
how our minds are connected to the "mind" of the
earth, how our behavior and how we feel about
ourselves (and one another) manifests...
activists, allies & agents of change
Read more...
Majora Carter | Staying Green, Staying Home
What is Ecopsychology?
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Read the Inspiring Action PDF
Majora hosts the Peabody Award winning
public-radio series: The Promised Land. She
has a long list of awards and honorary
degrees, including a MacArthur “genius”
Fellowship. She founded Sustainable South
Bronx in 2001 when few were talking about
[image: Majora Carter
Group]
"sustainability"; and even fewer, in places like
The South Bronx. Since 2008, her consulting company, MCG has
exported Climate Adaptation...
A lot of what Majora's come to understand about creating
sustainable environments, political movements, and leadership is
Read about the Ecological Unconscious
Learn about Psychologists for Social Responsibility
fearless Meditation is a 3-part signature series that
teaches practical meditation within a social justice
framework. It's offered for no charge for agents of
social change.
"the best workshop i've ever taken. radically changed
my work."
fearless Meditation I:
October 14, 2011 & every 1st Friday | 7pm
that the kind of work she does is not an issue of morality but a
spiritual quest. Speaking to Speaking of Faith's Kate Moos, Majora
(NOTE: due to scheduling conflicts, this month's
said, "A huge part of our job is telling folks that their liberation is
tied up with everyone else's, no matter how powerful they think
in the BODY
workshop is being held the 2nd Friday)
Sustaining a Practice
they are."
Read more...
Editor's Note: Written by Gail
Parris, a new contributor to
Learn about The Promised Land
Speaking of Faith Interview with Majora Carter
transform. and a fearlessYoga
instructor.
Majora's 2010 TEDxMidwest Talk
[image: Eileen Dreyer]
Journeying to the studio or
resources for change…
unrolling your mat can feel like a monumental task.
Author Patricia Allen discusses the efforts of two movements,
sustainable agriculture and community food security, in her book
something I enjoy doing, purely for the love of it, to
Together At The Table. Allen examines the two movements
involved in reconstructing the agri-food system from the growing
of crops to production and distribution so that we can work toward
becoming more ecologically sound, economically viable, and
socially just. Learn more about this book at Penn State University
Press.
Sustainability & Sustenance in the American Agri-food System
Somewhere along the path my practice switched from
something I felt obligated to do. As a result, when I did
not practice, I felt guilty or defeated by my lack of
comittment...
Read more...
fearlessYoga at CXC
Sundays | 9:30 - 11:00am
Every Body welcome.
The Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG), initiated a
program in India which allowed increased sustainability in a local
Free for agents of social change. Donations welcome.
farm system by strengthening recycling processes and maintaining
soil fertility by using sustainable bio-inputs and ecological
wellness & being well
Protest is Good for You
methods that resulted in higher net gains and improved health in
families. Watch this inspiring documentary.
Written by guest contributor,
MamaDonna Henes
A Journey from Sustenance to Sustainability
Charlottesville's UVA architecture department is making its
contribution to the affordable, energy efficient housing movement.
The media likes to portray
[image: Anita Patterson]
peace, environmental, human
and animal rights protesters as
The departments ecoMOD project has built several homes that cost
less than a buck a day in electricity costs. Learn more and find out
a fringe element of whining malcontents teetering on
what the ecoMOD project is doing to develop the zero energy
home.
who step forward to speak their mind are happier and
Green Building Talk
the margins of proper society. The truth is that those
healthier folks than most.
Read more...
Connect with MamaDonna Henes
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Although it may be hard to define exactly what the Bioneers
Conference is, it's clearly a conference of progress, change, and
endurance. People from all over come to hear the wisdom of
scientists, spiritual teachers, game changers, grandmothers, and
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others thoroughly invested in supporting us all in transitioning into
a more sustainable, life-respecting future. This year's hot speakers
include: Gloria Steinem, Lynne Twist and Phillippe Cousteau.
Bioneers Conference
Fight the Power! Join leaderless protests in cities nationwide with
folks who are tired of being ruled by the top one percent. Occupy
Wall Street has been called revolutionary for its potential to
transfer power from the few to the many. Like the many protests
that have taken place around the world this year, it illustrates the
beginnings of wholesale change.
Video of Cornel West at Occupy Wall Street
shade red
Situated on the Black Sea, the resort town of Sile (shee-
quote of the month
"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease,
avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot
save them from fools."
—John Muir, Naturalist & Author
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lay) is famous for it's beaches and light cotton. There's
a lighthouse, Byzantine ruins and powerful rock
formations. But none of that matters once you arrive at
one of the many beaches, grab a beer and hunker down
to watch a sandy volleyball game or gaze at the perfect
sky before the soothing sounds of the sea take you
away.
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