This conversation aired on WDRT 91.9FM, Driftless Community Radio 6/18/20 https://wdrt.org
Peace Education
Because we are committed to peace beginning with each individual, we are happy to share with you an interactive educational tool that is now available. This free class can be obtained if you have a mobile device and the app from Timeless Today
The course is offered by Prem Rawat.
Timeless Today produces content inspired by Prem Rawat about the human potential for peace and wellbeing.
Bringing Standing Rock Home
Rivera Sun and Sherri Mitchell of Love (and Revolution) Radio spoke with Dena Eakles of Echo Valley Hope about her recent time at Standing Rock, what’s coming next for the movement, and how to bring prayerful, peaceful activism home to your heart and your community. Listen to the podcast.
Challenges and Possibilities Coming in 2017
Listen to Love (and Revolution) Radio’s 2017 New Year’s podcast, Challenges and Possibilities Coming in 2017.
Five guests discuss the challenges and possibilities opening up in 2017. Kazu Haga of the East Point Peace Academy; Dena Eakles of Echo Valley Hope; Heart Phoenix of the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuiling; Rhonda Fabian, Editor of Kosmos Online; and Larry Spotted Crow Mann join Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun to look into what’s coming . . . the frightening, the hopeful, the encouraging, and the inspiring.
Environmental Stewardship Pledge
It is time for fundamental change regarding care of the Earth. It is not enough to petition government leaders to bring about transformation. It is imperative for us to recognize the Earth as a living entity to which we are inextricably bound, and to know that everything and everyone is precious. With this understanding stewardship begins.Principles for Consideration:
- There is enough. We can actively engage in changing the paradigm from one of scarcity to one of abundance. We can grow food, buy local, maintain clean water and air, consume less, move to renewables, and do all that we can to bring about the awareness: there is enough.
- Abundance is having everything you need when you need it. We recognize our interconnectedness with the Earth and with one another. We do not take more than is needed, ensuring a future of abundance for our children.
- Practice nonviolence. We get good at what we practice. Nonviolence is understood within. It is a dedicated practice. It is alive in thoughts, words, and action.
- Come together. We engage with organizations and individuals, and celebrate diversity. We champion consensus and the power of the circle.
- Celebrate life. We are here, now. Celebrate.
- Peace first. There is always a way to make things better. We look for peace first within ourselves. We can help the Earth and one another by finding the gentle walk within. Walk and understand. Understand then speak. Know for yourself, then help another. Peace first is fundamental to everything we can accomplish.
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Humanity Rising
We recognize the implicit need of each individual to have dignity and peace. We acknowledge the capability of the Earth to provide clean air, food, and water to all; and we understand the sharing of these to be a sacred human right. We champion voices and efforts that reflect these understandings, as we know that our unity is our strength.
We do this in awareness of the possibility of peace – inside and out – and are honored to stand with people throughout the world who are calling for an end to the inhumanity that has stifled our voices and efforts to that end.
Echo Valley Hope will not be silent in the face of oppression and hatred. We choose the ways of the living. We choose cooperation and co-creation. We choose peace.
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