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Autumn's shiny imprint leaves splashes of vibrancy all over urban streets filled with rhythm and smoke from Labor Day barbecues, dance parties, jack-o-lanterns, and school children. This is a time to make room for transition, as to honor the fall equinox. For many, September and October is an important time of reflection and action. In September, there is the celebration of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah in preparation for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The final days of Ramadan came to a close at the beginning of the month. And the International Day of Peace was celebrated on the twenty-first, as we move towards a more sustainable and harmonious planet. In October, we observe Indigenous People's Day, All Hallow's Eve and, in the higher latitudes, we set our clocks back one hour to mark Daylight Savings Time. Each year, the sun crosses the plane of the equator away from the northern hemisphere, making day and night of equal length. We'd like to invite you to focus on Balance and what that concept means to you. Utilize the symbolic energies of the equinox to aid you along your personal journey. Allow it to inspire the motivation you need to manifest a sustainable, just and loving world.

Web of Change connects the foremost thinkers and do-ers in social media, technology, and social change. Together this is a growing community of leaders working for transformation of our organizations and our world. Web of Change has become the leading convener of North America's social change and technology community. We are pleased to bring you some leading truly inspiring messages from this exciting event where the frontline meets the online. Read more... "Our Web of Change: An amazing week..." "Questions from Web of Change"

in SIGHT Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bukhari on Being Muslim Having Unique Challenges in the West

Enjoy this special September/October issue of transform., as CXC ushers in new partnerships, honors old ones, and continues to pave the way for vision & practice for transformative social change. Talismanic Poster Tram Station @ Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey. image: angel Kyodo williams

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Sheikh Abdel Aziz Bukhari worked his entire life, and his family has worked for hundreds of years, for peace in Palestine-Israel. He left the Earth this past summer. Though often he spoke to a Muslim student audience, here he speaks with Eliyahu McClean as part of the "Unusual Pairs" dialogue. Jerusalem Peacemakers

stay in the game: vision, hope and faith for america http://transformativechange.org/transform/journal/201010.html

In 2002 the General Assembly officially declared September 21 as the permanent date for the International Day of Peace: "Peace Day should be

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INcite with angel Kyodo williams Here we are in October again, just a few short weeks from Election Day. I wake up to the increasing darkness of October's mornings with a start. Each month, I decide what ideas, thoughts or challenges I'll offer for people to consider with head, heart and spirit unifying for a call to action. Clearly there is no shortage of topics and issues. The great challenge is to select one that is both timely and transcendent.

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devoted to commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples..." The Global Ceasefire may be just a small start, yet let one day become 2, two become 4, and so forth as we transform, and the conditions of peace become manifest. International Day of Peace and Global Ceasefire Subscribe to CXC on YouTube

in TIME CXC: The Only Full Range of Practices Designed for Social

With that criteria in mind, I can see there is nothing more important to say right now than to implore each and every one of you to show up, to

Change Agents

engage, to stay in the game of this strange democracy by rallying every bit of energy you can to vote...and to encourage every one you know to vote, too. I call upon our self-proclaimed Progressives, still comfortable being "liberal," who stalwartly make the clarion call for all things being equal: rights for women, gays, im/migrants and for all things being civil: End the Wars, Be the Peace, Bring the Troops Home. I call upon us fierce Independents who demand fiscal responsibility, accountable government and a pause on the party politicking that reveals our politicians' shortage of integrity while getting the rest of us no where at all. I call especially upon us Revolutionaries that see through the gaping

Owing to the exciting and new strategic alliance with YES!, CXC's practice schedule will be modified for the month of October to allow for the transition to happen in a good way. Read More fearless Meditation I: November 5 & every 1st Friday | 7pm fearlessYOGA Sundays Public Talk with angel Kyodo williams | November 11 @ CXC

in the CENTER

cracks in the very foundations of this system. We feel reluctant to continue to build our hopes for real change—to rest our dreams for

