The Symbiosis Eclipse Festival: Neo-Tribal Dance Culture Meets Tribal Reality

Mark Heley — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:24:49 -0700

The coming Symbiosis Gathering – Pyramid Eclipse festival at Pyramid Lake, Nevada is a unique event in many ways, not the least in that it is held on the tribal grounds of the Paiute people. The Northern Paiute of this area also refer to themselves as Numa (“the people”) or Paviotso. The Paiute are one of three related tribal groups, which extend to the Mohave and into Oregon and have a history that goes back some 40,000 years.

Global Truths on the Pacific Northwest

silentinfinite — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:02:55 -0700

Join Darrin Drda as he talks about the potential for change during this cataclysmic and transformational time in human history through the framework of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths. His book 'The Four Global Truths' addresses the reality of global suffering while seeking to understand its roots, proposing methods for the relief of global suffering and a road to recovery.

Two Worlds of Open Government Data: Getting the Lowdown on Public Toilets in Chennai and Other Matters

Michael Gurstein — Wed, 02 May 2012 03:17:16 -0700

Occupy the Dream House

Daniel Pinchbeck — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:17:33 -0700

New Yorkers, please join us tomorrow, on May Day, for a creative insurrection, the Dream House, at Bryant Park. Information below.

DREAM HOUSE
presented by The Awareness Experiment
May 1st, 2012 10 AM - 2PM

DAY OF ACTION

Bryant Park, behind the NY Public Library

COME build the technicolor cardboard house of our dreams!

Please bring cardboard boxes, paint, brushes, duct tape, string & all that jazz.

Use the Power of Ritual

Andrew Boyd — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:05:56 -0700

This article is excerpted from Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution, edited by Andrew Boyd with Dave Oswald Mitchell, recently released by OR Books. The book includes contributions from some 60 activists across the continent, and was launched with a book party [unlike any other].

May 1: Welcome to the Paradigm Shift

Kelly Fragale — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:25:49 -0700

Evolver Call to Action!

This is a call out to the Evolver/Reality Sandwich community to activate on May 1st in Solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement to kick off the Spring Awakening!

You Can Awaken the Global Heart-Mind

Evolver Intensives — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:51:13 -0700

Explore the "Four Global Truths" and unveil what we can do individually, and collectively, to guide us through this time of great transition. Join Darrin Drda for the live, online video course "Awakening the Global Heart-Mind" – 2 illuminating sessions with special guests: Richard Tarnas and Joanna Macy. This Evolver Intensives course starts on Saturday, April 28th.

At U.N. Summit, A Coal Pile In the Ballroom

Charles Eisenstein — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:05:21 -0700

The Magic Mystery Healing Tour: Why E+SM Matters

Jonathan Talat Phillips — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:33:07 -0700

(Portions of this article appeared in my recent Huffington Post story on "The Rise of the New Spriitual Counterculture.")

Pre-Occupied This Spring

Allan Badiner — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:03:19 -0700

Occupy seems dead. Unless the police screw up again and bash some student heads in one of the parks, won't it likely stay dead? After all, why would anyone think that a bunch of random people (many of whom have no place else to go) sleeping in a park; trying to "occupy" a public space; creating a personal camping ground replete with a big mess, self-invited derelicts, and epithets about "pigs" is going to make any kind of a realpolitik difference?

Culture Crash - Desperation Politico

Chris Kilham — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:25:42 -0700

What happens to a culture when it has no visionaries or humanitarians seeking political office? What happens when virtually every political candidate focuses entirely on their ability to get elected, and not at all on elevating our society?

The Battle for the Soul of the Republic

Robert David Steele Vivas — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:24:08 -0700

Evolver Spores: The Mystery of Dreams

Evolver Social Movement — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:43:18 -0700

Evolver Spores: The Mystery of Dreams

Wed, April 18

Evolving Towards a Partner State in an Ethical Economy

Michel Bauwens — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:14:35 -0700

In the emerging institutional model of peer production, most visibly in the free software industry, we can distinguish an interplay between three partners, i.e.

1) a community of contributors that create a commons of knowledge, software or design;

2) an enterpreneurial coalition that creates market value on top of that commons; and

3) a set of "for-benefit institutions' which manage the 'infrastructure of cooperation'.

