The other day I had a conversation with Marianne Williamson, right after she’d suspended her bid for the US presidency. She and I were lamenting the corruption that is so pervasive everywhere, the fact that the US Congress, the news outlets, the government agencies supposedly there to protect the public – in fact, the entire matrix on which democracy is based – is controlled by one giant corrupt, interlinked matrix of international corporations.
Our magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You once did a survey of donations to US members of Congress, and virtually every last one, with the exception of Bernie Sanders, was accepting donations from drug companies, in a few cases up to a half million dollars a year.
And don’t expect the Food and Drug Administration to do anything to police Big Pharma, since half of the agency’s funding is paid for by the drugs industry itself.
Or the media to expose any of this because news outlets are now conglomerates controlled, in most instances, by the corporate giants.
Bottom line: in health and every other industry, the dice are loaded.
So what do we do? How can we powerless individuals get anything changed?
The first way is by understanding how very powerful we the people actually are.
Take the European farmers. Farmers right now are being squeezed in every direction. Supermarkets are forcing them to accept about 10 percent less for the food they supply.
The farmers have had to lower their prices even more, to compete with cheap imports of produce from Ukraine after the EU waived quotas and duties following the Russian invasion.
And while many farmers agree with the EU’s green measures to combat climate change, these costly regulations are impossible to meet when they are also asked to accept ever lower prices.
So what did they do? Farmers across Europe – from Italy Greece, Poland, Germany, Portugal, and France, and now even India – piled into their tractors and started protests.
Recently, hundreds of them gathered in Brussels city center to pelt the European Parliament with eggs. Others choked off traffic access to Paris city center and many other highways across the continent.
Finally, the lawmakers were forced to listen. French president Emmanuel Macron and his prime minister are now calling for EU-wide laws that would oblige supermarkets to pay fair prices and the lawmakers to create subsidies for farmers.
A grassroots movement forced the government to act.
Virtually all major change in the world starts with a small social movement.
Take Mohandas Gandhi and his movement to liberate India from British colonial rule. He understood that cheap machine-made British fabric was disrupting the whole of Indian textile production.
So what does he do? He encourages the entire country to spin, weave and wear khadi, which is handwoven fabric from handspun thread.
He also leads the movement to bring spinning wheels to villages in India, to give employment to the poor.
Spinning, the khadi and the khadi cap became a symbol of Indian self-rule and the centerpiece of Gandhi’s National Congress party.
The spinning wheel was even on the party’s flag, a potent symbol of the movement that ultimately ended British rule.
Or, take the early days of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement.
By 1963, after a decade of protest, King’s movement wasn’t gaining much traction. He and his small band of followers had been fighting the laws in the South that made it impossible for African Americans to vote, get a decent education or job – even to drink from the same water fountain as a white person.
King and Wyatt Walker, executive director of his organization, came up with a plan.
In May 1963, King upped the ante by organizing a march in Birmingham, Alabama, the most racist of all the places they’d marched on. This time they were going to directly confront Bull Connor, the city’s public safety commissioner, a good ol’ boy segregationist fond of saying, ‘Down here, we make our own laws.’
One of King’s team had been working with local schoolchildren, teaching them the principles of nonviolent resistance, so King’s group began dropping leaflets in churches and schools, inviting children to the march. By midday, some 1500 children poured into the streets, most of them just as spectators.
Connor was ready for them.
As the children began swarming forward, Connor ordered firemen he had on hand to turn on their hoses.
The force of the water ripped the shirts off many children’s backs, forcing them against shop doors, but the march carried on.
Once the children moved closer to ‘white’ Birmingham, Connor ordered in officers with a batch of well-trained police dogs. One of the young people there on the day was a sophomore named Walter Gadsden, a 6-foot, handsome well-dressed 15 year old.
Gadsden wasn’t a marcher, only a spectator, but at one point, an officer and his dog Leo, a large German shepherd, lunged toward him.
Walker had made sure that a photographer from the Associated Press was present, and just as Gadsden appeared to lean in passively as he was about to be torn to pieces, the photographer snapped the picture.
By the next day, that photo was on the front page of every newspaper in America, and an appalled President John F. Kennedy and his Congress finally snapped awake.
By the following year, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the most important pieces of modern American legislation, was passed.
As it happened, Gadsden was far from the passive victim. He later described that he’d grown up around dogs, and knew how to protect himself, reflexively throwing his knee up in front of the dog.
