I’ve been working with an amazing company called Neste for the past year as a futurologist on a project called #PreOrderTheFuture.
I teamed up with them because it really aligned with what I’m passionate about; which is helping improve the future through technology, sustainability, and education. This project allowed people to submit their ideas that can help improve the future and NESTE would fund it.
This was an ambitious project but nevertheless, I believe a successful one.
“When We Rise” was written and created by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black.
This mini-series event chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today.
~Cleve Jones landed in San Francisco too late for the Summer of Love~
Fifty years ago, about 100,000 young people from around the country converged on San Francisco.
They were flower children and hippies, queers and artists, radicals and draft dodgers. A generation of freethinkers looked to the city for change, with resistance, liberation, and free expression unfurling in every corner.
Because of them, the city gave rise to movements in support of the rights of women, African-Americans, gays, farm workers, Native Americans, animals, and even the planet.
Change was everywhere.
ABC’s groundbreaking miniseries When We Rise introduces us to the lives, loves, and struggles of these activists, covering a 40-year span in the long battle for LGBT equality.
HELPFUL INFORMATION!
There’s a lot of talk about people NOT watching the inauguration.
The Grabber will be checking his ratings, and many may not know the way that the TV shows are rated.
To keep his rating LOW, you must have your television turned ON, but NOT tuned into any channel showing ANY inauguration coverage.
If you don’t turn your TV on, his ratings will show higher because of the percentage of sets tuned in. So set up all your televisions to the geographic channel or cooking channel! Anything that is not covering the inauguration, basically!
Television must be on, but NOT tuned into channels covering Trump. Please share this information!
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I’m not naive enough to think that they will have a day of ‘profiles in courage‘ and make any significant decision that will ‘right‘ the ‘wrong‘ that is happening in the country.
I know plenty of people who have expressed their feelings.
Many have said … let it go. It’s time to accept and move on.
Give the guy a chance.
In my heart I know I can’t.
In my heart I know this isn’t the right way for the country to go.
It will eventually affect the way the whole world will go.
I’ve tired to put into words the feelings in my heart, my soul, my psyche.
Words fail me.
Scrolling through Facebook, I found some words that resonate to much with my own feelings.
I’d like to share them with you.
These words starkly and precisely say what I felt since November 8, election night.
“It’s very difficult to do art in prison, because the limitations are enormous.”
The understated words of Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera reflect both the realities of the U.S. prison-industrial complex and the challenges of a political prisoner making art a weapon of resistance.
To understand how Oscar developed as a renowned artist in such a poisonous environment, we examine his history.
Who is Oscar Lopez Rivera?
Oscar López Rivera is a Puerto Rican political prisoner who has served more than 34 years in U.S. prisons, among the longest-held political prisoners on the planet. Convicted in 1981 of “seditious conspiracy” – that is, conspiring to use force against the authority of the United States over Puerto Rico – for his commitment to the independence of Puerto Rico, Oscar was not accused or convicted of causing harm or taking a life.
He is nevertheless serving a sentence of 70 years in the U.S. “gulag.” He is among the longest held political prisoners in world history, and is considered by many to be the Mandela of the 21st century.
Oscar López Rivera: Artist
In spite of 34 years of adversity in prison, Oscar has maintained his integrity, spirit, and political principles. He keeps fit, reads voraciously, stays up to date with current affairs, and writes.
The narrative of his life and years in prison, Between Torture and Resistance, created from letters to family, friends, and comrades, was published in 2013.
World Environment Day (WED) is observed every year on June 5 to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth.
It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). “World Environment Day (WED) is the United Nations’ most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment.
Since it began in 1974, it has grown to become a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in over 100 countries.”
We can do that but what we can’t forget is the fact that there’s a sinister side to celebrating this day.
We have to acknowledge the other side of this reality.
Let’s not be blind to what our reality really is.
Our Earth is full of scars.
Wounds have been inflicted by us humans.
I look through my personal library and find books related to recycling, green consumer, tropical nature, end of nature, earth rights, save our planet and many more.
Mind you, I got these books while I was in high school and college.
That was many more than 40 years ago.
Still the same concerns apply and, at this time, with more urgency.
Remember, there’s no “Planet B“, at least for the average citizen.
Many events are taking place simultaneously: raging wars almost worldwide, genocide, injustices, obviating humans rights, killings, hunger, poverty, catastrophic losses, hurricanes, drought, earthquakes.
I often wonder, if humans treat other humans without regard to life, why would they treat our planet, our home, with any small iota of respect.
It seems to be that “the powers that be” are squeezing Mother Earth until the last drop of her resources has been converted to profit.
~~Published on Apr 20, 2013~~
Created for Earth Day 2013
The facts are terrifying.
No matter what you think about global warming or climate change, we need to take care of our planet. It’s the only one we’ve got
We need to care for animals!
We need to take care of Mother Nature!
We need to take care of the environment!
We need to take care of ourselves!!!
“later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?
it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.”
~Warsan Shire~
Warsan Shire (born 1988) is a Somali–British writer, poet, editor and teacher. Shire was born in 1988 in Kenya to Somali parents. She immigrated to the United Kingdom aged 1. Shire has a . As of 2015, she primarily resides in London.
The earth is the planet given to us by God to live on.
Despite what scientists might have us believe, it is the only planet in our solar system that humanity can comfortably inhabit. The earth is a paradise for the creatures that live on it. Every species on earth has its place in the circle of life.
Human beings need food, clothing, shelter to survive. All of these are provided in ample supply on God’s green earth. It is an unfortunate fact the we have not taken good care of the land that has been placed in our guardianship.