The People Do HAVE POWER!!! JOIN US!!

I was so happy I danced around the house yesterday and blew raspberries at all who told me to "just forget about it, it's a done deal."

But it's not a done deal. As long as I live and breath I will do what I can in my way to protect the planet, the people, my child. PLEASE WILL YOU DO THAT TOO!!

#ClimateWelcome - JUSTIN -they have some gifts for you!

(http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/11/climatewelcome-justin-they-have-some.html)

"This is the fight of our time, it may be the fight of All time!! JOIN US! "

350.org – Bill McKibben

http://350.org/kxl-victory/

 

"We just made history. Together, we have shown what it takes to win: a determined, principled, unrelenting grassroots movement that takes to the streets whenever necessary, and isn't afraid to put our bodies on the line.

Powered by our organizing, the tide is turning against the fossil fuel industry. Today we can approach all of our work with new eyes. We know that we can fight, and we can win. We share this video with joy and immense gratitude."

How the Keystone Fight Was Won

Posted by 350.org on Friday, November 6, 2015

KEYSTONE, pipeline, Tarsands, indigenous, diverse coalition, ranchers, trans Canada, student, body on the line, peaceful disobedience, sit-ins, non-violence direct action, days of action, make voices heard, take to the streets, reject keystone, Obama, peoples march, climate march, never give up, fracking, don't listen, do the right, thing, take back our future,

Photo from Idle No More Video-

http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2014/09/peoples-climate-march-get-it-done.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Climate_March

http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/09/ulali-idle-no-more-peoples-climate.html 

"Indigenous leaders at the Peoples Climate March in New York speak to the urgency of Climate Change and the need for all of us to be #IdleNoMore. From the Amazon to the Arctic, Indigenous Peoples are defending our climate and teaching allies about how extractive industries are directly connected to sovereignty, colonization, and violence against Indigenous women. "





http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2014/09/disruption-watch-it-stand-together-get.html


We NEED PEOPLE POWER!!




http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2011/11/climate-change-upon-canada-watch-this.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2011/10/occupy-wallstreet-whole-world-is.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2011/10/videos-of-suzuki-at-occupy-vancouver.html 
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2012/05/stop-pipeline.html 

Terrifying footage of Hurricane Patricia- Emiliano Zapata

 http://adventurezinmexico.blogspot.ca/2015/11/terrifying-footage-of-hurricane.html


http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/11/earthtoparis-send-your-message.html


This December, 50,000 world leaders from over 190 nations will meet in Paris for the COP21 Paris Climate Conference to (hopefully) pass resolutions to combat climate change. The stakes couldn't be higher, but the outcome remains unclear. Send a message from #EarthToParis - tell the world's leaders to make bold commitments to combat climate change. Share a video or a photo by 11/22 using the hashtag #EarthToParis [Video by GOOD + Nirvan] www.earthtoparis.org

#EarthToParis: This is NOT About Jack Black or Lil Bub

Posted by United Nations Foundation on Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Idle No More- POWERFUL Video-People's Climate March

Beautiful, POWERFUL, inspiring video that made me cry but gives me hope. Can we make the changes necessary, for our children's and future grandchildren's sake, I pray we can

Photo from Idle No More Video-

Published Youtube on Sep 22, 2014

"Indigenous leaders at the Peoples Climate March in New York speak to the urgency of Climate Change and the need for all of us to be #IdleNoMore. From the Amazon to the Arctic, Indigenous Peoples are defending our climate and teaching allies about how extractive industries are directly connected to sovereignty, colonization, and violence against Indigenous women.

Thanks to Ulali for the beautiful and powerful music!"

PLEASE WATCH AND SHARE WIDELY! Thank you!

Awakening the Dreamer CALIFORNIA May 9

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Blog post by Tina Winterlik © 2011

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Oh Wow, if you can make it to this you should.

Monday, May 09, 2011 from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM (PT)

San Diego, CA

The Pachamama Alliance's

Awakening the Dreamer

Changing the Dream Symposium

Hosted by Johnathan Budd and Facilitated by Lynne Twist


It will be awesome, not just to go and see and listen, but to connect with all the other like minded people in the room. It's going to be POWERFUL!! 

http://atdwithjbmay9.eventbrite.com/


http://awakeningthedreamer.org/

Eventbrite- Lynne Twist/ Johnathan Budd- Awakening the Dreamer Symposium

Join us in exploring the most critical concerns of our times, and discover new opportunities to make a real difference in accelerating the emergence of an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet.

The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium will disturb you, inspire you and move you to action. Through dynamic group interactions, leading edge information, and inspiring multimedia, participants will be inspired to reconnect with their deep concern for our world, and be empowered to make a difference.

Join us in bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.

