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Wednesday, April 22, 2020
EARTH DAY IN 1970: BIRTH OF THE GREEN MOVEMENT
3-Day Livestream celebrates 50th Anniversary of Earth Day!
~ John McConnell's Earth Day flag, based on photograph of Earth as viewed from Apollo 17 ~
Earth Day 1970
President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon plant a tree on the White House South Lawn to recognize the first Earth Day.
The first Earth Day celebrations took place in two thousand colleges and universities, roughly ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the United States. More importantly, it "brought 20 million Americans out into the spring sunshine for peaceful demonstrations in favor of environmental reform." It now is observed in 192 countries, and coordinated by the nonprofit Earth Day Network, chaired by the first Earth Day 1970 organizer Denis Hayes, according to whom Earth Day is now "the largest secular holiday in the world, celebrated by more than a billion people every year." Walt Kelly created an anti-pollution poster featuring his comic strip character Pogo with the quotation "We have met the enemy and he is us" to promote the 1970 Earth Day. Environmental groups have sought to make Earth Day into a day of action to change human behavior and provoke policy changes.
New York City
In the winter of 1969–1970, a group of students met at Columbia University to hear Denis Hayes talk about his plans for Earth Day. Among the group were Fred Kent, Pete Grannis, and Kristin and William Hubbard. This group agreed to head up the New York City activities within the national movement. Fred Kent took the lead in renting an office and recruiting volunteers. "The big break came when Mayor Lindsay agreed to shut down Fifth Avenue for the event. A giant cheer went up in the office on that day," according to Kristin Hubbard (now Kristin Alexandre). 'From that time on we used Mayor Lindsay's offices and even his staff. I was Speaker Coordinator but had tremendous help from Lindsay staffer Judith Crichton."
In addition to shutting down Fifth Avenue, Mayor John Lindsay made Central Park available for Earth Day. In Union Square, New York Times estimated crowds of up to 20,000 people at any given time and, perhaps, more than 100,000 over the course of the day. Since Manhattan was also the home of NBC, CBS, ABC, The New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, it provided the best possible anchor for national coverage from their reporters throughout the country.
Philadelphia
U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie was the keynote speaker on Earth Day in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. Other notable attendees included consumer protection activist and presidential candidate Ralph Nader; Landscape Architect Ian McHarg; Nobel prize-winning Harvard Biochemist, George Wald; U.S. Senate Minority Leader, Hugh Scott; and poet, Allen Ginsberg.
Earth Day Live
Earth Day Live is a three-day livestream commemorating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The event will streamed online as part of efforts to promote social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is being referred to as the largest online mass mobilization in history.
Planning
The event will be run from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET on April 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. Event is organized by youth climate activists, and will feature Joaquin Phoenix, Moby, Patricia Arquette, Jane Fonda, Robby Romero, Al Gore, Stacey Abrams in conversation with Climate change activists, scientists, and journalists. The event will also feature performances from musicians such as Jason Mraz, Angélique Kidjo, Emily Wells, Aimee Mann, Ted Leo, Jack Johnson, Questlove, Talib Kweli, among others.
Themes & Goals
Future Coalition executive director Katie Eder, who heads up the nine youth-led organizations that are coordinating the event, says that Earth Day activism had to be rethought due to technological advances in modern times.
“It’s a time to really rethink our strategy, we are really looking at this as a way to reimagine what a social movement can look like in a digital age.” said Katie Eder.
The event focusses not only on climate change and environment like the traditional Earth Day, but also on society's ability to combat the effects of climate change, such as the COVID-19 Epidemic.
“It’s not just about the environment and the climate,” “It’s also about building a society and an economy that’s going to take care of the people who’ve been affected by this crisis, the people who are on the front lines of this crisis, whether that’s through health care efforts or economic efforts.” said Naina Agrawal-Hardin,vement, one of nine youth led organizations organizing the event.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day_Live
https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/
Live Feed of Three-Day Earth Day Live events in the United States celebrating 50th Anniversary of the Green Movement's birth (on April 22, 1970). I was a Sophomore attending the University of California at Irvine, majoring in Theatre Arts, with an emphasis on Scenic Design and Technical Direction and celebrated the first Earth Day on campus there. This event was a catalyst for interest in The Mother Earth News (founded by John & Jane Shuttleworth in Hendersonville, NC) and how to build Earth-sheltered homes, install wind generators, mount rooftop solar panels, install heat pumps, etc. This was inspiration for design and construction of an 18" x 24" wood-frame cabin in the woods of central Maine during the fall of 1978. ~ Joseph David Henry Ware Bryan-Royster ~ Lantern of the Hermit ~
Friday, April 10, 2020
The Vision for Decentralist Coalition of Independent Candidates!
Present Two-Party System of governance in the United States of America was never intended by Framers of the 1789 Constitution. George Washington, war hero of the American Revolution, was acclaimed the first President of newly independent Republic forged from thirteen independent British colonies. Political Parties were never intended by the founders, as the division between Tories and Whigs in Great Britain was fresh in the minds of Americans who did not desire partisan factions to take root, yet seeds of this grew from wrangling by the colonists at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Federalist and Anti-Federalist camps had emerged.
