RedLines Paris

The morning of December 12 broke crisp and early. Our team had made a ‘nest’ out of the bottom bunkers of our room in L’Annexe, and each woke up ready to head out into the uncertain future that was D12, the Day of Civil Disobedience for COP21

That Metro Ride was a sober journey, each of us preparing for a day of new roles, fresh positions and the belief that we could affect the outside world, by controlling our internal worlds. As the Balanciers, our task was to patrol the edges of the D12 Disobedience Zone, and along with the Clown Army, disrupt patterns of aggression and violence by introducing our own patterns, employing street theater, clowning tricks, movement sound and song

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Civil Society had earlier created their own redline within the official COP space

D12 however, was the street action, and over 10,000 people displayed non-compliance with the State of Emergency, postulating that the real state of emergency was in fact the Climate

 

The closing ‘red lines’ protests against the COP21 climate deal had a message that the public would hold the global governments accountable and that they would have the last word. Governments have made a voluntary, non-binding agreement to begin to reduce emissions in 2020. Although negotiators agreed that warming should be limited to 1.5 degrees  and must be limited to 2 degrees there is currently no plan to make that happen. There are many times more reserves of fossil fuels than can be burnt and no governmental negotiations yet about who keeps what in the ground and who compensates who for climate change. So if we are to be responsible to each other and future generations how do we ‘keep it in the ground‘ and meet the COP21 target?

http://buzztour.org/2015/12/18/how-do-you-draw-a-red-line/

 

The ‘Redlines’ is a narrative structure that is by its distributed nature, a narrative that any frontline resistance movement/action can adopt. The premise that was created in Paris, is that these redlines are lines connected to planetary species (human) survival, and are thus lines that cannot be crossed.

Each movement can adopt the idea of their own redline, and join the decentralized network, to combine forces as the global community post-Paris

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At the end of the day, was the Night..and all paths led to the Final Dance…

Further Content:

https://roarmag.org/essays/paris-attack-climate-justice-movements/

d12.redlines.en.v5

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A Playlist of COP21 related media:

http://www.unicornriot.ninja/?p=3105

 

Our Spring

The world is changing, the Earth is turning and the stars keep seeming to move in their beautiful patterns. Under these suns, the citizens of Earth are scrambling around, trying not to talk about the Falling Sky. Disconnected, isolated and pitted against ‘Them’, modern society is a farce and a paradox. As the eye of Big Brother watches from above, on the streets, we feel the buzz. The futility of the wars. The corruption that goes on and grows on. The police state being politely installed. We are moving further and further from natural patterns, and even our sense of time has been warped and distorted.

These moments are the ones that will be remembered. At such a key time in humanities rise from the soil, it seems as though every choice and decision is key, making visible how each affects the other. The internet helps us see what we are seeking, being able to access and share at an astonishingly constant rate. Society is shifting through what we call the 2.0 range, carving a path towards what will either be an enlightened and conscious society (Society 3.0), or a global slave colony. 

 

The citizens of the EarthShip are feeling the frustrations of living in a world where they seem to have efficacy but actually are imprisoned by systems and dominant forces that no longer serve us. We watch nature being consumed and converted into consumable products that feed the ego and fill the dumpsites. There seems to be no alternative, besides protesting or complaining. Even working within institutional changework has no effect and does not help ground the world we want. These days of connectivity are mirrored by the separation from power through false authority. And somewhere between these polar aspects, there lives a moment of infinity, where the ends do not oppose each other but flow into each other, complimenting and balancing, for a moment, Everything…

This spring approaches (for us South), and with it, a chance to reclaim our position and continue our evolution as a species without false money and selfish leadership. Technology provides us with an opportunity to create ‘trustless societies’, social media allows Civil Society and Social Justice information to spread around the world in a  few clicks, and the blockchain technology will soon allow us to create secure contracts and transfer value without the permission of a self imposed ‘authority’. 

 

This spring brings us PermaCredits, the marriage of ‘permaculture’ and ‘cryptocurrencies’, two systems that inherently mirror and contain the natural (abundant) patterns of Nature. While in the background, Etherium‘s development continues, with the promise of DACs (decentralized autonomous corporations) and the possibility of executing alternatives like “Liquid Democracy“. This spring also brings us the Peoples Climate March with this invitation and this one too. People moved to action, to physically demonstrate and hold our governance and public service institutions accountable. 

Both these events pin themselves around the Equinox day September 21, also the UN Day of Peace. Both events show us real and tangible new forms of technology and mobilization that gives us a glimpse of the NU world and the path we must take to navigate there. The Equinox is the day that, no matter where on the Earth we are, the sun rises due East, and sets due West. Its is a moment in time to re-calibrate, to acknowledge our current circumstance with respect to our roots, and to sense where this EarthShip is heading, and to pre-sense what tools we can use and how we could agree to work with each other, in order to ensure that the NU world is birthed as our gift to our children. 

