Stop Raping Our Greatest Resource, Power to Women and Girls of DRC

Pain Into Power
V-Day 2010 Sign your name and post your photo to the V-Wall for Congo

Find out everything you can about this most heinous of war crimes against humanity; the absolutely most brutal systems of rape against women for economic gain. Raping everyone, EVERYONE in front of everyone else, and thereby plunging entire villages into submission! Taking women survivors of these mass rapes into sexual slavery. The history of this twelve year-old war in the Congo must be uncovered! Know, if you do not already that the Congo is one of the very richest natural places left on this planet. Everyone who owns a cell phone has this blood on your phone_ we ALL are implicated. The horrors I have only listened to via iTunesU: Power Into Pain, are unimaginable. We must raise money for those in the Congo on the front lines helping, healing, and building communities for women survivors. According to Eve Ensler they are the fiercest women survivors on this planet. The point has been made that people are not wanted to just show up in the Congo, as a way of resonding in order to try to help, because there is a war there (a twelve-year war!). Besides it's too dangerous to protect people and costs too much where resources are non-existent. Instead, raising all the money that each community and/or organization can and finding ways to get the money directly to the women there and staying out of their lives, so that they can figure out how to put their communities back together, is the best support we can give. And add your name and face to the V-Wall for Congo project so these women know we are out here and that we hear them and as members of the human family that we care.
Our politicians MUST, MUST prioritize this part of the world, unless we want to allow this reality of war against women, against children as young as 3 years of age and against women in their 70's to grow like the cancer it is, to spread across this planet. Our politicians must not deal with this part of the world by conflict, but rather by politics_ changing political policy for the better and NOW!
Good men everywhere must, must also find their courage and stand up to the few men who are evil. When this happens is when this kind of violence will end and when the structures of patriarchy that must be, are dismantled. I am not making a fashionable feminist statement here, I am serious. Violence against women everywhere on this planet MUST STOP.
Listen to Eve Ensler talk about Security, on TED.

The Peaceful Expression of Democracy- How Far the Human Spirit can Go!

Burmese generals: $5bn profit from Total pipeline deal

Aung San Suu Kyi denied access to appeal
Published by Burma VJ
on September 18, 2009, in Latest news on Burma and aung san suu kyi.




Aung San Suu Kyi will not be allowed to appear in court in person during the appeal against her 18-month house arrest extension. Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention was extended after she was convicted of breaching security laws by allowing an uninvited US man into her home.

Ms Suu Kyi has spent 14 of the last 20 years in detention. The latest sentence has drawn international condemnation, and means she cannot take part in elections next year.

Meanwhile, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report states that the number of political prisoners in Burma’s notorious jails has doubled in the two years, since the 2007 ‘Saffron Uprisings’ dramtically captured in the footage of Burma VJ.

According to HRW there are more than 2,200 people jailed for their beliefs in 43 jails, often held in solitary confinement in small, dark cells.

To find out more about the conditions faced by political prisoners in Burma, read our guest-blog post “Burmese hell holes”.

Read the full BBC news article here.



"...Singapore (where the Burmese Generals have their bank accounts), Thailand Russia and both Koreas are also involved in doing "business" with the junta. The international community (including U2 :) should be aware of these geo/political/economic facts
I wish that all the people of Burma (and the world!) can live in peace, dignity and freedom..."

"...The more the West isolates Burma the more it becomes a Chinese "colony". The Chinese are building a gas pipeline across Burma and port facilities on the West coast of Burma, because they have a strategic military interest in controlling access to the Bay Bengal. They use their veto power in the UN security council and supply most of the weapons for the Burmese military. Without the support of China, the military junta could never have lasted this long..."

"...YES! Get involved and HELP FREE BURMA!"

2012: The Energetic Countdown is Happening Now

BY JAMES REDFIELD

Many of you have heard me mention, in the Global Prayer Project sessions, the name of Carl Johan Calleman. In my opinion, he is the Mayan Calender expert with the most accurate information about the Calendar's predictions. He says three things I believe each of us must ACT ON NOW. One, the predictions have nothing to do with the end of human existence; this is Hollywood hype. The predictions are about helping us move into a higher spiritual consciousness. Two, the energies predicted by the Mayans are coming in already, and they peak, not on December 21, 2012, but on October 28, 2011. And Three, the energies are accelerating, with a pulse hitting us now, beginning NOVEMBER 8, 2009.

Calleman Article

Calleman further clarifies the heart of the Mayans' message for us: the energies of spiritual evolution have been coming into humanity since the Big Bang, pushing human consciousness first into the cellular through biological levels, next the Tribal through the Planetary levels, and then into the current Galactic Consciousness -- a total of Eight levels up to this point. The new phase beginning on the 8th is called the Sixth Night of the Galactic level, and lasts through November 2, 2010.This is one of the last steps before we move into the Ninth and final level, Universal Consciousness, which will begin to occur in 2011.