You Say You Want an Evolution

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:38:14 -0700

When you support the Evolver Social Movement (E+SM), you play an integral role in accelerating a planetary transformation by spreading a new awareness of our collective, creative potential. E+SM provides a voluntary infrastructure for 40+ local communities around the world who come together in live events.

E+SM Goes Nonprofit

Evolver Social Movement — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:23:38 -0700

Good news, Evolvers. At your request, we have hurtled over the bureaucratic gatekeepers to make the Evolver Social Movement (E+SM) a nonprofit initiative! Our new status means that monthly or one-time contributions you make to E+SM can now be tax deductible.

Earth Day 2012

Remi Gurak — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:35:48 -0700

Parent Patients

Chris Kaplan — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:49:04 -0700

On September 7, 2011, two Butte County Sheriff's deputies trespassed onto private property for a "compliance check" to see whether or not Daisy Bram and her husband Jayme Walsh were in compliance with medical marijuana legislation.

Drug War: The Horror of Peter Hitchens

Simon G. Powell — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:33:44 -0700

Evolver Spores: Come Together

Evolver Social Movement — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:27:15 -0700

Evolver Spores: Come Together

Wed, March 21

Intro to "Sacred Economics"

Ian MacKenzie — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:11:53 -0800

The film, "Sacred Economics" traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system necessitates an endless growth that has destroyed community and contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity. Today, these trends have reached their extreme - but in the wake of the recent financial collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.

Statement by the Director, Ian MacKenzie:

Occupy Gaia in 2012: Subtle Activism Meets Street Activism

David Nicol — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:13:23 -0800

In early October of 1939, one month after Germany invaded Poland, British esotericist Dion Fortune sent a letter to her network announcing the start of a magical project to support the war effort by opening a channel to allow spiritual influences to uplift the "group mind" of the nation. The project came to be known as the "Magical Battle of Britain."

Occupy This Week

Kelly Fragale — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:54:02 -0800

This week Farm Aid Joins OWS in the campaign to create awareness around food issues and solutions. #F27 marks a Day of Global Action: “Occupy the Food Supply." The Occupy Wall Street community invites everyone to participate in creative actions here in NYC and across the Globe.

Sowing Revolution: Seed Libraries Offer Hope for Freedom of Food

ST Frequency — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:30:54 -0800

A modified version of this article originally appeared in the January 2012 issue of Acres U.S.A.

The seed revolution began one sunny afternoon on a neatly mowed lawn at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. For an historic moment, it wasn't much to gawk at: a circle of about a dozen seedsmen and seedswomen sitting cross-legged in the grass, laying out the blueprint for an agricultural uprising.

The Prepping Pyramid

Ben Lawson — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:27:50 -0800

The term "prepping" refers to the process by which you incrementally increase your level of preparedness for emergency/disaster on a continuum from short-term self-reliance to long-term self-sufficiency.

The term "preps" can be defined as tangible items or systems that you acquire or build and use in prepping. While some people may include intangible things such as weapons training, drills, skill development, etc. in their definition of preps, for the purpose of this piece, the focus is on physical items.

Situation Normal, All Fucked Up: A Freakonomic Analysis of the Burning Man 2012 Ticket Fiasco

Tony V — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:10:43 -0800

Charles Eisenstein in NYC

Reality Sandwich — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:27:25 -0800

Join Charles Eisenstein in NYC this weekend for two unique and informative events.

Crafting Our Activism

Emory Mort — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:03:39 -0800

With the mainstream excesses of Valentine’s Day 2012 approaching, Craftivists are cleverly fusing their love for hand-crafting goods with their compassion for those suffering in the world. Sarah Corbett’s London-based Craftivist Collective is a hub of international creativity, inspiring the transformation of a purely practical or leisurely activity into a seriously playful form of activist creation.

Occupy this Week

Kelly Fragale — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:07:06 -0800

OWS Sustainability hosts the first Eco Summit on Saturday, January 28th in which the environmental groups operating within the movement are gathering to exchange ideas and present all current projects. Some interesting collaborations are sure to come out of this meeting. If you want to plug in, see the link for details. http://www.nycga.net/events/event/eco-summit/

From Suburban Sprawl to Peak Oil: Talking With James Howard Kunstler

Duncan Crary — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:02:59 -0800

This interview is excerpted from Duncan Crary's The Kunstler Cast: Conversations with James Howard Kunstler, from New Society Publishers, available here.