We all have a common story. We are moving toward a related way of being. 

The inaugural States of Change Learning Festival opens with award-winning author and thinker Tyson Yunkaporta. We're also joined by Angie Tangaere!  

We’re accustomed to a certain way of thinking. We want the world to be simple, but we talk about it in complicated ways. Indigenous thinking is different. It knows the world is complex and finds deep ways to communicate this knowledge through pictures, carving, stories. What happens if we bring an Indigenous perspective to the big picture - to history, education, money, power? Can we, in fact, have proper concepts of sustainable life without Indigenous knowledge?

Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne.

Forum for the Future

Using the systems thinking 'iceberg model' to explore the civil rights movement shows us how different parts of a system interact and influence one another. It becomes clear that no single event started the movement, but rather it evolved through collaboration and decades of perseverance. By working together, we can change how power and privilege it is allocated, we can design societies that are free, democratic and support everybody on the planet to flourish.

Jul 12, 2020

COVID19 is a wake up call. Educating ourselves is paramount and taking time to learn of First Peoples relationship to the land.  Our mothers first and most important teachers that carry the values that act as foundation for life. 

How can we tackle the main challenges of our time: the economy in the short-term, life satisfaction in the mid-term, and environment in the long-term? Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk and public thinker whose powerful message has influenced major economists such as Dennis Snower, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz and George Soros. He has taken his simple, yet radical message to Davos and the United Nations, and now visits the RSA to make a robust case for cultivating altruistic love and compassion as the best means for benefitting society – and ourselves. It seems so simple, but why is it so hard to implement this ancient solution to both our personal and global 21st century predicaments?

Portland Interfaith Clergy Resistance sponsored a prayer vigil at Terry Schrunk Plaza, across from City Hall, on Juneteenth, a day to commemorate emancipation from slavery in Texas on that day, June 19th in 1865. This film observes the 8 minutes, 46 seconds of silence and we suggest our viewers take the opportunity to reflect on the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, when Minneapolis police officers took a series of actions that violated the policies of the Department.  The situation turned fatal, leaving Mr. Floyd unable to breathe, even as he and onlookers called out for help. Participating clergy included: Rabbi Ariel Stone, Shir Tikvah and PDX Interfaith Clergy Resistance; Rev. Jon Aney, United Church of Christ; Rabbi Debra Kolodny, Portland United Against Hate; Rev. Aric Clark (he/his); and Davina Bookbinder, Rabbinical Student

Host Marcia Alvar speaks with Wilma Mankiller, Principle Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1983-1995. Ms. Mankiller (1945-2010) discusses her experiences as related in her book, "Mankiller: A Chief and Her People." She describes her early political activism as well as her eventual return to her home (Oklahoma) which led to her involvement in the Cherokee tribe. Also includes her election as tribal chief as well as her time in office, and, now that she is stepping down, her reflections on the experience. (1994 Interview)

Wallace Black Elk: We are born with love, kindness, generosity and giving. Connie Baxter Marlow: Walking in Trust: Radical Childrearing. Trust is the key to living in harmony, live a new way of being, bring your gift, each child knows his path, Trust in a loving universe. Native American way of discovery. LIsten to circumstance. Watch the signs. Healing of Separation. Courage. Wallace Black Elk, Connie Baxter Marlow, Sally Ranney in Aspen, Colorado. July 13, 1998. Excerpts from REALITY CHECK!

Wallace Black Elk speaks from the Universal mind. Doubt has separated us from the Creator and created the reality we experience. Understanding the true nature of the rock, fire, water and green. Time for all colors of humanity to put their heads together unanimously to bring universal telepathic language back. No time, no space.

Trust Brings Freedom 2 of 2 available here. 

Sally Ranney brings insights into The Trust Frequency. Wallace Black Elk and Sally Ranney in Aspen, Colorado July 13, 1998 excerpts from REALITY CHECK! For Information on The Trust Frequency developed after spending 15 years in close association with WBE and other visionary elders and personal insights and experiences: http://TheTrustFrequency.net

This movie is a tribute to Grandmother Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance, a recently departed member of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.

Chief Phil Lane Jr. shares one of the four songs of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman, which he says holds a message for our time in human history.