Ode to the Warriors of the Light

Here’s an acknowledgement to the warriors I know, interestingly enough. most of them women Mary Szental, Sheryl Pyers, Dyan Thomson, Irene Kondostanos, Karen Hadley, Elaine Wilhelm, Jeffrey Smith, Robert F Kennedy Jnr, Del Bigtree and Rohn Walker as well as the team at Moms Across America are the ones who come instantly to mind but there are many more who don’t…

May your strength attain new highs,
May your courage only grow,
May your wisdom ever rise,
May peace each night you know.

May the strategies you devise,
Permit others to hear your truth,
May your message cut through the lies,
To restore sanity and sooth.

May others spread your word,
So the pace of progress grows,
‘Til many like voices are heard,
In song, speech, poem and prose.

Until combined efforts free the many,
From invisible chains with which they’re bound,
‘Til we’ve a land of honey and plenty,
Where peace and love and harmony abound.

by Tom Grimshaw

Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet

“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave
and eats a bread it does not harvest.

Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,
and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.

Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral,
boasts not except among its ruins,
and will rebel not save when its neck is laid
between the sword and the block.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking

Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,
and farewells him with hooting,
only to welcome another with trumpeting again.

Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years
and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle.

Pity the nation divided into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation.”

― Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet

Solid Advice

Man Up!

Some more advice, don’t let the government take your guns away. They will say it’s for your safety, It’s not, It’s for their safety. #gunrights #guns #trump2020 #maga2020 #magamemes

The Way It Is

The Way It Is

This needs to change. Both Labor and liberl helped get us to where we have descended. Let’s show them how much we don’t appreciate their efforts and kick them out.

Check out some of the independents!

IMOParty and Health Australia are both solidly pro vaccine choice and anti-compulsory vaccination.

CEC are dead against the criminal bankers and thier parliamentary coconspiritors stealing your bank deposits with bail in legislation.

Liberal Democrats are for more personal freedoms than the majors.

Politicians

Politicians

Pay rise for politicians as penalty rates trimmed further in hospitality and retail

THIS is why we need to elect representatives of the people rather than Political Parties and their campaign donors!

Both Labor and LNP as well as the Grens can’t be trusted.

Let’s end the two main parties packing. They have landed us in the mess we are in. Clive Palmer wants to give one of the great polluters of the world the go ahead to mine coal and potentially destroy the Great Barrrier Reef. We can do better than Clive!

Check out some of the independents!

IMOParty and Health Australia are both solidly pro vaccine choice and anti-compulsory vaccination.

CEC are dead against the criminal bankers and thier parliamentary coconspiritors stealing your bank deposits with bail in legislation.

Liberl Democrats are for more personal freedoms than the majors.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jun/30/pay-rise-for-politicians-as-penalty-rates-trimmed-further-in-hospitality-and-retail

Preserve Our Wildlife!

Hi Tom
Every three years, the NSW Environment Protection Authority releases a report card on the health of our wildlife, forests, rivers, ocean, air and climate. Late yesterday, it released the latest State of the Environment Report, and the results are damning.
In just three years, the number of critically endangered species has jumped 30%, approved land clearing has skyrocketed 244%, and 1025 native species are now threatened with extinction.
We know what the NSW Government needs to do to turn things around – it must end deforestation, protect koala habitat, return water to our rivers and tackle climate change – but they won’t act if we don’t push them.
As I write this email, MPs are setting priorities for this term, so it is the perfect time to tell them to take urgent action to save koalas, forests and our climate.
Please email your state MP and ask them to commit to protect our koalas, forests, rivers and climate this term of government.
https://www.nature.org.au/get-involved/take-action/tell-your-mp-act-for-nature-before-its-too-late/
With a new parliament and a new team of MPs sitting on the benches, we have a fresh chance to push our leaders to act before it’s too late.
Alarm bells have been ringing loud and clear this week, here and around the world. A few days before the EPA released its report, United Nations scientists warned one million species would become extinct if we keep trashing the planet the way we have been, with catastrophic consequences for people everywhere.
Thanks to these two reports and recent opinion polling in the run up to the state and federal elections, MPs know the environment is a top priority for the community.
On Tuesday, when Matt Kean was asked his first question in parliament as our new Environment Minister, he said the UN report was an “important wake up call for all of us”. Importantly, he said it was not too late to make a difference and “that’s exactly what I intend to do”.
Please take a moment to email your local MP now to ask them to commit to protecting our koalas, forests, rivers and climate.
https://www.nature.org.au/get-involved/take-action/tell-your-mp-act-for-nature-before-its-too-late/
People power is already helping turn the tide. Australia’s nature laws have been letting us down, allowing habitat destruction and mining interests to trump community interests and our unique wildlife. But thanks to people like you speaking up, the federal Labor Party has promised to overhaul Australia’s nature laws if elected on May 18. This is a step in the right direction and could provide significantly more protection for our wildlife and wild places.
Let’s show our MPs that the people expect urgent action to save our wildlife and natural places. Email your MP today.
https://www.nature.org.au/get-involved/take-action/tell-your-mp-act-for-nature-before-its-too-late/
Thank you for being a voice for nature,
KateCEONature Conservation Council of NSW