From the Home Project-In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high, but it’s too late to be a pessimist: humanity has barely ten years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of its spoliation of the Earth’s riches and change its patterns of consumption.

HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.

Below is a trailer for the film Home, if you are interested in the film or getting involved to help save our planet, please visit:

HOME official website
http://www.home-2009.com

HOME is a carbon offset movie
http://www.actioncarbone.org

More information about the Planet
http://www.goodplanet.info

We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in this country: peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, benevolent sharing, love, the easing of human suffering. Is that going to be our list of priorities or not?

-Jimmy Carter

On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to besieged Gaza. Those abducted by Israel include Nobel peace prize laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.

If you are interested in this story and want to stay up-to-date, on late breaking news, please visit “Free Gaza” at: http://freegaza.org/

Every dollar makes a difference. And that’s true whether it’s Warren Buffett’s remarkable $31 billion pledge to the Gates Foundation, or my late father’s $25 check to the NAACP.

-Michael Bloomberg

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them.. there’s only us.

-Oprah Winfrey

Power comes in many forms. For some, power is control, control of people, land, material items, money and status. Power is also used to harm and to instill hate and fear. However, there are those who use their power to help others in need, to aid those less fortunate or those whose voices are not heard, and to instill love, hope, dignity, respect and peace.

Masters who ignited the world through words of peace instead of hate and war; Mahatma Gandhi, John Lennon, Rosa Parks, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizelan, Princess Diana, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Theresa, Dalai Lama, Jane Adams, Albert Einstein, Cesar Chavez, Eleanor Roosevelt and Nelson Mandela. These are just a few of the infamous warriors of peace who have stood in the heat of hate and rose above its flames, as the world took notice and celebrated them for their crusades. These individuals were the voice and the face of freedom.

Who of us has the right to judge, to spit on the face of peace and instill hate and fear into another. It is time to stop discrimination and hate and to react to it by organizing peaceful marches, campaigns, start a movement on one or more of the many social networking sites, like Facebook, Twitter, Ning or My Space, community meetings and get informed and get involved. “I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.” - Eleanor Roosevelt (continue reading…)

Dan Choi, a native of California and an Army Lieutenant, asked us to share the news of the verdict from his military trial with the Courage Campaign community.

Your overwhelming response to Lt. Choi’s requests for support has touched him deeply. In the last five days, 162,741 people signed Lt. Choi’s letter to the Army. And, a few weeks ago, 141,262 people signed Lt. Choi’s letter to President Obama. Combined, more than 300,000 signatures were collected and submitted to the Army by Lt. Choi as “Exhibit E: Courage Campaign.”

With Dan’s story attracting media coverage from CNN to the Associated Press, it’s time to take his cause to Congress. That’s why we are now teaming up with our friends at Knights Out and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network to support Dan’s fight to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Will you join us today by signing our letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi by July 4th?

http://www.couragecampaign.org/RepealDADT

Rick Jacobs
Chair, Courage Campaign

After 10 years of service to our country — including leading combat patrols, rebuilding schools and translating Arabic in Iraq for 15 months — the Federal Recognition Board issued its recommendation on Tuesday that I be discharged from the Army for “moral and professional dereliction” under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

The board’s decision to fire me is not the end. Now that this panel of four officers has recommended my discharge, it still must be approved by senior officials in the Army, a process that could take a few weeks to a year. Unless something unexpected happens, it may be just a matter of time before the Army officially fires me.

I will not give up, no matter the odds. Because I know that the only way we will win this fight to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is by facing it head on. And I need your help again to keep up the fight.

I’ve made my case to President Obama — supported by more than 140,000 of your signatures. I’ve made my case to the Army — supported by more than 160,000 of your signatures. And I will continue to make my case until they fire me for good.

Now we need to make our case to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Will you join me in asking Speaker Pelosi to strongly support legislation currently in Congress that would repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? Please sign on to our letter before July 4th and I’ll personally deliver your signatures to the Speaker ASAP:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/RepealDADT

At West Point, I recited the Cadet Prayer every Sunday. It taught me to “choose the harder right over the easier wrong” and to “never be content with a half truth when the whole can be won.” The Cadet Honor Code demanded truthfulness and honesty. It imposed a zero-tolerance policy against deception, or hiding behind comfort.

That’s why I can’t give up now. I’ve got to keep fighting. My fellow servicemembers — and the 70 fellow West Point graduates who have also come out of the closet to join Knights Out, the organization I co-founded to push for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — would expect nothing less.

The only way we can win this fight for the truth is if the political cost of discrimination eventually becomes too great for the system to operate successfully. We need to raise the political cost in Congress so that Speaker Nancy Pelosi understands that, as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once said, “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

Speaker Pelosi needs to make “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” a priority now and come out strongly in support of legislative action to repeal this discriminatory law. Will you stand by my side now and sign our letter to the Speaker before July 4th? You have my word that I will deliver your signatures to Speaker Pelosi personally:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/RepealDADT

As I said a few days ago, national security means many things, but the thing that makes us secure in our nation and homes is love. What makes me a better soldier, leader, Christian and human being is love. And I’m not going to hide my love.

Love is worth it.

Thank you for your support.

Daniel W. Choi
1LT, IN
New York Army National Guard

Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man’s business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ”Am I my brother’s keeper?” That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.

Yes, I am my brother’s keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death.

-Eugene V. Debs: 1908 speech