Dear Community,
Read and do what you can!
Contents:
Indigenous Matters
Resistance Matters: Palestine: URGENT
Resistance Matters: US
Climate/Earth Matters
Indigenous Matters:
a wonderful opportunity to hear Indigenous People's voices and perspectives for those of you who didn't see this film:
--Please watch: The Eternal Song of Indigenous wisdom/people from around the world.
With a donation of any amount (including $0), you’ll receive 48-hour streaming access to The Eternal Song, along with a beautifully-designed digital workbook. Your donation directly supports Indigenous-led initiatives in the communities where we filmed.
https://checkout.scienceandnonduality.com/the-eternal-song-film
from The Eternal Song:
Dr. Antonia Loretta Afraid of Bear-Cook reminded us:
“With every prayer, action. With every action, prayer.”
Voices from around the Indigenous world and across generations call us to witness the deep, ongoing scars left by colonization on lands and people, and the healing that comes through ancestral wisdom.
The film reveals how modernity has severed our connection to nature, each other, and the ancestral realm, while feeding us empty promises of unlimited consumption, economic growth, and individual happiness. Drawn into the intricate web of kinship and honoring the living presence of Mother Earth, we awaken a remembrance to hear the eternal song of Life itself, calling us back to belonging.
--Buffalo as Wildlife: Challenging the Western Paradigm
The Eastern Shoshone Tribe has officially reclassified buffalo as wildlife, rather than livestock, to align with Tribal values and restore cultural and traditional relationships with the sacred relative.
--Fort Chambers planning progress from the City of Boulder
https://bouldercolorado.gov/projects/fort-chambers-poor-farm-management-plan
Resistance Matters: Palestine U R G E N T
--URGENT: The United Nations News states: ....Gaza: Palestinians seeking food continue to be killed by Israeli military
Please watch this informative 2.5 min. video from "TRTWorld" right to the last sentence, to better understand.
ACTION Needed:
**Email Whitehouse.gov/contact or call President Trump -- send a positive tone message to act and make sure the blockade is lifted immediately, food is allowed in, and to cease killing civilians seeking food. And email congresspeople.
From a very concerned friend of mine: “Okay, if the Donald can broker a ceasefire with Iran, .... Then he can get the genocide to stop and allow the thousands of trucks with food to travel a few miles into Gaza to stop the slaughter.”
The time is now. This has to stop. Pass it on!!
** Learn and understand what you can. Corroboration via United Nations news
Betty Ball of our local Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center asks: Please donate whatever you can to families starving in Gaza:
https://legacy-tlc.org/support-familes-in-gaza/
** Prayer or visualizing: The People of Palestine being calm and nourished, and the trucks with food being continually allowed through.
**Please share this with others, organizations you are connected with, your faith community, friends and neighbors, SOCIAL MEDIA, and other news media
--Relevant related Information
The UN states that Israel has an obligation to allow aid into Gaza (reuters.com). However, research indicates that Israel has consistently impeded aid operations, blocked relief efforts.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to facilitate aid, and the U.S. has issued a National Security Memorandum (NSM-20) requiring assurances that countries receiving U.S. security assistance will facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he had pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicine into Gaza. (Reuters.com)
The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) met to hear about Israel's compliance -- the larger issues and impacts; an Irish Lawyer speaks to the ICJ about Israel's destruction of Gaza --38 min. -- a way to learn more.
Resistance Matters: of the U.S.
The academic community is joining together in mutual defense.
More than 220 leaders of colleges and universities have signed a document entitled, A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U.
See NYTimes, More Than 180 Academic Leaders Condemn Trump’s ‘Overreach’. (Accessible to all.)
and encouragement from him in his April 9 post " Be part of the solution by acting boldly and bravely in the face of understandable fear and anxiety.
... we must stop focusing in fear on what Trump might do and start focusing in confidence on what we will do to resist illegal actions by Trump."
—--Gabor Mate and Chris Hedges in conversation on Palestine--the moral issue of our time; recorded in NY May 2025
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"a worldview in which you use language to dehumanize and create individuals as evil and then justify killing them to destroy evil.... immigrants, radical leftists.
