Caroline welcomes Pennie Opal Plant (We once howled at the White House together, that wild wisdom may enter governance.) Honoring the rising tide of sane reverence, Idle No More, Extinction Rebellion, Rights of Nature, that our laws be in accord with Nature’s Guiding Genius.
Pennie Opal Plant is of Yaqui, Mexican, Choctaw, Cherokee and European descent. She has been rising up and organizing on behalf of Mother Earth and the sacred system of life for over 36 years. She is a co-founder of Idle No More SF Bay, Movement Rights and a signatory on the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty. Currently collaborating with Extinction Rebellion. She has been a successful small business owner since 1984 and currently owns a Native American gallery store in Albany, California. She lives near the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, CA, and is a wife, mother and grandmother.
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Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth
We, the peoples and nations of Earth:
considering that we are all part of Mother Earth, an indivisible, living community of interrelated and interdependent beings with a common destiny;
gratefully acknowledging that Mother Earth is the source of life, nourishment and learning and provides everything we need to live well; …Continue Reading
and more than poignantly,
May the Butterflies, Wild-Life, Sacred Sanctuary of La Lomita Chapel –
Prevail, against all odds!:
Article: Crushing Blow to Butterflies as Border Wall Construction Starts at Sanctuary
By Jessica Allee, Reader Supported News – 06 February 19
Wildlife habitat officials are told that their property is now government land, even though they’ve received no compensation or eminent domain hearing.
“The center is working on legal action to stop the seizure and has set up a fundraising page to cover costs. However, according to the center’s Facebook page, construction begins on Thursday, February 6th. And, in keeping with poor communication from the government, equipment showed up a day earlier than they were told by Customs and Border Protection to expect it. This past Sunday, a massive earth mover and eight law enforcement units were first spotted next to the wildlife habitat. That is when the center was notified by a Mission Police Department officer that as of Monday they would “have NO ACCESS to [their] own land south of the levee” and that it is effectively government land. The Trump administration will essentially carve a militarized zone through a major portion of the privately-owned land, practically cutting off 70 acres from the wildlife habitat, or 70% of their property.”
and Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen Ed Market
rolled out the Green New Deal plan today…
Let’s call our reps and ask them to co-sponsor 844-241-1141
and always, how shall we be First Responders (v first reactors)?-
by engaging all our strategies for participatory kinship…
Mars
Woof that animates the multiverses (aka Mars)
be dancing with Nature’s Liberating Trickster Inteligence (Uranus)
and Eris, goddess of Disrupting whatever needs disrupting, letting in fresh air…..
also transiting KPFA’s Sun (“A woman bursting with gifts – more than she can hold)
Mars and Uranus (NASA images)
Mars Uranus exact conjunction February 13th,
then Mars enters Taurus, the Venusian realm of democratic animism…
as a great gift on Valentine’s Day…
Mars leads the way for Uranus to enter Taurus on Ash Wednesday March 6th
(The night before is Mardi Gras, and the last moments of Uranus in Aries –
for another 84 years – so rock-out and gather woof – for Beauty.)
We can feel it – there is a heartening rising up of in all of us
(great global-local tide of Extinction Rebellion, Idle No More,
and Myriad confluencing streams of dynamic reverence…
13 year olds organizing Student Strike for Climate in US March 15th!)
We are Nature protecting Herself!
