Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear

..a talk by the author Frances Moore Lappe. Ms. Lappe is the co-founder of the organization 'Food First' ( Institute for Food and Development Policy) and of the Center for Living Democracy.

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[incomesoftwaretaxdeb]

makes us think, not indifferent.

[helppreparationtaxde]

is not love, but it looked with interest, like

[HealthyPlanet]

25 yrs ago I decided as a city girl in Seattle to eat organic foods, so I happily shopped for it and bought it wherever I could find it. Now 25 yrs later, organic food can be bought in corporate grocery stores, yet the cream of organics is still in our own gardens and at Farmer's Markets! So shop for, vote for, plant and build positive healthy living wherever you are!

[orianaz]

Try other ways of doing things and thinking globally that are progressive and harmonious with our planet?

I loved Frances ideas, she inspired me!

Thanks for the vid!

[orianaz]

instead of just adjusting to the status quo. maybe we start unperfectly, and perfect it along the way, but we start, and maybe someone comes along to improve the small plant (ideas) we saw. We have no garanties, but what else is left? Shall we sit and wait to see where the global warming, corporate policies, capitalism consciousness will lead us to, where it will end up? Or pick up the best of what we have with flaws and all and try to make a difference?

[orianaz]

She's cool and inspirational!

The world is going in a downward spiral, if things don't change we will be like cancer eating the body that feeds it until there's nothing left to feed anymore. The bodie (world) dies we will all die or suffer with it. Maybe we'll have to reach that point to change the way we think and do things, or maybe we can actually seek to solve things starting at the root of the problem, even if we don't know the end result, at least we'll be doing something to heal

[BoerBoetie]

ITs time you learn the truth, if you dont, only thing left for you would be the Darkness

[onecoldfox]

this starts at 13:50 for sure

[daleroes]

In our era of globalization, transnational production and trade, the sort of 'community-based' economy advocated here is unrealistic. Were it somehow come to pass, however, it would in practice represent a tremendous regression. It would entail a massive rollback in the level of productive methods and technology and an incalculable reduction in the living standards of hundreds of millions of people in the world and untold hardships from which its advocates would no doubt seek exemption.

[daleroes]

Appeal to moral equivalence between binary oppositions--she employed same inductive fallacy to Reagan's cold war policy in the 80's. You may find this worthwhile, if you don't think moral equivalence has been discredited. I believe she's a good and well intentioned person, but good intentions are perilous in politics. Strategy never disappears, and this isn't the stuff of sound strategy. Nonduality cannot be imposed or legislated, as gratifying as it may be for the individual who experiences it.