Gabor: "I feel despair frequently. a perfectly normal emotion. However, it is a lack of activity that supports despair. This is a long term story ... respond to despair: for Buddha's sake, DO something."
No Kings -- The Movement Continues
--July 17, Thursday -- Be a part of the next mass mobilization with Good Trouble Lives On, a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lies with the people. Join an informational call on July 3, or July 10.
Take Action Now
Indivisible’s Stop the Cuts Action Page: Congress is threatening to gut funding for essential programs like Medicaid, SNAP, education, and climate. Use Indivisible’s tools to demand your Member of Congress stop the cuts.
Climate/Earth Matters
-- The Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) --made recordings of the virtual Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond,
This global public forum will brought together 125+ women policymakers, government officials, and community leaders from over 50 countries, across 25 panels to showcase a diverse array of visions, projects, policy frameworks, campaigns, and movement strategies to accelerate the transition to a healthy and just world. Schedule here.
--I attended 4 of the 6 days of the online Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice, from WECAN (Women's Earth and Climate Action Network, International) with over 100,000 people. Overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMvy8Ww3msg
The schedule and list of women panelists is impressive. I summarize one of the panels at end of this newsletter.
Thank you for reading and sharing the Global Assembly's Call to Action The Call to Action, signed by 160+ organizations from 45 countries, emphasizes the need to meet the Paris Agreement goal of keeping long-term global warming below 1.5°C through policies that simultaneously prioritize social, racial, and economic justice for all in 10 detailed areas.
Please read additional remarks and see links below for more about WECAN's Assembly attended online by 100,000 people.
—How Women Will Defeat Authoritarianism with Erica Chenoweth (recommended by a friend)
Join us for an inspiring conversation with renowned author and political science scholar Dr. Erica Chenoweth as we discuss how women-led movements have challenged and defeated authoritarians in the past and what we need to be doing in this moment.
--From Red Earth Healing
"We are not here to patch the sails of the colonial ship as it sinks.
We are here to remember how to walk the earth barefooted, rooted in kinship and reciprocity. We are here to midwife the wild return.
The return of kinship is not a trend, but a remembering.
A remembering of how to walk in reciprocity.
Of how to pray with our hands in the soil.
Of how to speak across the species, across the veil.
Of how to be human in a web, not a throne.
I hope for a day when I write about the peace that came after. When these words no longer rise from the ashes of collapse, but from the fertile ground of what we have tended together.
Until then, I write with dirt under my fingernails and grief in my chest."
[Read the full post here]
— Shannon M. Willis and Red Earth Healing
—WECAN Global Women's Assembly: (Bonnie's highlight notes from June 24)
The session on Global Voices for Climate Justice in a time of Uncertainty
This video introduced the theme and summarizes the overall issues for women: please watch 2.5 min. or all 4.5 min.
I paraphrase some of what panelists had to say: (not in order).
Several of the presenters were attending the June 2025 London Climate Action Week and spoke from there.
Susana Muhamad, Former Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia, Colombia. "Shifting from Fossil Fuels is not enough. At the heart -- the economic system and structure has to shift [out of its colonial extractivism context]. We must tackle the contradiction of development in the Amazon especially of Fossil Fuels. Green capitalism which still seeks to use extractivism for renewable energy won't solve the climate problem; rather shifting from mainstream fossil fuel to a bioculture with Life and diversity at the center.
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Coordinator of Indigenous women and peoples association of Chad (the fifth-largest country in Africa and the twentieth largest nation by area.), She spoke to inspire thousands of us listening: "All together and backing each other up, we can go fast as women leading. Indigenous people are a solution." [Bonnie sees this WECAN network as an antidote.}
Rachel Kyte, UK Special Representative on Climate: "We have to show up and be in solidarity with each other. Women's voices need to be heard, including BIPOC, LGBTQ and Indigenous.
Osprey Orielle Lake: Dismantling hierarchy and supremacy, addressing those issues [of how power is held].
—Steps to Consider: See this website: Our Sacred Earth under Menu tabs