THE PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE PACHAMAMA OF GREATER ROCHESTER June 2016 Newsletter OPENING SACRED SPACE

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1 THE PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE PACHAMAMA OF GREATER ROCHESTER June 2016 Newsletter "Building a critical mass of committed global citizens to create a human presence on the planet that is environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just. OPENING SACRED SPACE You don t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step Martin Luther King We are not faced with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather one complex crisis which is both social and environmental. Strategies for a solution demand an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the underprivileged, and at the same time, protecting nature. Pope Francis Therefore, hear the cry of the earth, hear the cry of the poor ( Wealth depends on how you measure it. According to our indigenous partners, "wealth" is in ancestral, spiritual & cultural knowledge, not in material objects. ( What do these words have in common: Environmental Sustainability, Social Justice, Spiritual Fulfillment? Of course! And, the Internet Or, how the modern world connects. How we share our fears, our knowledge, our grief, our joy, our efforts and ideas, our meaning. Spending time on Facebook is not idle time, If it is spent building knowledge and connection. A person from the other side of the planet Can be the one who leads us to new vision. Let that sense of connection sink in. Let the power of that connection inform and move you To action And Love

2 May 22, 2016 The call to activists was answered! Sue Staropoli captured the mood of the day: My heart is full as I reflect on the deep connection, learning and growing together we experienced. Leadership is most often a word we associate with someone up front who leads others in a direction. Jason Bayless and Rogér Knoren from the Pachamama Alliance opened my eyes to the many forms leadership can take and how I have a choice in how I will be a leader in every situation (beyond my usual default patterns). These new concepts ( coactive leadership ) were the cornerstone of the skills we learned. So many people, after learning this model of leadership, spoke of how helpful this will be in their organizations and personal life. It was freeing and powerful for us to grow together (as a core team and a local community of activists) as we learned together, and brainstormed (with another deep listening tool) how we can stay connected and work more collaboratively. Changing the world is UP TO US, and can only come within community. What a weekend of community-building at many levels! I am so moved and grateful for this gift that will enrich my life as a member of our Pachamama community, within our local community of activists, as a global citizen, and in my personal life. Take the First Step: Come to the Pachamama Rochester Core Meeting and continue the conversation! Pachamama Rochester Pachamama Core Team Meeting Wednesday June 8, 2016: Place: Sue Staropoli s home: 506 Panorama Trail, Rochester, NY 14625; Schedule: 5:30pm pot luck; 6:30 group sharing; 7-8:30 Meeting. Bring a dish to share and/or just bring your presence; RSVP to Theresa McGowan (mcgowan4@frontiernet.net ) The agenda will include additional work on the discussions on May 22, All are welcome. Connect with us on Facebook: (for best results copy the link to your browser) Creating A More Just Sustainable And Fulfilling Community And World: The focus of the Rochester Pachamama Alliance is to work in partnership with others to create a more just, sustainable and fulfilling community and world. We are blessed to have so many in the Rochester area! Besides connecting with other organizations to find hosts and participants for our symposium, we want to support efforts of other groups who are working on these issues. Our goal is to awaken, inspire and empower so the more opportunities people have to engage, the better! PLEASE let us know how we can connect and collaborate with any groups you re involved with in our local community! We re especially interested in partnering with local indigenous communities, as has happened in other parts of the country. Working together is the path to healing our world! Contact Sue Staropoli: suestar1@rochester.rr.com (H), (C)

3 Awakening The Dreamer Symposium! What s your legacy? Mother Earth wants to know! Saturday June 25, 2016; 12pm - 5pm (please arrive 15 minutes early for registration) At the YOGA FARM Conlon Rd, Lansing, NY 14882, USA; RSVP: text or info@yogafarm.us; Cost: Free, donations accepted; Bring: Lunch and water bottle Two hour on-line symposium course Do you need a shot of hope as you look at all the crises of our world? After you made your symposium, did you want to share the program with others who might be touched by it, as you were? Or did you want to go back and re-visit some of the videos that had moved or inspired or surprised you in the program? Have you been wanting to attend an Awakening the Dreamer symposium but haven t been able to attend those offered locally? Have you wanted to be re-energized by the Pachamama vision? Now so much is possible, with the latest offering of the Pachamama Alliance! PLEASE let us know of any groups who might like to host live symposiums! We need your contacts to help spread this vision and empowering experience! Generation Waking Up Please help us bring the Symposium to the next generation! The Game Changer Intensive Apply for the July 2016 Game Changer Intensive The next Game Changer Intensive begins June 28, 2016 Last Day to Enroll: June 26 at 11:59 PM PST Pachamama Alliance's Game Changer Intensive is a 7-week online course that provides an analysis of the systems and structures that create and sustain a world of injustice and environmental degradation, and empowers you with the personal resources and community needed to effectively stand for a just, sustainable, and fulfilling future. The course offers powerful ideas, wonderful people, and transformative practices. At this momentous time in human history we must discover who we need to be and what we need to do. GCI will help as you join this growing community taking a stand for change. You will find your own participation with the course inspiring, challenging, educational and deeply rewarding. For an overview of GCI see: From The Pachamama Alliance Leadership Updates from Ecuador: Last month after the devastating earthquake in Ecuador, Pachamama Alliance, launched an Ecuador Earthquake Emergency Relief Fund to support on-the-ground relief efforts. Thanks to the support of hundreds of generous donors, we have raised over $52,000! Those funds are being put to use supplying essential goods like water, food, and clothing. Contributions have made possible: construction of over 300 temporary houses; purchase of 500 water filters; establishing systems of public safety in a number of communities to assist vulnerable populations in times of chaos; support to approximately 500 people suffering from psychological trauma; construction of