By the time Washington ran for a second term, two political parties were evident: The Federalists who supported 1789 Constitution and the Republicans, later Democratic-Republicans, and eventually Democrats After the Election of 1820, the Federalist Party collapsed and void was eventually filled by Andrew Jackson and the modern Democratic Party was formed. American Whigs briefly provided opposition until Abraham Lincoln led modern Republican Party to victory in the Election of 1860.
Following four bloody years of Civil War with southern states that seceded from the Union as the result of Lincoln'winning that election and formation of Confederate States of America, the industrial North prevailed over the agricultural South and slavery of African Americans ended there. Then the ghost of servitude rose in the form of segregation to keep white supremacy alive in the former Confederacy well into the 1960s via, so called, "Jim Crow" laws.
Following four bloody years of Civil War with southern states that seceded from the Union as the result of Lincoln'winning that election and formation of Confederate States of America, the industrial North prevailed over the agricultural South and slavery of African Americans ended there. Then the ghost of servitude rose in the form of segregation to keep white supremacy alive in the former Confederacy well into the 1960s, triggering the Civil Rights movement that followed.
General prosperity created as result of the World War II build-up continued through the 1950s and into the 1960s. The Summer of Love and the Flower Children, otherwise known as Hippies, gave this economic growth a conscience, emerging on April 22, 1970 with a first "Earth Day" celebration and birth of the environmental awareness, or "Green" movement in America.
Prosperity continued through the 1970s until early 1980s when Reaganomics changed flow of capital investment to gravitate upward toward the proverbial 1% at the top of financial wealth building pyramids, triggering the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 and placing focus upon on the 99%, who ended up left out of this equation. It culminated with the Occupy National Gathering in Philadelphia; June 30th to July 4th, 2012. This was sapped by organizational repression by the financial elite class via "cantonization" of demonstrations and placing them away from media scrutiny in out-of-the-way locations, such as Franklin Park near 6th Street rather than Independence Mall as originally intended.
Months of planning for a massive presence in the "City of Brotherly Love" over the Independence Day Weekend were thwarted by the "powers that be," via re-direction of protesters to a nearby city park that never filled to capacity due to energy dissipating as a result of the venue change. Before this alteration of plans, the National Gathering organizing committee were looking at an alternate site in nearby Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to hold it. Large-scale demonstrations against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, such as the May Day march on Washington, DC were not viable anymore, thanks to police repression tactics put into place afterward.
The Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court decision of 2010 opened the floodgates of bottomless corporate political campaign contributions, whereas only the top 1% could afford to sway Elections in this country. The Inter-corporate state had taken virtual control, fueled by influence of Wall Street investors. Once the modern Republican Party led by the maverick candidacy of Donald J Trump took control of the Executive branch, while retaining the Senate with Mitch McConnell as "gatekeeper" stopping Democratic sponsored legislation from moving to the floor for a vote, nothing progressive was able to be passed into law on the Federal level.
Radical intervention by the people, individually and collectively, is necessary to reverse this upward movement of financial resources into pockets of the already wealthy billionaire class in this country. Artificial Personhood of corporations must be abolished. People are persons, and should be recognized in Law. Associations or organizations of people are groups and do not have collective "rights" that are protected under the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.
Now, it is up to the People of this great Republic to be heard at the grass-roots level in every city, town, and county via local elections. Referendum petitions need to be initiated everywhere that call for decentralization in all forums of political expression, and environmental justice be included in this. Extraction of fossil fuels has to cease, clear-cutting of tropical rain forests must end, and clean energy solutions, such as solar and wind power require promotion on an unprecedented scale if there is to be any hope to reverse the disastrous effects of global climate change.
Political cooperation by all candidates running for office, in the United States and in other countries, is essential if humanity expects to turn the tide, to prevent an extinction level event in the near future on this planet. The time is NOW for formation of a Decentralist Coalition of Independent Candidates!
Joseph David Henry Ware Bryan-Royster
Editor and Publisher, Lantern of the Hermit
Following four bloody years of Civil War with southern states that seceded from the Union as the result of Lincoln'winning that election and formation of Confederate States of America, the industrial North prevailed over the agricultural South and slavery of African Americans ended there. Then the ghost of servitude rose in the form of segregation to keep white supremacy alive in the former Confederacy well into the 1960s, triggering the Civil Rights movement that followed.
General prosperity created as result of the World War II build-up continued through the 1950s and into the 1960s. The Summer of Love and the Flower Children, otherwise known as Hippies, gave this economic growth a conscience, emerging on April 22, 1970 with a first "Earth Day" celebration and birth of the environmental awareness, or "Green" movement in America.
