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THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE POLICY YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF

  ONE POLICY (championed by leaders of both parties) leads to poverty, pollution, racism, severe inequality, loss of good jobs, unnecessary wars & many of the other serious problems we face.   **But there's GOOD NEWS:  We can end this one policy & prioritize people & the planet.   Unbeknownst to most of us, REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRATIC …

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Take Your Mind for a Walk

THE LAST GASP OF PATRIARCHY AND CARTESIAN THOUGHT (Don't miss the four great video clips below.  They're the heart of this post). "Mindwalk is a 1990 film set at Mont Saint Michel, France. It's directed by Bernt Amadeus Capra and is based on the book The Turning Point by his brother Fritjof Capra (the author …

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Princeton University proves that our members of Congress are only representing the interests of a few.

(Please see two short videos below.  They're very sharp and you'll be surprised how crisply they define our problem and a potential solution -- one that 500,000 people are already working on). As it stands, Congress does not represent the interest of most of the people in this country.   Members of Congress really only …

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This Blog’s Purpose

SUMMARY Each of us makes our own sense of the world.  We sometimes share that view in the hope of finding comraderie, common ground and even solutions.   In Reshad Feild's book "The Last Barrier", the teacher says to his student: "You have to put your message on the wind.  You never know who will …

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Some Powerful Photos (taken by others)

1st - Click on title above to see photos.   2nd - click on any photo to enlarge.  This will allow you to view one at a time on a black background and easily scroll through.         WE CAN DEFINITELY TURN THIS THING AROUND.  We actually have far more power than we …

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LIFE IN THE U.S.A.: Some Key Statistics

  50% of children in the U.S. live below or near the poverty line.   (Columbia University School of Public Health study here )   20 individuals now have as much wealth as the poorest 150 million Americans (half the country per The Nation magazine here ).   A study by the Atlantic found that …

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198 Effective Methods of Nonviolent Resistance (marching is only one of them)

Martin Luther King, Jr. said that nonviolence is the most powerful weapon on earth. Gene Sharp agrees.   Sharp (who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize) developed a list of 198 Methods of non-violent resistance and wrote books describing how to deploy them successfully.   As you'll see in the video below, Sharp's proven …

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ONE POLICY gave rise to manufactured poverty, Trump, nazis in the streets, good jobs being shipped overseas, unnecessary wars & environmental destruction. We can definitely defeat that policy. But first we have to understand what it IS.

(Please see photos towards the bottom of this post to see how the super wealthy are living compared to the rest of us.   Also don't miss the SPECIAL NOTES FOR US DEMOCRATS below and the startling admission by the CEO of the largest carpet manufacturer in the world near the bottom).       …

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Half the country is REALLY hurting. And the other half has no idea. We can do way more than just tweak poverty programs. We can actually ELIMINATE THE POLICY THAT CREATES POVERTY IN THE FIRST PLACE!

         Poverty and inequality are:   unnecessary, MANUFACTURED and fixable.  Knowing that makes us look at this eye-opening list in a whole new way: 50% of children in the U.S. live below or near the poverty line.   (Columbia University School of Public Health study here ) 20 individuals now have as …

Continue reading Half the country is REALLY hurting. And the other half has no idea. We can do way more than just tweak poverty programs. We can actually ELIMINATE THE POLICY THAT CREATES POVERTY IN THE FIRST PLACE!

ONE POLICY (championed by both parties) leads to poverty, pollution, racism, severe inequality, loss of good jobs, unnecessary wars & many of the other serious problems we face.  **BUT THERE’S GOOD NEWS:  We can end this one policy & prioritize people & the planet.

           Unbeknownst to many of us, REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRATIC LEADERS have been agreeing for decades about one policy.  It's called neoliberalism and it's causing many of the enormous problems we are wrestling with today.  If we end this one policy (and we can end it), we can improve the lives of millions …

Continue reading ONE POLICY (championed by both parties) leads to poverty, pollution, racism, severe inequality, loss of good jobs, unnecessary wars & many of the other serious problems we face.  **BUT THERE’S GOOD NEWS:  We can end this one policy & prioritize people & the planet.