There are 2 million or more organizations working for social and environmental justice, for a sustainable and peaceful world, One of the simplest ways to make a difference is to add our energy to one or more of these.
What support can any of us offer?
Stand Up Speak Out – there are organizations which mobilize citizens’ voices helping us to let legislators and businesses know what we think. Examples places citizens can mobilize and speak out on the web are avaaz.org, Care2.com, and 350.org .
Be of Service – there are lots of ways to give our time and skills to help, we can find opportunities our own doorsteps or on the other side of the world, check out WiserEarth.org, volunteermatch.org or worldvolunteerweb.org to find the organizations through which you can serve.
Make Your Money Make a Difference – there has never been a more powerful time to divert our financial energy from institutions and corporations that perpetuate the old dream, check out ethicalconsumer.org, kiva.org or The Better World Shopping Guide.
11 Days of Global Unity
This year from September 11 (Unity World Day of Prayer) through September 21 (United Nations International Day of Peace), Unity School of Christianity, the Association of Unity Churches International, and the Association for Global New Thought will join in a worldwide celebration of oneness.
In these 11 days, through workshops, inspirational talks, interfaith prayer ceremonies, concerts and special events, including the Awakening the Dreamer Changing the Dreamer Symposium, you are invited to celebrate oneness and help heal our world. Click here to view the trailer and learn more.
If your passion is the environment there are a host of organizations seeking to preserve, advocate for, reclaim, repair our natural world as well as those who aim more direct action at those who continue to pollute and despoil the planet.
Social justice organizations can be found to resist or repair the effects of oppression in all its guises, at home and abroad. There are charities specializing in the distribution of aid and the alleviation of suffering and more still working to raise the standard of living for those in the less developed world.
There are now more groups than ever offering us ways to find peace with ourselves, not only the established religious and faith groups but a fast-growing body of spirit-based approaches.
So with our time, our energy, our voice or our money we can make a difference right here and right now through organizations already existing to help us do that.
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