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Blessed Unrest

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How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being,

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and Why no One Saw It Coming

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It is my believe that we are part of a movement

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that is greater and deeper and broader

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than we ourselves know, or can know

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It flies under the radar of the media by and large

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It is nonviolent, it is grassroots

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It has no cluster bombs, no armies, no helicopters

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It has no central ideology

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A male vertebrate is not in charge

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This unnamed movement... you can clap for that... the unnamed movement....

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(audience laughs and claps)

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...is the most diverse movement the world has ever seen

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The very word movement I think is too small to describe it

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No one started this world view. No one is in charge of it

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There is no orthodoxy, It is global, classless, unquenchable and tireless

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This shared understanding is arising spontaneously

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from different economic sectors, cultures, regions and cohorts

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It is growing and spreading worldwide with no exception

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It has many roots

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but primarily the origins are indigenous culture, the environment and social justice movements

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Those three sectors and their sub-sectors

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are intertwining, morphing, enlarging

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This is no longer or simply about

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resources, or infractions or injustice

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This is fundamentally a civil rights movement

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a human rights movement

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this is a democracy movement

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it is the coming world

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What you're seeing here

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is the beginning of a list

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of the 130,000 minimum... organizations in the world

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who work towards social and environmental justice

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and that's the minimum.

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It may be 250,000 groups, it may be 500,000 groups

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Read these names. They're unfamiliar to you most of them. I'm sure

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We do not know how big this movement is

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It's marked by kinship and community and symbiosis

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It is pachamama. It's mama

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It's the earth talking back, waking up

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What you see is your kin on that screen

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and to give you a sense of how big this movement is

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if I had started this tape on Friday morning at 9am when this conference began

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and if we sat here all day Friday, all night Friday, all day Saturday, all night Saturday

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all day Sunday, all night tonight and all day Monday

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we still would not have seen the names of all the groups in the world..... who we are

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It's so new, we can't recognise it

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We're familiar with armies and governments and war and churches and religions

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but this is...there's no precedent for what we're doing

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What you're creating is completely unknown

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it is everywhere

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there is no centre

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there's no one spokesperson

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it's in every country and city on earth

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it is within every tribe, every race, every culture and every ethnic group in the world

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This is the first time on earth that a powerful non-ideological movement has arisen

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During the span of the 20th century

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big ideologies were worshipped like religion

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they dominated our beliefs

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This is to speed it up so you don't have to stay here until Monday night

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Big ideologies dominated... capitalism, socialism, communism

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In the words of Ed Hunt, "ideologies stalked the earth clad in armour"

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they fought for the control of our minds and the lands and it wasn't pretty

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and we were told that salvation would be found in the domination of a single system

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This is where salvation will be found

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We know that as biologists, we know that as community organizers

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We know that as ecologists

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It's found in diversity

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This movement is humanity's immune response to resist and heal...

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...political disease, economic infection and ecological corruption caused by ideologies

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So it is up to us to decide... how will we be?

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Who will we be?...

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This is what it is we're building

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...the capacity to respond

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It is about possibilities and solutions

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Human kind knows what to do

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(audience applause)

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Subtitle by: Camilla Burg