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Jean Arnold published What Can Individuals Do? in Responding 2020-05-20 09:31:05 -0700
What Can We Individuals Do?
Understand the interconnected, converging climate and ecological crises. Commit to facing the truth, even though it is difficult. See past your own set worldview; allow yourself to be challenged. Learn to see past the many delusions that obscure reality. We cannot arrive at effective actions without grasping our true situation. Our Situation page and our free e-book "Delusions and Contradictions" are relevant resources.
Understand the real constraints humanity faces. These crises are not problems we can solve – they are predicaments to be endured and responded to. It is too late for "solving problems". The proper question is how do we survive and endure within the constraints that are real and compounding.
Learn to discern delusional responses. Some responses will be more effective than others – ideas will have more chance of becoming adopted if they are already understood and part of the conversation.
See your own place within the tribal divisions. Attempt to genuinely see the limitations and delusions of your own tribe, beyond focusing on the faults of the "other side".
Understand that this system was not inevitable and that humans are not innately bad. While we are influenced by this system, we are capable of responding in a wise, just, and cooperative manner.
Understand your own complicity in this system. See that we are all participants in this system, and be willing to admit that to others. Your own imperfections are not hypocrisies when you genuinely advocate for change. We all have contradictions by the very nature of living in a system that is drastically in overshoot.
Understand that individual action is not sufficient. This system causes impacts that are far beyond those of each person. Transforming the structure within which we operate is more impactful than changing personal habits.
Simplify your life to the extent possible. Do this for several reasons: (1) to lessen your impact on the planet, knowing that individual action is not sufficient, (2) to minimize your own demands on this system, (3) to minimize your involvement in the system (thus decreasing your own complicity), (4) do it for your own integrity, and (5) to be better prepared for the difficult times ahead.
Initiate conversations with others. COVID has changed the context and created an openness to new possibilities. The space for fruitful conversations is opening up. Seize the opportunities, and be prepared for rejection. Remember that in times of great stress, reactions are "all over the map".
Get support. It is too difficult to face these challenges on one's own. Create community with like-minded others. Organizing is helpful, and honest interactions with sympatico friends is necessary for development.
Jean Arnold published search 2018-05-14 08:32:36 -0700
Jean Arnold published Responding 2018-05-09 21:16:59 -0700
Responding: Essential Actions
Learn about the "Hydra-Headed Delusion Dragon" that has the world caught in its spell, and how we can combat its multi-headed delusions and threats.
Download and read ATL's free e-book Climate and Ecological Delusions and Contradictions That Will Rapidly End Humanity…Unless... .
Delusions and Contradictions provides the basis for why we need to trigger a wide spread alarm and how we can achieve it.
The world is in a genuine climate and ecological emergency, yet this is not perceived, understood, or discussed. We must quickly get the emergency into the news cycle and conversation. The case is overwhelming for a Climate and Ecological Emergency Campaign as an overriding national priority. The aim is zero emissions within a decade in the US, feasible with an all-out mobilization—that is, a restructuring of our economy at rapid speed. Mobilization of our nation's people, resources, and economy to slash our fossil fuel use is necessary for a viable future.
We must quickly drive an open, factual national conversation, to achieve a US consensus on this climate mobilization as quickly as possible. Public engagement must be galvanized through: (1) an extensive warning initiative, and (2) civil discourse gatherings so that Americans perceive the Realities facing all of us.
For climate stabilization well under 2°C, we must start now to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions by about 10 percent each year, until fossil fuel phase-out is complete in a decade, and globally in fifteen years, quickly transitioning from fossil fuels to low carbon energy.
To achieve this, several essential actions are now needed:
Price carbon pollution and remove fossil fuel subsidies. To drive broad-based emissions reductions, we must account for the true societal costs of fossil fuels.
Keep fossil fuels in the ground. Oppose their exploration, development, new infrastructure, and export through collective action. There is no remaining carbon budget.
Assess the realities about renewable energy. They will not power our Industrialized world – we need to understand what they can and cannot do, and build a different world in line with those realities.
Assist developing nations so that they "leap-frog" fossil fuel development.
Reduce carbon levels in the atmosphere. Invest globally in reforestation, biochar, land/soil restoration, and agroecology.
The US must lead. The US must embrace the 1.5-2°C limit, and lead the global low carbon mobilization. Fossil fuel reductions must begin now in industrialized nations,[1] and within a few years in developing nations.[2]
Enacting effective policies to facilitate this transition within a decade will, in effect, catalyze a culture-wide mobilization effort. The first step is to get the emergency situation into the cultural conversation, so the emergency is perceived, declared, and acted upon with an Emergency Climate Mobilization. This is the aim of the Climate Emergency Coalition.
RESPONDING IN EMERGENCY MODE
The COVID crisis shows that humans can and do rise above fear and respond quickly. People have cooperated and sacrificed for the whole.
The climate movement has mistakenly believed that people would panic, become paralyzed, or fall into resignation if they understood the looming climate threat. The widespread notion that people panic in emergencies is not corroborated by evidence, research, or human behavior.
Research shows that we behave cooperatively and rapidly—even with extraordinary teamwork and collaboration—when trained or given accurate information about disasters and constructive response options. Emergency mode involves an intense focus of attention and resources on responding effectively to address the emergency.
So awakening citizens to the danger and providing responses that deal with the scope, scale and urgency of the crisis is necessary. If that is done effectively, we can expect constructive cooperation and mobilization to avert climate catastrophe.
Knowing what to do and preparing facilitates "eustress" (a positive form of stress) in emergencies. The seemingly impossible can be accomplished in extreme situations when emotion, purpose, and enthusiasm are combined.
Some emergencies last years, and we are in such a "long emergency" now. Examples have included: wars, the Great Depression, nations under occupation, and collapsing empires. In long emergencies, a combination of purpose, pacing, and persistence is needed. Human societies have often exhibited heroic persistence in very long emergencies, even when situations were very dire.
Humans evolved in tribes, and group success was vital to the survival of each individual. Very importantly, it's within our nature to work together in groups.
MOBILIZING FOR RAPID TRANSITION
The type of emergency response needed in our situation is called mobilization.
What is mobilization? Mobilization is a coming together as a people with a common cause—an emergency restructuring of a modern industrial economy. It involves everyone and impacts all areas of society—a comprehensive societal and industrial metamorphosis.
Mobilization summons a sense of collective destiny and moral purpose. Importantly, mobilization is not a blind use of government control. Rather, this is a particular strategy that guides the economy away from petro-consumerism towards a complete fossil fuels phase-out and transformation to a zero-carbon society.
We are calling for a society-wide Emergency Climate Mobilization aiming to achieve zero carbon emissions in the US within a decade and globally in fifteen years. We see this as the fastest possible phase-out of fossil fuels in a "long emergency" mobilization mode, in which we can achieve far more than what is now commonly thought as possible.
Beyond the Alarm and Awakening
After a general alarm is sounded and national / international efforts are engaged, then the strategies involve community / state efforts to move from alarm to local and community actions consistent with international and national effective actions that will drive local systems back to ecological balance and viability.
Although the nature of comprehensive change will encourage people to work individually / locally, it is critical to understand that without the national and international-level response, local / state level actions will not make enough difference by themselves to salvage a viable future and viable humanity into the 22nd century.
Similarly, local practices are actually futile without broadcasting positive local strategies, and without being able to access "best practices toward livability and future viability." Therefore, after a national / international alarm and awakening, the positive action steps taken in innumerable local / state systems must be broadcast universally so that best practices can be emulated and spread.
Through the immediate harnessing of human will and ingenuity we can yet deliver viable, relatively low-carbon, climate-resilient, and prosperous communities on a national and on worldwide scale. Humans have the wherewithal—once the mistakes and dead-ends are realized—to habilitate their operating systems and drive back to balance with living systems, with Earth's ability to regenerate useful renewable resources and energy sufficient to drive a viable future and return humanity to viability in cooperation with our life support systems.
[1] As Kevin Anderson, professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester notes, this fundamentally rewrites the chronology of climate change from long-term gradual to urgent and radical, "Reframing Climate Change: How recent emission trends & the latest science change the debate." David Roberts notes the "brutal logic" of climate change .
[2] Emissions reductions must occur sooner in developed nations, given our historical contribution to the problem and our capacity to innovate and remediate.
Jean Arnold published MacArthur's Award in Blog 2016-06-22 14:31:10 -0700
MacArthur's $100M Award: Can Philanthropy Be David To The Fossil Fuel Goliath?
Today we already live in the middle of a genuine climate emergency. Yet is this perceived, understood, or discussed anywhere? Despite the overwhelming case, little is being done to eliminate the fossil fuel Goliath and stabilize our climate.
With government gridlocked and business even adding more sand to the gears, policy responses are ridiculously inadequate. Can Philanthropy be the David to the fossil fuel's Goliath? Where else can we find the influence and resources that could fulfill a David role and support a coordinated, broad-based people's campaign? Who else could create the "slingshot heard round-the-world" to down the behemoth?
