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Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest and WiserEarth

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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
Title:
Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest and WiserEarth
Description:

Paul Hawken's speech at the bioneers conference on the worlds largest movement, the hundreds of thousands of grassroots organizations that address social and environmental justice.

Copyright Bioneers, http://www.bioneers.org
Copyright 2007 Bioneers
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Video Language:
English
Duration:
05:52

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