you buy them? Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carry the memories of the red man. This we know; the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites our family. All things are connected. Earth Democracy Today Earth Democracy, in the contemporary context, reflects the values, worldviews, and actions of diverse movements working for peace, justice, and sustainability. We live in times when the combination of representative democracy and economic globalization has generated new fears, new insecurities, new fundamentalisms, and new violence. Earth Democracy allows us to reclaim our common humanity and our unity with all life. Earth Democracy relocated the sanctity of life in all beings and all people irrespective of class, gender, religion, or caste. And it as respecting the limits on greed and redefines “upholding family values” violence set by belonging to the earth family. Family values of the earth family do not allow for the privatization of water or the patenting of life, since all beings have a right to life and well-being. In the earth family that acknowledges, as Chief Seattle did, that things share “all the same breath, the beast, the tree, the The air shares its spirit with all the life it man… one part of the international community cannot destabilize the climate, enclose the supports,” atmospheric commons, or ignore the rights of other species and other countries by creating 36 percent of the world’s CO2 pollution.
you buy them? Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carry the memories of the red man. This we know; the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites our family. All things are connected. Earth Democracy Today Earth Democracy, in the contemporary context, reflects the values, worldviews, and actions of diverse movements working for peace, justice, and sustainability. We live in times when the combination of representative democracy and economic globalization has generated new fears, new insecurities, new fundamentalisms, and new violence. Earth Democracy allows us to reclaim our common humanity and our unity with all life. Earth Democracy relocated the sanctity of life in all beings and all people irrespective of class, gender, religion, or caste. And it redefines “upholding family values” as respecting the limits on greed and violence set by belonging to the earth family. Family values of the earth family do not allow for the privatization of water or the patenting of life, since all beings have a right to life and well-being. In the earth family that acknowledges, as Chief Seattle did, that “all things share the same breath, the beast, the tree, the man… The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports,” one part of the international community cannot destabilize the climate, enclose the atmospheric commons, or ignore the rights of other species and other countries by creating 36 percent of the world’s CO2 pollution.