metasofa news blog

dear metasofa friends & family,

may there be bees on earth, and may bees be with you!

i hope you will enjoy this new webpage re world peace and ecology, the internet and linguistics, and possibly spiritual consciousness.

blue bees - world bees  -  http://metasofa.org/vansprouts/blue-bees

    with a gathering of bees from all around the world,  (really, hundreds of words for "bee" in various languages, with links to the "bee" articles in 100+ language-culture sites across wikipedia, see below)

    and a small sound piece called "blue bees"  (possible music genres - art, alternative, blues, easy listening, electronic, industrial, meditative, new age, religious, soundtrack, techno, trance :)

happy solstice full moon holidays, and best wishes for the new year!

e-love, chris

dear metasofa friends & family,

first for those who didn't already know, there's an Inter-Generational Global Prayer zoom meeting this Saturday July 18th at noon mst/pdt, more info & links below...  almost 700 people from everywhere attended the previous June 20th Solstice Global Prayer, about half on video, half by phone, it was good.

also farther below, check out some of the online videos & writing & resources i've discovered along my humble ongoing path of learning about race justice and race unity, much with friends in the Baha'i Race Amity project since early this year.

this email began as a personal note to a few friends, but the subject is so important, i'm sending this out to everyone i know, including many connected with arts & education, mutual aid & timebanking, and other humanitarian work.

thanks for taking a look and focusing on racism, just for a moment, even if it seems obvious, or not personally relevant.  or, thank you for focusing me on racism!  i'm white & male, highly educated middle-class, unbelievably privileged, and i wasn't really paying enough attention.  now many mysteries are becoming clear...

now i'm listening carefully, bearing witness and learning truth about hundreds of years of racist mass terrorism and cruelty, along with sustained systemic oppression, denial, and injustice.  this is not only history, it's continuing yet today, and very destructively affecting everyone and everything in the world.

positively, actively, together we can stop racism.

thanks to everyone for whatever good we can do, and all we are doing!

with love, chris vansprouts

this email is a tiny cross-pollination project of metasofa.org, hopefully helping to connect friends & colleagues, activists, artists, academics, baha'is, buddhists, sufis, peer counseling, intentional communities, co-ops, mutual aid & timebanking, de-central peer-to-peer resilient grass-roots ecologies, technologies, projects, organizing & networking...

webpage of this email - metasofa.org/news  [with some updates]

July 18 Saturday - Inter-Generational Global Prayer on Zoom

Race History, Race Justice, Race Amity, Race Unity

and Economics, Technology, Law, Politics

Mutual Aid and economic freedom, some local & internet resources

Tucson Food Share (new since covid, getting the word out!) - Sharing free groceries in solidarity with our neighbors - Tucson Food Share was created by Food Not Bombs Tucson, a loosely organized collective of Tucsonans who come together out of empathy and respect for all of our neighbors.  We feel honored to share food freely with anyone who wants it, regardless of their appearance or life circumstances (no documentation required).  Most of our food is generously donated by local grocers and farmers who support this mission.

  pickup - Mondays & Thursdays 6-8 pm, Saturdays 8-10 am  [updated 2020 jul 24, oct 31, 2021 apr 29]
  location - 2500 N Stone Av, Tucson AZ (1 block north of Grant)  [was at Tallboys on 4th Av before 2020 oct 31, was at 101 E Ventura before 2021 may 1]
  delivery - within 12 miles, if you can't pick up - see website
  contact - 520-222-9242 or tucsonfoodshare(at)gmail.com
  website - tucsonfoodshare.org

Tucson Timetraders Timebank - community timebank & local resource directory (250 members, hundreds of pre-covid offers & requests posted)
  website - metasofa.org/timebank

Timebank Knowledge Commons - free online library & global resource directory (200 documents, videos, websites)
  find mutual-aid or share - metasofa.org/tb-kc/find?q=mutual.aid+share
  find emergency resilience sustainable - metasofa.org/tb-kc/find?q=emergency+resilience+sustainable
  website - metasofa.org/tb-kc