World Vision Dialogue - What YOU CAN DO TODAY

KATRINA: You can help!

As we look on at the KATRINA tragedy, we can all do something to help our neighbors.

My wife and I are donating two rooms in my house to participate in the HurricaneHousing.org project run by MOVE-ON.org. You'll find access to information on how you can help by sharing your home and also other links to get involved.

We signed up and were contacted immediately by a coordinator. They said that people in the area are willing to help pay for a family to travel here and then would be willing to help us with food and clothes if needed to support our neighbors from KATRINA's tragedy.

Do your part...help in some way!

Joshua Peace Seeker

P.S. The world is watching. This tragedy is not just a hurricane, it is a failure of leadership.

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Talking top and bottom, not left and right

I have found that trying to convince a right or left wing person to change
is nearly impossible when you talk about the surface issues.  The issues
that are screamed about on the television every day are not issues people
can really talk about.  We argue over abortion we argue over religion and
the whole time the rich are still taking advantage of the poor.

I would suggest readjusting your debates to include more talk of equality.
Most everyone has been or is angry about the way corporate America treats
them.  I can barely stand talking to a customer service person at any
company I use.  The lack of care for people is one of the problems.  If you
have ever lost a job while a company is posting record profits you probably
understand.  In people lies hope. We just can't keep fighting with others
about moral issues and preserve the environment and/or stop a war.

So let's try again to focus on what is really keeping us down as a people.
The people who have most of the power are rich and will do just about
anything to keep the current system in place.  Those of us who make less
then 1.2 million a year are in the lower class of this global society.  From
looking around my fairly successful neighborhood, I don't think any of us are
making 1.2 million a year.  We are the majority, lets act like it.

Joshua Peace Seeker

Building a bio community NOW

My family and I spent the last week at the Oregon Country Fair. It is a yearly ritual for us.  My partner Yemaya is an amazing belly dancer at the beautiful Gypsy stage. Normally my days and nights are filled with walking around from booth to booth. Watching amazing musicians and performers in every style you can imagine. 

During the daytime as many as 20,000 people stroll through the fair and many wonderful connections are made. Night time is a whole different story. Somewhere around 7,000 people work behind the scenes as performers, construction, food servers and much more. My job every year is to build a stage and take care of my little girl while Yemaya dances. But this year was different for me. I found myself driven to spread words of peace and action.

In a setting that many try to disconnect from what is going on in the world I found that hundreds of my friends wanted talk about the opportunities developing to help propel change. This is where bio diesel comes in.  I spoke constantly about changing our personal habits and driving a bio diesel was a huge attention getter. People from all over the world left this last week with a confidence in themselves to make the change, the bio diesel seed grows. 

I am an optimist when it comes to people. I believe in the human spirit and I know how strong we can be when we have to be. I will not sit still and watch others form my world into a violent dirty place. I will actively create the world I want. I want a world where communities take control of their resources and remove the greedy hand from their pockets.

I read somewhere recently that the harder I work the luckier I get. I agree with this and we need to work together now. Please work with your fellow humans. Please work with me now by buying a diesel for your next car.  Hopefully we will get lucky and create a planet worthy of our children.

By the way, in all of this action talk I still had a blast with friends and family and bonded with many new loving people.

Joshua Peace Seeker

Ideas born today will set you free.

Not long ago I myself did not think of how I affected the world.  I used to concentrate on the "American Dream" and what that could do for me.  I kept running into questions I did not want to have answered.  Knowing too much about what your personal actions do to others can be uncomfortable to think about. 

This war on Terror has rocked my beliefs.  I started researching what I once did not care about.  I started opening my eyes to the oneness of this world.  MY own actions daily were helping to perpetuate violence or slavery of one form or another.

So, what can little me in a world full of old money and centralized media mega giants controlling the message do? 

I started taking responsibility for my own life.  I started changing everything I could to reduce my input into this machine of violence.  We will be chating about many things here that will help us to change the world.  I hope that we can have open discussions that help educate everyone about there own impact. 

Peace will win in the end.  The powerful are overreaching, and forward thinking people are needed to manifest change.

My wife and I just joined a Community Supported Agriculture Project.  Over 40 local farms are selling organic produce directly to our group!!!

Peace and Love,

Joshuapeaceseeker