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Visioning & Action, a customized Visionary Activist Opportune Time.
First half of show, we host Permaculture Action Network (PAN) wizard, community organizer, guide, Ryan Rising. www.PermacultureAction.org
Second half – Confluencing of all Allies! We welcome the return of Sarah James, Gwitch’in defender of Arctic Wildlife Refuge now under urgent threat from the #waronlife that we may all unite – a Symbiotic Liberation Font – to help us all cultivate and protect the dynamic good, compost the up-to no good into nutrient for a culture of participatory kinship…
Sarah James
Let’s mobilize and spiral forth the protective response team of all creation.
Yo Team,
Such an opportune, potent magnetizing envisioning time…
The Moon and Neptune conjoin
in Neptune’s sign of Pisces,
at the convening the Dream Team degree,
where each of us has a sword in a stone to draw forth,
that we have the full support of the Faery Realm.
Sextile Saturn in Capricorn,
at the “a person sitting in front of a blazing fire –
the unconditional dedication of the Self
with all its skills,” degree…
With Pragmatic Mystic Mercury at
“the “angel carrying a harp” degree –
back-stage manifest help from the invisible.
Vision and Action are in partnered cahoots,
within and without….
and all at this waxing Moon
towards a Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse
on Sunday/Monday proffering the real metaphor,
of seeing the Earth’s Shadow projected onto the Moon…
and for the hour of totality…
we can toss all impediments to collective well-being
into that cauldron…
This is the time, team, to engage all of our craft,
animating the power that comes from dedication.
Permaculture Action Network
The Permaculture Action Network (PAN) has been busy hosting action days all around the country in the last 2 years.
Now hosting potent action day in Oakland on January 20.
This is the Facebook event page for January 20th: https://www.facebook.com/events/312730559343629/
Webpost with event info: http://www.permacultureaction.org/event/oakland-permaculture-action-day-w-lead-to-life/
Lead to Life: https://www.leadtolife.org/
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust:https://sogoreate-landtrust.com/
From the Facebook event page:
In honor of the annual “Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy” weekend 2019:
Lead to Life & Permaculture Action Network invite you to the Sogorea Te Land Trust and Planting Justice Nursery in East Oakland for a Permaculture Action Day on Sunday, January 20th!
This is a free, family-friendly event filled with ecologically regenerative hands-on projects, workshops & skill-shares, music, and a community meal. This is the sister event to this past April’s Lead to Life series in Atlanta, Georgia, where 50 guns were melted down into 50 shovels to plant 50 trees in honor of the 50 years since MLK’s assassination.
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For this Oakland action day, our partner James Brenner Sculpture is forging a reimagined arsenal of 40 additional shovels, made from weapons collected at Bay Area gun buybacks. Folks from across the East Bay are coming together to use these ceremonial tools to plant trees and build ceremonial space at the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust site at Planting Justice’s East Oakland Nursery, the first piece of land put into this urban, indigenous women-led community land trust. This will be the site of the first ceremonial arbor built on Ohlone Land in 250 years.
The day will be an act of beloved community and grassroots liberation as part of Oakland’s annual weekend to reclaim the radical legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. To honor the vision of Dr. King, the work of people across Oakland, and the indigenous stewardship of these lands, we will work with our hands in the soil to decompose colonialism. We will live into a practice of land reparations through supporting the return of Ohlone ancestral homelands. This day also auspiciously falls on the Jewish holiday of trees, Tu Bishvat!
The following evening, Monday, January 21st, we will reconvene in Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland, where we will finish transforming guns into our last shovels together in a public participatory ceremony following The People’s March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy.
People of the caribou | An interview with Sarah James
“Sarah Agnes James is a Neets’aii Gwich’in elder from above the Arctic Circle in the great Alaskan interior. Hers are the people of the caribou and she sings the caribou welcome song to protect their way of life. Her parents and grandparents taught her to protect “the sacred place where all life begins,” which is Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit. She grew up on the land in the far north and understands it as her teacher, her medicine, her sustainer, and the way of the Creator. Since 1988, she has been a spokesperson for her people in the struggle to protect her way of life from oil and gas development, traveling globally to mobilize many people into understanding to protect the Porcupine caribou herd and defend their calving and nursery grounds from oil development and catastrophic climate change. She educates and learns from diverse people, bringing her teachings and also receiving theirs. As one of Spirit Aligned’s Legacy Leaders, Sarah works from her village to pass on ancestral teachings to educate the world about the caribou and her way of life. – Leslee Goodman“ James: We need everybody’s help because the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is public-interest land. We need to reach out to all Americans because they have a stake in these lands. We need to educate Americans, as we have been doing for many years out there on the road, with TV, radio, newspapers, Facebook, any way we can get the message out there, to educate the world to say No to oil. We can each do something to protect the birthplace and nursery grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd, the sacred place where life begins in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We ask people to phone and email their Congress-people; to write letters to the editor in their newspaper; to talk to their friends and relatives and their community. It’s important to make and keep friends; that grassroots support can be powerful.
Right now, I’m representing my tribe, our sovereign governments, as a spokesperson for the Arctic Refuge struggle for the tribe. We’re doing government to government consultation, sitting across the table—our tribal governments and the U. S. government—and standing our ground for the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Sacred Place Where Life Begins, Iizhik Gwats’san Gwandaii Goodlit, that sustains us as Neets’aii Gwich’in.
The BLM and the Department of the Interior are rushing an Environmental Impact Statement review process that, ideally, would identify the impacts and stop the process because the harm from oil and gas to the caribou and the land and the whole community of life would be permanent. After the damage the land would never be the same again. But the administration is really rushing it, like it did with the tax bill. They don’t want to allow public input; they don’t want to really study impacts; they just want to move forward. The Trump administration is doing everything it can to fast-track the process, and we are doing everything we can to stop it.
So we do need people to speak louder, and push harder, than the administration is doing. For us, it’s very, very critical and very sad. It is sadness for our people and our way of life, even though today is a good day because the caribou are here and we’re going to eat well again. In our hearts, we know we’re going to win one day, because it is the right thing to do. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the last ecologically functional environments, natural as the Creator made it and the sacred Porcupine caribou birthplace and nursery grounds. Not only would fossil fuel development negatively impact this fragile landscape, but burning these fossil fuels will further accelerate climate change, which is already damaging our home.
James: They can get information from Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government, Arctic Village Council, and Venetie Village Council (for contacts see the website: http://www.alaskan-natives.com/834/native-village-venetie-tribal). You can contact me through my email sarahjamesav@hotmail.com, or you can contact me through my Facebook. Thank you.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
News Release No. 19-01 Contact: BL*******@*lm.gov
Date: Jan. 9, 2019 ANCHORAGE – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced its intent to postpone currently scheduled public meetings regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The BLM plans to hold public meetings in: Anchorage, Arctic Village, Fairbanks, Kaktovik, Fort Yukon, Venetie, Utqiaġvik, and Washington, D.C., at times and locations to be announced at a future time in local media, newspapers, and on the BLM website. The deadline for submitting comments is February 11, 2019. Comments on the Draft EIS can continue to be sent.
Up-Coming Full Moon Lunar Eclipse