27 Days of Change | Fall

survival, security and self-determination—upon a structure that has

Twenty people from around the

2010 Practice Period

been flawed since inception. We see our unwanted, cast aside and cast

country and participating in the

out brothers and sisters peering through from the other side of borders, reservations, jail cells, and deeply-drawn lines of poverty. We, above all, must remain determined to reclaim them and reconstitute a system reluctant to release old habits of thriving upon the least resourced of us all. To do that, we must stay in the game. I even call upon the conscious-minded, conservative-valued folks who know deeply that sometimes we must vote on principal for honest, open leadership even if that does not serve one's short-term political

Fall 27 Days of Change | Practice Period. During the 27 Days, formal participants commit to intensifying reflective and contemplative practice on three levels (inner, interpersonal, and global/social), which when brought together, form a holistic relationship to one's life and creates the conditions for transformation. Read more...

desires. A Nation SAT for Change At

Combined, we are all Americans: We lament the loss of life, detest

this moment, just after the 3rd

destroying families, question borders, want freedom for Gaza, troops

Annual SIT for Change, it is a

out of Afghanistan, safety for our children, help for Main Street not Wall Street, green jobs, clean energy, an honest living, a balanced budget, and social security, equity and sustainability for all. To achieve any of this, we must rally. We must go forward, not backward. We must stay in the game.

time to reflect on what was accomplished by 2010 SIT for Change, and what remains to be accomplished. Read more...

from the FIELD Doing Good Work The Interaction Institute for

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In the last two years, we did not get all we wanted. We got some

Social Change (IISC) is a

flawed policy and, yes, maybe even a flawed president. But we got an

nonprofit organization that

honorable man. A decent human being. A caring father. A concerned citizen. A thoughtful listener. A critical thinker. A compassionate leader

harnesses the power of

that must navigate the concerns of the most diverse electorate in the world. In short, we got US. Not just you or me. A black or white. A Christian or Muslim. A working class or elite. We have in our President all of that

collaboration within the social sector to create a just and sustainable world. Read more...

inner PRACTICE

and thus none of it. We got a true American in the complex fabric that

Finding Balance in Life

is and is still becoming the America of our dreams. So the seeking of simple outcomes to our complex problems makes us naive. Turning our

"Many of us try to juggle things

backs or sitting on the disgruntled sidelines makes us irresponsible.

and endlessly search for some kind of balance in life. The question we should ask is

The complexity of our desires are matched only by the boundlessness of our Vision for an America that can embrace us all. The depths of our

whether we need balance or just to be able to stand on

disappointment can only be measured against the grand heights of our

solid ground?" Enjoy this reprint from the Zen to

Hope. The revelation of flaws is a testament to our Faith.

Fitness blog on finding balance in your life. Read more...

But we have Vision and we have Hope and we have Faith. More than anything we didn't get in these scant two years, Vision, Hope and Faith restored. Possibility, imagination and creativity are poised to

Zen of Fitness Blog

outer ACTION

replace limitation, fear and contraction. And these, more than any

ACRJ | Forward Stance in

policy, bill or president, will help us re-imagine an America for all Americans.

Action Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ) promotes and protects

But we must stay in the game.

reproductive justice through organizing, building leadership capacity, developing

—yours in truth, aKw

alliances and education to achieve community and systemic change. Read how they incorporate Forward Stance in how they operate their organization and how it is infused in all of the work they do in the world. Read more...

P.S., In case we have lost perspective, here's a reminder of The 244 Accomplishments of President Obama. and if, as a frustrated change agent, you ask yourself why you bother, Ian Rhett of Civic Actions reminds you to Stay in the Game here.

ACRJ website ACRJ blog Forward Stance Leadership Initiative

social CHANGE A Taste of King's Truth

If you haven't figured out that indeed you are and must be an American Revolutionary no matter how much the system wants to count you out,

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to

start to "assert (your) solutions as the living embodiment of (your)

the starless midnight of racism

nationality along with Adrienne Maree Brown.

and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can

special shout out to Ian Rhett, adrienne maree brown, Jodie Tonita, Gibran Rivera and the whole 2010 Web of Change crew (Canadians included!) that keep me compelled to stay in the game. --aKw

never become a reality I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word." -Martin Luther King, Jr. Read more...

angel Kyodo williams, is founder of Center for Transformative Change. Happily, she is no longer its director, but the official Intellectual Guru Emeritus. A social visionary and leading voice for transformative social change, she is the author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness and Grace.

