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Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast
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This episode comes in the spirit of the 1977 United Nations Conference on Indigenous Peoples, where the Haudenosaune, also called Iroquois, presented to the Western World, “A Basic Call to Consciousness.”
“The traditional Native peoples hold the key to the reversal of the process in Western Civilization which holds the promise of unimaginable future suffering and destruction. Spiritualism is the highest form of political consciousness. And we, the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, are among the world’s surviving proprietors of that kind of consciousness. We are here to impart that message.”
The Haudenosaune address also calls for alliances with non-Indigenous peoples who can think progressively about liberation of the Natural World, its peoples and cultures.
Accordingly, Lori Payer, leader of Strong Women of the Four Directions, is a native woman living in the Siouxland region of the U.S. where three states connect—Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska. She exemplifies the willingness of indigenous peoples to collaborate on the way forward.
The traditional ways of Indigenous, low-technology worldviews continue to reveal wisdom for living today that is grounded in Earth’s knowledge on how to generate life. Worldviews dependent on technology are experience the darkside of technologies which repeatedly overwhelm the good it does and generate extinction of life.
Do listen to Lori Payer’s soft-spoken wisdom in this interview. And if you are part of a congregation, campus, nonprofit, or business, do all you can be in a respectful alliance with the First Peoples who lived here first and continue to resist Western Civilization with their Earth-based ways.
Earlier Episodes
Ep. 07/19–Michael Patrick “White Eagle” O’Connor, native American artist and Earth activist
In this episode and the next we interview two Native Americans from the Siouxland region of the U.S. Michael says we are in the 7th Generation, according to a prophecy of Black Elk and other Native Americans, the time of healing. It’s a time when genuine partnerships develop among non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples. These two interviews push aside any residual thoughts in our minds that Indigenous peoples are peoples of the past or are fading into the past. No! The spiritual activism and perspectives of traditional Indigenous peoples lead the way for the OneEarth living we espouse on our podcast. Hear a 48 year old social worker and Native American in Sioux City, Iowa, speak to how he follows his spiritual path in addressing the issues of today.
He speaks so transparently about himself, his struggle to be on his spiritual path, his deep relationship with the energy of Earth, his work with Native American youth, and his readiness for partnership with non-Indigenous people who seek it authentically.
Reference: TCGP #84: Patricia St. Onge: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples Coming Together for OneEarth Living (6/1/17)
Reference: TCGP Ep. 77: Lee’s book From Egos to Eden
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Ep. 06/19–Carrie Radloff, Earth activist
Working for Environmental Progress in the Politically Regressive Midwest
Ep.05/19: Steven Cornett: Partnering with Nature for Healthy Food and Soil through Regenerative Farming
By 2030, it’s essential that we change the way food is grown if we are to keep the planet livable. In his early 30s, Steven Cornett understands the urgency and the daunting scale of such change. Helping to change our current large scale degenerative food system to a small scale regenerative agriculture system will have a major influence over the future of our world and society.
In episode 04/19, banker Pat Trahan
Pat speaks about growth economics, the Great Recession of 2008-09, Wall Street, and investing in our neighborhood. His perspective differs from many in the banking world. Pat says: “I think Jubilee is the antidote to the growth-for-the-sake-of-growth model where all the lines in all the graphs move only up and to the right. My reading of the Jubilee passages is that the means of production should be redistributed and democratized on occasion. Our system only redistributes some of the fruit of production. Meanwhile, wealth and power become more and more concentrated.”
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Ep. 03/19–Inequality Hurts Everybody!–Talking to Chuck Collins of Inequality.org
Over the last few decades 15% of U.S. wealth has been transferred from 99% of the populace to 1%. The 2018 tax revisions continue the trend—something many of us noticed as we filed 2018 tax returns. As Program Director of InEquality and the Common Good, a part of the Institute for Policy Studies, Chuck edits the “Inequality This Week” eNewsletter and has authored many books including the popular book, Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good (Chelsea Green) and his new book: Is Inequality in America Irreversible? (Oxford, UK-based Polity Press).
BONUS Podcast! Alternative Radio: Economic InEquality Kills–Stephen Bezruchka
Ep. 02/19–No! to Factory Farms–Talking with Adam Mason of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
Be sure to listen to this podcast. Adam links our food choices to the factory farms which highlight deep ecological and economic problems with the global food supply system, a complex system that starts on farms and finds its way to our plates.
Ep. 01/19–Immigration and Borders: Horrors, Opportunities, and Needs—Talking with Jimmy Marcelin
Jimmy Marcelin is the playmaker at Safe Harbors, San Diego, where 100 to 300 immigrants arrive daily after crossing the busiest border crossing in the world, the Tijuana to San Diego crossing. In addition to ICE’s inhumane and atrocious activities, they also process some people who have papers or seek asylum. Some of these people, ICE delivers to Safe Harbors.
OneEarth Jubilee can now help you offset the carbon you put into the atmosphere.Here’s how. First, we calculate our carbon with the calculator online at www.carbonify.com. Then we donate the amount the calculator totals for us. We can donate it to Jubilee Economics Tree Fund because the two Jubilee Circles in Mexico and the one in San Diego all work with trusted groups that plant trees. Not that this is a perfect solution to putting CO2 into the air. Not by any means. When trees die, they, too, put CO2 into the air. But trees live a long time. And every day they live, they sequester carbon from the atmosphere and enrich the soil while putting out oxygen. The April newsletter, Jubileo, is an Earth Day edition and tells you more. Click BLOG in the menu at the top of the page at Jubilee-Economics.org.
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