Wave Of Action UK

Whatever you're doing to #BeTheChange - show the world what you stand for! What started as a ripple is now making waves, joining people in protest, forming worldwide communities doing things differently, with love, compassion and creativity. Having a teach-in? Performing random acts of kindness? Holding a candlelight vigil, community get together, dancing, planting, meditating? #BeTheChange, video it & use the #WaveOfAction hashtag. Show our power in numbers! United we are unstoppable.

Thursday 29 May 2014

Letting Go of the Illusion

Thursday 29th May / Blue Electric Monkey, last day of the Spectral moon, the final letting go of illusion

Today is the last day in the Spectral Moon, the 11^th of 13 in the 13Moon Calendar, all about letting go. It’s also the Electric Monkey day, again about illusion, of the monkey mind, being all in the mind is no good for us, time to be in the heart – agrees Kaypacha in his weekly new paradigm astrology report.

New Moon in Gemini, squared Neptune in Pisces, and a Blue Monkey day, means there’s high potential of delusion and illusion around right now. For me, we are living in a massive illusion – of capitalism, writ large, at the end of its dying days (dear God/Source/Universe, please let it be the end!!). But so many of us know it, using this same placing of Pisces to rise our consciousnesses above the illusion of material life, transcend ordinary life as is written in this nice astro blog by Lynn Hayes

We’ve been sold a pup! It’s so unjust, unfair, destructive, murderous.
Money itself, all an illusion, something we’ve created to make commerce easy,

but at whatever cost is total madness.

I know so many of you feel it too, and are disheartened and wondering why has the spectre of the right has surfaced now. Especially given this interesting survey about Greens policies being most favoured.

The rise of the Right, right now, are the last chance salooners, with their divide and conquer tactics.
Surely we won't let it keep on happening. Know that it is all bollocks. Where you pop out of your mother's womb is nothing worth fighting for, is it? They are spreading the racism, hyping it up –the so-called the rise of Ukip, as if that's the only trend of society happening right now, making others join in the trend. Slightly scary, if we couldn't see through it, like we can. Don't trust what's on the TV news, do your research online, while you still can - thanks to protests outside the FCC in the US where internet neutrality was being fought for.

Our leader (only joking!) Russell Brand says, in his spot on recent The Trews episode, “Don't worry about Farage and the rise of the Far Right accross Europe... because we’re on the cusp of a much, much bigger change and revolution."

Have faith. Keep being the change. (And while you're there, watch this one also from this week, making perfect sense about the political fall out from the Euro elections.)
He speaks wise, powerful words to my ears. Thank you fella, for telling it like it is for me, too, right now. At least giving me hope in humanity. But can we do it?

Or is that all a great big illusion too? But then is everything an illusion anyway, a dream, a figment of our imagination?

Well, let’s imagine it good, really, really good, and join together in heart, mind and spirit, and maybe we can make real change happen - but it could well be 'behind the scenes' for a while, as far as your mainstream media goes.

Sometimes it feels overwhelming to me, the damage done and still being done in the name of State, creed and country. Shocking. Mental. Or is it just me?

It’s so far ingrained in the country we live in, can we shake off the shackles and chains of our pasts, all our pasts? Apologise, atone, let go, move on. Individually, we can't do much to stop the machine, but collectively, we are doing it. Take the last five years of successes from 38Degrees, campaigning to stop scary stuff happening in this country alone. And globally, Avaaz' people powered politics is so effective, they are even being threatened now - something I read in an emailed newsletter from them that shocked me this week. But it goes to show, we are stronger than we think we are. We just have to get even stronger. And next Moon, the Crystal Moon of Cooperation, we'll be gathering together to show this, share this and strive for a better world. Watch this space!

Monday 26 May 2014

#ViolenceIsViolence: Domestic abuse advert Mankind

40% of domestic violence is against men in the UK. Violence is violence, no matter who it's aimed at!

Friday 23 May 2014

WaveOfActionUk Talk Radio with ShoutoutUK - Matteo Bergamini

Here's our first live broadcast, we hope you enjoy it. If you'd like to take part please contact us or if your a cause that would like a little extra coverage GET IN TOUCH!

