Marianne Williamson ups the ante with a meditation and prayer for the Coronavirus below. (This site does not endorse vaccines.)
Also below, a look at her courageous campaign as a Democratic nominee in the 2020 US Presidential election.
Thank you, Marianne, for Who You Are.
Lidewij Edelkoort
By Anne Quito, Quartz, March 5, 2020
“I think we should be very grateful for the virus because it might be the reason we survive as a species.”
Dutch trends forecaster Li Edelkoort has a provocative outlook on Covid-19, the deadly coronavirus strain that has upended manufacturing cycles, travel plans, and conference schedules around the world.
Speaking at Design Indaba, a conference in Cape Town last week, the celebrated 69-year old design industry advisor pictured Covid-19 as a sobering force that will temper our consumerist appetites and jet-setting habits.
Edelkoort, who in recent years has become a fashion sustainability crusader, believes we can emerge from the health crisis as more conscientious humans. “We need to find new values—values of simple experience, of friendship,” she told Quartz. “It might just turn the world around for the better.”
From protesting to building tiny houses, Indigenous women are the on the front-lines of change. Below are 2 posts illustrating their courage.
Women are the Face of Mohawk Resistance
Christopher Curtis, Montreal Gazette, March 1, 2020
https://popularresistance.org/women-are-the-face-of-mohawk-resistance/
On the front lines of the Indigenous resistance movement, it is young women — born after the 1990 Oka Crisis — who are taking a stand.
Kanesatake — Brigitte Rice had been on her feet for 24 hours by Tuesday morning, hoisting the Warrior flag in one hand and using the other to slow traffic into Mohawk territory.
She came to the blockade Monday to “hold it down” for the protesters arrested for stopping rail traffic in Tyendinaga that morning. Hours after the raid, Rice was among the dozens of Mohawks on the front lines in Kanesatake, sealing off access to the reserve to show solidarity with her sister community.
March 8th, 2020, is International Women’s Day.
This year, leading up to the day, on the day of, and even the day after, we see planned protests around the world saying “Enough!” to violence and gender inequality.
The passion for this change comes from escalating violence and a collective heart conscious desire for Love and peace.
When I met my guides through a reading in 2011, I asked, “What happened? Why was my life so chaotic?”
I was told that I had learned what doesn’t work, and that now the process of coming to balance — forgiveness of self — letting go sorrow, shame, blame, anger, fear, the lack of self-love and self-worth, all judgement, was at hand.
This is our Ascension, a time of Karmic Dispensation and creation of Heaven on Earth.
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Below is an excerpt from my life:
Through Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love, St. Germaine says that with the energy of the Violet Flame, which can be the Bonfire, the Torch or the Single Flame, we can change a Universe, a planet, an individual. . .
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A woman holds a candle in protest in Mexico City, February 22, 2020, Reuters
In quiet protest of gender violence, many women plan a one-day retreat from public life March 9.
Their temporary absence might bring permanent change.
By the Monitor’s Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, February 27, 2020
On March 9, much of Mexico will become very quiet.
The silence, in fact, is meant to be full of meaning, like a purposeful pause that provokes the conscience.
On that date – coming a day after International Women’s Day with all of its street demonstrations worldwide – millions of women and girls in Mexico plan to simply withdraw from all public life.
Known by the hashtag #UnDiaSinNosotras (#ADayWithoutUs), this 24-hour retreat from schools, workplaces, stores, public transport – even the internet – is not really a national strike. It is backed by the government and many businesses. Much of the male-dominated establishment actually supports the purpose of this mass nonaction: a mute rejection of femicide or other violence against women because they are women.
In a statement, Mexico’s Business Coordinating Council urged companies to allow female workers to stay home in hopes that everyone would support solutions to the problem. “We have all failed as a society,” the statement read.
Mexico still has one of the world’s highest rates of gender-based violence, which stands in contrast to its progress in other areas, such as more female political leaders. (About half of the president’s cabinet are women while Mexico City has its first elected female mayor.) In addition, about 90% of femicides do not result in a conviction, according to Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission.
Past protests against femicide have done little to change attitudes in Mexico despite laws to prevent such violence.
Women’s groups organizing the “stay home” day decided that an alternative tactic was necessary. They hope the withdrawal and silence of women will speak louder than angry demonstrations.