Jean Arnold posted about Emergency Petition on Facebook 2016-04-22 11:02:14 -0700
We need Declaration of Global Warming State of Emergency! Sign petition:
SIGN PETITION: DECLARE A GLOBAL WARMING STATE OF EMERGENCY
See the petition and notable signers below
We, the citizens of our nation and of our Earth, are endowed with certain rights, powers, and obligations, which demand we act both individually and collectively to protect and preserve the ongoing evolution of life on Earth, including our future generations.
Based upon a preponderance of scientific evidence we recognize our global climate is rapidly warming and becoming increasingly unstable due to human-caused carbon pollution from the burning of fossil fuels. If we do not change course before global warming tipping points are crossed, this destabilization of our climate will continue to cause ever-increasing suffering and potentially irreversible devastation for both current and future generations. If left unresolved, it could cause the extinction, or near extinction, of the human species.
We further recognize that rapidly escalating global warming and its consequent climate destabilization is the greatest currently active threat to the security of all nations, comparable in scope of impact to global nuclear war. Escalating average global temperature rises will lead to destabilization affecting first millions, then billions of people forced to deal with ongoing climate catastrophes, food and other resource depletion, and mass migrations.
Nearly all of the major problems our world faces today worsen and multiply due to escalating global warming. All of the ecological, economic and political problems listed below will cross-intensify and therefore worsen as average global temperatures rises.
Food and resource depletion
Severe droughts, floods, and wildfires
Water pollution and water table loss
Desertification and deforestation
Ocean fish stock depletions
Growing economic inequity, poverty, and instability
Political instability and injustice
War and regional conflicts
Increasing potential of pandemics and other health crises
Despite 30 years of education, study, and discussion about the possible irreversible effects of human-caused carbon and methane pollution of our atmosphere, global warming temperatures have escalated to levels that may have already passed or be close to passing global warming tipping points with impacts that are irreversible. We must immediately reverse the continued rise of average global temperature by decreasing human-caused production of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels.
Failure to resolve global warming for ourselves and future generations is simply not a survivable option.
As global citizens of every nation on Earth, we ask you, our national leaders, to initiate the necessary steps to formally declare a national and international global warming State of Emergency, calling for the immediate allocation of the needed research, resources, personnel, and interventions to quickly resolve this State of Emergency and sustainably protect, preserve, and advance the continued evolution of humanity and life on Earth.
By signing this petition, I pledge to act together with others as one human family to acknowledge and resolve the escalating global warming-caused climate destabilization crisis.
When we reach the required number of petition signatures for each area, we will submit the petition with all signatures to: (1) the incoming President and the members of both houses of US Congress, and (2) governing bodies of other nations (if you provide your nationality).
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NOTABLE PETITION SIGNERS*
Vinit Allen, Founder & Executive Director, Sustainable World Coalition
Steve Bhaerman, Co-author of "Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here" and political satirist
Philip Bogdonoff, Director, Washington DC Chapter of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate
Russell Brockhurst, Project Team Leader, Caterpillar of Australia, Ltd
Karen Cisler, Secretary-Treasurer, PSR-TN [TN Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility]; member, Air Quality Board, State of TN Department of Environmental Conservation
Cliff Cockerham, PhD, Chair, TN Chapter of the Sierra Club; President, PSR-TN; Climate Mobilization Volunteer International Organizer in the Americas
Siobhan Colombo, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
John Cooksey, Writer/Director/Producer, "How to Boil a Frog"
Raymond Cummings, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Villanova University
Kathy Dervin, Senior Consultant, Center for Climate Change & Health
Soumya Dutta, National Convenor - Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha (translates to - India people's science campaign) and Convenor - Climate & Energy Group, Beyond Copenhagen collective, India
Rev. Michael Dowd, Pro-Future Evangelist
Hans Ehrbar, PhD, Professor of Economics - retired, University of Utah
Duane Elgin, Author of "Voluntary Simplicity"
Dave Ewoldt, Co-founder & Senior Analyst, Coalitions for Mutual Endeavor
Peter Fiekowsky, Founder, The Healthy Climate Project; Lead Volunteer & Founder, CCL's 100-Year Planning Group
Len Finegold, PhD, Professor of Biophysics - retired, Drexel University
Dr. Katherine Forrest, MD, MPH, Co-Founder & former President, The Commonweal Institute; Board Member of The Peninsular Democratic Coalition [PDC] and founding member of PDC's Climate Action Group
Len Frenkel, Author, "Will We Survive Climate Change?: One Last Chance"
Valerie Gardner, Founder & Executive Director, Climate Coalition
Russell Greene, President, PDA-People Demanding Action & is the leading climate activist of Progressive Democrats of America who is credited with securing the Climate Mobilization plank in the 2016 Democratic Presidential platform, saying: "There is no time left for gradualism. That window has passed. This is a climate emergency — the moment to make a stand for the future. For each other. For our children."
Heidi Harmon, Co-Organizer, "Up to Us Caravan" to the DNC
Dr. Mary Headrick, MD, Board Member, PSR-TN
Harold Hedelman, Director of Engagement - Business Climate Leaders at Citizens' Climate Lobby
Bill Henderson, Freelance Climate Journalist
Michael Hoexter, PhD, Research Scholar, Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Campaign Volunteer for Bernie Sanders 2016
Allen Johnson, PhD, Professor of Geology - retired, University of West Chester
John Jorgensen, Biologist-turned Activist/Marcher, Great March for Climate Action
George Paul Kemp, PhD, Associate Research Professor, Center for Coastal, Energy and Environmental Resources, Louisiana State University; Co-founder & former Executive Director, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
Rev. Earl Koteen, Environmental Justice Minister and Board Member, Unitarian Universalist Earth Ministry
Felix Kramer, Founder, Beyond Cassandra and the of Congressional Climate Project
Cynthia Lukas, Producer, "Heaven on Earth Creations'" and upcoming film "Ghandi's Gift"
Chloe Maxmin, Co-founder, Divest Harvard
Bruce Melton, PE, Executive Director, Climate Change Now Initiative
Debbie Mytels, Associate Director, Acterra: Action for a Sustainable Earth
Jim Newell, PhD, lobbyist & government relations professional & CEO, ELS, Inc and CEC Lead Volunteer for Government Relations
Terry Patten, Founder, Bay Area Integral
Vanessa Rule, Co-founder, Mothers Out Front - Mobilizing for a Livable Climate
Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate
Paul Severance, Chair, Elders Climate Action
Ezra Silk, Co-Founder and Director of Policy and Strategy, The Climate Mobilization
Mariana Garcia Solana, Executive Director, The Friends of the Maya Foundation and Climate Mobilization Volunteer Lead Organizer for Mexico
Susan Soleil, Executive Director, Utah Interfaith Power & Light
Kristina Turechek, Adjunct Faculty, SUNY College at Oneonta
Brian von Herzen, PhD, Executive Director, The Climate Foundation
Cassandra Wardle, Conservation Researcher, School of the Environment, Griffith University, Australia
Tom Weis, President, Climate Crisis Solutions
"I heartily support the Climate Emergency Coalition and its work to shift philanthropy to organizations and initiatives fighting the threats to humanity brought by climate change."
- Paul R. Ehrlich
People who have worked with us on earlier breakthrough initiatives beginning in 2014:
Turner Anderson, Project Engineer at Siemens Energy, Inc.**
Duncan Callaway, PhD, Associate Professor of Energy & Resources, Division of Electrical Engineering/EECS, University of California - Berkeley**
William Christopfel, PhD, Director of Scientific Affairs, Bell Pharmaceuticals**
Simon Dalby, PhD, Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies and CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada**
Robert Dello-Russo, PhD, Research Associate Professor of Anthropology & Director, Office of Contract Archaeology, University of New Mexico**
William DeMott, PhD, Professor of Biology, Purdue University**
Paul R. Ehrlich, PhD, Bing Professor of Population Studies and President, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University
Daniela Gioseffi, Editor & Publisher of Eco-Poetry.org & PoetsUSA.com; American Book Award-winning author of 16 books of poetry and prose***
Sebastian Groh, PhD, CEO at ME SOLshare Ltd; Assistant Professor at North South University, Bangaldesh**
John Harte, PhD, jointly appointed Professor in the Energy & Resources Group and the Ecosystem Sciences Division of the College of Natural Resources, University of California - Berkeley**
Donald Hnatowich, PhD, Professor of Radiology - retired, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Presenter, Climate Reality**
Andy Hoffmann, PhD, Office of Sustainability working group, University of Utah**
Daniel Kammen, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Energy, Energy and Resources Group, University of California - Berkeley**
Rik Leemans, PhD, Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis Wageningen University, The Netherlands**
Michael Mann, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology & Director of the Earth System Science Center Penn State University**
Trae Menard, Director of Forest Conservation, Hawaii Chapter - The Nature Conservancy**
Sergio Pacca, PhD, Research Fellow, University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems; Associate Professor of Energy & Sustainability, Sao Paolo University, Brasil**
Robert Strom, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Lunar and Planetary Lab. and Dept. of Planetary Science, University of Redlands**
Anders Wijkman, PhD, elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for outstanding services to the environment; Co-President, Club of Rome**
Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, PhD, Fellow, Energy and Resources Group, University of California - Berkeley; Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, Austria**
* Institutional affiliation listed for identification purposes only
** Signers of preliminary sign on letters leading up to the emergency petition.
Jean Arnold published Organizational Sign-On in TAKE ACTION 2015-12-07 16:52:08 -0800
Climate Emergency Coalition Sign-On
CLICK HERE FOR INDIVIDUAL SIGN-ON
The world is in a state of Climate Emergency, and we must slash fossil fuel use now. Climate stabilization, consistent with international goals (1.5-2°C) means a fossil fuel phase-out in about a decade for the US and fifteen years worldwide. Otherwise, the risks of going past 2°C and crossing catastrophic tipping points are unacceptably high.