4 20 dry latrines and composting systems; training for over 200 women in how to set up emergency local food production systems while the country rebuilds; training for over 200 men in bamboo construction to build temporary housing. Pachamama Alliance Community Introductory Call: Sign up for the next monthly call on June 9 at 5:30PM PT at Learn about Pachamama Alliance Communities and the opportunities available to you when you join a global network of local groups committed to personal and social transformation. These communities play an important role in the Up to Us engagement pathway, building a movement working towards an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet. Find your path or follow your passion with the support of your Community and Pachamama Alliance to amplify your efforts and concretely impact big issues. COMMUNITY CALENDAR Wednesday, June 1 st 6:00 AM; A Day of Public Action in Albany NY. People from around the state will gather in Albany to call on the Legislature and Governor to take bold action. For more information about June 1st and transportation to Albany: see or text NY to and see Saturday, June 11 th 1:30-2:30 PM, City of Rochester Solar Assembly; Kate Gleason Auditorium - Central Library 116 South Ave; Your solar power questions, answered! Learn more about solar power, participate in a Q&A with ROCSPOT s team, and sign up for a free solar assessment to find out exactly how solar can work for your home or business. *snacks provided; (Note event recurs 9/10). For more info, contact: marketing@rocspot.org Monday, June 13 th 7:00 PM, Citizens' Climate Lobby Chapter Meeting First Unitarian Church, 220 Winton Rd S, Room 228 Tuesday, June 14 th 7:00PM and Saturday, June 18 th at 1:00PM: How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change. A Little Theatre Event: A new film by Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox (GASLAND). Fox went to 12 countries on six continents documenting communities struggles with climate change, including a group of Pacific Climate Warriors chant[ing], "We are not drowning, we are fighting." When Josh becomes depressed about the lack of progress in turning back global warming, he travels around the world to find himself re-inspired by the activists that he confronts. He concludes that the most important aspects of our work is courage, human rights, democracy, innovation, creativity, resilience and love. He says " we are going to need these values if we are going to win anything. But we are going to need them even more if we start to really lose". ( For more information see Wednesday, June 15 th 7:00 PM-8:00 PM; A Call to Care For Our Common Home St. Monica Church 831 Genesee St. Rochester Global Catholic Climate Movement Celebrates the 1 Year Anniversary of Laudato Si with a prayer service created and led by Women Of The Well with scripture, story, poetry, song and dance. Sunday June 19 th 11:00 AM-2:00 PM A Prayer for the Finger Lakes; W.W. Clute Memorial Lakeside Park & Pavilion; East 4th St., Rte 414, Watkins Glen (Parking $5) rain or shine Schedule of Events: 108 Sun Salutations, Chanting, Meditation & Water Blessing A Celebration of Life for the Summer Solstice; POTLUCK PICNIC: 3-5 PM; Donations to benefit: WE ARE SENECA LAKE