Test live broadcast uk politics #WaveOfActionUK Corruption. Yesterdays local elections and the rise of UKip.

Thursday 22 May 2014

Here’s hoping…/ Green shoots of positivity

(Midday, Thursday 22 May, Solar Seed in Galactic Seed Year, doubling the energy of flowering, targeting and awareness, as a Seed myself, in the Spectral Moon)

I agree with the Wave's last blog about Democracy Being Dead – but there is definitely another narrative around the Green Party that is bringing promise and hope.

Today is a very strong energy day – you can feel it with the Euro Elections, and more secrets about to be revealed from the Snowdon Files (said something on fb earlier). (Just as an aside: all the energy from the calendar is about awareness, flowering and letting go.) Can it be that while the mainstream media has been all about ukip as the protest vote, rising up, worryingly, I see a different picture - that the biggest swing is more likely to be to the Greens. Well painted by Zoe Williams in the Guardian this week.

So while even Channel Four depicted the Greens as sandal wearing yogurt weavers, we know there’s something different going on. The Greens unite a lot more people than the mainstream thinks. All those who they mock – ravers, protestors/protectors, environmentalists – will never vote for any of the main parties again – but aren’t racist, homophobic, sexist (happily), instead are smart, kind and conscientious. We know the reality of our world, plundered for capital in a system gone mad with despotism, croneyism and egotism. And we don’t want it anymore, are fed up and there is a party that feels the same way, wants to make the same changes to protect the environment and our human rights. Do things with integrity (a major trait of the galactic seed year we’re living in) and not for bottom dollar anymore. You can't eat money (how many times have your heard this lately). Can’t everyone now see, Capitalism has destroyed much of what we know to be right and good? And it won't be long before there's nothing left - of our beautiful world or our sanity and freedom.

So, surely, there’ll be a big swing to the Greens, finally. And if not this time (please, no!), maybe it’ll be all fucking Ukip and we see how really stoopid the UK population is. But that might spur the Greens on to really go for it for the general elections next year.

Actually, anything could happen in the meantime – already planned is the big summer solstice events shared here, which I know will be big as there are so many groups involved, then the death to democracy funeral march on 19^th July. Hey, by then we might have overthrown the government in a different way (wouldn't it be nice?). But if not, there’s still hope in the Greens flourishing (fingers crossed).

On the Channel Four news item about Greens maybe, at least overtaking the Lib Dems (FFS!), I could see loads of youngsters supporting the Greens, way more than other parties who don’t resonate the them, and they’re who the future is with, thank goodness. Let the old and angry have their protest vote (duh!) if it goes that way, not progress anyone wants really. But let that make the Greens even stronger, more ready to unite the many green shoots, wanting a better world. We are prepared to go for it, create it, make it happen.

PS.

This week I’m especially loving Kaypacha’s list of links of groups doing things differently. Check it out to find your tribe, together we really can make a difference and this list shows so many who are doing just that. Even in the depths of the fight we’re in, there are massive glimmers of hope shining through the grey. Stay positive people!

Wednesday 21 May 2014

Democracy Is Dead Welcome to Corporatocracy!

Democracy is dead yet the word is still thrown around like the proverbial carrot to feed our illusion of choice. Join Us In A Global Funeral For Democracy 19th July 2012 and give Democracy the send off it really deserves!! WE NEED TO UNITE, WE NEED TO MAKE THIS HUGE!.... Democracy maybe be dead but long live the rEVOLution.

Lets give Democracy the biggest send off we can muster!!

We need your help,Please share, share, share we need as many countries as possible to take part!

in the UK we NEED YOU, we need campaign groups to march and speakers with us for

The Death Of Democracy - Political and anti corruption/capitalism
Death Of NHS
Death Of The Environment - Anti Frackers, Anti Cull, Animal Rights, Greens
Death Of Workers Rights
Death of Our needy - Anti Cuts, Atos, Homeless
Death Of Our Children Rights and Free Education

Any cause that represents a loss to the people!

