Monday, August 19, 2024

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #192, AUGUST 19, 2024.

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #192, AUGUST 19,  2024.  Compiled by Dick Bennett

Late Breaking:  Protest v. Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex.

Equador.  Nature’s Rights.
Yunkaporta.  Indigenous Thinking.
Greenpeace.  Climate Action.

Breaking News: PROTEST THURSDAY MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-CONGRESSIONAL COMPLEX, the USA’s TOP SINGLE PRODUCER OF CO2
This Thursday at 8 A.M., many of the top Military-Industrial Complex war profiteering corporations are holding a "Mid-America Defense Summit" at Embassy Suites in Rogers, AR (3303 Pinnacle Hills Parkway). This event will feature speeches by AR politicians and arms dealers. We must speak out.  We will be protesting on the sidewalks in front of Embassy Suites event center in Rogers. Please be there at about 7:45, so we are visible to event attendees as they are driving into the event. Abel Tomlinson.   The next War Watch Wednesday will provide more information.  

 

EQUADOR LEADS THE WAY: NATURE HAS RIGHTS
In its documentary, Wild Hope, “Does Nature Have Rights” (August 12, 2024), PBS recounts Equador’s successful struggle to create a constitutional structure for the rights of nature, not only in its parks but for the country as a whole.  Don’t miss it, and send to every person you know especially in a public or private position to make a difference, including young people, who mobilized in Equador.

 

Tyson Yunkaporta.   “Sand Talk:  How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World.”  Harper One, 2021.   
Publisher’s description:  A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living.  As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?

In this thoughtful, culturally rich, mind-expanding book, he provides answers. Yunkaporta’s writing process begins with images. Honoring indigenous traditions, he makes carvings of what he wants to say, channeling his thoughts through symbols and diagrams rather than words. He yarns with people, looking for ways to connect images and stories with place and relationship to create a coherent world view, and he uses sand talk, the Aboriginal custom of drawing images on the ground to convey knowledge. . . .
[Favorably reviewed by Liam Myers in The Catholic Worker (March-April 2023)].

 

GREENPEACE

 

       Dick,
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