In that light, we need a Declaration of Global Warming State of Emergency so that the people of the United States will demand immediate action. In that way, we meet the most critical moral issue of our time.
Therefore, we support a Declaration of Climate Emergency.
Moreover, we support the responses required to address the emergency. The United States must mobilize to leave fossil fuels. This means we will:
Eliminate fossil fuels:
Price carbon and remove subsidies. Make fossil fuels account for their true costs.
Keep fossil fuels in the ground. Oppose their exploration, development, export, and new infrastructure through collective action.
Phase-in renewable energy:
Incentivize clean energy development, production, and roll-out as quickly as possible.
Assist developing nations with renewable energy so they bypass fossil fuel development.
Jean Arnold published CEC Campaign in CAMPAIGN 2015-12-02 13:53:32 -0800
Climate Emergency Coalition Campaign:
We as a country and as a planet face a fundamental threat. … Until we start with that conversation, it's very hard for me to see how we ultimately lead to the national policies that are going to be required, much less the international policies that are also going to be required.[1]
—ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ
Director, Yale Project on Climate Change Communication
This outline proposal shows how a modest sum—$500,000 for a one-year demonstration—can prove the necessity for a national "emergency climate mobilization" and build a Climate Emergency Coalition with partnering organizations. Following demonstration, the US can be quickly galvanized into a consensus on Emergency Climate Mobilization within the timeframe required to stabilize the climate, while including a justice and equity framework.
To respond effectively to the climate crisis, we need an all-hands-on-deck Climate Mobilization to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions at wartime speed. Because of the nature of the looming climate crisis[2], the fate of civilization and of our living systems hinges on a Climate Mobilization response. The over-determined data shows that there is actually no remaining carbon budget, therefore we must phase-out fossil fuels now!
Informing, Engaging, and Galvanizing Americans
Relating for Real Change
It is through our web of associations and relationships that we best develop understanding and emotional response—by arriving at a social interpretation of the data. Sociologist Robert Brulle, Drexel University, says that engaging people face-to-face is "the only way to achieve real, lasting change [for the climate]."[3] We are relational creatures, and we get involved when people that we know and respect are involved. Explaining climate change must be personal and interactive—virtual or social media are insufficient for organizing citizens and expanding the movement.
Photo: Julie Nerbonne, Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light, climate conversation event.
A consensus on US Climate Mobilization must come quickly. If achieved within a couple of years, the US can achieve the target of Net Zero Carbon by 2025. To achieve the degree of transformation required—even including the conservative Congress—we only need 3-4% of the population joining the call for mobilization with us. That means recruiting enough mobilizers through an Education and Advocacy Campaign that provides personal, face-to-face dialogue, and moral conversations. There are already tens of thousands of faith social halls and civic auditoriums ready to host this cultural conversation. The initiative galvanizes those most concerned about the climate threat, thus building a decisive Climate Coalition with partner organizations. Change of this magnitude can only happen through organizing while raising and deepening public awareness.
Citizens need to understand how quickly and effectively we must respond to avert climate chaos. They must appreciate the details of the encroaching climate crisis, the necessity of an all-out mobilization, the advantages of a carbon price and its affordability, climate justice issues, and why US leadership is crucial. We explain the scope, scale and urgency of the crisis; in addition we explain why the Coalition is the necessary response to uniquely meet these daunting challenges.
The curriculum is riveting and inspiring. It is designed to catalyze action and precipitate appropriate responses.
First Phase of the Climate Emergency Coalition Campaign
The First Phase of the Climate Emergency Coalition Campaign will employ the existing southwest network of Interfaith Power and Light to coordinate the necessary personal conversations and education at their disposal through the thousands of venues available: congregation social halls, civic auditoriums, and public meeting places across those states. The states include Utah (convening), Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, and Tennessee.[4]
The $500,000 budget includes salaries for a Project Coordinator and six State Coordinators, consulting fees, and curriculum development (includes the guidance of leading scientists).
The Demonstration will quickly lead to the adoption of the full CEC Campaign nationwide to achieve consensus on mobilization within a two-year period.
[1] Anthony Leiserowitz interview with Bill Moyers, Making People Care About Climate Change, Moyers & Company, January 4, 2013.
[2] We are already committed to an inevitable heat increase "in the pipeline"—due to the lag in ocean heating—even if we cut all emissions today. So today's greenhouse gases levels are already very dangerous.
[3] Robert Brulle, From Environmental Campaigns to Advancing the Public Dialogue: Environmental Communication for Civic Engagement, Environmental Communications, March 17, 2010, pp. 82-98.
[4] A response to a request for proposal can provide extensive detail and justification.
Jean Arnold endorsed 2015-12-07 15:39:30 -0800
CLICK HERE FOR ORGANIZATIONAL SIGN-ON
Therefore, I support a Declaration of Climate Emergency.
Moreover, I support the responses required to address the emergency. The United States must mobilize to leave fossil fuels. This means we will:
Jean Arnold published Donate to TCM 2015-11-14 15:15:50 -0800
Help us fight for civilization and the natural world!
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Jean Arnold published Thank You! in Donate to TCM 2015-11-14 15:15:35 -0800
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Jean Arnold published WW2 Mobilization 2015-10-15 08:09:53 -0700
US Mobilization for WW2:
Lessons for the Climate Crisis?*
We are out of time for any gradual phase-out of fossil fuels. We need an all-out Emergency Climate Mobilization to completely cut emissions within a decade. Is America's World War 2 mobilization a good example for our situation? How can we create the "Pearl Harbor" urgency and society-wide response needed?
What Is Mobilization, Anyway?
Mobilization is a coming together as a people with a common cause--an emergency restructuring of a modern industrial economy, typically at rapid speed. It involves everyone and impacts all areas of society—a comprehensive societal and industrial metamorphosis.
Mobilization summons a sense of collective destiny and moral purpose. Importantly, mobilization is not a blind use of government control. Rather, this is a particular strategy that guides the economy away from petro-consumerism towards a fossil fuels phase-out.
THEN: The Axis nations—Japan, Italy, and Germany—threatened world freedom, stability, and security in the late 1930s. For years, Americans denied this real peril, believing the US could somehow stay on the sidelines, even as Axis Powers invaded country after country. But the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor shattered the United States' denial. National sentiment flipped overnight from isolationism to mobilization. Most Americans then enthusiastically participated in a rapid transformation of the US economy and society.
NOW: As before Pearl Harbor, Americans today are caught in denial and apathy, obstructing and delaying any response to our global emergency. We are still beholden to the "non-negotiable American way of life" that actually threatens our very survival. How to create a "Pearl Harbor moment"—to wake up Americans—remains the central burning question of the climate movement.
Help build the Emergency Climate Movement: join the Climate Emergency Coalition.
PHOTO: San Diego Rally for Mobilization, March 2015. Jerry Phelps, courtesy of The Climate Mobilization.
THEN: The war munitions industry in the US was diminished after WW1. Upon our entry into WW2, the federal government both required and supported a rapid conversion from consumer to war production. For example, private auto manufacturing was completely halted in early 1942. By mid-year, nearly all major industries and some 200,000 companies had converted to war production, making the nation's wartime "miracle" possible—shattering all previous levels of war production. Astonishing the world, it exceeded the combined production of the Axis powers and made all the difference between victory and defeat. Pressing even further, the government collaborated with scientists and with universities for breakthrough research that contributed to the war effort.
Lockheed Ventura bombers built for the Royal Air Force under construction at the Lockheed Vega division, Burbank, California (USA), in June 1941. The factory originally made explorer aircraft, but was converted for the war effort.
To combat climate change, we need a similar-scale mobilization of our culture.
Photo: David Bransby, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
NOW: We need a complete reorientation of our economy to facilitate a wartime-speed deployment of renewable energy, smart grid technology, electric-based transportation, mass transit, zero waste, retrofitted buildings, sustainable agriculture, and more. Industry must maximize efficiency and produce the post-carbon energy infrastructure—the "armaments" in the climate war. Funding for clean energy research must be stepped up more than 500%. Since we have postponed action for so many years, as with WW2 we must now exceed our expectations of what can be accomplished.
