TouchArt wants to ask you a Question for Earth Day
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Charleen Touchette at TouchArt in Santa Fe, New Mexico wants you to join the conversation on Earth Day. Listen to her question, and answer with a video or comment of your own at current.com/earthday. Can't wait to hear what you have to say.
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Very cool.
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What gives me hope:
The unrealized potential of future generations. Our current generation of people, and their dedication to do better than the last. This is our planet. It doesn't belong to us, but it is still our home. We are just temporary tenants with a lease on life.
This gives me the hope that we can reduce harmful changes to the environment and avoid potential catastrophes.-
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- lifestudentno83
- 5 months ago
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What gives me hope are people like you who really care for this planet. Thanks for this. Nice to see you.
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- JanforGore
- 5 months ago
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Thanks JanforGore. Your good work for the planet gives me hope too.
This generation, my 4 children 17-27, and future generations who like lifestudent83 know "the earth is our home" give me hope too.
The Hopi elders tell us that the prophecy says "We are the ones we are waiting for." -
Absolutely. Our children give us hope everyday. We will do this together.
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- JanforGore
- 5 months ago
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Charleen. You ask a wonderful question in honor of earthday. What gives us HOPE?
My answer is each other.
A great and might tribe if you will.
We The People, United for the Common Good.
Where friendship means everything and all aspire to be the very best they might become.
In that spirit, mind, awareness a new day comes.
This means reaching out to parents, grand parents, and everyone who has been fooled by the TWISTED CON. There are 62 million Americans that need to be reached by all of us. This is not about turning our backs on those who have been fooled. It is about reaching out to everyone everywhere and helping each person to see the LIES cloaked in an illusionary
blanet of SECURITY and FREEDOM.
WE ARE THE HOPE. TOGETHER...
WE THE PEOPLE, UNITED FOR THE COMMON GOOD.
NEVER STOP BELIEVING IN EACH OTHER.
NEVER.-
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- 1Eco_Media
- 5 months ago
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I am not exactly sure where my hope comes from except to say that it comes from my personal experience of survival. I have lived a tumultuous life and I have been close to death and I have survived. I attribute my survival to my higher power and my willingness to keep going in the face of adversity.
I am virtually fearless except for being startled once in a great while. I think that being fearless has a lot to do with my hope. I spend my days thinking about how I can make the world a better place around me and those I interact with.
I love people and I try to be cheerful and up beat when I am interacting with people at my job, on the phone, out shopping. Most of the time I find that by being that way I am able to breeze through situations with very little effort or conflict.
I find that the times I am not able to live up to this ideal is when I let myself become too lonely, too hungry, too tired, or too self absorbed. Then I am no good to myself or to anyone. So I try to find the balance or equilibrium in all things. I like to think of myself as an actor rather than a reactor.
As for the earth, what can I say. I appreciate her life force and I like to be present when I am in the midst of her beauty. I don't like to rush when I am in a garden or out in nature. I like to take things slow and take it all in being present in the now. Doing that makes all the stress melt away from my body and I breath deeply. I try to experience nature at least once a week. But everyday I take a few moments to be one with nature in silent meditation. This keeps me grounded. -
Hey touchart, I never knew you was a woman. I don't know why I always pictured you a man, but only because of your interactions with me. Go figure. You remind me of a woman I knew in Florence, Oregon who loved horses and gardens and flowers. She was one of the friendliest and nicest people I have ever met.
Although she moved to Washington State real close to the border with Canada; she sends a post card every now and then to say hello and ask about her farm she used to have, which my family bought from her when she moved away.
You seem a lot like her. Nice to finally see you up close and realize what what a mistake I have made with my perception. Makes me feel a little silly, but you never really know who you are talking to on these websites until you see them on video.
Thanks for counting me in your endeavors for so many causes, I appreciate it. -
Giggle.
I have been called a woman warrior, and am the first woman oppressionist artist, but never mistaken for a man.
I'll take that as a testimony to strength or something like that, lol.
Jubal thanks also to you for your inspiring words, thoughtful insight, balanced judgment, informative links and for sharing your own inspirational story. When we share our stories, we are powerful beyond our wildest dreams and can empower others to make their own stories real. That gives me hope. -
What gives me hope? Environmentalist with nice cleavage.
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What gives me hope is that companies are realizing that it's cost-effective to go green. It sounds lame to be happy about that, but large companies aren't going away anytime soon, and if they REALLY are greening their ways, it can make a big, lasting effect.
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What give me hope is that a new leader will be picked soon to lead the most powerful nation in the world. That this new leader will know the difference between right and wrong, that this new leader will bring the nation to a new level in understanding the need to care for our planet, that this new leader will see the great divide between the rich and the poor and finally, but not least, that this new leader will not put barriers against peace in the world while talking peace in the world. This is what gives me hope.
