Changing Channels
Chances are, this year on the weekend of Sept 11th, you saw countless footage of planes flying into the World Trade Center, or the protests at Ground Zero about the controversy of whether a Muslim Community Center should be built in Lower Manhattan.
Did you know that on the same weekend over 80,000 People attended the 12th annual Power to the Peaceful Festival in San Francisco? Power to the Peaceful is an annual event bringing hundreds of thousands of people together under the theme of MUSIC, NON-VIOLENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS AND ACTION. Read More
Keep On Keeping On
Keep On Keeping On
For the last 60 days, I have felt a heaviness in my chest that has weighed down my usual optimism and zest for life. I feel so helpless as I watch the millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf.
I have asthma and know what it feels like to have my lungs fill with a thick substance, causing my airways to swell, depriving my body of oxygen. So when I read that in addition to the oil and toxic dispersants in the Gulf, there are also deep sea oil plumes are causing a dangerous drop in oxygen creating a ‘dead zone’ where animals suffocate and die, I acutely feel their fear and pain. Read More
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