But both King and his team all realized the power of image, and that photo alone began the serious move for change.
In every instance, these were grassroots movements that grew into a massive social revolution that ultimately changed history.
And that’s the immense power that each of us has when we start a grassroots movement.
Do you know what would happen if we began a movement on social network to make it uncool to take a drug less than five years old (there are older, safer drugs that do all the same things as all the modern ‘me-too’ drugs), and that really caught fire, just as the Ice Bucket Challenge had?
The share price of most big drug companies would start going through the floor (most of their money is made from copycat new drugs), the shareholders and politicians would start paying attention, and we’d likely be able to bring about change.
That’s the power you hold – particularly the power of your wallet.
So what movement would you like to start? List your ideas below. Because change – big change – is going to start with you and me – as it always has – and our collective power as a group.
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In the U.S., we must find a way to stop and reverse the corruption of our election system that Marianne confronted, and benefits only the 1%. First, by getting cynically named Citizens United overturned, and by demanding changes in our election campaign laws to limit the length of campaigns and the maximum contributions allowed per voter to a reasonable amount ($1,000), per campaign race at any level--local, state and federal. Of course, that still leaves the role of corporate media in limiting our access to the messages of all candidates in a given campaign to be addressed. There are organizations working on all of these issues that I have supported here and there to the level that I am able, but I may need to choose one group on which I can focus all of my modest support.
How many thousands (millions?) of health care workers worldwide observe first hand, the deadly and fatal fallout from the mRNA "vaccines" but stay silent for fear of retribution and/or losing their job?
What would it take to create a united effort where they could all feel safe enough to join together and speak out en masse all at once (like the current farmers protests) about the travesty that these are? The "vaccines" horror show seems to be a lynch pin in the fear mongering apparatus that fuels the plandemics - pull the rug out from under that and perhaps the whole technocratic totalitarian house of cards collapses.
Thank you Lynne for this very insightful article. The power really does lie with the people. I think it starts by taking personal responsibility for our actions, and our thoughts. And then picking a cause (or two) and getting involved. My passion is integrative therapies that lower stress, depression, and pain without drugs. I devote my energies in this area and I stay focused for maximum impact. But I also watch and support other causes when I can.
I am not sure how to achieve this goal, but the populace needs to be educated about how corporations have "captured" government agencies! The Big Pharma has captured the FDA and CDC.... the chemical companies have captured the EPA.... Big Agriculture is also involved! Employees of government agencies are former employees of corporations in a revolving door relationship. This means that any legislation that gets passed is favorable to the corporations, not providing a watch-dog status as was intended! And the lobby money paid to our Congress members is obscene! How can we turn this around?
Lynne you bring hope to a despondent world. Please keep on keeping on the way you do.
If we ever want to "clean-up"our elections we need to eliminate ALL money laundering of our tax dollars against us. Every Public Union (Teachers & Federal Employees) needs to be restricted to NOT be able to donate to any political campaigns with their dues that should be used to fund their pensions. They use our tax dollars to further their agenda and then expect us to refill their pension coffers because they diverted their funds for political gain/
The same goes for Planned Parenthood who takes millions of dollars of tax payer funding and turns it over to political campaigns. Any organization that accepts tax dollars should not be allowed to donate a dollar to any political activities.
Even private companies and private corporations need to be limited. Allowing loop holes such as the funding of ballot harvesting by Zuckerberg needs to be outlawed.
It is naive to believe that our elections can be "fair" until all of the loop-holes are closed. We simply need to return to our founding system of voting on ONE Day, In Person, with ID ( we always had to sign our voting card before casting a vote that was inspected by the poll watchers) and our votes were cast on mechanical adding machines with a paper punch tally roll to verify the count.
If we simply reinstated these common sense rules that we had for the past 200 years we could provide safe, efficient and transparent elections that everyone could trust. Anyone against this simple return to the basics has a nefarious agenda that can only lead to more division and civil striff.
We The People - Have had enough and simply want the rule of law reestablished and applied equally to every candidate to ensure that our Republic survives for another 250 years representing the people and not special interests.
If we ever want to "clean-up"our elections we need to eliminate ALL money laundering of our tax dollars against us. Every Public Union (Teachers & Federal Employees) needs to be restricted to NOT be able to donate to any political campaigns with their dues that should be used to fund their pensions. They use our tax dollars to further their agenda and then expect us to refill their pension coffers because they diverted their funds for political gain/
The same goes for Planned Parenthood who takes millions of dollars of tax payer funding and turns it over to political campaigns. Any organization that accepts tax dollars should not be allowed to donate a dollar to any political activities.