This Spring, could be Our Spring. The start of a fresh cycle of growth and abundance, the journey from the underworld of winter, into the NU. Our story as citizens of this fine Durban is intimately connected to the story of the world at large, and this September, we have many reasons and opportunities to reclaim our power and denounce false solutions and claims to authority. This spring is our chance to spring into action, to get involved in manifesting our own realities within this framework of sewer lines, power-grids, streets and parks. We must mirror these global movements by self-organising ourselves into actions-based groups and developing technologies and systems to facilitate a citizen-led redesign of our city according to the principles and ethics we deserve and desire. 

 

Even as the days split equally, we can have the clarity to acknowledge both worlds, and to see our path clearly. To dream and to act. To move to action and remain fixed to the truth. This spring could be Our Spring. It could.

 

Pacha Peas

http://www.pachamama.org

At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Alexandra Postelnicu interviewed two indigenous men from Ecuador. Mario Santi Gualinga and Isidro Gualinga, who are from the Kichwa tribe of the Sarayaku community, spoke to the importance of respect for Mother Earth and the rights of indigenous people.

“With what message did you come here?”

Mario Santi Gualinga: Our leaders, our elders, our mothers, our children sent us here to the Rio+20 Conference in Brazil. Our  message has only one objective: to propose the defense of the territory of our Mother Earth. Our Mother Earth, which is called Pachamama is in danger of extinction if we don’t maintain and if we don’t take care of her, if we don’t love her as our mother. It is for that purpose that we are going to discuss for four days with other indigenous people of the world how we can preserve and how we can put in practice our spiritual vision and values so that we can continue to exist as indigenous people.

“What visions do you have?”

Mario Santi Gualinga: Our vision, our dream that is motivating us is that we want our territory to become selva viva (forest alive), a forest that has such rich aliveness – full of rivers, with mountains, with lagoons, with waterfalls and with spiritual beings. We want this alive forest to continue to exist and for the indigenous people to have their own system of governance (health, education, food sovereignty and also food security) that our forest does not parish; so that Mother Earth does not parish.  That is what we are king the countries of America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The white man is depleting the natural resources. The indigenous people are keeping an equilibrium between man and nature. We want to live. We want our free autonomy. We want to live in freedom. We want to build peace in the world so that the future generations, the children that will come and will be born tomorrow will see that Mother Earth is the one that gives us life. She gives us nourishment and freedom. Mother Earth is giving us autonomy, rights and life.

Isidro Gualinga: All of this he is thinking, and what he is speaking, he speaks full hearted. Also we came here with one objective: To give this message to the world: there needs to be a new way of living for the future generations that is caring so that our people can exist longer. What needs to happen is: 1 request/1 proposal with this vision. Only one voice. Thank you.

“How does Pachamama want to be taken care of?”

Mario Santi Gualinga: Today, Pachamama, Sacred Earth, is crying. It is under attack by multi-national corporations, by the large oil companies. Mother Earth is hurt. And we, the indigenous people which are part of a reincarnation of Mother Earth, we want our Mother Earth to be healthy and well, and to restore a harmonious life; to have a healthy life and fertile with many aliments. We want to establish our own technological wisdom, norms and codes and apply them for our sons and for our international organization. Mother Earth is in agony, and we want at this gathering, after the debates and discussions, to come up with one unique proposal from all indigenous people around the world that will say we don’t want anyone to hurt Mother Earth because she is crying and bleeding and is being contaminated. We call for Rights of Nature  Rights of Mother Earth, the rights of indigenous people to live and die here on our land in peace and freedom. We don’t fight only for the rights of indigenous people, we are fighting for all people on planet earth. We are fighting for humanity.

“How can the other people from around the world – from America, Europe, Asia – help Mother Earth?”

Mario Santi Gualinga: We are asking for a healthy consciousness from Europeans, from people living in the city. Stop consuming, stop accumulating material power (capital power). Try to defend the only place of living that is left in the Amazon (Brazilian Amazon, Ecuador, Africa, Asia) because we are the ones who are taking care of the forest and preserving it for the life of humanity. We live in harmony with nature and respect its natural laws. In this law of respect, we can harmonize our lives and continue to exist as people and as nations.

– source: http://www.pachamama.org/blog/interview-using-indigenous-wisdom-to-help-mother-earth

Caretakersofmotherearth.com/Council Statement

COUNCIL STATEMENT

This statement reflects the wisdom of the Spiritual People of the Earth, of North and South America, working in unity to restore peace, harmony and balance for our collective future and for all living beings. This statement is written in black and white with a foreign language that is not our own and does not convey the full depth of our concerns.

The Creator created the People of the Earth into the Land at the beginning of Creation and gave us a way of life. This way of life has been passed down generation-to-generation since the beginning. We have not honored this way of life through our own actions and we must live these original instructions in order to restore universal balance and harmony. We are a part of Creation; thus, if we break the Laws of Creation, we destroy ourselves.

