Some good news for us all!

Yes! We are less greedy than a few years ago!
Africa will take a nice deep breath from the 1 billion € the EU agreed to give!
More info here : one.org


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Liste of urgent actions!

Dear friends, I know most of us suffer from info pollution and some even from Cognitive Overflow Syndrome (info here).
I have read about info saturation before but I heard about this term (C.O.S.) in the very impressing performance of Thomas Ferrand in our festival "Danse d'éxistence, Danse de Résistance"...
So while our festival is still going and I'm dancing tonight Apertae by Bernardo Montet, I urge you to participate in the following actions, without having to go to many places :
1. http://www.timetolead.eu/
2. Ask Obama!

And some good news : marine conservation in Hong Kong

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The Good Consumer

Work less, gain less, live better...
November 29 : BUY NOTHING DAY!

JFK Calls for a Revolution

We can do it JA???

Promises & poverty!

Excerpt from the avaaz site :

This week world leaders gather at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Here, all focus is on a multi billion dollar bailouts of financial institutions and the real untold scandal -- global poverty -- risks being forgotten. France, Canada, and Italy are threatening to slash their development aid budgets and break their promise to assign a mere 0.7 % of national income to the world's poorest. If these countries retract on commitments, others may follow -- it’s time to raise the alarm.

Click here to sign for a better world : poverty_promise_breakers

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Sharing dance in Madagascar

My first week in Antananarivo in Madagscar is full of creativity and emotion...
I'm teaching young dancers from the island and a few from the African continent and it's a very warm hearted group. We dive into body consciousness together and then, progressively, into high energy mouvement behaviour...There follows an improvisation course and they make me dream away!
The workshop was organized by the Cultural Center Albert Camus and the CCNT.
Bernardo Montet will join me to finish the workshop together but also to dance his solo "Batracien, l'après-midi"!
Of course there are also "negative" emotions when seeing the poverty in the city...Apparently there are 25000 homeless here... :-(
How much energy and food do we spend, and on what?
Living conscioussly becomes more & more urgent, but I also keep receiving good news!
The world is changing! Keep creating your utopias!

My news...

This past week I spent time in Paris for a conference named Body in Action and for dance classes.
Body in Action was organized by the College de France and it was dedicated to the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. I did not attend the second day for it was very dense and most information concerned neurophysiology research : my expertise was far from enough! One participants, Anne Fagot-Largeault was very inspiring though, and suggested concepts that reminded me of the Integral Theory! And then I took a few dance classes : from release technique to fusion-modern jazz! Ah...dancing!!! Poverty, humanity, richness, spirit was there in Paris...Like everywhere else...There's work to be done!

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Save food quality in USA

For my American friends : Here's a petition to stop quality degradation of food & water in the world! Petition : http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=184

And if you want to be always well informed on 21st century health matters check this site and sign up for their newsletter : http://www.naturalnews.com/Index.html

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Back to basics!!!

The basics for life (?) : Water, oxygen, and love

"You're not sick; you're thirsty. Don't treat thirst with medication..."

Drink water! Of course too much water is dangerous also, but usualy we're chronically thirsty...Read interview here : naturalnews.com
and find out why "it's fair to say that pharmaceuticals, as packaged by modern medicine, are the third leading cause of death in this country"


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Finality Over Fairness!

EXECUTION DATE SET: SEPTEMBER 23 AT 7 p.m.

Protect Life & take action : Amnesty USA

Human rights issues do not concern only China!

Good news from Dell!

This blog began as a place for good news : proof that humans are able to create newtopias without being trapped by local fatalisms and misery...
Here you have an article of how even big companies like Dell can make a difference : Dell for a greener planet!

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love your sun?

Ok! I'm back from Greece, tanned and i will never use sunscreen again!
I do not pretend to know why sunscreens are not "good" but my intuition and the following article made me decide so : organic lifestyle magazine

Vacation!

By tomorrow I will be in Nikiti and occasionally in Thessaloniki, in Greece.
I wish you wonderful vacations full of inspiration!

Rape camps : stop them!

It's really urgent!
Let's give up a few $ to save thousands of women from Sudan's rape camps!
See info here : avaaz darfur
What is human in the 21st century?

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beautiful...

I just saw the Boto : beautiful creatures living in the Amazon river...
I had to go straight and pay at the WWF site. No more "no money" excuses...
We define our priorities...Last year I prefered to give to survival-international.
And these "beautiful people" Zo'e who love life and work only 2 hours a day!
Human cultural diversity needs some of our attention!
LIFE above the urge to dominate!
Yes I know : domination has been a part of LIFE's "game"...
You decide....

Global Action for Zimbabwe

As violence escalates due to President Mugabe's ruthless efforts to stay in power and crush the opposition, hope fades for free and fair elections. The people of Zimbabwe are suffering from intimidation, torture and other horrific abuses such as rape and food deprivation.

Sign now to condemn the acts of violence occurring in Zimbabwe: Petition

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Support this greenpeace activist!

Tokyo, Japan — Japanese police have arrested two Greenpeace activists for exposing a whale meat scandal involving the government-sponsored whaling programme. The two activists, Junichi Sato, 31, and Toru Suzuki, 41, are being investigated for allegedly stealing a box of whale meat which they presented as evidence.

Click here to sign : Greenpeace petition

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1000 pieces...

This weekend I participate as a dancer in the improvisations of 1000 Morceaux collective (musicians).
It is...midsummer night dreamscapes!
Musical & dance experimentations in the Chapelle St. Anne in Tours.
Enjoy the space!

Photo by : Mauricio Cordero

SAVE the Greek landscape!

The Greek government is trying to pass a Spatial Plan for Tourism, under which big real estate projects throughout the country, will be subsided by state funding. Already, hedge funds are buying big pieces of land especially in virgin Aegean islands in order to make use of this Spatial Plan regulations. Greece is facing the threat of repeating the spanish epxerience. We fear that if this Spatial Plan is signed the Aegean islands will be savagly urbanised sucrificing their landscape, biodiversity and cultural heritage.
Please help us block this Spatial Plan for Tourism by signing the petition: http://www.diktioaigaiou.gr/contents/chorotaxiko_eng.php?lang=2

Thank you in advance!
Kriton Arsenis
Regional Planner- Economist MA Harvard
Head of Environmental Policy and the Aegean
ELLINIKI ETAIRIASociety for the Environment and the Heritage of Greece
28 Tripodon st., 10558, Plaka, AthensTel: ++30 210 3225245 (9)Fax: ++30 210 3225240E-mail:

aigaio@ellinikietairia.gr

www.diktioaigaiou.gr

www.ellinikietairia.gr

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tears for love?

"The woman who is separated from her lover spins at the spinning wheel.
The Baghdad of the body rises with its towers and gates.
Inside it the palace of intelligence has been built.

The wheel of ecstatic love turns around in the sky,
and the spinning seat is made of the sapphires of work and study.

This woman weaves threads that are subtle,
and the intensity of her praise makes them fine!

Kabir says: I am that woman.
I am weaving the linen of day night and day.

When my Lover comes and I feel his feet,
the gift I will have for him is tears."

KABIR (Ecstatic Poems Versions by Robert Bly)

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