August 6th, 2012 | D.I.Y., Traditional, colonialism, Connection, culture, earth, education, health, IdleNoMore, indigenous, language, Sharon Venne, women
Great talk by Sharon Venne on language, connection, traditions, law, education, colonialism, religion, grounding, land, women, death, spirituality, children and more.
Interview conducted by @jpmontano (one of my favorite peeps to follow on twitter)
May 26th, 2012
I recently discovered this comprehensive article on the damage wireless networks do to humans and children in particular while checking out this website about a city in New Zealand (Nelson) and their struggle to ban a celltower that Telecom wanted to install right next to a school. They may have ...
May 18th, 2012
Source: Nation of Change By Ellen Brown The Social Security program ... represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute. -- President Jimmy Carter, December 20, 1977. ...
March 27th, 2012
The edible schoolyard project that Alice Waters began with the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, in Berkeley in 1995 is a truly visionary project. Since it's beginning 17 years ago it has spread across North America as well as the world. Alice Waters of Chez Panisse restaurant is the mother ...
November 30th, 2011
I am very excited to see this movement. There is so much student debt in the US at the moment that even if a fraction of the students came together to stop paying their student debt it would have a huge effect on the economy. Those in debt actually have a huge power here and they are finally wising ...
November 21st, 2011
We've been attending the HUGGS yearly benefits since we moved to Vancouver. HUGGS CANADA sponsors young people in India who show the potential to continue their studies but whose families do not have the necessary resources. HUGGS is committed to providing the educational and support needs of our st ...
September 12th, 2011
Spending time in Burma, I have seen this type of education in effect in the most basic manner possible. Children are generally made to sit on stools, still as boards. They spend hours reciting things, sometimes in English, with no knowledge of what they are saying. This is not authentic education, w ...
August 4th, 2011
An excellent little talk about how crazy our education system is. ...
June 20th, 2011
Here's a link to a short 14 minute video about a little radio station in one of the most remote corners of the world, West Papua in Indonesia. Although the world's largest gold mine is located in West Papua the indigenous people are treated as second class citizens on their own land. This inspiri ...
March 21st, 2011
Recently I got a comment on my post about the Student Loan Swindle from a very creative and interesting thinker who is living through this very situation herself. She has been homeless as a result and yet she has realised this is a bigger issue that many people are facing. Instead of accepting the c ...