Even private companies and private corporations need to be limited. Allowing loop holes such as the funding of ballot harvesting by Zuckerberg needs to be outlawed.
It is naive to believe that our elections can be "fair" until all of the loop-holes are closed. We simply need to return to our founding system of voting on ONE Day, In Person, with ID ( we always had to sign our voting card before casting a vote that was inspected by the poll watchers) and our votes were cast on mechanical adding machines with a paper punch tally roll to verify the count.
If we simply reinstated these common sense rules that we had for the past 200 years we could provide safe, efficient and transparent elections that everyone could trust. Anyone against this simple return to the basics has a nefarious agenda that can only lead to more division and civil striff.
We The People - Have had enough and simply want the rule of law reestablished and applied equally to every candidate to ensure that our Republic survives for another 250 years representing the people and not special interests.
If we ever want to "clean-up"our elections we need to eliminate ALL money laundering of our tax dollars against us. Every Public Union (Teachers & Federal Employees) needs to be restricted to NOT be able to donate to any political campaigns with their dues that should be used to fund their pensions. They use our tax dollars to further their agenda and then expect us to refill their pension coffers because they diverted their funds for political gain/
The same goes for Planned Parenthood who takes millions of dollars of tax payer funding and turns it over to political campaigns. Any organization that accepts tax dollars should not be allowed to donate a dollar to any political activities.
Even private companies and private corporations need to be limited. Allowing loop holes such as the funding of ballot harvesting by Zuckerberg needs to be outlawed.
It is naive to believe that our elections can be "fair" until all of the loop-holes are closed. We simply need to return to our founding system of voting on ONE Day, In Person, with ID ( we always had to sign our voting card before casting a vote that was inspected by the poll watchers) and our votes were cast on mechanical adding machines with a paper punch tally roll to verify the count.
If we simply reinstated these common sense rules that we had for the past 200 years we could provide safe, efficient and transparent elections that everyone could trust. Anyone against this simple return to the basics has a nefarious agenda that can only lead to more division and civil striff.
We The People - Have had enough and simply want the rule of law reestablished and applied equally to every candidate to ensure that our Republic survives for another 250 years representing the people and not special interests.
Firstly thank you for such a great article on being the change we want to see in the world. We definitely need to work on improving our quality of life. So much power has been taken away from the people that it’s making us go crazy and making us sick. I’d say it’s even killing us, physically and spiritually. It is time for us to take our power back.
I’d say if more of us just get into the habit of asking the universe for what we want instead of letting it toss us around any which way, that would be an improvement all on its own.
As a side note, I’d like to ask Lynne’s team if they would consider making an app for the power of 8 community? I feel that an app would be more user friendly for people and could help get more people on board with us since most of us are always on the phone anyway. I find web browsers to be hard to navigate on mobile devices. Thank you!
Hello Lynne,
I listened to the conversation between you and M. Williamson.
I was sitting on the edge of my chair!
I did participate in the Gaza Meditation but also wanted to tell you that, since a couple of years, I do meditate in the morning, when still half asleep and in that meditation I go to a 'Power of eight' group in my imagination.
I for instance meditate then on my daughter who sometimes feels very unwell from Lyme and then, the same day, each time, she calls me to say she feels better.
For peace on Earth I am in my imagination in a group of 10 000 people and entities. I always go to the same spot. We all sit outside in the grass. We hold hands. I go through a very focused imaginary meditation together with them for half an hour. I am sure that as long as I do this without coloured views, free from personal wounds and anger, but from a place of love, even this imaginary group of power might be valuable. In that sense I believe, even on our own, we are never powerless.
I also am of a deep conviction that presidents are not for the new times anymore. It should all be local and mayors should become the new all-round-politicians.
Hello from Belgium.
I'd love to give all my help and support but literally where do we start ?
How do we combat the big Pharma's who rule
Use the buying power of a group. Join together to take full advantage of bulk buy and share it between the group. This reduces the individual cost of one item.
Again, join together in a community garden or group of backyards and decide what each family can grow rather than buy and share between you.
Start buying bulk from farm shops and share between your group.
Take responsibility for your own health. Learn what foods, exercise and habits keep you healthy. Make the medical and pharmaceutical 'help' be the last stop not the first.
I practice all these and am healthier and happier for it.
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