5 SAVE THE DATE: March for a Clean Energy Revolution Sunday, July 24 - Philadelphia, PA; On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, thousands will march for action to prevent climate catastrophe and present these demands directly to current and future policy makers: Ban Fracking Now; Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground; Stop Dirty Energy; Quickly and Justly Transition to 100% Renewable Energy. Convened by Americans Against Fracking & Pennsylvanians Against Fracking, See cleanenergymarch.org for more information. SHARING AND LIVING THE VISION A Quieter Place Book Study: Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're In Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. After a successful second run, Padme Livingstone is excited to announce a third study group based on a shared reading experience. The planned start time/date is 7-9 pm on Tuesday, June 7 th or 14th, The group will meet for six weeks. Contact info: Padme Livingstone, Director at A Quieter Place; padme@aquieterplace.com You can send a message to NY State Legislators to support the NYRenews platform for good jobs and healthy communities, with 100% clean and renewable energy. A new film exploring the world of Genetically Modified Food. Another path to action: More Information on Climate Change: New Yorkers can now gain access to data and maps on climate thanks to investment by NYSERDA and several academic partners. Both of these websites offer interesting information to anyone who would like up-to-date status of latest breakthroughs in renewable energy as well as what we need to know about climate change to prepare for the decades ahead. Please take a look! The new film Disobedience about the global movement to break free from fossil fuels is now available for free download and streaming at watchdisobedience.com SUSTAINABLE SHOPPING AREA FARMERS MARKETS Brighton Farmers Market - Sundays, 9AM-1PM, June - October; Brighton High School parking lot Chili Farmers' Market - Saturdays, 8AM-1PM, May - November; Chili Paul Plaza East Side Winter Farmer's Market - Tuesdays 3PM-6PM and Saturdays 9AM-12PM, November - April in Penfield at 2555 Baird Rd. near Mooseberry Cafe Fairport Farmers Market - Saturdays, 7AM-12PM, May - November; Fairport Village Landing Geneseo Farmers' Market - Thursdays 3:00-6:30 p.m., mid-june - mid-october, at the intersection of Main (NY Hwy 39) and Center Streets, Geneseo. Highland Park Winter Market - Wednesdays, 3PM 6PM, November - April; Cornell

6 Cooperative Extension Irondequoit Farmers' Market - Thursdays, 4PM-8PM, June- October behind Town Hall Lima Farmers Market - Tuesdays 3:00PM to 6:00PM, June -October at Four Corners Long Season Winter Farmers' Market - Sundays 1PM - 4PM, November through? at Brighton's Brookside Community Center off South Winton Road Mendon Farmers' Market - Tuesdays, June through October, 3:00PM-7PM; Mendon Firemen's Field in Mendon (101 Mendon Ionia Road Rte. 64) Monroe Village Farmer s Market; Wednesdays, 4PM-7PM, mid-june through mid-october; Blessed Sacrament Church parking lot; Penfield Farmers' Market - Sundays, 9:00AM-1:00PM, year-round; Grossmans Garden & Home, 1801 Fairport Nine Mile Point Rd. (Rte.250) in Penfield Pittsford Farmers' Market - Tuesdays & Saturdays, 8:00AM-2:00PM, May-November; 3400 Monroe Avenue in rear of Pittsford Colony Plaza Pittsford Village Farmers' Market - Thursdays, 4:00PM-7:30PM, Mid-June through Mid- October at 10 N Main St (Pittsford Library parking lot entrance) Rochester Public Market - Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays year-round; Rush Farmers' Market - Thursdays, 3:00PM-6:30PM; United Methodist Church 6200 Rush- Lima Rd., Rush South Wedge Farmers' Market - Thursdays, 4PM-8PM, June - October; 151 Mt. Hope Ave; University Farmers Market - Wednesdays, 3PM-6PM, March - May, University of Rochester Medical Center main campus; Washington Square Park Market - Wednesday, 11AM-2PM, June - September; 181 South Clinton; Victor Farmers' Market - Wednesdays, 3-7PM, May - October; Village Hall parking lot Webster's Joe Obbie Farmers' Market - every Saturday through the first week in November 8:30 am - 1:00 pm, and Wednesdays 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm in the Towne Center Webster Westside Farmers' Market - Tuesdays, 4:00PM-7:30PM, late-june-september in the parking lot of St. Monica Church on the corner of Monica and Genesee Streets; THE GREAT TURNING Five Moments Of Climate Progress Since An Inconvenient Truth Elders Standing For Democracy Spring! Elders and younger folks rallied, marched and risked arrest to demand that our legislators enact reforms to get Big Money out of the political process and restore voting rights. Elder Activists is a vision -- of individuals who use their life experiences, reflections and wisdom to inspire, educate and support each other in creating the future that will be our legacy. Science That Can Make the Paris Agreement a Success: What Can We Do About All The Plastic: Or

7 Eco-Friendly Collection Turns Trash Into Fashion. Each bag in the Hamilton Perkins Collection is made out of about 16 discarded plastic bottles. CORE TEAM Susann Brown - subrown2001@yahoo.com John Frank - jfrank2@rochester.rr.com Jim Grant - jag8452@gmail.com Joyce Herman jherman8@rochester.rr.com Nancy Kasper -chante.ishta2012@gmail.com Padme Livingstone padmelivingstone@gmail.com Theresa McGowan -mcgowan4@frontiernet.net Tim McGowan -tdmcgowan@frontiernet.net Tony Perri - Rtony13@aol.com Sue Spencer ssmakeajoyfulnoise@yahoo.com Sue Staropoli - suestar1@rochester.rr.com (H), (C) Pat Woehrlen - padricial@gmail.com BE SURE TO CHECK OUT AND LIKE OUR FACEBOOK PAGE: THIS IS YOUR MOMENT TO TAKE A STAND