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- WorldPeaceTV
- 5 months ago
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What gives me hope is those of my children's and my grand-daughter's generation who show that they are pretty savvy with regard to respecting the environment and coming up with concrete and proactive ideas for spreading the word, organizing groups to go and clean-up rivers, lakes, forests, etc., who are very much pro alternative and sustainable energy, and who are not fooled by the climate change and global warming deniers.
Nice to see and hear you, TouchArt! -
I agree with everything that gives everyone hope in response to TouchArt's question, however I'd add one more thing - platforms like Current give me hope. Places like these provide people like me the platform to push my version of the truth out to the world. I've had such encouraging responses (along with the barrage of criticism) and on the whole, it makes a difference. Here, fellow journalists are always ready to get the word out, to promote, disseminate, collaborate... do whatever it takes to help out THAT voice, which, in previous years, would never have had the chance to be heard.
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- rabiagarib
- 5 months ago
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current.com is the bomb.
The internet Al Gore invented is great too.
So is public radio in America and indigenous radio in Canada.
Keep the information lines open.
Knowledge is power. -
YES Current does rock.
As long as they don't sell it to Rupert Murdoch or Clear Channel (are they the same thing?)... -
KPFK is amazing too. Best news source out there. And does everyone know about Rawstory.com?
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For easy reading about the positive changes people are involved with this magazine gives me hope. Great to have around the house when you need a pick up. -
KPFA in Berkeley gives me hope too.
Ras Kadee interviewed me and my son Raoul Paisner about the Oppressionist Art Movement and the LELA International Arts Festival in September 2006 on Native Bay Circle.
Ras Kadee had just returned with his rap group from a tour of Europe. Their earth/indigenous justice rap music is positive and upbeat and gives me hope. -
what gives me hope is that the leading democratic candidate and likely the next president of the United States, Barack Obama, has pledged to work closely with Gore to solve the climate crisis and use the powers of government to turn around our destructive path.
OBAMA GIVES ME HOPE.-
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- stephenthomson
- 5 months ago
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What gives me hope is people like Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, an eloquent Hillary Clinton supporter, who was with us and Martin Luther King III at the Realizing the Dream Poverty in America Initiative Report to Congress last October.
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What gives me hope is knowing that the 'Will of the Father' supercedes and overshadows any tyrannical schemes that may arise on this planet due to the avarice of egoistic narrowminded powerhungry individuals who could care less for the little people or the many unique plants and animals, the wonders, the truly valuable resouces of this most precious planet. I believe, through this 'Will' we who care are all connected with the voice of reason that is inside of us and through that connection we will overcome the deficiencies that plague the global progress and the everlasting peace that will someday be realized for all of us. The more art and culture and exposure to the good things in this world that we produce...the more sadness and disparagement we take away from those who can't overcome their woes and who get drowned in the sea of their own helplessness.
The positive influence that we receive from those who are far more advanced than us humans who are above petty greed and material desires should serve as a perfect example for all of the people of this planet. They seem to care more about us than we care about ourselves. They project themselves through the selfless goodness that we show to others...hence do unto others...
What gives me hope is knowing that they will continue to inspire us into this new age as we have arrived at the crossroad where the present ideological and the future evolutionary concepts of our different civilizations converge. The global plain is ripe for the harvest of the development of the new technological, physiological, psychological, political, and spiritual ideals that will support a new awareness of the important roles we all must, as responsible human beings, now be willing to play in order to arrest the deterioration and disintergration of all the different species and resources that exist in the fragile balance of this most precious planet. The question is, can we bring together the different races and ethnic groups throughout the globe toward an agreeable concensus on universal ideology, while at the same time preserve the rich cultural diversity that exists worldwide, and still avoid the development of a physically homogenous global human race? This is the challenge that we must all accept. In this sense, mankind is its own most valuable resource, not to be exploited.
So, thank you Charleen and thank you all for your positive input...we will overcome...keep up the good work and karma...stay positive...-
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- PlatoTacius
- 5 months ago
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Thanks, PlatoTacius.
You too.
Have a day of "purposeful fulfillment."
Peace,
Charleen Touchette
oneearthblog.blogspot.com
What gives me hope is hibakusha peace artist Hideo Sakata san. Sakata san, who was 10 when he ran to hide from the A bomb in Nagazaki, works gathering international artists who work for peace with justice in annual art festivals around the world.
Here's a pic of Sakata san in front center and Russell Means and I in the back left of center in a group photo of 150 LELA artists for the 2006 Festival in LA.
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