Suggested donation $20 - no one will be turned away.
http://atdwithjbmay9.eventbrite.com/


http://awakeningthedreamer.org/





A Call For Our Time: The Story of The Pachamama Alliance (2010) from Pachamama Alliance on Vimeo.
The Story of The Pachamama Alliance. Stay connected with us through:

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Plan a Symposium for EARTH DAY 2011

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This EARTH DAY, LET'S DO SOMETHING SUPER COOL & EXCITING!! Let's plan to host or attend a symposium. Here's how!

This is quoted from the Awakening the Dreamer Website
http://awakeningthedreamer.org/symposiums-unite-on-earth-day/

A Call to Action

Every April 22 for the last 40 years, individuals and organizations from around the world have been inspired to demonstrate their commitment to environmental protection and sustainability by uniting to celebrate Earth Day.

So what is possible in YOUR community this Earth Day, 2011?


Plan a Symposium on Earth Day

Wouldn’t it be great if together we engaged over 5,000 people with the message of the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium on the SAME day?

You are likely (hopefully), faced with many options on what to do, but if you are inspired to play a part in this vision, call on your fellow Facilitators and plan a Symposium now

And if you already have an event, consider using the attention of Earth Day to show the ATD-CTD Trailer and/or the Four Years Go video and encourage people to find a Symposium near them soon. You may just open doors for Symposiums to be delivered to groups you never thought you had access to!

Plan an Earth Day Symposium

Earth Day

Plan A Symposium

Register your Earth Day Symposium

So let’s play! Register your Earth Day Symposium on our new mapping tool, so we can all see Symposiums that will take place all around the world on Earth Day.

You can also share a comment below about your Symposium to connect with Facilitators worldwide!


Thanks for all you do on Earth Day and EVERY day!

http://awakeningthedreamer.org/get-involved/the-symposium/

Host a Symposium or Attend a Symposium - For Earth Day 2011

Plan or Attend a Symposium

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ARE YOU IN ?

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Our work is helping to build a movement of change agents, an invitation we extend to everyone!

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Our mission is to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.

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Company Overview

The two-fold mission of The Pachamama Alliance is to:


1. Preserve the Earth's tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians.

2. Contribute to the creation of a new global vision of equity and sustainability for all.


Awakening the Dreamer is one of the initiatives The Pachamama Alliance has created to fulfill the latter.


Mission

Bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on Planet Earth.

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The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium serves as a galvanizing space for individuals to deeply explore the extraordinary possibilities inherent in a communion of technology with spirit.


Through dynamic group interactions, leading edge information, and inspiring multimedia, participants of this half-day event are inspired to reconnect with their deep concern for our world, and are empowered to formulate their own personal daily practices that contribute to the creation of a new dream for themselves as well as for our world.


Symposiums are held worldwide. 

Visit http://xr.com/ATDSymposiums to find a symposium near you!

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Salt Spring Island April 16 12:30-5:30 pm

Symposiums

Above are the dates and times of an event on Salt Spring Island.
Below is a sample symposium, that just passed. Let's fill this map with blue dots. 

If you want to Save Our Planet, Your Future and The Planet's future, organize a symposium or attend one. Let's get this party started!! We NEED YOU! Everyone is Invited!!


I see there is one for Kamloops and Calgary is onboard, Come On Nelson- let's go!! You guys can definitely get behind this.

Vancouver we can do way better. 

Come on Canada, and Mexico.


Por favor Amigos de Zipolite, y Puerto Vallarta, Bucerias, Oaxaca, Palenque, Merida, San Cristobal las Casas, Huatulco, tu necessitas organize esta event. Es muy muy importante. 


Todo la mundo necessita cambio la mundo. Join Awakening the Dreamer. 


Everyone who speaks Spanish and English, please translate and share this incredibly important information.

Sample of past Symposium - Next on Salt Spring- We need lots more to get everyone involved.


Are You In?
 Vancouver BC, Canada - the Beehive Collective House
March 27, 2011 (11:00:00 - 15:00:00)
The vision of the symposium is bold: to create an environmentally sustainable, socially just, and spiritually fulfilling human presence on Planet Earth. The symposium aims to show the interconnectedness between spirituality, the environment and social justice for all.

Through leading-edge information, inspiring speakers in videos, internal reflection time, and dynamic group interactions, participants are inspired to reconnect wit......h their deep care and concern for the Mother Earth and are empowered to make a difference.

Reconnect back with the ancient indigenous wisdom and learn how to balance this knowledge in the western world.

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Location

The Beehive: 1153 Lakewood Dr.

Schedule

11:00am-12:30pm - Symposium Part 1
12:30pm-1:00pm - Bring your own Bagged Lunch
1:00-3:00pm - Symposium Part 2

FREE event with donation option to give to space holders.

Registration Details: To RSVP please email Li at litalkeller@hotmail.com

Payment Details: Optional donation to space holders for hosting us in their lovely living room.

For more information please contact:: Li Keller - litalkeller@hotmail.com

Cost: FREE

Other Location Details: The Beehive is a collective house near Commercial Dr. (no actual bees live here, just the human kind, and a friendly cat)
For busing, please look up your route on translink.ca
For driving, you must drive up Victoria St. then turn onto William and left on Lakewood (as Lakewood is a bicycle-friendly street with motor vehicle barriers).