THEN: Everybody helped. On the battle front, young men gave their lives. On the homefront, women surged into factories and over 10% of the population relocated for a war job. People grew Victory Gardens that supplied 40% of America's produce during the war. To channel maximum resources towards the war effort, the government called on citizens to invest in war bonds to help finance the war, to ration goods, and to use resources carefully. Communities held scrap drives to recycle goods like tin and rubber. The government imposed a speed limit of 35 mph, and outlawed pleasure driving and auto racing. People willingly sacrificed for the cause, and sacrifice was expected of everyone.
NOW: As with WW2, we need the participation of all. Initially, we must enact policies that incentivize low-carbon choices, however, policies cannot accomplish all the needed changes. A metamorphosis of culture—from individual consumerism to cooperation and sacrifice—can only come through the public's perception and understanding of our crisis, and through a transformative vision of a better, just world. As before, citizens must throw themselves into the collective effort.
Courtesy of Northwestern University's WWII Poster Digital Repository.
THEN: Still a major issue since the Great Depression, unemployment rates were slashed from 14.6% to 1.4%, while wages grew 55%. Full employment, higher wages, and progressive taxation brought far greater income equality. The war effort also brought gains in social equality, especially for women and African Americans. Corporate profits boomed, however, profit-seeking was channeled towards the national mission. Government, not corporations, led the transformation.
NOW: Transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy will create many more net jobs. However, workers losing jobs in carbon-intensive sectors will need training and placement in the new economy. Climate mobilization will bring greater social and income equality, as did the WW2 mobilization. Corporations can no longer drive the agenda—the people and government must lead the way. This is our opportunity to create a just economy and a world that works for all.
THEN: Defense spending rose from 1.4% of the Gross National Product in 1939, to 45% at the peak of the war effort in 1944. This was financed primarily through war bonds, excess corporate profit taxes, and raised income taxes, especially on the highest earners (their rate was 94% in 1944).
NOW: Combating climate change will not be cheap, as some advocates claim, but it will be affordable with the right priorities and measures: (1) ending dinosaur government subsidies—such as for fossil fuels, corn biofuels, and non-sustainable agricultural practices, (2) cutting military spending, (3) ending corporate welfare, (4) reversing the immense transfer of wealth to the rich, and (5) ending fossil fuel externalities through a fair carbon tax that distributes revenue to citizens—to account for costs borne by society.
THEN: Wartime agencies, given broad powers to plan and prioritize, guided the war effort. The mobilization required large-scale deficit spending, higher taxes and price controls to contain inflation, extensive regulations, and government control over the distribution of basic goods and raw materials.
NOW: This mobilization effort will require an expansion of public sector powers, expenditures, and planning. Government must make substantial investments in clean energy research, public transit, smart grid investment, electric vehicle charging stations, job transition, building retrofits, land-soil-forestry restoration, and many more projects that reduce greenhouse gases. The US and other developed nations must also finance low-carbon assistance for developing nations who would otherwise burn coal and chop down trees, thus eventuating climate chaos no matter what wealthy countries do.
The WW2 mobilization provides an inspiring example of what is necessary and possible, given our best efforts. In less than four years, the US achieved the unimaginable: it fought and won a two-front war against two powerful military empires, forcing each to surrender unconditionally. For humanity's survival, we must mount a similar heroic effort. In our two-front war on climate chaos, we must phase out fossil fuels within a decade, and draw down atmospheric carbon to safe levels.
Mobilization clashes with today's dominant paradigms: corporatism, anti-government, deregulation, privatization, hyper-individual consumerism, perpetual economic growth no matter the cost, tax cuts, and diminishment of the public sphere. This neoliberal capitalism is trashing the planet, and its era must end before it ends us.
Yet it is hard to imagine the level of cooperation and revolutionary change needed now. So how can we create this complete mobilization, when the climate crisis has no clear, galvanizing "Pearl Harbor moment," and the dominant worldview is completely opposite of what is needed?
The public must perceive that: (1) we must phase out fossil fuels as fast as humanly possible, not gradually over decades, which would cook us, (2) individual actions are insufficient—we need a collective, united mobilization to fight humanity's common enemy, climate chaos, and (3) we can win this war and avert catastrophe.
Only a Climate Emergency Coalition Campaign with personal, face-to-face engagement and moral conversations in tens of thousands of faith and civic spaces across the nation—to awaken and galvanize citizens—can change the cultural conversation and quickly generate the public will necessary to create such a society-wide Emergency Climate Mobilization. Additionally, a Climate Emergency Coalition supports groups and citizens calling for emergency mobilization.
Fear is empowering, when experienced in community and coupled with a vision of collective action for a better world. Moreover, we are not innately selfish; we are capable rising up with the needed response. It is time to face this existential threat to civilization and the natural world, and to use fear to spur us to responsible action.
Importantly, history has repeatedly demonstrated that culture can transform dramatically, especially in times of emergency. And it only takes 3-4% of the public to trigger that transformation.
*With appreciation for the work of The Climate Mobilization, for helping develop much of the thinking and comparison between World War 2 and what a climate mobilization might look like.
Jean Arnold published Join Coalition in TAKE ACTION 2015-10-15 07:59:54 -0700
Climate Emergency Coalition
The question we face is simple: will America quickly mobilize against climate chaos on a massive scale, or will we remain stuck in denial and passivity until it is too late to avert impacts that will devastate civilization and our living systems? Unfortunately, few people understand that we are in a planetary emergency, demanding urgent response. Decades of rising emissions, while scientists clearly explained the crisis, have closed the window of non-disruptive, gradual reductions. While an incremental, decades-long emissions reduction scenario (which the world agreed to in Paris) may seem "politically realistic," it is not "scientifically realistic."
The US now needs an all-out emergency climate mobilization similar to our mobilization effort for WW2 to reduce emissions at wartime speed. The goal must be Net Zero US Emissions within a decade; Net Zero Globally within fifteen years.
I heartily support the Climate Emergency Coalition and its work to shift philanthropy to organizations and initiatives fighting the threats to humanity brought by climate change.
—PAUL R. EHRLICH
Yet in the face of endemic denial and passivity, how do we catalyze an Emergency Climate Mobilization quickly enough to protect a livable Earth? It will be impossible to achieve without public support and pressure. Importantly, it only takes 3-4% of engaged, impassioned citizens—those most concerned—to transform the situation.
We must move quickly to tell the truth and drive a cultural conversation, to achieve a US consensus on an Emergency Climate Mobilization within two years. A broad-based people's campaign is needed to catalyze the mobilization. To ignite public pressure and build the "Emergency Climate Movement," a Climate Emergency Coalition (CEC) warns and motivates groups and citizens.
The Climate Emergency Coalition furthers the public conversation so the need for mobilization is quickly perceived; additionally, it creates a pathway for organizations to shift their missions to mobilization. Critically, the CEC provides coordination, talking points, and curriculum for groups who understand that only an emergency mobilization can suffice. The CEC seeks to dramatically expand the size and urgency of the existing Climate Movement, while focusing its efforts on Net Zero US Emissions within a decade. The Climate Emergency Coalition Fund attracts more funding opportunities than groups might find separately. Join by taking the Climate Emergency Coalition Sign-On (organizations / individuals). Then ask others to join in.
National Campaign Director: Cliff Cockerham
The Coalition has 501c3 sponsorship through the Association for the Tree of Life.
Download PDF: Climate Emergency Coalition flyer
Jean Arnold published Organize Teach-In in RESOURCES 2014-12-10 13:37:31 -0800
Teach-In Organizing
Teach-ins are educational, interactive forums where people come together to focus and discuss a topic. They are meant to be practical, participatory, empowering, and action-oriented. Lectures, forums, discussion panels, and free debates can all be part of teach-ins. Teach-ins are often held on college campuses, but can also be hosted at libraries, houses of worship, and community centers.
Organizing a teach-in should be seen as part of a larger and longer organizing effort, not as a one-off event. Teach-ins are crucial at this time for educating and awakening Americans to the urgency of the climate crisis. As with other critical historical moments in our history, teach-ins are an important tactic for personally engaging people, and building an effective, responsive movement.
ORGANIZING PRACTICALITIES:
Gather your organizers. A small group of students or volunteers can organize the teach-in. Set a date for the first meeting, and start inviting people.
Structure the program. First, determine what you want the teach-in to look like. Length of the teach-in can be an all-day Saturday event, a half-day Saturday event, or an evening event of 2-3 hours. Weekend events may be more preferable, as people can set aside more time and will be fresher than after a workday. Possibilities include speakers, panel discussions, films, and facilitated dialogue with a speaker. The first half could be devoted to discussing the issues, and the second half devoted to response, with a networking intermission in between. You can have several speakers or center your event on 1-2 speakers.
Outline the content. We can provide suggestions regarding content; contact us for suggestions. A resource page is forthcoming.
Set a date. Set the date(s) well in advance—a 60-90 day planning horizon is suggested, to line up speakers and reserve a meeting space. Choose a date or dates that works well for your group, speakers, audience, and semester schedule. Possibilities could include: (1) week-long, (2) Thursday night through Sunday afternoon, (3) a series of Saturdays, (4) an all-day Saturday event that runs late into the evening.
