"Steve" offered a response to the last post (about "The Hidden Agreement") that reinforces a key principle of this blog: we're looking for the good stuff that's helping people believe in themselves and choose more engaged lives, no matter where it comes from. So whenever the spirit moves you, please send in links to extraordinarily energizing sites that you've found. I'll comb through and use my, um, rigorous criteria to select the ones that seem most resonant with our focus at REALLYtab. Rigorous criteria: I'll probably pass on New Age sites and the political sites that offer astute ongoing commentary on all that's wrong, though there are plenty in both categories doing terrific work. What I'm more interested in is those sites that speak with special power to the emerging activist in you. I'll list those on the right-hand sidebar for you find and visit.
Steve offered up two sites that fit the bill: Zaadz and Global Mindshift. I was taken with the short video at Zaadz that showed who we are. Or can be. Thanks, Steve...
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There is a documentary movie I haven't even seen yet, but it sounds like it might fit the bill of helping us believe in ourselves and the power of the individual to make a difference (or almost make a difference). And it seems apropos to your maiden post.
The movie is entitled Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
Here is the Netflix synopsis:
Frank Popper's engaging documentary follows the 2004 campaign of Jeff Smith, a young political science instructor at Washington University who runs for the seat vacated by retiring congressman Dick Gephardt. Pitted against state Rep. Russ Carnahan, the scion of a powerful political family, Smith proves that an unknown with no money can make a difference, forging a campaign that ultimately poses a serious challenge to Carnahan.
On the old Watch Mr. Wizard TV show, one of the science experiments involved dissolving sugar in hot water and then suspending a string in the water. As the water cools, it can't keep as much sugar in solution, so the sugar crystallizes onto the string. I think something like that is happening in this country and the world: The problems we face have gotten so severe and threatening -- and the power elites in government, business, and the media are doing so much harm -- that increasing numbers of people are seeking better ways forward, and many visions are crystallizing into connections and action.
One way to see this is in Paul Hawken's new book, Blessed Unrest [ http://www.blessedunrest.com/ ].
From the Website:
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Paul Hawken has spent over a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location, and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media. Like nature itself, it is organizing from the bottom up, in every city, town, and culture. and is emerging to be an extraordinary and creative expression of people's needs worldwide.
Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and hidden history, which date back many centuries. A culmination of Hawken's many years of leadership in the environmental and social justice fields, it will inspire and delight any and all who despair of the world's fate, and its conclusions will surprise even those within the movement itself. Fundamentally, it is a description of humanity's collective genius, and the unstoppable movement to reimagine our relationship to the environment and one another.
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The Website also includes praise for the book from Jane Goodall, Stewart Brand, Barry Lopez, Bill McKibben, Terry Tempest Williams, David Suzuki, David Suzuki, and others.
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