Voices for Change

The United States government has followed in the UK’s footsteps in using "first past the post" system to get the political outcome it wants. This means the people’s vote does not matter and this type of dirty politics needs to stop.

Let's explore a fictitious scenario in which every person who wanted to be considered for a government job would have to take both a lie detector and a mental test, and pass them, to be accepted.

It’s understandable that the super wealthy might wish to escape the gravitational pull of the rest of us. But there’s really no escape.

The TPP isn’t the solution. As Jim Hightower describes it: "it’s just another global trade scam coming at us like a volcanic eruption straight out of hell." Don't let the TPP gang steal our democratic rights and turn our futures to global corporations.

In all, the nation has so far lost more than a million foreign-born workers amid Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

The ultimate environmental disasters are still siloed.

"In non-medical cases, firearms may soon cause more death than motor vehicle accidents." Guns have long been a leading cause of non-medical deaths throughout the U.S.— far more more than any other developing country. It's the scary reality.

We too can choose whether we want a future of solidarity where human needs and protection of the planet come before profits or whether we will continue down the path where corporations and the politicians they fund deny access to basic needs.

As the existing systems crystallize and become more extreme, it is upon a foundation of love and compassion that the new modes of living must be built.

What it really means to be on a “flattening” planet.