Below is a message from the organization led by Van Jones, who has a best selling book and has been in the forefront of including urban communities in the Green Revolution for years. Green For All, and the Ella Baker Center are two organizations I think you will find in affinity with many of your feelings about ecology, social justice and the discussions around the national priorities America pursues.
If you already are involved with groups addressing these issues, but if everyone in the group looks and thinks just like you, or is a product of the same, class, income brackett, and culture as you, Green For All and the Ella Baker Center offer opportunities to share ideas, and build a common understanding, with people from other ethnicities, generations, religious leanings, and economic realities. These are two groups made up of all types of people, all working with a common focus, on goals that concern us all.
I'm personally at the point in my consciousness, where if I'm in a room where we're discussing or learning about issues and topics, that are relevant to all human beings, but I'm the only person of color, or obviously not of WASP or Jewish background....a little alarm goes off in my head, and alerts me, that there's something wrong with this picture. Why am I the only person here of African descent, getting this great information? Why aren't these folks inviting their friends of different bacgrounds to gatherings like this, so that the discussion, is not just 'white people talking to white people', which could only be a partial expression of Truth.
For too long we have all been missing out on the richness of a whole truth, because of lack of inclusion from all segments of humanity. Even worse is the absence of Mutual Respect, as in real consideration, attention and, full respect for the ideas, concepts and solutions offered, that have been offered from those not of the dominant culture. Too often in group situations, I've noticed a subtle, but sometimes blatent paternal quick dismissal of a suggestion or comment, rather than an effort to take it in, expand one's mind and capture a new possibility, and a different way of seeing.
It's time to pull up more chairs to The Conference Table where decisions are discussed and made. And if there aren't enough chairs, push them back, and let's all get up and move outside, where there is enough space for all to sit, and 'reason' ( as the Rastas say).
If we could requalify our energy enough, perhaps the animals would come close and join us.....the Earth's Master Teachers.
Then perhaps we could get somewhere with this mess, created by those that commandeered the seats at The Table. We are called to lovingly and intelligently turn our genius and talents to this current state, of a Perfect Earth, humanly made imperfect, which they have left for us to put things back aright.
You know who we are. You know if I'm calling your name. We are a group that is beyond a social scientists' definition of multicultural, or diversity. We know that there is no national alliegience that preceeds our cosmic bond, and that age and gender are just aspects and stages we play within. We are more like dogs, than people, in how a chihuahua, can still recognize it's genus in a german shepherd. They both know they are canine, and the markings, and size mean nothing to the essential quality of the animal. Quite unlike people that excell at creating ridiculous categories and systems to implement limitation, separation and control amongst their group. Such folly and ignorance.....
I'm calling those of us that have always cared,
always known how,
always possessed the means and understanding,
because we've always had the vision~
Bring the power of sound into the moment by reciting your chants, mantras, words of power and affirmations.
Utter your heartfelt prayer.
(I speak mine in the past tense, from a feeling of Gratitude that 'It is already done', and I now see manifested it in my world).
Go back into the silence for meditation and contemplation,
and to receive from Divine Mind.
Then
Let's come together to share with and listen to one another.
Return to the Silence to be still and meditate, letting what you have heard percolate within.
Now with your Pearls of Genius and Wisdom, return to the group to Create.
Let us Give Birth to that which has come forth from our Highest Selves.
This process I'm describing supports one's alignment with the pulse of Life. It's evident all around us, but we are not usually attunded to it, and thus we don't notice this fundamental pattern. It is expressed in the rising and the setting of the sun, the opening and closing of our eyes, or a flower's bloom, the inhalation and exhaling motion of our lungs and our breathing, and the inward and outward flow of the tide.
We offer ourselves to the Divine within us, by pulling away from talk, entertainment, and society's distractions of issues and problems. We retreat to the quiet to achieve clarity and calm. In the Silence, there are real and deep, subtle gifts. Our time spent in Silence cleanses our thoughts and ideas, and centers and grounds us, so that at the time for us to return to society, to our families and groups, we bring back the best of ourselves. We have been made more solid from the Good of our Inner Core. We have something of value to offer, not just chatter, noise pollution, or common ideas from the collective sea of mental garbage, that comprises most human conversation.
For a moment, we have given ourselves to Cosmic Consciousness/God, and this expands us beyond the ideas of common perception.
.....you must know, that I did not mean to go on like this. But it has been a long time since I wrote. It's a New Year, and I am so full of the possibilities that are present right now. I'm off to a great start, and I want to do all I can to insure that you are too~
This is an awesome year for us if we take bold steps to live our True Identity.
Have Fun Beloveds~
Kentke
Happy New Year!
Next month, thousands of people will converge on Washington, D.C for two major events to build the movement for a new green economy: Good Jobs, Green Jobs and Power Shift 2009.
In February, D.C. will be buzzing with activity as President Obama and the new Congress move quickly to implement much-needed change. This is a critical time for us to advance key policies that will green the economy and create millions of jobs.We can make an impact together, and begin implementing real solutions on a mass scale. Please join us for Good Jobs, Green Jobs and Power Shift 2009.If you can't come to D.C., you can still make your voice heard on the Hill: Tell Congress to Green the Stimulus. If you've already sent this letter to your members of Congress, please pass it along to 5 people.
Good Jobs, Green Jobs
On February 4th-6th, join Van Jones and the Green For All team in D.C. for the 2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference, hosted by the Blue Green Alliance.The conference, which features a Green For All Track, Green Jobs Advocacy Day, and Green Jobs Expo, will be an essential forum to help forge the national agenda for the new green-collar economy.UPDATED AGENDA for the Green For All Track.Good Jobs, Green Jobs is filling up quickly. REGISTER TODAY!Enter "GFA2009" as your registration code.
Power Shift 2009
From February 27th-March 2nd, 10,000 youth will converge on Washington, D.C. to call for immediate federal action on green jobs and a clean energy economy. Power Shift '09 attendees will strengthen the youth movement for climate and economic solutions, by sharing skills, building bonds, and setting clear plans for action in our communities.And on March 2nd, thousands of youth will flood the halls of Congress to meet face to face with their representatives, and ask for their bold leadership on green jobs and a clean, just energy future.Learn more and register.Contact julia@greenforall.org to get involved with Green For All at Power Shift 2009.
Who else will be there?
Omar Freilla, for one. Omar works for Green Worker Cooperatives, which creates and supports worker-owned green businesses in the South Bronx. He will speak on the panel Green For All: Climate Equity & Environmental Justice at Good Jobs, Green Jobs. Watch his story. You can meet with Omar, and many more heroes of the new green economy, in D.C. this February.Register for Good Jobs, Green Jobs.Enter "GFA2009" as your registration code.Register for Power Shift 2009.
So, come to Washington, D.C. next month, and let's build a new green economy together. If you can't make it, be sure to take action now: Tell Congress to Green the Stimulus. And ask your friends to do the same.
Julian Mocine-McQueen
Green For All
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