In the week since the Occupy May Day General Strike, I’ve been thinking a lot about the impact of the event. Friends who were in New York City that day say it was tremendously exciting, especially the permitted march from Union Square to Wall Street, which apparently stretched out strong over some 30 blocks. As [...]
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Occupy Earth
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 7, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/occupy-earth/
To Avert Climate Change Disaster, Connecting the Dots Must Go Viral
As of 8:30 a.m. EST this morning, 10,000 Facebook folks had already “liked” the new 350.org “Connect the Dots” campaign, which encourages people around the world to connect the dots between climate change and extreme weather. That’s a good number of “likes.” But what we really need is for the concept to go viral, the [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 5, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/to-avert-climate-change-disaster-connecting-the-dots-must-go-viral/
Loving Earth
To save the Earth, we must fall in love with her, writes Robert Koehler, taking his inspiration from the work of Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics. Koehler and Eisenstein say that in the trajectory of human evolution, we have been locked in the selfish adolescent phase for a long, long time, just seeking to [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 21, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/loving-earth/
I Won’t Go Quietly
So the question arises, how seriously should we be taking the prospect of imminent climate crisis and environmental collapse? How serious is the threat? What should we be doing to meet it? On the one hand, there are the Deep Green Resistance folks, who advocate a guerilla warfare approach to industrial civilization: sabotage to infrastructure, [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 12, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/i-wont-go-quietly/
Chevron is Us. But we can change, and they can too
It’s not for nothing that the cliche “a picture worth a thousand words” was invented. I came across such a picture in an unlikely venue this week: the current issue of The New Yorker, in a long article by Patrick Radden Keefe on attorney Steven Donziger’s efforts to represent the indigenous peoples of Ecuador whose lands [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 10, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/chevron-is-us-but-we-can-change-and-they-can-too/
Moving beyond fear and denial, or: Whither Environmentalism?
I have been hearing two forms of gentle criticism from some of my readers. One is: omigod, this is so depressing, can’t you write about something else??? The other is: okay, we get it, enough with the exhortations, start telling us WHAT TO DO about all this scary stuff you’re laying on us. I have [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 8, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/moving-beyond-fear-and-denial/
Parents, listen up! You need to know, and you need to act–now.
We raise our children so carefully, so thoughtfully. We make them eat their vegetables, organic if possible. We send them to the best schools we can find and afford. We screen their friends and text them anxiously if they’re late coming home. We worry about their careers, their futures. Will there be any jobs for [...]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Futures, Community, Environment, Parenting, privilege, Social change
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 6, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/parents-listen-up-you-need-to-know-and-you-need-to-act-now/
Shaking the crystal ball: the future is what we make it
As I slept on my last post, the ominous words “civil war” kept resounding discordantly in my mind. Am I really advocating for civil war? Me? I’m so non-violent I won’t even let my kids bring an x-box or a Wii into the house, for fear they might play violent video games. I’m so non-confrontational [...]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Futures, Community, Environment, Human Rights, Politics, Social change
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 4, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/shaking-the-crystal-ball-the-future-is-what-we-make-it/
A “Be the Change” Manifesto for the 21st Century
On New Year’s Day, 2012, I reaffirm my commitment to dedicate my talents and energies towards shifting our destructive global human society in a direction that values the ecological health of the entire web of life on Earth over the short-term gains of a minority of human beings. I invite you to join me, and [...]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Futures, Community, Environment, Human Rights, Politics, Social change
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 1, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/a-be-the-change-manifesto-for-the-21st-century/
De-coupling our wagons from the locomotive of global capitalism
There is a clear spectrum of response to the urgency of the environmental and economic challenges that face us. On the one end is the Deep Green Resistance movement, calling for a complete take-down of industrialized civilization, violently if necessary (and it would be necessary, of course–industrial civilization won’t go down without a fight, unless [...]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Futures, Community, Environment, New stories, Politics, Resilience, Social change
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on December 22, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/de-coupling-our-wagons-from-the-locomotive-of-global-capitalism/
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