Everyone to dress for mourning ie black or theatrical, we want this to be a parade! After funeral we will joining the Magna Carta march to Buckingham Palace, to show our support!

We also need a marching jazz/brass band to create a New Orleans style send off!

Global

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Funeral-March/1489595441251997

https://www.facebook.com/events/704814972891343/

London

https://www.facebook.com/events/1446043008969565/

https://www.facebook.com/waveofactionuk

Democracy; government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

Arguably, in the pale anemic "democratic" style today, the wishes of the people are all but irrelevant, while the wishes of governmental sponsors and special interest groups reigns supreme. The one remaining artefact is the ability to vote which as a token gesture remains intact. Although the act of voting has become an empty gesture, it does occasionally change the personnel but not the juggernaut, rogue and corporate motivated governance which rolls forwards unimpeded by constituent wishes.

Compounding the erosion of democratic principle is another added layer of un-democratizing complexity, organisations such as the United Nations have somehow perched upon the shoulders of sovereign nation prerogatives, they profess to be the voice of the people from above and without input profess to provide actual countries with rules and regulations, regardless of that countries population and their "will."

In this scenario the citizens vote is entirely impotent, redundant and otherwise a complete waste of effort to register or execute, this is reminiscent of historical implementation of fascism or other undemocratic ruling systems. It is not at all what we signed on for and quite simply is intolerable.

"Pretending" democracy does not realize democracy... let us call it what it is... delusional.

If it were not so serious the current attempt by the UN itself to loosely fit into a "democratic" wrapper would be humorous. As it is... no matter how they squirm, they are a square peg and the hole of democracy is round.

The Politics of Bringing Democracy to Brussels

In its zeal to appear to have legitimacy, the self-anointed, self-professed UN is striving mightily to morph into a democratic-like shape.

How can something become "more democratic?"

It is either democratic or not democratic and by self-admission it is not.

The UN suffers from the same ailment as other previously democratic governance systems which now by and large have become chronically undemocratic--there are no people franchised into the process for the supreme power to be vested into, therefore they, the people are unable to exercise their will, therefore what we have is NOT democracy.

The very BIG decisions are made in Corporate boardrooms where the peoples input is neither wanted, welcomed or considered, These arbitrary decisions are routinely condoned then enacted by sycophant,

puerile governance, most often to the detriment of the hapless constituents. Many of these decisions are reckless, ill-advised, wanton and often manifest travesty and hurt.

It is high time we stop pretending, democracy as a governing system is dead! It seems to me we have two.

Every time elections come around you are promised change, a new way of doing things, that thing's can only get better. Politicians fight for your vote with slogans and advertising campaigns, sometimes even policies (!!!), but how much is your vote really worth when behind closed doors corporations are able to influence decision making with money? How much power is being wielded by big business and does it, ultimately, mean the democratic dream is over?

Relevant videos:

Manufacturing Consent playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...

What is the TPP/TTIP?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWoxP5...

The Bilderberg Group:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cmWlL...

Who's really in control?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebh_ur...

Four Horsemen by Renegade Economist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvqu...

Tuesday 20 May 2014

John Lennon’s “Imagine”, Made Into A Comic Strip

Amazing artistic #WaveOfAction by Pablo Stanley, John Lennon’s Imagine.

Wednesday 14 May 2014

Time to be Warriors

Gregorian Calendar: Weds 14th May

13Moon Calendar: Yellow Magnetic Warrior - first day in the Warrior Wavespell of 13 days under its influence. And a full moon in Scorpio - time to bare our souls and fight for what we feel is right.

I love synchronicity - when things coincide to take you in another direction, show the magic of life and steer you on a certain path. Everyone’s had a meeting with someone they were just thinking about, bumped into someone special after a strange turn of events, fate or destiny, something’s played a part in changing your lives for the better…Tuning in synchronicity is what living by the 13Moon calendar is all about.

This World Wide Wave of Action started on Yellow Cosmic Warrior. Today is Yellow Magnetic Warrior, the first in a 13 day Warrior Wavespell. Now, my kind of warrior is strong of mind, fearless, and determined. In the 13Moon calendar, this time is also about asking questions to receive intelligence. So these are the things worth going with right now, seeing where they crop up and lead you.