As you know, we have been describing this same evolving consciousness, and how it feels, in the CELESTINE PROPHECY SERIES OF BOOKS. And my upcoming book, THE 12TH INSIGHT, is about what we are already beginning to feel and do to fully integrate this heightened consciousness. In light of this, I believe we are being called immediately to deal with this impending Sixth Night surge! The world financial crisis occurred during the previous, Fifth Night period, which began on November 18, 2007, coinciding exactly with the beginning of the financial crisis. (See Calleman's Chart in his article.) The following Sixth Day, beginning November 12, 2008, was marked by the enthusiasms of the Obama Election in the US and later signs of economic recovery around the world. However, Night Periods are always times of pause, and reflections, to envision what we want and to adjust to what is real. So the coming Night Period seems likely to bring more challenges and revelations, increasing around July of next summer. Calleman believes the Dollar may collapse and all governments may go bankrupt. It could also be more moderate and manifest more internally. In any case, I believe the severity for each of us as individuals, depends on HOW WE HANDLE IT SPIRITUALLY.

The Day Period ending November 7 has been marked by political manipulation, blame, and unbelievable lying on all sides, and a tendency by business to go right back to "business as usual." However, as our consciousness has risen, we have developed an increased sense of truthfulness, and we are totally turned off by all this. We can now more readily tell when someone is out of integrity, we react, and this creates a more immediate karma for those people. (The approval rating for the US Congress is now just 26 percent.) On November 8, the surge of the new night period will flow into us, and I believe we will be called in this period to see the synchronicity of this rash of inauthentic ways of being in political circles as a message for our lives. Hence, I think we will begin cleansing our individual selves of all that is out of integrity. That means telling nothing but the complete truth as we know it to others, and acting always in other people's best interest. (Remember, they already know whether we are or not.) And that alone will bring about a movement toward enlightened capitalism and a more civil society. On the other hand, if we fight the tide, karma will increase.

Another action I believe we are being called to take is to prepare for disruption. Have food stored. Have a plan for going somewhere with a generator if the lights and phones go out for an extended length of time. Watch for currency problems, and take appropriate action. And please don't fall for the fuzzy idea that preparing is sending out a negative expectation and attracting the worst. As Calleman points out, the divine force pushing us along is doing so whether we like it or not. Carry an expectation and prayer for a positive outcome, even while you use your intuition to help you make the right choices. Premonitions and inner guidances are there for a purpose as we evolve toward a more ethical and spiritual world.

As many are already pointing out, the next rising economy is being built on a new value: TRUST. Can we trust the actions and honor of the person we are networking with? Are a person's actions as good as his/her word? With this new sensory power, and better Karma, we are bringing forward the best of our history and tradition. As in all integrations, this one can be proven to oneself. Just try it and you'll feel the full energy of this phase of spiritual evolution: an ethical shift in how we relate to each other -- a shift the Mayans somehow knew was coming.

Peace, Hope and Unity in Our Global Human Family

I'd like to buy the world a coke and keep it company...

Help Bring Hope to Diaster Survivors

Dear Friends,

You have likely heard the news that three natural disasters have killed hundreds and left thousands homeless over the recent days.

This past weekend, Typhoon Ketsana triggered widespread flooding in the Philippines, leaving more than 200 people dead and millions more affected. That same typhoon has killed another 75 people to date in Vietnam and left thousands more homeless. It has submerged entire villages in Laos.

And then, when things seem like they couldn't get worse, Samoa was hit with a tsunami from an 8.0 earthquake and Indonesia with a 7.9 earthquake. Initial reports state that possibly 200 people are dead and hundreds more may be buried in rubble.

CARE emergency teams are already on the ground providing lifesaving relief to survivors in the Philippines, Vietnam and Laos and we are assessing the situation in Indonesia.

We are able to carry out our vital emergency work — and help families and communities rebuild in the aftermath of disaster — because of the generosity of donors like you.

Would you please make a gift today to ensure that we can continue to offer support to survivors of disasters like these recent ones?

While we still do not know the full scale of these disasters, we are preparing for the worst and will respond as needed.

Please give now and help CARE bring lifesaving aid and much-needed hope to women, families and communities in crisis all over the world.

Sincerely,



Helene D. Gayle, MD, MP
President and CEO, CARE

No one is saying be less materialistic!

Materialists WILL and are decry/(ing) this movie, like well-trained DOGS!! Yet, if materialists will go here and learn about the cycle of reusing materials in more healthy ways that ARE being developed, then maybe slowly, the average materialist will begin to understand stuff is still possible to attain, just the way your little pavlovic-driven unconscious is addicted!! WooHoo!! Sorry, I couldn't stop myself from the initial criticism of the reactionary...! Get over it and LISTEN until your neuro-transmitters make the connection!! Sorry!


Severn Cullis-Suzuki

These stories of stewarding national consumerist habituation, are NOT perfect, yet, they ARE beginning the change for the better! Can YOU help? Add to this? Come up with a BETTER way?? Then DO IT! The world needs your contributions too, NOT reactionsm which is so CHEAP anyway!! Listen to your own fundamental human values and learn to recognize them in other people "across the isle" from you. We aren't in a competition to win! What? Life on the planet... you stay... you go...?!! Whose death panels? Whose grandmother gets it in the chest?!! Come on, CHEAP, HABITUAL REACTIONISM IS what is DEAD!

Yet, recently it has occurred after looking at reruns of Oprah (I've not watched most of the last twenty years, though I DO like the woman!)_ it's just that diamonds on any woman is worth reconsidering in light of the facts that "the faceless miners in Sierra Leone fear for their lives every day, as they work in hazardous work conditions and subsist on less than 1% of the value of a pencil, in a Hirst diamond installation in Western Africa."