Reserve a space well in advance. Public spaces often are booked well in advance, so make this an early priority. Options include universities, colleges, libraries, houses of worship, union halls, and community centers. Choose a site with sufficient seating for the anticipated turnout, that is easy to find, readily accessible, and with proper sound / lighting systems. If the event is an all-day event, make sure there are restaurant options nearby or you will need to provide food. Many places will donate the space or offer a discount if you tell them it is a free public education event.
Arrange speakers well in advance. Choose people who are conversation-starters, not spectacles. Look for speakers who can communicate the climate issue well in everyday language, not scientific jargon. Possibilities include professors at your local university's climatology or physical sciences department, local leaders taking a stand for climate protection, and climate advocates with local organizations. Some speakers will charge fees—many colleges have funds reserved for invited speakers.
Find co-sponsors. Co-sponsors will help promote the event through their own networks, and can help with the organizing. Make sure responsibilities and time-lines are clearly defined for each party. Co-sponsoring organizations can set up tables in back to provide attendees with an opportunity for further engagement.
Handle various details. Arrange lunch if needed and / or snack table—ask local businesses to donate, or have organizations pick up costs. Arrange an event moderator, a timekeeper, setup and cleanup crews, an AV/light person (they should confirm the system in advance), a photographer, a video person, someone to pass around sign-up sheets, tabling volunteers, and a coordinator to confirm volunteer commitments two days ahead. Create a sign-up sheet, a take-home follow-up action sheet, and a program schedule sheet if needed.
Publicize. Create posters, flyers, leaflets, sidewalk chalk, Facebook event page, and radio announcements. Post on website calendars. Personally invite key people (local leaders, government officials, professors), and remind them within a few days prior. Posters around campus should be placed within a week of the event, and may need to be stamped. Have manned tables in the student union in the days prior. Go door-to-door in the dorms. Hand out leaflets personally at key locations on campus. Ask professors of large classes if you can briefly announce the teach-in at the beginning of their class. Ask professors to give extra credit for attendance.
Cover your costs. Make the event free, so that all can attend. If funding is not available to cover costs, a cosponsor that is a 501c3 nonprofit org can ask for donations. If you decide to provide lunch, then suggest a donation amount in an announcement.
Get media coverage. Write simple, clear, concise press releases, and send them to local radio, TV, and newspapers at least two weeks prior to the event. Arrange interviews with the speakers on local radio programs. Call beat reporters and ask them to attend the event.
Build future support and follow-through. The teach-ins are part of a larger movement-building process, not a one-off event. Capture the energy of participants who are eager to respond. Have a table with literature, and a letter-writing table. Pass around a sign-up list, asking for names and email addresses. Send a follow-up email to those who signed up thanking them for their attendance and desire to respond.
Jean Arnold published Basis in Campaigns 2 2014-11-10 11:32:56 -0800
Basis for Campaign
Senator Edmund Muskie, keynote speaker,
Earth Day Philadelphia 1970
The basis for ATL's approach is that progress in the US has almost always involved grassroots mobilization. For example, in 1970 we catalyzed dramatic change after the first Earth Day, when one in ten Americans hit the streets, calling for reforms. An entire suite of green policies was enacted as a result.
It is time to initiate an open, truthful national discussion about our situation. Public dialogue must be shifted through an extensive media warning campaign, through which citizens come to grasp that our carbon addiction is a clear and present threat to all of us.
Face-to-face dialogue, support, and education also will be necessary for engaging the public. Research shows that a majority of Americans can see that they are uninformed about the climate crisis. They want to know more and many would welcome a national climate education program, with personal teaching and group discussion.
Photo: Melissa Bond
The climate activist movement itself must also be provided with support and resources to better reach the culture. The movement must now win a critical number of motivated citizens who can demand carbon legislation. A small minority of citizens—even a small percentage—can catalyze change if they are committed, strategic, and organized. A comprehensive, effective effort must include local-national coordination, as well as education, direct action, and outreach in order to grow the movement and achieve a national carbon price policy. As the movement expands, we can become as consequential as voters were following the first Earth Day.
The transformation of our carbon-intensive system can only succeed by raising public support, an effort that must be funded by billions of philanthropic dollars and must be on the scale of a presidential campaign.
Jean Arnold donated 2015-05-30 15:43:02 -0700
DONATE TO ATL
Help support climate mobilization with the scale and urgency now needed. The Association for the Tree of Life is an independent 501c3 nonprofit organization, IRS EIN#: 87-0447008. Your contribution is tax-deductible.
The Association for the Tree of Life deeply appreciates your contribution.
Jean Arnold published Endorse 2014-11-06 20:30:54 -0800
ENDORSE ATL'S CALL TO ACTION
Climate stabilization under the international consensus 2° Celsius / 3.6° Fahrenheit threshold agreed to in the Copenhagen Accord is the ultimate and necessary goal.
Warming of 2°C / 3.6°F above pre-industrial levels is widely considered the heat limit to avert the most dangerous effects of runaway climate change and the risk of irreversible tipping points. Our pathway puts us on a course to more than double the internationally agreed limit.
The US must adopt policies to capture the price of GHGs, accelerate and expand investment in clean energy, and transform our infrastructure. These complimentary measures are needed to help reduce GHG emissions and quickly drive investment away from carbon-intensive practices, towards a clean and efficient energy future.
By endorsing, you support ATL's call for:
• Pricing carbon pollution
• Reducing emissions several percent per year
• Investing in the conversion to a clean, efficient and resilient infrastructure
• US leadership
Speak Out and Lend Your Voice to Urgent Action at Scale
We are calling on you to personally endorse ATL's call for policy action, and help engage those in your network to also endorse this call to action. Your support is crucial for the success of a broad-scale climate stabilization campaign.
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Jean Arnold published TAKE ACTION 2014-11-06 17:44:36 -0800
This is our time; now is our moment.
Photo: Evan Leeson (cc)SA-2.0
Your actions and volunteerism are crucial for building a Climate & Ecological Emergency Campaign and taking ATL's efforts to scale.
Read "WHAT CAN WE INDIVIDUALS DO?".
Download and read ATL's free e-book: "Climate and Ecological Delusions and Contradictions That Will Rapidly End Humanity…Unless...". The e-book provides the basis for why we need to trigger an emergency alarm and how we can achieve it.
Further emergency information: (1) read our Situation page, (2) watch climate scientist Kevin Anderson's lecture "Climate's Holy Trinity," and (3) read William Ophul's short book "Apologies to the Grandchldren: Reflections on Our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political Consequences."
ATL's March 17, 2019 Letter to the Hewlett Foundation.
Spread the emergency personally: share ATL's Delusions and Contradictions e-book, discuss these issues with friends, family, teachers, students, colleagues, and your networks.
Join the Climate Emergency Coalition (sign on: Individuals / Organizations).
Sign up for ATL's updates and action alerts.
Spread the emergency online: email, tweet, post on Facebook, reach out through other social media channels.
Donate to ATL, a 501c3 organization.
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Journey to the heart of your creative voice
Directed by Marianne LE TRON and Véronique THOMAS
Dates:09.08.2022 -14.08.2022
Hours:35 h
Price:525 €
Participants:12
Level:Open to all
Workshop Code:J0809VC
For administrative and accounting purposes, please include this workshop code and the name of the student when making payments and in all other correspondence.
Register to the Workshop
For people who have already followed at least one human voice course or who have previous artistic experience.
This workshop is an invitation to explore, liberate and develop your different registers of vocal and spoken expression, calling on imagination, emotion, and the presence to oneself and to others. We will work towards linking body, breath, voice, with morning body warm-ups, collective laboratories of body and voice in space, individual singing lessons and accompaniment towards mini-creations.
The songs, texts and any other creative element that you bring and that you have memorized, will be put to use to elaborate a presentation (for the participants of the other workshops) that will creatively close this workshop.
Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday: 9.30 a.m.-1 p.m. / 3 p.m.-5.30 p.m.
Saturday: until 8:30 p.m. for the end of course presentation
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In case of a full or cancelled workshop, please indicate a second choice:
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Do you need accommodation?
Students are lodged in simple but comfortable shared rooms (called gîtes) with two, three or four beds with bathrooms (showers) and two equipped kitchens. Sheets and blankets are provided.
Please fill in the accompanying enrollment form and include a cheque for 30 euros as a deposit.
You find pictures of the accommodation under this link
Price: 22 euros per night, 27 euros (if heating is needed)
1) we do not make or take reservations for participants lodging outside the Centre,
2) we do not have single, private rooms.
For residencies and longer stays it may be possible to rent appartments in the Château – these too also get booked early for the summer.
I wish to reserve the following number of nights:
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Please note that a place in a workshop or course is only confirmed after recept of a deposit.
Please send the enrolment form with a deposit of 120 euros for the workshop plus the total for accommodation, if you have booked a place in a gîte at Malérargues.
Bookings will be taken into account only when full payment has been received.