We, the Original Caretakers of Mother Earth, have no choice but to follow and uphold the Original Instructions, which sustains the continuity of Life. We recognize our umbilical connection to Mother Earth and understand that she is the source of life, not a resource to be exploited. We speak on behalf of all Creation today, to communicate an urgent message that man has gone too far, placing us in the state of survival. We warned that one day you would not be able to control what you have created. That day is here. Not heeding warnings from both Nature and the People of the Earth keeps us on the path of self destruction. This self destructive path has led to the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Gulf oil spill, tar sands devastation, pipeline failures, impacts of carbon dioxide emissions and the destruction of ground water through hydraulic fracking, just to name a few. In addition, these activities and development continue to cause the deterioration and destruction of sacred places and sacred waters that are vital for Life.

Powerful technologies are out of control  and are threatening the future of all life

The Fukushima nuclear crisis alone is a threat to the future of humanity. Yet, our concern goes far beyond this single threat. Our concern is with the cumulative and compounding devastation that is being wrought by the actions of human beings around the world. It is the combination of resource extraction, genetically modified organisms, moral failures, pollution, introduction of invasive species and much much more that are threatening the future of life on Earth. The compounding of bad decisions and their corresponding actions are extremely short-sighted. They do not consider the future generations and they do not respect or honor the Creator’s Natural Law. We strongly urge for the governmental authorities to respond with an open invitation to work and consult with us to solve the world’s problems, without war. We must stop waging war against Mother Earth, and ourselves.

We acknowledge that all of these devastating actions originated in human beings who are living without regard for the Earth as the source of life. They have strayed from the Original Instructions by casting aside the Creator’s Natural Law. It is now critical for humanity to acknowledge that we have created a path to self destruction. We must restore the Original Instructions in our lives to halt this devastation.

The sanctity of the Original Instructions has been violated. As a result, the Spiritual People of the Earth were called ceremonially to come together at the home of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle. These Spiritual Leaders and those that carry great responsibility for their people from both North and South America came together with the sacred fire for four days at the end of September 2013 to fulfill their sacred responsibilities. During this time it was revealed that the spirit of destruction gained its’ strength by our spiritually disconnected actions. We are all responsible in varying degrees for calling forth this spirit of destruction, thus we are all bound to begin restoring what we have damaged by helping one another recover our sacred responsibility to the Earth. We, the Original Caretakers of Mother Earth, offer our spiritual insight, wisdom and vision to the global community to help guide the actions needed to overcome the current threats to all life.

We only have to look at our own bodies to recognize the sacred purpose of water on Mother Earth. We respect and honor our spiritual relationship with the lifeblood of Mother Earth. One does not sell or contaminate their mother’s blood. These capitalistic actions must stop and we must recover our sacred relationship with the Spirit of Water

The People of the Earth understand that the Fukushima nuclear crisis continues to threaten the future of all life. We understand the full implications of this crisis even with the suppression of information and the filtering of truth by the corporate owned media and Nation States. We strongly urge the media, corporations and Nation States to acknowledge and convey the true facts that threaten us, so that the international community may work together to resolve this crisis, based on the foundation of Truth.

We urge the international community, government of Japan and TEPCO to unify efforts to stabilize and re-mediate the nuclear threat posed at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. To ensure that the Japanese government and TEPCO are supported with qualified personnel and information, we urge the inclusion of today’s nuclear experts from around the world to collaborate, advise and provide technical assistance to prevent further radioactive contamination or worse, a nuclear explosion that may have apocalyptic consequences.

The foundation for peace will be strengthened 

by restoring the Original Instructions in ourselves

Prophecies have been shared and sacred instructions were given. We, the People of the Earth, were instructed that the original wisdom must be shared again when imbalance and disharmony are upon Mother Earth. In 1994 the sacred white buffalo, the giver of the sacred pipe, returned to the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people bringing forth the sacred message that the winds of change are here. Since that time many more messengers in the form of white animals have come, telling us to wake up my children. It is time. So listen for the sacred instruction.

All Life is sacred. We come into Life as sacred beings. When we abuse the sacredness of Life we affect all Creation

We urge all Nations and human beings around the world to work with us, the Original Caretakers of Mother Earth, to restore the Original Instructions and uphold the Creator’s Natural Law as a foundation for all decision making, from this point forward. Our collective future as human beings is in our hands, we must address the Fukushima nuclear crisis and all actions that may violate the Creator’s Natural Law. We have reached the crossroads of life and the end of our existence. We will avert this potentially catastrophic nuclear disaster by coming together with good minds and prayer as a global community of all faiths.

We are the People of the Earth united under the Creator’s Law with a sacred covenant to protect and a responsibility to extend Life for all future generations. We are expressing deep concern for our shared future and urge everyone to awaken spiritually. We must work in unity to help Mother Earth heal so that she can bring back balance and harmony for all her children.

Representatives of the Council

Chief Arvol Looking Horse

19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe

Spiritual Leader The Great Sioux Nation

Bobby C. Billie

Clan Leader and Spiritual Leader 

Council of the Original Miccosukee 

Simanolee Nation Aboriginal Peoples

Faith Spotted Eagle, Tunkan Inajin Win

Brave Heart Society Grandmother

Headswoman & Ihanktonwan Treaty Council

Ihanktonwan Dakota from the Oceti Sakowin

7 Council Fires

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