Maybe I'm a warrior with words, doing things differently to sword-weilding, gun-toting warriors of old. We’re progressing to become more peaceful as one humanity (surely) so different methods of battling are a must. It’s not a human race, it’s a human love-in. Deep love, that connects us all, not just T&A, and power and greed.

So, I’m a hippie warrior, yes indeed, a warrior of love (like this lovely illustration says by Judy Clement Wall) And there are MANY like me. Our fighting techniques are more spiritual, less incendiary. But still creative and cunning. And it’s not because we’ve copped out of the big fight. We just know other things work that can change the world, too. We feel it in our guts, that it’s time to try and make other ways work. Overthrow the old, bring in the new, that's been talked about many times before but never done by so many people, to this extent. This is our time to lead.

But that’s not to say we don’t appreciate the old ways, from a different time… You can sneer at us being hippies – but so what? Let's give our way a chance now! We all want to bring down the money-grabbing, earth-destroying arseholes, don’t we? Anything goes to do it, wouldn’t you say? So we’ll walk our paths, be true to ourselves, share the love and see what happens. And you be amazing anarchists, politely. Where is Guy Fawkes now? Couldn’t he have just popped up to Shale Gas World? Nip over to the next big arms fair, maybe? Let the hippies visualise it into being (ideally a love bomb

where no one gets hurt, please) and then Fawkes can add fire to it, sensibly! We all want love to prevail really, don’t we?

So, let’s see, this next 13 days if we’ve got the fight in our bellies, to see this thing through. There are so many grassroots, campaigning, world changing groups now, actually making real waves. Real people doing things their way and it is making a difference. We can all do so many little things personally that show the way we want to be in the world. The way we want to see the world, caring, sharing, living together peacefully. Can it be done? Is it worth fighting for? Hell, yeah! But maybe fighting with aggression has had its day, maybe a new combat method is emerging that overturns what it’s confronted with, with the very real power of love. Sounds so soppy if you want to SMASH the system, rail against it, but what if we all just did things the way we want to do them, to make the world a better place, in any way we can? It's got to be worth a try, and can feel so empowering when we do, especially with other, like-minded people. We don’t need our government, they need us. It’s not that hard to make them realise it, we just need to Spring to Action.

Tuesday 13 May 2014

What The Frack!

There I was, just about to watch a Youtube video, of an astrology reading by Kelley Rosano, when a pop up ad appeared for the effing Shale Gas World conference happening this week, 13^th and 14^th May, in Birmingham.

Now, it’s very unlikely that ANYONE into astrology is likely to be FOR FRACKING, surely, or wanting to go to the biggest propaganda event of the year, intent on selling the destruction of our ecosystems and health, in the name of profit for the few. But it reminded me that I needed to write a blog about it.

So – FRACKING – a way worse dirty word than the other F-word, which just means making love, in a more Anglo-Saxon kind of way. Just because America’s let fracking happen in certain states – although it’s now clearly apparent how destructive and harmful this is for people and planet – doesn’t mean that we should do it here, or anywhere else in the world, for that matter. Not wanting fracking to happen is not NIMBYism, I don't want it happening AT ALL, ANYWHERE, not just in my back yard, thank you very much.

To me, it is a complete NO BRAINER that it is complete MADNESS getting another fossil fuel industry going full pelt, adding to the pollution and destruction already rife on the earth, for the sake of a few more burps of gas. This industry is ENTIRELY ABOUT THE MONEY, for those invested in it, at the expense of public health, countryside, water safety and so on. I’m pretty sure anyone else into this wonderful Wave of Action agrees, seeing as we’re all about making a better world, one with clean water and air, I expect - which it won’t be if fracking gets going - but could be is renewable energy takes over. So I won’t keep going on about why it’s so bad – although you’re welcome to read this blog on Why We Don't Need Fracking from the Centre for Alternative Technology which explains it nicely - so much as show you some ways to protest against it.