Prosperity continued through the 1970s until early 1980s when Reaganomics changed flow of capital investment to gravitate upward toward the proverbial 1% at the top of financial wealth building pyramids, triggering the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 and placing focus upon on the 99%, who ended up left out of this equation. It culminated with the Occupy National Gathering in Philadelphia; June 30th to July 4th, 2012. This was sapped by organizational repression by the financial elite class via "cantonization" of demonstrations and placing them away from media scrutiny in out-of-the-way locations, such as Franklin Park near 6th Street rather than Independence Mall as originally intended.
Months of planning for a massive presence in the "City of Brotherly Love" over the Independence Day Weekend were thwarted by the "powers that be," via re-direction of protesters to a nearby city park that never filled to capacity due to energy dissipating as a result of the venue change. Before this alteration of plans, the National Gathering organizing committee were looking at an alternate site in nearby Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to hold it. Large-scale demonstrations against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, such as the May Day march on Washington, DC were not viable anymore, thanks to police repression tactics put into place afterward.
The Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court decision of 2010 opened the floodgates of bottomless corporate political campaign contributions, whereas only the top 1% could afford to sway Elections in this country. The Inter-corporate state had taken virtual control, fueled by influence of Wall Street investors. Once the modern Republican Party led by the maverick candidacy of Donald J Trump took control of the Executive branch, while retaining the Senate with Mitch McConnell as "gatekeeper" stopping Democratic sponsored legislation from moving to the floor for a vote, nothing progressive was able to be passed into law on the Federal level.
Radical intervention by the people, individually and collectively, is necessary to reverse this upward movement of financial resources into pockets of the already wealthy billionaire class in this country. Artificial Personhood of corporations must be abolished. People are persons, and should be recognized in Law. Associations or organizations of people are groups and do not have collective "rights" that are protected under the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.
Now, it is up to the People of this great Republic to be heard at the grass-roots level in every city, town, and county via local elections. Referendum petitions need to be initiated everywhere that call for decentralization in all forums of political expression, and environmental justice be included in this. Extraction of fossil fuels has to cease, clear-cutting of tropical rain forests must end, and clean energy solutions, such as solar and wind power require promotion on an unprecedented scale if there is to be any hope to reverse the disastrous effects of global climate change.
Political cooperation by all candidates running for office, in the United States and in other countries, is essential if humanity expects to turn the tide, to prevent an extinction level event in the near future on this planet. The time is NOW for formation of a Decentralist Coalition of Independent Candidates!
Joseph David Henry Ware Bryan-Royster
Editor and Publisher, Lantern of the Hermit
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
BERNIE SANDERS DROPS OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE.
BERNIE SANDERS DROPS OUT OF THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL RACE!
WILL JOE BIDEN BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE IN MILWAUKEE?
Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the Democratic presidential race today, paving the way for former Vice President Joe Biden to win the 2020 nomination.
Sanders was unable to build on his early momentum in the race after wins in New Hampshire and Nevada as well as virtual tie in Iowa, going on to lose a string of states to Biden after the former vice president consolidated the support of moderate Democrats.
The departure marks Sanders's second failed attempt at the Democratic nomination after he came up short in his 2016 challenge against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Lisa M. Harrison ~ Deconstructing The Construct ~ Episode #72
Background Information ~ Deconstructing the Construct Episode #72
Deconstructing The Construct Ep #72
thank you to sister d for letting me know about this one. youtube continues to not let me see notifications, like comments or videos or make comments. this is a very accurate, timely video – one i needed to see as well. it reminds me to stay in my heart. to embrace what i KNOW – and that is “they” will be at their agenda of fear and doom until the end….we have already “won” this battle on the outside – it is just playing out here….this virus is being used for many reasons. the media are not showing the children and adults being rescued – and they won’t. that is up to us to step up and share that (if you feel called/guided). there is a reason we are all at home now (well most everyone is – at the very least we are all CLOSE to home when not at work)….the one event dream i had one of the impressions i had was “well at least everyone is at home for this”….i still don’t know exactly how this plays out – i continue to feel it will be like a frequency change – tuning a dial on a radio – something energetic comes in – perhaps it is Home Energy FINALLY allowed in as a result of all of the grids, etc. being removed here – those energy layers placed around us…..i just know when i saw it – everyone was affected….the experiences varied – most were either stunned or blissful….i felt neutral – peaceful – and just observed….anyway the point of lisa’s video – don’t feed their fear. you are NOT seeing what you KNOW and FEEL to be true being pushed by media outlets. now is the time to seeeeeeeeeee everything and everyone for who they really are. it is one thing to feel afraid – share that – but then later reflect and return to center. shoot i do that quite often. but it is another to continue to push a theory of fear and doom. that is what they want. those of us who have seen home – seen the event – some going back decades – we KNOW how this ends. we KNOW this all ends and a new experience is born. does that happen in a flash or does it take “time” – my feeling is we have already created that new world – so at least what i have felt for me – it happens in a flash (from there to here)….but for now we are seeing it all play out in the experience of “time”. we got this.
love, victoria
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