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Curing Toxic Culture
I think that the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago….The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profits — profits extracted at the cost of life.
— Vandana Shiva
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Our babies are told everything before they come earth-side of this life they’re about to live.
They know about human experience and what to expect. They know about the family they are about to be born into. They know the legacies. They know the pain. They know the grief.
They even know, and have met, those who have passed before they are born.
And most importantly, they know the love.
Because this is indigenous kinship.
- author unknown
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All my test results indicated I was dying. Miami was the logical choice. I boarded the plane and eased into my seat. Just as the flight attendant offered me a moist towel, a primal instinct made me sit bolt upright and summon up the courage to put my future where my mouth was — to live what I had taught to so many. My journal entry for that night reads: I knew I had to go to the jungle…