Most important, right now, if you’re in the Birmingham area at all, get along to the event to join Occupy London protesting there. http://occupylondon.org.uk/events/shale-gas-world-exhibition-fracking-madness-birmingham/

Included in this shout out, was the link to the list of attendees, which has been taken down now and just says ‘contact us now’. Running scared? Let’s hope so. I wish I’d printed a copy of the long list of banks, councils and companies exhibiting at this event when the list was on the site a week or so ago. Fortunately, you can still see the sponsors logos, so they can be researched and bombarded with letters, emails and phone calls of objection. Note that the 'gold sponsor' is the lovely Halliburton, the main players in the Pennsylvanian shale industry, re-builders of bomb-wrecked Iraq after the war, once led by the delightful Ex US VP Dick Cheney, who exempted the fracking industry from various environmental and clean water laws in the US. See this article from Truthout http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21828-time-to-end-the-cheney-halliburton-loophole DR EVIL!

So, what can we do the rest of the time? There are many frack free UK facebook pages, for the UK as a whole - try BIFF: Britain and Ireland Frack Free , the Anti-fracking Network and FRACK OFF or search anti-fracking groups in your area, if it’s one under threat. So join those and get campaigning locally and nationally by protesting, flyering, raising awareness.

I love this group – The Warrior’s Call, Pagans United Against Fracking - for spells, magic and meetings to send fracking packing, plus a specially designed and activated shield to wear to protect yourself and the land against fracking, and send out with your intentions to put a stop to this abhorrent industry.

Why not set up a screening of Gasland, The Dash for Gas: Independence at a Price or other fracking documentary, in your local community centre, to make people aware of what it’s all about and the real dangers in presents. You could also get an informed speaker from an anti-fracking organisation, Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth to talk at your event.

Incredibly, many people still don’t even know about it but once they find out, they are shocked and don’t want it to happen, especially nearby - unless they have invested in it, because (surprise!) a lot of money could be made out of fracking. It could be the next coal or oil boom, according to investment analysts, such as this one http://moneyweek.com/how-to-invest-in-fracking/ which actually made me cry, to think that some people want the money, so badly, they don’t give a shit if it wrecks the world. Shale gas will eventually run out, of course, by which time the water undrinkable, or plundered to a ridiculous level, because, don’t forget, it can take MILLIONS OF GALLONS of fresh water to frack a single well FFS!

Oops, off I go again, ranting about the evils of fracking! Hey, if money’s your thing though, at the cost of humanity and our precious environment, remember the government is trying to change the law so the shale industry can frack under your home, without you knowing or having any say in the matter. So, that’s the value of your home decreased (and probably shuddering and shaking now and then) so why not write to the government asking them if they really think this is the right thing to do:

FREEPOST RSBB-XRZT-ZTXE

The Conservative Party

30 Millbank

London

SW1P 4DP

Liberal Democrats

FREEPOST RHSA-AKBC-UXTU 

Manchester  

M20 5NF

Ultimately, we need to really do all we can to come off fossil fuels altogether. Not an easy thing, but do-able if communities pull together to work out a plan of transition. Another article from the Centre for Alternative Technology shares how Balcombe, scene of last summer’s anti-fracking protests, is becoming a Zero Carbon village:

“The goal: build enough community-owned solar power to match the electricity needs of all 760 homes in the village within 2 years.”

Find out more how to go about this for your area, there is enough information online at http://www.repowerbalcombe.com/ and via the Transition Movement http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ which may already be burgeoning in your area, and if it isn’t, get it started! I'll report more from my own mission soon.

Sunday 11 May 2014

Words As Weapons

So this week there’s been a few stories that have caught my eye. I have to say though, the story of Clark French in his local paper the argus is the one that has taken up a lot of my attention.

Now if you don’t know this guy’s story he’s a 28 year old MS sufferer from Brighton who has spoken about being forced to break the law by using cannabis to relieve his symptoms and even prolong his life.

