How to Build a Global Community

“How to Build a Global Community”

Think of no one as “them”

Don’t confuse your comfort with your safety

Talk to strangers

Imagine other cultures through their poetry and novels

Listen to music you don’t understand * Dance to it

Act locally

Notice the workings of power & privilege in your culture

Question consumption.

Know how your lettuce and coffee are grown; wake up and smell the exploitation

Look for fair trade and union labels

Help build economies from the bottom up

Acquire few needs

Learn a second (or third) language

Visit people, place and cultures – not tourist attractions

Learn people’s history * Redefine progress

Know physical and political geography

Play games from other cultures * Watch films with subtitles

Know your heritage

Honor everyone’s holidays

Look at the moon and imagine someone else,

someone else, looking at it too

Read the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Understand the global economy in terms of people, land and water

Know where your bank banks

Never believe you have the right to anyone else’s resources

Refuse to wear corporate logos: defy corporate domination

Question military/corporate connections

Don’t confuse money with wealth, or time with money

Have a pen/email pal *Honor indigenous cultures

Judge governance by how well it meets all people’s needs

Be skeptical about what you read

Eat adventurously * Enjoy vegetables, beans and grains in your diet

Choose curiosity over certainty

Know where your water comes from and where your waste goes

Pledge allegiance to the earth: question nationalism

Think South, Central and North - there are many Americans

Assume that many others share your dreams

Know that no one is silent though many are not heard

Work to change this.

Earth Necklace

Earth Necklace - Soil from my backyard and glue with paper clip for stringing.

Tip Sheets | Hardy Girls Healthy Women

Tip Sheets | Hardy Girls Healthy Women

Tin Can Man or Woman or Child

Tin Can Man or Woman: Made using different sized cans, Twine to hold her together, bottle cap buttons, fabric scrap ties on her shoes, Candy wrapper hearts, screwed nose, picture hanger mouth, button eyes, drink carton pull tab ears, holding artifical flowers and a mini birdhouse. He had to have a bird on his bonnet. So, I made one with scrap red fabric, beads for eyes and beak. A lot of glitter too, for bling!

Recycled Art Box

Homemade Kitchenette

Homemade kitchenette using two boxes, lids, t.paper tube, recycled tinfoil+  and of course, duck tape.

Earth Day Art

My Earth Day Art:

I Found 2 "Free" round table tops on the roadside in my hood.

It was like Christmas morn in April.

Reject Refuse Reduce Reuse

Habits worth adopting.

Art Scavenger Hunt

Art Scavenger HuntOlder kids take their sketchbooks along, and the younger ones take a clipboard and paper…and the drawing checklist. A few of the ten items on the checklist:

~ draw your favorite piece of playground equipment
~ draw your friend as they pose for you
~ do three texture rubbings
~ draw our home, school, etc.. from where you are sitting

Plastic Easter Egg Bunny and Spring Scene.

Plastic Easter Egg Bunny and Spring Scene: made and enjoyed by my children and I.