There is a good precedent. In Iceland 45 years ago, 90% of women took a “day off” from both work and housework to protest the low representation of women in government. Their one-day absence made men’s hearts grow fonder. The country began to implement egalitarian policies. Five years later, Iceland became the world’s first country with a democratically elected female president.
Sometimes quiet protest can bring thundering results. Mexico’s day off could finally force the changes needed to keep women safe.
The Mother’s Blue Diamond Energy of Hope for Balance
I invoke the Mother/Father One,
the Mighty Ones, our Star Family,
the Divine Blessings, Virtues, Qualities,
Universal Laws, the dimensional growth patterns
for the ELIMINATION of gender violence ON GAIA
for HOPE, PEACE, LOVE, JOY – for BALANCE.
THE SCALES OF JUSTICE, OF WORTH AND OF THE UNIVERSE, IN BALANCE
Women raise their hands as they protest against gender violence and femicide in Puebla, Mexico [REUTERS/Imelda Medina]
“A country without women, for one day.
“An alliance of feminist groups in Mexico that — fueled by the rising violence against women and girls, including two horrific murders that appalled the nation this month — have called for a 24-hour strike by the country’s female population on March 9.”
Women protested gender-based violence in Mexico City earlier this month. Credit…Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters
By Paulina Villegas and Kirk Semple, The New York Times, February 26, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/world/americas/mexico-un-dia-sin-nosotras.html
Fed up with escalating gender-based attacks and murders, activists called for a daylong national strike by women to demand greater support for their rights.
MEXICO CITY — No women in offices or schools. No women in restaurants or stores. No women on public transportation, in cars or on the street.
A country without women, for one day.
That’s the vision of an alliance of feminist groups in Mexico that — fueled by the rising violence against women and girls, including two horrific murders that appalled the nation this month — have called for a 24-hour strike by the country’s female population on March 9.
The action is to protest gender-based violence, inequality and the culture of machismo, and to demand greater support for women’s rights.
Promoted under the hashtag #UNDÍASINNOSOTRAS, A Day Without Us, it has gained extraordinary momentum across this country of more than 120 million, with wide-ranging buy-in from the public and private sectors, civic groups, religious leaders and many, if not most, women.
The support has cut across the boundaries of class, ethnicity, wealth and politics that fracture this nation, and has given organizers hope that this might be not just a monumental event but also a watershed moment in the modern history of Mexico.
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Women in Mexico have been protesting gender violence and inequality for years.
March 9th, the day after International Women’s Day, they are planning something new — mass withdrawal — not going to work for the day.
The latest idea was spurred on by the violent death, February 9, of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla.
In 2009, Elina Chauvet began the Red Shoe Installation, shown in the YouTube below, because of the loss of her sister to domestic violence.
Around the world women have been protesting in solidarity.
In December 2017, Margarita Gracheva’s husband brutally attacked her. She has since emerged as one of the most high-profile victims of Russia’s epidemic of domestic violence. (Pascal Dumont/CBC)
Warning: This story contains graphic details. There is an invocation for the elimination of domestic violence at end.
By Chris Brown, CBC News, February 25, 2020
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-domestic-violence-1.5437241
Given the savagery of what Margarita Gracheva’s husband did to her, you’d think Russian lawmakers would want to stop it from happening to other women.
Instead, attitudes toward legislating tougher laws on domestic violence remain stuck in another century.
Two years ago, Gracheva’s husband cut off both of her hands, leaving the 27-year-old mother of two mutilated for life.
“I still have pain. It hurts and aches, but you get used to it,” Gracheva told CBC News in her St. Petersburg home, flexing the fingers on her artificial hand, which is attached to her right arm at the wrist.
The black fingers and silver joints give the German-made device an almost skeletal look, but it is dexterous enough for Gracheva to grasp small objects — after some practice.
Her left hand, meanwhile, is wrapped in a bandage and also clearly far from normal, visibly scarred and only partially functioning. But at least it allows her to once again feel her children’s skin.
“I still have a problem [combing] hair,” she said. “But really, happiness is in the little things.”
Gracheva has emerged as one of the most high-profile victims of Russia’s epidemic of domestic violence, and has given a powerful voice to the frustrations felt by women’s advocates who have tried for years to get stronger domestic violence legislation passed.
“There is no law now — nothing exists,” Gracheva said. “There is only help if there are beatings or a dead body. I don’t know how many more tragic cases have to happen for that to change.”