The prices shown for the workshops, unless otherwise noted, are for the courses only: food is not provided unless also specified.
The deadline for withdrawing from a workshop is one month before the start date of a course or workshop. We regret that no re-imbursments of deposits can be made after this date. Prior to this date, the deposit will be re-imbursed less 30 euros for administrative costs.
The Centre reserves the right to cancel a workshop if there are not enough participants. In this case the deposit will be fully re-funded.
If you are reserving by the e-mail form below, please be sure to send your deposit on the same day as you send the form. We will temporarily hold you a place for four days.
The CAIRH being an association, all workshop participants must be members. The membership fee is €20 per year.
GUEST HOUSING AND APPARTMENTS
La Salindre / Soudorgues (8 km from the Center)
Tansen R. Mundt, Maria Bernhold, Tel. (+33) 4 66 85 23 51 / www.lasalindre.eu
Le Mas de Prades / (2 km from the Center)
Patrick and Sophie Auvray, Tel. (+33) 4 66 85 09 00 / (+33) 6 20 72 28 31 (with swimming pool)
Les Jardins de Valaurie / Anduze (12 km from the Center)
Tel. (+33) 4 66 61 62 85
Gîte rural Calviac / (3 km from the Center)
Mr Jacques SOULIER Tel : (+33) 4 66 85 12 48 / 06 77 79 59 11 / e-mail
"Au Ruisseau de Rose' (Chambres d'hôtes) St Jean du Gard (10 km from the Center)
Tel : (+33) 4 66 54 51 07 or e-mail or www.ruisseauderose.fr
La ferme 'Le Martinet' (Chambres d'hôtes) Thoiras (3 km from the Center)
Tel : (+33) 6 07 54 61 57 or e-mail or www.masdumartinet.fr
'La Cure' Gite d'étape/ Lasalle (5 km from the Center)
Tel : (+33) 6 30 47 82 62 or e-mail
Filament (2 km)
Tél: (+33) 4 66 85 20 52
La Salendrinque (Lasalle 4 km)
Tél: (+33) 4 66 85 24 57 / fax (+33) 4 66 85 41 50
Le Campement (3 km) Calviac
Tél. (+33) 4 66 85 13 58 Email : e-mail
Les Hauts de Labahou, RD907, 30140 Anduze
Tél : (+33) 04 66 61 77 90 / 06 03 93 38 88
Sourire du Sud' (mini camping et gîtes)
Tél (+33) 06 79 99 98 85
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Marianne Le Tron
Artist, actor-singer, guide/mentor for the sung and spoken voice
Lives in Thoiras, France
Has been part of Roy Hart Theatre since 1978
Teacher since 1982
Since I first met the Roy Hart Theatre in 1978, voice has become my life-companion, the measure of both my personal and artistic work, and my inspiration.
Over time and meetings (with dance, movement, traditional singing, clowning, painting, writing, fasciatherapy), I have built my own way of using the voice in work, play and creative production, relying on the invaluable inheritance of the research of Alfred Wolfsohn and Roy Hart and all those who came after them. From the singing voice to the spoken voice, I'm connected with many artistic disciplines and socio-cultural backgrounds. I connect my teaching to the enlightening person-centred listening of Carl Rogers, and the opening of creative spaces of Authentic Movement.
In 1978, Marianne Le Tron discovered the work and life of the Roy Hart Theatre Company in the Cevennes and became a member of the group. She performed in several productions, including the first version of Pagliacci (1981), Kaspar (1984) and Moby Dick (1988). She is a founding member of the Centre Artistique International Roy Hart.
Marianne collaborates in a variety of professional and artistic areas (arts companies, enterprises, support for creative production, etc). From 2005 to 2008 she studied for a diploma in Carl Rogers' Person Centred Therapy. In 2015, she began a year of Authentic Movement training with Mandoline Whittlesey.
On the creative side, she's currently a member of the cast of 'Generation', and also performs with a dancer and a musician in a piece based on the traditional Inuit tale "Skeleton Woman". She sings in the vocal group "Tutti Quanti" and is one of the creators of the "Bal Détourné".
Marianne Le Tron speaks French and English.
Contact: amletron@wanadoo.fr
Website, www.dia-pason.com
EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONS
Véronique Thomas
Roy Hart voice teacher, singer, music teacher
Lives in Brittany: Montauban, Bretagne (Ille et Vilaine), France
Roy Hart Voice Teacher since 2010
I help create the conditions which allow students' vocal potential to emerge, while starting from who they really are. I rely on those paramount human qualities, which are for me listening, respect, kindness and empathy. I encourage students to go further, to explore releasing their fears and resistance, to venture into unknown territories. I help them to release their voice, so that it resonates throughout their entire body.
For me, the aim of this work is to enable everyone to be touched by their own voice, and to encounter themselves.
Véronique was immersed in music, song and dance from an early age. She trained to become a music teacher and choirmaster, and taught music in schools for 20 years. She also directed shows for children and adults and composed text and music for CDs of children's songs. She and her vocal trio have also recorded two CDs of polyphonic songs from eastern Europe. Her insatiable curiosity for the voice led her to explore new territories, such as harmonic overtone singing; the yoga of sound and connection between vibration and energy; the Singing of being with Serge Wilfart's "breath and voice" work, energy work and sound healing... She continues to develop her vocal explorations via spontaneous singing and improvisation.
Veronique has trained with Carol Mendelsohn, Saule Ryan, David Goldsworthy, Marianne Le Thron, Ulrik Barfod and Marie-Paule Marthe.
She speaks French and some English.
E-Mail: veronique63.thomas@gmail.com
Website, Véronique Thomas,http://www.acorpsetavoix.com
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Sitting on the couch, I was able to get a glimpse into my client's life and what he deemed important. I noticed a charming group of family photos along with a pile of newspapers he liked to keep on the floor next to his favorite chair. What a lovely man… and what a fall risk! Through my encounters with similar fall risk scenarios, I predicted a struggle in the therapy conversations that would follow.
I was in that home to do a job.
I was there to tell the client what to do and he just wouldn't listen, I thought to myself.
Turns out, this was a biased belief I held that is slowly being corrected by a new form of communication I now use with my OT clients. I was there for more than telling someone what to do. And perhaps I was the one not listening.
I am there to be of service, which means providing information and skilled recommendations.
This does not mean the client is obligated to believe me, listen, and/or implement the recommendations I provide as his occupational therapist. If the client appears to not be listening or following through with recommendations, that may mean I am not communicating effectively or clearly.
Before I assume a client is not listening, I now implement different strategies that are yielding more authentic, compassionate, informed and detached decisions...for both clients and myself.
How often did I extend space to the client to share his/her own perspective?
How often was I taking his/her perspective into careful consideration and even adjusting the treatment plan?
Motivational interviewing strategies for OTs that have helped me create more compassion and quality service.
Based on principles of motivational interviewing (MI), introduce number scales to elicit objectively subjective data and to help YOU, the therapist, really understand the client's perspective. Using this strategy may also allow the client to prioritize their choices.
If cognition is intact, consider a bonus question. If the client rated their confidence at a "6", ask what s/he would need in order for confidence to be a "10." I've received profound answers that altered the course of therapy because of listening closely to this response. After all, clients know themselves better than we know them.
Could I guess at least 5 reasons why this would be important? Ab-suh-friggin-lutely. The point of asking this question is to help the client identify his/her own motivation for pursuing a goal. Clients seem to lose interest when they perceive a goal is my goal for them versus it being a goal of his/her own choice that therapy is helping to achieve.
Let's help clients find internal motivation rather than merely externally focused (i.e. pleasing the therapist) compliance.
We've all been part of conversations that seem utterly contradictory.
"So you want to be able to go to the bathroom all by yourself and have the strength for it BUT you don't want to make time to do exercises to get stronger?," you (dumbfounded) say to the client. Inside you think to yourself after taking a long, deep breath, "OMG. This makes no sense. This client is being utterly unrealistic. This sounds crazy."
Turns out, there is another strategy that will likely help you and the client. Replace every but with and. In other words, virtually remove the word but from your therapy vocabulary.
"So you want to be able to go to the bathroom all by yourself and have the strength for it AND you don't want to make time to do exercises to get stronger", you now say to the client. Now the conversation has been opened versus closing it down or judging behavior. The strategy of asking for a "why" can be used to follow up. Asking for a why will likely take the goal forward or help you that it may no longer be important.
Sample Use of These Strategies in Conversation.
Nine times out of ten, using one or more of these strategies will ease the frustration and clarify the client's perspective enough that therapy can offer more clear solutions. It's also helpful to know that one solution could be discharging the goal and/or client. There have been times when I carefully listen to the client and based on the responses, s/he is appreciative for recommendations, chooses to disagree, and prefers to not pursue other recommendations.
As occupational therapists we are in the presence of clients to be of service and offer skilled information, including recommendations. In order to do this effectively, communication must be respectful, clear, and actually happening. Strategies listed in this article can help cut through old, pushy, disrespectful and/or assumptive communication to more service and results-oriented conversations.