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in the MIND Resentment of "Do-Gooders" Has Psychological Origins | Study

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Study A study by psychologists at

Blog: new Dharma: live, love & lead from the heart

Washington State University in

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the US demonstrated that apparent acts of altruism often serve only to alienate others just as much as those who are greedy... Read more

angel Kyodo williams' next public talk: November 11 @ CXC

fearless Meditation is a 3-part signature series that teaches practical meditation within a social justice

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framework. It's offered for no charge for agents of social change.

NewDharma Talk | Be Deeply Yourself in the

"the best workshop i've ever taken. radically changed

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my work."

To find who we really are, to be balanced, we already know we have to start with Practice. But most of us believe that all of that practice is on the cushion. Well, to GET balanced, we have to BE balanced even—especially in Practice. Check out this dharma talk that

fearless Meditation I: Nov 5, 2010 & every 1st Friday | 7pm

in the BODY

shows the value of an ancient teaching about practice on and off the

Twelve Months of Abhaya

cushion

(fearless) Asana | Gomukhasana

Kapotasana, also known as Pigeon

Listen to Be Deeply Yourself In the World

Posture, is one of the backbends

Download text of Be Deeply Yourself In the World

and hip openers of the Warrior Series. It is a great posture for finding opening in the thighs, abdomen, shoulders, heart center, and particularly the hips.

activists, allies & agents of change Norma Wong | Stance, Energy, Awareness, and Rhythm Ryuko (Norma) Wong Roshi is an instructor at Institute of Zen Studies. She teaches the Applied Zen program, which offers workshops and training in the application of Zen principles and spiritual training in work and life. She is also a private consultant specializing in strategic planning and [image:courtesy Norma Wong] organizational capacity. Her career has spanned service as a Hawaii state legislator where she worked with public policy, planning, strategy, and native Hawaiian issues. CXC: What is Forward Stance, concretely and at its essence? NW: Forward Stance is a mind-body approach to movement building. A mind-body approach utilizes the physical experience to develop, explore, and demonstrate human actions.

Read more...

wellness & being well Grounding | Coming Down to Rise Up Grounding--do we feel it in our body? Smell it in earthly aromas? See a light coming up from the ground into the root of our body? Is it in a way we think practical thoughts and don't drift off? Use words with actual distinct meanings? Does ground lie in feeling connected with the elements, an electron transfer between our skin and minerals? Read more...

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By developing a physical and conceptual understanding of basic Forward Stanceprinciples, organizations and allies can literally shift the way in which we move in the world. The basics include characteristic principles of stance, energy, awareness, and rhythm. Forward Stance emphasizes proactive, strategic action that draws from sustainable energy in a constantly changing environment. Read more... EMERJ Project

resources for transformative change‌ Learn more about MLK than mass media will ever reveal. After more than a decade of serious contemplation, King unwaveringly concluded

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sirkeci 2251 Sirkeci (seer-ke-jee) train station in Istanbul is the former end point of the infamous Orient Express. Still

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that no war is worth sacrificing children to. He said, "More and more I

an active and hustling station for commuter and

have come to the conclusion that the potential destructiveness of

transcontinental journeying, its modern (1890) design

modern weapons of war totally rules out the possibilities of war ever

was reknowned worldwide and is largely preserved to

serving again as a negative good." To read more follow the link below.

this day.

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, the Revolutionary This German-made Krauss steam locomotive #2251,

Revisit the revolutionary speech "Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break

built in 1874 and displayed outside the station, is a

Silence" by Dr. martin Luther King Jr.. The full text and audio can be

classic of its time. "TCDD" are the initials of the Turkish

found on the American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank.

State Railways or "Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet

MLK | A Time to Break Silence Grounding yoga poses help to quiet the mind and release anxiety. They are especially good to practice during the fall and winter, known as Vata season in Ayurveda. Staying Grounded

Demiryollari" photo copyright 2010. angel Kyodo williams

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quote of the month "A life without love is of no account. Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western . . . Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The Universe turns differently when fire loves water." —Cathy Lynn Pagano Learn more...

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