The world is improving faster than ever before, speeding us all towards a brighter future. Yet, for us to go from here to there, enough of us will have to abandon certain perspectives and internalize new ones. That being said, here’s 3 key scripts that need to be flipped: (more…)
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Flipping the Script
Saturday, February 18th, 2012Iceland Recognizes State of Palestine
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011When the global economy crashed in 2008 and their country went Bankrupt, the people of Iceland remained defiant, refusing to pay for the mistakes of a financial monopoly. They boldly rejected the European Union and IMF, with 93% of the population voting against repayment of the debt created by unregulated bankers.
Not content with just sticking it to the banks, Icelanders drafted a whole new constitution, one that would free the country from the exaggerated power of international finance and virtual money.
Now the Icelandic people have once again set the bar for the rest of the world to follow, becoming the first Western European nation to formally recognize the Palestinian State.
The mostly symbolic gesture by Icelandic parliament recognizes Palestine based on the 1967 borders and “urges Israelis and Palestinians to seek a peace agreement on the basis of international law and UN resolutions.”
At a time when nations like Canada are officially turning their backs on the Palestinian people, it’s nice to see we still have members of the international community who support justice and human rights for all and not just those who can afford it.
World Peace is Coming – It’s Flash Mob Rule, Baby
Friday, March 12th, 2010One of the key factors to making world peace a reality will be our newfound powers of communication and community building. We are uniting like never before, and the implications will be profound.
For one, we are gaining new means of dialogue, and dialogue is an integral step in the peacebuilding process. Just getting people to talk is often the first step in conflict resolution.
Dialogue can also rehumanize an enemy. Often, warring parties will dehumanize their foes, painting them as evil, irrational death dealers, but dialogue can make these misconceptions evaporate, and it is that much harder to kill someone who we come to see as a fellow human being.
Our new communication tools are also letting us spread important information that our mainstream media rarely, if ever, discusses. Issues like the Military Industrial Complex, the Distrubtion of Wealth, or how our world has been consistently improving for centuries are all empowering forms of knowledge.
And, thanks to our growing powers of community, we will become more and more able to do something about it. Facebook has exploded in size in just a few years. Fast forward a few more years, and we will have groups large enough to rival corporations and governments in terms of power and influence.
Combine the size and might of our ever expanding groups with the speed of Twitter and instant messaging, and boom… we have some truly revolutionary power in our hands.
Look at what today’s flash mobs can do for a glimpse into the power we are unleashing. A few hundred people, united at the same time and place for the same reason can really shake things up. Now imagine instead of just 100, we had 100,000 people acting in unison.
Global Flash Mobs… mobilizing to action, in real time, all with shared goals, could truly shift the power back into the hands of the people. We will be able to harness this power to make our world everything we want it to be… egalitarian, progressive and peaceful.
Peace DOT u4Ya
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009A new subdomain has been setup – peace.u4ya.ca as part of Stanford’s Peace Initiative.
The Peace Initiative is designed to coordinate peace efforts by having companies and organizations add their contributions to the growing peace movement to a specific subdomain – peace DOT [company’s URL].
This is a great initiative… coordinating individual peace efforts means we can be stronger, united. Over the next two decades, we will undergo some remarkable changes to our world… humankind is coming together like never before, and soon we will be able to end institutionalized warfare and end extreme poverty forever.
Check out those who’ve already become involved in the Peace DOT Initiative by clicking here. Facebook, SourceForge, and SafeWay are some of the big names who’ve signed on.