I’ve also been following the case of a character called Bopalot Barnes who also being prosecuted for cultivation of a controlled substance under the misuse of drugs act 1971. However Bopalot is a freeman on the land and as such is legally not obliged to comply with acts and statutes of parliament. Let’s see how this plays out.

Whilst this has all been going on I’ve also been watching a lot of Simon Spaniard videos and I think some of his banging on has sunk in. He’s always saying that words are our greatest weapons and he shows us how. He ties government officials up in knots by reading them the accepted definition of legal terminology. I have to say it’s hilarious to watch at times. Trust me, make the effort, you’ll thank me for it.

So I decided to look at the wording of the misuse of drugs act and it’s definitions.

Misuse; Use (something) in the wrong way or for the wrong purpose.

Drug; A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.

Well I think we can all agree (unless you’re a politician) that the therapeutic value of cannabis has been proven beyond doubt in multiple credible studies worldwide. It undoubtedly is a medicine for many.

What construes misuse in these cases though? Let’s look at the evidence. You have a young man who is taking nothing from the system and choosing to help himself with medication that works for him. We have Bopalot who just wanted to make a few quid on the side. Who doesn’t nowadays?

Now both of these could face real jail time because of their proclivities. However GW pharma have just released to market Sativex. It’s a high THC medicine for use with MS sufferers that they floated on the stock market making $100million in the process. They are then selling it at an exorbitant price to patients in dire need of it for the good of their health. These same fee paying patients could be making these medicines at home for themselves for free though. We all could.

Another thing I’ve noticed Spaniard say a lot is that all law is opinion. Now if that is indeed so, which parties in your opinion are truly misusing the drug?

How many of you have heard of Zohydro? It’s a new drug being released to market in America that is five times stronger than morphine. It’s legalised heroin. I first heard about in on Max Keiser.

America is suffering an epidemic of opiate related deaths from legalised drugs that are being peddled by the federal government using Afghan opium. We’re seeing it here too with these opiate based treatments on the rise.

The profits from these ‘treatments’ garner massive revenues and a guaranteed income stream.

If all opinion is law, who is misusing the substance within this context?

If a drug is considered a substance that causes physiological change when induced, could this be applied to the fossil fuel industry? Do oil, coal and methane cause physiological changes to the human anatomy? I don’t think there’s any argument that they do.

Are they being misused? Again this comes down to opinion.

The evidence shows that the fossil fuel industry is the greatest source of greenhouse gases on the planet. Are those resources being exploited? Undoubtedly! Profit is always considered motive.

Can we do without them? Yes we can!

We have the technology to create a whole new society based on sustainability. We could change everything within ten years if we moved away from fossil fuels. Anything that can be made from fossil fuels can be made from hemp. Fuel, plastics, materials everything!

If all opinion is law, are the fossil fuel industries misusing physiologically altering substances for their own gain?

Did you know that at one time, hemp was the rotation crop of choice for any farmer worth his salt? Its roots would run almost ten feet deep and choke out any other weeds. It would grow so tall it would block out the sunlight not allowing anything else to grow. This left the land fertile and healthy while also giving the farmer two or three decent cash crops per year.

I’m sure the likes of Monsanto would hate to have it be common knowledge that the best weed killer is actually hemp and not Roundup. Another substance with dangerous physiological effects that are on a par with their GMO’s! These same are substances are being blamed for colony collapse disorder which is killing off our bee population. I’ve been able to find papers that show that hemp is actually a natural part of the bee’s food chain and that it’s been shown to prevent colony collapse disorder.

Now call me Mr picky but if occurs to me that if you prohibit a natural part of any animal’s food chain you’re going to see a decline in their numbers.

So are the big agriculture businesses misusing their physiologically altering substances in the name of a bigger balance? Undoubtedly!

And of course the number one offenders, the banks! They rely on all of their poisons to keep them afloat on massive profits.

Could we consider charging them under the misuse of drugs act?

Words may be the greatest weapon we have in the war against the establishment. Hemp/cannabis/weed, whatever you want to call it, is the second.

If you truly want to see change, go out and buy a bag of organic seeds and spread it anywhere you can. Start the green revolution and show the oligarchy we don’t need them to make progress.