Indigeous Ecuadorian Woman Humbles Chevron

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Feb 24/2011

Indigenous Ecuadoran woman humbles US oil giant

Marie Aguinda

 She has no legal training, and doesn't speak the Spanish that dominates government in Quito but indigenous villager Maria Aguinda helped bring a landmark judgment against US oil giant Chevron for polluting the rain forest she calls home.

The diminutive grandmother whose modest home sits near marshes clogged for decades in sticky oil has been at the heart of the David-and-Goliath case, and spoke out after Chevron was slapped last week with a $9.5-billion fine, among the heaviest ever handed down for environmental damage.

"Before I die they have to pay me for the dead animals, and for what they did to the river, and the water and the earth," the 61-year-old Aguinda told AFP at her home in Rumipamba, a town in remote Orellana province where pollution caused by 30 years of oil drilling and petroleum accidents had become a sad fact of life.

Texaco operated in the area between 1964 and 1990, and was bought in 2001 by Chevron, which inherited Texaco's legal nightmare.

"The demand (for compensation) is going on track," said the ethnic Quechua woman, pointing to a nearby spot marked by spillage from an oil well run by Texaco in the 1970s.

"Mary Aguinda et al" are the opening words of the suit launched in 1993 on behalf of 30,000 residents of Orellana and Sucumbios provinces, in which they charge Texaco dumped billions of gallons of toxic crude during its operations, fouling rivers, lakes and soil and causing cancer deaths in indigenous communities.

Aguinda said she believes her husband and two of his 10 children died from effects of the pollution, which rights group Amazon Watch says has affected an area the size of the US state of Rhode Island. Read more here
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/indigenous-ecuadoran-woman-humbles-us-oil-giant-20110223-060924-978.html
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This totally reminds me of the book I read in the late 1990's called Savages. It was a wonderful book. Here is what Wikipedia says about it. I still have the book but it's packed away. I should read it again. I wonder what happened to the  Huaorani Indians

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kane
Joe Kane is an American author of two books and is also a journalist who writes for numerous publications such as The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Esquire.
Kane is best known for his book Running the Amazon (1989), a firsthand account of the only expedition ever to travel the entire 4,200-mile Amazon River from its source in Peru to the Atlantic Ocean, which took place between August 1985 and February 1986. The book is widely considered a classic of adventure literature.^[1]
In 1991, Kane traveled to Ecuador to learn about the Huaorani Indians and their struggles with international oil companies who were exploiting the Amazon with poor environmental practices such as setting off explosive charges, building new roads and oil rigs, and causing oil spills. Based on his experiences there he wrote Savages (1995).
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http://abyayala.nativeweb.org/ecuador/huaorani/kane.html His is a review of the book

Book Review by Cheryl Musch

Savages by Joe Kane (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995) 273 pages, full-color photographs, map, bibliography.

The cover of Joe Kane's Savages promises the sensational story of "how one small band of Amazonian warriors defended their territory against hell-bent oil companies, dogged missionaries, and starry-eyed environmentalists."

It is dominated by a striking black and white photograph of Moi, a Huaorani carrying his blowgun darts, his long hair wrapping around his bare shoulders and chest--the Huaorani poster child for the environmental movement. Kane delivers a sometimes sensationalistic, sometimes activist, sometimes travelogue view of Huaorani life and the Huaorani's struggle to save their environment from unscrupulous oil companies. 

By his own admission, he "crossed the street" from being a journalist and "tried to become an activist." The result is neither journalistic, nor activist, nor academic, but rather a novelized portrayal of the Huaorani.

The Huaorani are a relatively small indigenous group, numbering less than 2,000, living in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Historically they have been called "Aucas," a Quechua word meaning "savages."

By his own admission, the Huaorani consider this name "a gross insult," and it is mystifying why Kane befriended the Huaorani and then plastered this "gross insult" on the cover of the book.

The Huaorani have always been determined to keep intruders out of their territory. Invasions by their indigenous neighbors, the Shuar and the Quichua, encroachments by oil company personnel, and intrusions by missionaries have been met with spear killings. And the Huaorani frankly state that if these violations of their land continue, they will respond with "spears from all sides."

Because of their perseverance in remaining isolated, the Huaorani have remained somewhat of a mystery. Savages provides some good basic anthropological information about the everyday life of the Huaorani. Periodically, however, Kane is guilty of imposing his own North American cultural constructs on Huaorani thought. For example, when Kane is leaving the Quito bus station in a cab, he surmises, "Moi watched me as carefully as he would a monkey in the treetops." Read more here
http://abyayala.nativeweb.org/ecuador/huaorani/kane.html

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Savages- by Joe Kane

http://www.amazon.com/Savages-Joe-Kane/dp/0679740198#reader_0679740198

Here are some other book reviews
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1510/is_n88/ai_17922354/