Planet Coexist presents Sparks of Peace, a gathering of interfaith and intercultural cooperation and celebration in Tucson, AZ on November 7.  (more)

Is the noosphere an instrument for peaceful evolution? Or could it be a tool for planetary tyranny, rather than a portal of global communication? (more)

Quantum Shift TV's "Be the Change! Share the Story!" challenge is awarding $50,000 for the best youth activism videos across the country. (more)

Due to the war in Iraq, the last Gnostics on the planet are facing extinction. (more)

The first time I sat in this court, I was moved almost to tears to see the imprisoned defendants shackled to the bench. Seeing the Day Labor shape-up outside the Home Depot for the first time when I moved to LA, I remember I wept. Later, I hired them. Most often they stole, or were too strung out to do a good job, and then, like everyone else, I complained. Still: these people are suspects, they have yet to plead guilty to any crime, and the only reason they're shackled together in their sadistically comic black and white Keystone Cops pants and tunics stamped "Sheriff Joe's Inmate," wearing hot-pink plastic cuffs is, they couldn't raise bail... (more)

NYC Pranksters temporarily closed all of the McDonald’s in Manhattan. (more)

Avaaz.org has organized a massive petition to help protect Burmese protestors.

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The sudden fall of the Berlin Wall showed that power structures collapse when the multitude swarms against them. But if the global system of dominance were to seize up or melt down, what would we do? (more)

Amnesty International's new Tear It Down project utilizes cutting-edge Internet design to revitalize the petition to end the prison at Guantanamo Bay. (more)

Bloggers have become a driving force in promoting the protests in Burma. (more)

What is being played out in Burma is a living "symbol" of a deeper, mythic process which is currently enacting itself in a variety of scenarios around the world. Being a timeless, archetypal process that has materialized into our time-bound reality, it can be seen as an amplified version of what can happen in the U. S. We can only recognize what is symbolically being revealed to us if we realize that the people in Burma, both the monks and the military thugs, are not separate from ourselves. (more)

Mark Pesce’s presentation at the 2007 Mind States conference explores how networks of people effectively perpetuate knowledge and prosperity.

I sat down this morning to write something for an Iraq war teach-in I was supposed to speak at and found that I had nothing to write. So I’ve written about this. What point can I make that hasn’t already been made? I’m a critic: I criticize, but what good does critique do now? (more)

New Chinese legislation demands that future Lamas obtain permission before reincarnating. (more)

Dancing is used to calm the most violent of tempers in a Philippine prison. (more)

Author Naomi Klein tackles "disaster capitalism." (more)

Could the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America be a dangerous step towards creating a unified North American currency?

In his new book The Cult of the Amateur, British author Andrew Keen argues that the Internet is fatally undermining our culture. But hasn't free market capitalism done that already? (more)

The days of cheap and plentiful oil are ending, perhaps sooner than we'd like to imagine. To confront the impending crisis known as Peak Oil, communities in the UK have developed models of sustainable local living called Transition Towns. Behind their strategy is the belief that with cooperation and creativity, and under a well-designed civic plan, the future without oil could be preferable to the present. (more)

Free Range Studios, the makers of The Meatrix, are starting a food fight for a Fair Farm Bill. (more)

People flock to sports stadiums to experience ecstasy, but recent scandals have exposed the dark side of Monday night magic. (more)

The Reality Sandwich crew has been working hard to bring you engaging, transformative content since our beta launch in early May. But even "evolutionaries" need an occasional break. So we took off this week for Burning Man. We're back after Labor Day. In the meantime, click here for a list of highlights from RS' first summer. Check out some of the treasures you may have missed. (more)

Some people manage to grow food in ordinary pots. But watering twice a day? Who has time for that? Enter the SWC, an inexpensive device guaranteed to save you from your own brown thumb and allow you to start your urban victory garden. (more)

When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, where I went to high school and where my parents still live, it was impossible to get a clear picture of what was happening from the news media. They depicted full societal breakdown, the war of all against all. But while mayhem and fear certainly existed, so did an amazing collective will towards cooperation. Whether guild or labor union, religious or ethnic society, producer or consumer cooperative, these are the people's bastions of power. (more)

Using the Freedom of Information Act as an ally, over half a million government documents pertaining to UFO's and alien encounters have been filed on one website. (more)

A new Internet-only documentary called Zeitgeist is making major waves, with elaborate conspiracy theories that link Christianity, 9/11, and the Federal Reserve. While far-fetched and often misleading, this movie succeeds in capturing the "spirit of the time" – a culture where truth and reality are no longer absolutes, but products of our own imagination.

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NYC police charge activist preacher Reverend Billy with second degree- harassment for reciting the First Amendment in a public space. (more)

Portland-area wizards, warlocks, and party people are conjuring up their own "designer reality expo" at this weekend's esoZone festival. (more)