Wahab, S. & Ernst, D. (2015). Lecture on Motivational Interviewing. Personal Collection of S. Wahab & D. Ernst. (July 7-8th). Portland, OR.
Interested in even more info on best practice for OT in home health? Check out "Home Health Care: A Guide for Occupational Therapy Practice" a book and self-paced course available through AOTA.


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According to a Saturday report in the New York Post, author Chris Whipple says in "The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House," to be published Jan. 17, that Biden "would let loose" on the "former guy" when he gave friends private White House tours.
"Biden unleashed his ire on an upstairs room where Trump had installed a big-screen TV and a golf simulator that allowed him to practice his swing to the virtual backdrop of famous courses," the Post reported.
"What a f***ing a**hole," Biden told one guest, according to the book.
This, mind you, isn't the first — or most widely covered — report of Biden's vulgar outbursts in recent weeks.
In December, Politico reported that the president was bugged about discussions regarding his age going into the 2024 election.
"The president has vented to allies about how often his age is mentioned in the press — 'You think I don't know how f***ing old I am?' he said to one earlier this year," the outlet reported.
The answer is 80, as Politico noted. It's assumed that the president meant the question rhetorically. The ally might not have proffered the answer Biden would have wanted, but que sera sera.
The golf simulator wasn't the only item tainted with Trumpiness in the White House, either, according to the book. Biden also wanted the Resolute Desk removed from the Oval Office due to Trump's use of it — although that attempt failed.
Should Biden be put in prison?
While the famous desk — a gift from Queen Victoria, manufactured from the wood of a British warship and brought to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. by no less than John F. Kennedy — is just one of six desks in rotation as a presidential desk, it would be unusual for a president to change it simply because his predecessor used it.
The Resolute Desk was used by presidents for 40 of the 44 years preceding Biden's arrival at the White House on Jan. 20, 2021. Between 1989 and 1993, President George H.W. Bush used the C&O Desk — initially made for the owners of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and donated to the White House, according to House Beautiful.
Among the presidents to have used the Resolute Desk is Barack Obama, so if Biden thought it was too infested with Trump cooties, he could always think back upon his former boss. If he can remember being vice president during those days, that is.
This had been reported in a 2022 book by the president's sister, Valerie Biden Owens. In it, she said she wanted Trump "exorcised" from the White House, according to Salon, and that included the Resolute Desk.
However, the desk Biden wanted — the Hoover Desk, which was used by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt despite the fact it was donated to the man he defeated in the 1932 election, Herbert Hoover — was at FDR's Hyde Park, New York, home.
A more worrying manifestation of Trumpophobia, according to a report last week from the U.K.'s Independent, is that Biden apparently believes the Secret Service is riddled with MAGAitis.
"According to a copy of the book obtained by The Independent ahead of its 17 January 2023 release date, Whipple writes that Mr Biden simply did not trust the agents, and noted that his attitude is a sharp contrast from how he felt during his years as vice president, when he'd become very close with the agents on his detail," The Independent reported.
"He added that the change in Mr Biden's view is also a result of the increased size of the detail assigned to the chief executive and suggested that the president shouldn't have been surprised by the presence of 'MAGA sympathizers' among his bodyguards because the Secret Service 'is full of white ex-cops from the South who tend to be deeply conservative.'"
Lovely. The most prominent example of this is what can best be described as Major-gate — a series of attacks by Biden's adopted German shepherd, Major, that were covered up and minimized by the White House staff.
After the first biting incident was reported in March 2021, Biden "wasn't buying the details," according to Whipple. Specifically, he wasn't buying where it happened: the second floor of the White House.
"Look, the Secret Service are never up here. It didn't happen," he told a friend during a White House tour, according to the report.
Biden apparently thought "somebody was lying … about the way the incident had gone down."
Yes — and that "somebody," as the New York Post reported, was then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki. On March 9, after Major and his now-deceased brother Champ were whisked away to Delaware, Psaki disclosed a single attack by Major on a Secret Service agent.
"The first family's younger dog, Major, was surprised by an unfamiliar person and reacted in a way that resulted in a minor injury to the individual," Psaki told the media at a briefing.
The first lie was that, according to the agent who was attacked, that's not how it went down.
"NO I didn't surprise the dog doing my job by being at [redacted] as the press secretary just said! Now I'm p***ed," the agent who was attacked said in an email after the media briefing, according to messages obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by the conservative activist group Judicial Watch.
A redacted internal incident report described it this way: "Without warning or provocation, Major barked loudly at [the agent] … and charged."
"Having no time to seek cover from the attack, [the agent] turned away from the dog as he bit into [redacted] right leg," the report added.
The second lie was that it wasn't the first time Major had bitten a Secret Service agent. In fact, records show he had bitten agents every day between March 1-8, 2021, before being sent to Delaware for being a bad boy, a very bad boy.
The attacks continued until May 2021. Major was eventually given away.
A more serious allegation the book makes: "Wary of his own Secret Service agents, the president no longer spoke freely in their presence," Whipple wrote, according to The Independent.
A president who doesn't trust his own security detail is a president who's putting himself in grave danger, no matter how many Southern white cops turned ultra-MAGA Republicans might be left in there. My assumption is that it's far, far fewer than he thinks.
But then, what do you expect when it comes to a man who tries to swap out the Resolute Desk because a gift from Queen Victoria that was used by Presidents Kennedy and Obama is somehow tainted by Trump?
I mean, except for another vulgar outburst using some permutation of a word that begins with the alphabet's sixth letter.
C. Douglas Golden, Western Journal
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We ran out of "breakfasty" foods the other day for the baby so he had squash for breakfast, which just seems weird. I guess it's better than the other options we had, carrots with kidney beans or broccoli and cauliflower with black beans.
The freezer is normally full of a wide array of options, just plain vegetables, just plain fruits, some combinations and also the baby foods with proteins in them (whether that be something mixed with chicken or various beans). Well, now that I've run out of breakfasts and used up all of he squash, peas with corn and everything else fun it was time to make up some new baby food. I spent all morning making up batch after batch and it would appear that I over purchased a bit when it comes to produce so I think I'll be buying even more containers soon.
First up on the chopping block was strawberries and apples. As you can tell from the picture I'm sure, the strawberries that I used were frozen. Fun Fact: Frozen fruits and vegetables have been picked at their optimal ripeness and then very quickly frozen which helps them keep almost all of their nutrients. Though each fruit and vegetable is different, with certain items you're actually better going with frozen over fresh. Unless you do all of your shopping at the Farmer's Market, the strawberries you buy fresh would have already lost a good amount of their internal moisture as well as nutrients simply by being picked well over a week before you purchased it.
1/2 bag of frozen strawberries.
Steam until the apples have become fork tender and try not to eat all of the fruit yourself. This little combination made my whole house smell delicious and I was super tempted to eat a bit of the applesauce myself. The amount of apples and strawberries I used made six containers for the freezer which isn't an awful lot, but I planned on making a second apple & berry combo so I didn't want to go too overboard making this one.
Overall, this yielded six containers of baby food for right around $2.75 which means I only paid $0.45 per container. Compare that to Gerber.
A little joke on myself. After making my own baby food for a while I guess I just jump right into it and never double check myself on anything. After peeling all my apples and getting both them and my strawberries into the steamer I turned everything on and started peeling sweet potatoes. Well, after a few minutes I noticed a weird sound coming from my steamer and then it dawned on me. I never put any water into the steamer! Then I completely ignored that the top and handles are all metal and grabbed them to move the steamer away from the burner. Not smart.
Mix pregnancy brain with over confidence and what you get are sore fingers. Luckily, there are no burns to speak of! Just goes to show, no matter how many times you do something you can always make a mistake.


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WILL ONE DESTROY THE OTHER?
WHENEVER YOU THINK OF STEVE PERRY, YOU THINK OF HIS DARK, GOOD LOOKS, DEEP, SENSUOUS VOICE AND FAMOUS CAREER AS THE LEAD SINGER FOR JOURNEY. BUT HAVE YOU EVER LOOKED AT THINGS FROM STEVE'S POINT OF VIEW?
Fame-the sweet smell of success.
Sounds great, doesn't it? Everywhere you go people know you. They also want you! But is being famous as great as it sounds? Is being famous what Steve thought it would be?
Steve Perry was born in the Northern California city of Hanford on January 22. His dad, Ray Perry, was a big band singer and very well-known. His mom, Mary, was also a great singer, "Until they took her tonsils out," explains Steve.
But being raised in a famous family isn't what gave Steve the desire to become a big success himself. It was the thrill he got from singing. That's all he ever really wanted to do, and he admits he starved trying to get there.
Before working with Journey, Steve had as array of odd jobs that included working as a carpenter on a turkey ranch and being a second engineer at Los Angeles' Crystal Studios.
To Steve joining Journey meant, "A giant leap from struggle, starvation, pyorrhea (a gum disease resulting from severe vitamin deficiencies) and malnutrition." What he didn't expect was having the burden of carrying the successes and failures of Journey on his shoulders!
