The HUGE Little Girl Who Silenced the UN For 5 Minutes!!!

She is gonna make a HUGE difference… if it can be done!
Thanks for sharing, Andy…hope inspiring.

That is sweet, dude! Thanks so much for sharing that. I'm going to give it a shout up in my blog. 

Absolutely stunning to see. 

That was 16 years ago, things have gotten much worse and at an accelarating pace. The skyfish project (dead link above) was abandoned years ago when she went back to school in 2006 to study ethnobotany under Nancy Turner who wrote an excellent book about the foods of the native peoples of the northwest coast and i couldn't find anything from her in the last couple of years. I wonder how she feels now that she is an adult? I wonder how she would describe her efforts to effect change during her years working at the UN?

That's pretty sad - about the death of the project. Actually about the whole closed culture which permeated [hopefully past tense] global decision making till date.

But there's hope in the possibility of anything given that a child could articulate this beautifully.

I honestly think we need to look to the children for hope for the future and endorse and support projects which raise sustainability high.

I continue to honour Janie's vision and passion to help children.

Thanks for this. Peace and love to you. sherri

All we really need to do is empower the children. They have the right idea. Humanity seems to come natural to us when we are young. 

Here is another recent video from another young woman traveling a great distance to testify  about global warming http://globalwarming.house.gov/multimedia/video
look for Charlie Lockwood in the “select a clip” list

(i can't link directly to the video, but look for Charlie Lockwood, it seems copyright law is being used to prevent us from sharing stories)

Any idea when that clip was recorded and if anything was done since then? You couldn't get a more heart felt appeal than that, I think. It definitely brought a human face to that problem.

Children are much more fearless about society and expectations as well, so they seem to be the best fit for activism presently. It's not something to push any child into of course, but encouraging a child who desires to get involved could be a great thing, certainly fresh energy wise.

Many young people I interface with would love to do something to make a difference, but often they are looking for role models and examples. That is the place we fit, I think. Good examples. And to energetically encourage the ones who would want to take things forward. Thanks Darin.

Great Minds Think Alike :-D

http://resurrectedone.gaia.com/blog/2007/9/international_day_of_peace

That clip was  within the last year. Rush Limbaugh lambasted her as a “cry baby” in one of his crueler moments. 

I found a direct link to the Cheryl “Charlie” Lockwood video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9lEBZBTrfpo

If we empowered youth to make changes that would be a good step. I mean really empowered them. Encouraging them to participate in our pathetic democrapacy is not effectual. It just leaves them feeling impotent and frustrated and alone. Nothing has changed because of the speeches that either of them made. They simply serve as beacons of hope for the rest of us, so that we continue to believe in the Cinderella Story: the AMERIcon DReAM: the best of all possible worlds is right around the corner….it is if we put it there, but GE and ATT are not going to make it happen.

This is not cynicism. It's the byproduct of a system that doesn't care about people. It cares about product. This is the same civilization that designed the Neutron Bomb which only kills the people and leaves all the stuff intact, because it is so nice to not have to rebuild all those broken buildings…

I've digressed. I just bleed inside when i see the Charlie's and the Severn's getting up there in front of adults and pleading and begging for reprieve against the onslaught that is decimating their lives and those who don't roll their eyes applaud loudly and praise mightily but then do nothing, because there is little that anyone can do. We are not an empowered people. The power we have is the power we take. But what would happen if we were entrusted with our own destiny? What if we were deemed capable of determining the course of our lives, even from an early age. If you are over 35 you know that the world is custom designed to keep you from doing anything until you are older and heavily entrenched in the woof and warp of life's tapestry and the idealism and love of others has been wiped from your mind or at least pushed far to the back. 

Why do we let kids think  it is going to be different for them? Why encourage them? I think the blunt truth would serve them better. “Sure you can travel all the way to washington to tell your story and you will be a long term inspiration to others even though you will fail miserably and little positive gain will come from your efforts. Best bet is you will be turned into a circus side show and trotted out so congressmen can show the world how much we respect our children by applauding loudly and then dismissively moving on to the next new thing.”