Desmond Tutu: My Plea to the People of Israel – “Liberate Yourselves by Liberating Palestine”

Source – goldenageofgaia.com – By Desmond Tutu, Haaretz, August 14, 2014, The past weeks have witnessed unprecedented action by members of civil society across the world against the injustice of Israel’s disproportionately brutal response to the firing of missiles from Palestine. If you add together all the people who gathered over the past weekend to…

Communities all across America are ending homelessness – Over 100,000 Homeless People Have Been Moved Into Homes

Source – 100khomes.org – Whether you live in a major metropolis or a small town, chances are you’ve seen homeless people sleeping or wandering the streets at some point. On those cold and ruthless winter nights I can’t help but feel compassion and misery for anyone who doesn’t have warm food, clothing, or a bed…

Societal Shift: Schools Begin Teaching Kids How to Grow Organic, Sustainable Food

Source – naturalsociety.com – Some schools leave an open door for the likes of Monsanto to creep in, infesting young minds with propaganda lies like ‘GM is needed to feed the world.’ Other schools take their classrooms outdoors, learning about vermiculture, organic growing techniques, the importance of soil health, and the damage that pesticides and…

2016 Presidential Hopeful, Texas Governor Rick Perry Indicted For Abuse Of Power

Source – bigstory.ap.org – A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for allegedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption — making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state’s first indicted governor in nearly a century. A special prosecutor…

RAINBOW WARRIOR: Royal Raymond Rife, Cancer Researcher And Inventor Extraordinaire

Source – rense.com – Imagine, for a moment, that you have spent more than two decades in painfully laborious research– that you have discovered an incredibly simple, electronic approach to curing literally every disease on the planet caused by viruses and bacteria . Indeed, it is a discovery that would end the pain and suffering…

10 Young People Who Are Changing the Food System for the Better

Source – themindunleashed.org – Food Tank | Innovations in agriculture don’t just come from veteran environmentalists or food industry heavyweights. In fact, many incredibly inspiring projects are the creations of youth and young people around the world. Food Tank is excited to highlight ten young foodies who make us more hopeful about the future. 1-2.…

Hate: The Ultimate Social Control Mechanism

Source – wakeup-world.com, by Ethan Indigo Smith – Many of the layers and subtleties in Orwell’s 1984, though fixed for the sake of fiction, so perfectly reflect the non-fictional world – the impulses of totalitarian institutions and the spirit of individuals – that it has become a near timeless representation. Arguably the most significant political…

Emoto’s Water Experiment: The Power of Thoughts

Source: masaru-emoto.net – Through the 1990′s, Dr. Masaru Emoto performed a series of experiments observing the physical effect of words, prayers, music and environment on the crystalline structure of water. Emoto hired photographers to take pictures of water after being exposed to the different variables and subsequently frozen so that they would form crystalline structures.…

Year of the whistleblower: 10 things we didn’t know before Snowden

Source: rt.com/ – Welcome to the post-Snowden era, where everything you say or do can be monitored by secret services – regardless of a court of law. One year on,here are the top 10 revelations showing us how the world has been fundamentally transformed by state snooping. READ MORE: Time to #ResetTheNet and take your…

‘Guerilla Gardener’ in South Central LA Plants Vegetables to Feed His Community

Source: expandedconsciousness.com – Artist and designer Ron Finley couldn’t help but notice what was going on in his backyard. “South Central Los Angeles,” he quips, “home of the drive-thru and the drive-by.” And it’s the drive-thru fast-food stands that contribute more to the area’s poor health and high mortality rate, with one in two kids contracting a…

‘Progressive Activist’ Plans Wild, 30-Day ‘Anything Goes’ Party Across From Bundy Ranch

  Source: theblaze.com  – Attendees of the annual Burning Man festival plan to converge near Cliven Bundy’s property in September for a 30-day “rules-free” gathering, a cheeky response to the rancher’s refusal to recognize federal authority in Nevada. “For years, we paid permitting fees to hold Burning Man on the beautiful Playa in Northern Nevada,” reads…

The Co-Op Movement – A Decentralized Solution to Solving Inequality and Avoiding Serfdom?

Or take the right to vote. In principle, it is a great privilege. In practice, as recent history has repeatedly shown, the right to vote, by itself, is no guarantee of liberty. Therefore, if you wish to avoid dictatorship by referendum, break up modern society’s merely functional collectives into self-governing, voluntarily co-operating groups, capable of…

The Strategy for Social Change – Civil disobedience is vital, but it is insufficient to transform society. A new science of cooperation illuminates the path ahead

Understandings of cooperation are becoming more sophisticated thanks to recent advances in research. Innate aggression theorists have tried to popularize the false belief that people are intrinsically competitive. Taken to the extreme, it’s a belief that supports the misconception that war is inevitable. But a growing number of studies demonstrate the opposite conclusion. Anthropologist Douglas Fry, for example, has brought…

A 84-year-old nun and two peace activists get years behind bars – trio took part in ploughshares action in 2012 at nuclear weapons production facility

A 84-year-old nun and two peace activists who engaged in a non-violent demonstration at nuclear weapons production facility in Tennessee because “our very humanity rejects the designs of nuclearism, empire and war” were sentenced Tuesday to several years behind bars while critics of the verdict say the true crime of nuclear weapons proliferation remains unpunished… Continue Reading……