Of course, not everything which goes on is Steve's responsibility, but being the front man - the person who speaks to the audience every night during a concert, the person most people identify with when they think of Journey - does have its downfalls!
Consider this: Whenever a critic takes a stab at the band, they nearly always mention Steve -rarely the other guys. Whenever a rumor is linked to the band, the rumors are usually about Steve - not the other guys - and it's all because Steve's the front man, the lead singer, the person everyone identifies with!
Take the most famed rumor of all - the rumor that Steve has cancer! How on earth did it start? Who knows? Even Steve isn't sure. It's disturbing to be sure and it's definitely not true!
"Steve came down with laryngitis one night and had to cancel a concert," says a member of the Nightmare staff, Journey's management company. "Maybe that's how the rumor started. People figured that because he had to cancel a concert it was something more than what was announced."
Or could the cancer rumor have started because Steve lowered his vocal range for the Frontiers album? The cancer rumor had been circulating and then Steve came out singing lower than before. Ah, ha! It must be true! At least that's what some fans incorrectly assumed.
"Steve actually lowered his vocal range for "Dream After Dream," a single which was only released as a Japanese import," explains the same Journey spokesperson.
"And that was a few years ago. It just wasn't until recently that "Dream" was released in the United States. Then on Frontiers his voice is also lower, so combining the rumor with the lower voice, fans maybe thought that Steve just couldn't hit the high notes anymore!"
But the truth of the matter is, Steve does not have cancer. He did have laryngitis the one night some time ago, and he lowered his vocal range for a change. It's that simple. But living with such depressing rumors is part of being famous - rumors follow those who are in the spotlight!
But fame's not all that bad. Don't think for a minute that Steve doesn't appreciate his fans or the opportunity they've given him.
Rather than starving and suffering from the previously mentioned pyorrhea, Steve's now living comfortably in a three-bedroom Northern California home, and he's got a luxurious Mercedes Benz car (although he's kept his yellow 1973 Volkswagen for sentimental value!).
But what is fame to Steve and what are its hazards and joys?
Fame is being able to play to a crowd of 16,000 fans night after night - something Steve loves. After all, isn't that why he got into the band in the first place?
Hazards? Being mobbed by a group of fans who've gotten out of control - having his hair ripped out, his clothes torn. That can get scary for anyone, including Steve.
"Steve is probably the most private member of Journey," everyone in the band agrees. He's always been private - it's not just an attitude he's acquired since he joined Journey back in 1977.
And even with all the pressures and criticisms of the press, Steve still loves his job. In fact, when he's asked about the band's outside projects, Steve admits that, "No matter what projects we do outside the group, Journey will always be the mothership. It'll go on and on. Journey is ready to rock its brains away and make a lot of people happy."
Obviously, even with all the pressures, the rumors, and the frequent lack of privacy, Steve is still doing it all for one reason - to sing and "make a lot of people happy."
But what would make Steve happy? Is Journey his only dream? Is this where his life begins and ends?
Not quite. He does have one aspiration yet to be fulfilled. "I'd give anything to sing with a symphony. I'd love to pick some melodic contemporary songs and do them with a lot of strings."
It's a safe bet that for Steve, fame is worth its frustrations. Fame - even with the pressures and rumors - Steve wants to keep it.


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Breed Facts and Information
Crossbreed/Mixed breed
The Moggy/Cross-breed originates from...
Because the Moggy is not classified as an independent breed, but rather, is the name given to any cat whose parents are cross-breeds or non-pedigrees, there is no exact history for it. These cats usually have a uniform appearance as the short-haired gene is dominant, and are seen in a variety of colours and patternings. It is thought that 100 million cats exist globally, and that most of these are cross-breeds or 'moggies.' During the 20th century there were many stray cats in London, and these are believed to be the forebears of today's cross-breeds. The name 'Moggy' has been applied to different things over the centuries, from cows and calves in the 18th century, to a woman of untidy appearance in the 19th century. In the UK, the term 'Moggy' is also used as a general term for cats, whether they are a cross-breed or a pedigree.
The Moggy/Cross-breed is characterised by...
The Moggy is observed in all colour and pattern variations, although the tabby is the most common as it bears the most striking resemblance to the cats' wild ancestors. A medium-sized cat usually, with moderate length legs, a round face, wide-spaced triangular ears and a dense coat that requires little in the way of grooming. Long-haired varieties are seen, although this is far less common as the gene for the trait is recessive. Besides this, any appearance or structural deviations are dependent on the individual cat's forebears.
The average Moggy/Cross-breed...
It is commonly said that the cross-breed cat is far more intelligent than the pure-breed cat due to years of inbreeding. Moreover, the Moggy is described as the best all-round cat for its inherently friendly and adaptable nature, making it compatible with children and other house pets when introduced to them gradually. Apart from this, the Moggy is described as playful, docile and sweet-natured, with a keen hunting instinct and a natural resilience. There are no exact measurements when it comes to a cross-breed as all cats will vary, although generally-speaking a healthy Moggy will weigh 8-12 pounds, with an average life expectancy of 15 years or more.
Weaknesses...
Unlike many pedigree and pure-breed cats that suffer from a myriad of health complaints, the Moggy is a hardy and long-lived cat with a natural resilience that has been primed through cross-breeding. Nature's law ensures that when cats are allowed to select a mate themselves, only the most desirable traits are exchanged and preserved. This means that generally, cross-breed cats are the best of the bunch and are far less prone to developing severe health problems.
Our Crossbreed/Mixed breed owners have uploaded 712 photos
Our Crossbreed/Mixed breed owners' thoughts
Christine Smythe
Always had moggies, they are the best majority are very healthy and have a brilliant life, don't have to get them vacciniated every year I always have them done when they are kittens but they do seem to have a natural immunity to most things I would only vaccinate if there was an outbrerak of something in the area had pebbles for nearly 20 years and he was always in brilliant health until he was nearly 17 when he went blind and arthritis got him of him but with medication he is doing brilliantly still
Marianne Shipley
From West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
We rehomed a very neglected ginger tom 4 years ago Now he has settled he is so loyal and loving and great with all the family... almost dog like in character but with the great independence and cat! He is small but holds his own on the street and has become a treasured part of our family. The only thing that gives away his past life is his love for kebabs and curry... probably from living out of bins... but that just adds to his quirky character.
Rashida Begum
From Powys, United Kingdom
When I got my cat 'Mr Pookins (my toddler named him) I was told he was a Persian long hair and Burmese mix. He's a beautiful cat, so fluffy!
He's very laid back and super chilled and has a majestic-ness about him.
His meow is gentle just like him.
Nicola McKenzie
From Perth and Kinross, United Kingdom
Our boy Bleu is amazing natured. He's quite a needy cat and loves to follow his mummy everywhere!
He's indoor, very well behaved and loves to play.
He's an "accidental" mix between British Blue short haired and a tabby.
It makes him a very unique.
I've never been a cat person, always owned dogs but couldn't imagine life without my little fur baby!
Christine Heywood
From lancs, United Kingdom
Bruno is a healthy 15 year old kitty. Loyal, not keen on being picked up. Love him to bits. We adopted him 7 year ago.
Jenny Williamson
From Cornwall, United Kingdom
We rehomed a small, gentle, but very unfriendly cat (Leah) from Cat's Protection. She had had kittens when she was very young herself and they lived in a dangerous quarry. The kittens soon found a home but no-one wanted unfriendly mum. She's so beautiful. I'm sorry we were too late to have for her kittens as well. It was a couple of years before she learnt to purr and another two before I could stroke her tail when she was relaxed (on a good day and only when she agreed!). Seven years on, she is a lot more friendly, will sit next to us in the garden, she purrs a lot, talks a lot and still hides from most visitors, except the lucky few. We love having her around, but she is very much her own boss.
Sadia Khanam
My baby boy ceru and lil queen coconut are absolutely adorable. They honestly make up for what the other "lacks" - coconut being the neat and tidy, elegant, laid back, and a smart one, maybe too smart, though she's sassy, lazy and independent to the point she unleashed her wrath upon you when you approach her for a cuddle (makes up for it with licks though), and ceru is the overly affectionate, playful, lovebug but not a very bright younger brother who loves making a mess and looks unkept besides the queen.
We like to say he's the peasant/servant and we're the Queen's Butler. But they're both a joy to have. I wouldn't give them up for the world, even if my dear queen betrayed my love and prefers my brother over me despite me doing everything for her (definitely not salty over this).
No two cats are the same, breeds don't really matter. But where the cat is crossbred multiple times and therefore moggys, they are each their own, unique in both appearance and personality. A one of a kind lifelong companion.
Julie Weaver
From Worcestershire, United Kingdom
My black and white boy, Sam, is the sweetest, most loving cat in spite of his multiple health issues. Sam is 21 years old and has fought his way through cruelty from his previous owners, pancreatitis, 2 bouts of diabetes and still guards the neighbourhood! He's a huge character who charms everyone with whom he comes into contact. I'd be lost without Sam keeping me in my place!
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