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#2038] The Century Of The Earth And Of The Indigenous People With Joy
Thursday 9
September
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~ Idea 1041 ~ 17 May 1997
At the end of the conference the representatives of the Indigenous College of Saskatchewan in Canada, announced that they will convene a gathering of representatives of all indigenous peoples of the Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego during the year 2000 to celebrate humanity's entry into the 21st century, "which will be the century of the Earth and of the Indigenous People," they said. The various cultures of the indigenous people will be represented in dances, music, ceremonials, etc. It is conceived as an event of joy as we enter a new century. I could not resist and played for them the Ode to Joy of Beethoven on my ten holes harmonica and distributed to them the text of my Dream 2000. I also felt a sense of pride for having opened the doors of the United Nations, which had been closed for many years to the Hopi Indians, to deliver in the 1980's their prophecy on atomic arms, and for having obtained from the UN the celebration of the first International Year of the Indigenous People in 1993, followed by an International Decade from 1994 to 2004. The greatest beauty is the beauty of the whole universe. As living, conscious parts of that universe, we must love and celebrate that beauty, like a cell in our body contributes to the well-functioning, happiness and beauty of our whole being, we must contribute to the well-functioning, happiness and beauty of the whole humanity and of the Earth.
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UN News Sources - UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service , UN Wire News Archive
References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc. Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. --Colleen Wilcox Good News of the Day:  In
today's era of high technology and endless information, in a culture
where cell phones, computers and the internet seem to infuse every
corners of our lives, "79 percent of the people on our planet digitally
are excluded," reveals Ashoka Fellow Rodrigo Baggio. Armed with the
vision to empower low-income youth with computer skills, Baggio founded
CDI: The Center for Digital Inclusion. Starting from one of the most
dangerous, poverty-stricken communities of Brazil, Baggio and his team
have spearheaded a technological and cultural transformation across 13
countries. Teens who were once headed for gangs and drugs have found
new outlets for their energies: making videos about social issues. "I
never thought I had a future in front of me," says Wanderson da Silva
Skrock who, at fourteen, was dealing drugs. "I believe you can rescue
someone, even from the very bottom," the now CDI teacher states. [ more ]
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Todd
Braver emerges from a tent nestled against the canyon wall with a
slight tan. For the first time in three days in the wilderness, Braver
is not wearing his watch. It is the kind of change many vacationers
notice in themselves as they unwind and lose track of time. 
Santosh
Thorat, a young father of five, was grateful to have picked up an extra
day's work. That morning, he left his home, which he shared with 17
others in an East Mumbai slum, to help a bulldozing crew ward off
protesters as they demolished a nearby slum. "That day when I went to
work, I thought, 'I don't want to do this,'" Thorat recalls. Three days
later, Thorat's bosses demolished his home. Lucky for Mumbai's slums,
Thorat was not one to just sit there and obey the status quo. "If all
they want is to make Mumbai slum free and tidy... then instead of
spending money on demolishing they should have given them money for
restoration," Thorat proposed. Today, that's just what the government
of India is doing. And Thorat has become a leader in the movement,
rebuilding and revitalizing his own 3,000-household slum. [ 
