INTERBEING:
Traveling,
communicating, surviving by being...together
28 May 2019
"Just as bigotry and
ecocide both depend on
the dehumanization or de-selfing of the other,
so also
is the reversal of both
part of the same movement
toward a Story of Interbeing.
...Our converging crises are
initiating humanity into
the new and ancient mythology of
Interbeing."
~Charles Eisenstein
in CLIMATE: A New Story (2018)
"You don't change
culture through e-mails and memos.
You change it through relationships...
one conversation at a time."
~Danny Steele
Alabama Secondary School Principal of the Year
Its really easy to hate someone
you don't know.
But when you know them, its difficult,
and when you care about
them,
its impossible.
~ Sheryl Olitzky
Founder, Sisterhood of
Salaam Shalom
3,000 women across the U.S.
and Canada
TODAY
1. Interbeing of U.S. and Egyptian
Citizens
2. Interbeing by Virtual Video Internet Collaboration of U.S. and Palestinian
Hearing-Challenged Students
3. Interbeing by Maximizing Zoom-facilitated International Story Sharing
Dialogue
4. Interbeing of People with Planet, Youth with Each Other...for Life
5. Enrichment
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Interbeing of
U.S. and Egyptian Citizens
ONE DAY ONLY --
Wednesday, 12 June 2019 --
500 theaters across the U.S. will screen Free Trip to Egypt -- https://www.freetriptoegypt.com
Tickets for a theater near you are at https://www.fathomevents.com/events/free-trip-to-egypt
We urge you and your circle of acquaintances to participate, then act to
upgrade Dialogue in your town.
The film is about courage for everyday citizens to transcend fear of
"enemies."
And bravura to travel miles outside of familiarity to meet the
"other" to improve the future (and ourselves).
"My wish is that we can remind each other of our humanity, and actually
just connect with people we don't know, " concludes Muslim Tarek Mounib after accomplishing his life-changing film
production.
Mounib reached out to the very people who
fear him, travelling across the U.S. to find Americans worried about an
Islamic threat and making them an intriguing offer -- a free trip to Egypt.
Confronted with rejection, disbelief, and hostility, eventually he found a
diverse group from various backgrounds who said "yes," including
a teacher, police officer, Marine veteran, single mom, preacher, and beauty
pageant queen.
All had their preconceptions but were receptive and courageous enough to embark
on the adventure of a lifetime.
Soon enough, the Americans arrived in Egypt and were paired with local
Egyptians just as diverse as the travelers.
The result is provocative, surprising, funny, magical, emotional, revealing,
enlightening and ultimately life-changing -- in other words, all things human
in this profoundly original and inspirational feature-length documentary.
SEE the trailer, then RESERVE your June 12th tickets at https://www.fathomevents.com/events/free-trip-to-egypt
Free Trip to Egypt
2-min trailer
Free Trip to Egypt: Creator story and motives
6-min video
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Interbeing by
Virtual Video Internet Collaboration of
U.S. and Palestinian Hearing-Challenged Students
Transcending
prejudices between U.S. and overseas Muslim peoples, the Sister Cities chapter of
Gainesville, Florida, is connecting American Sign Language students at Santa Fe
College with Palestinian students of the Al-Amal Association for the Deaf
School in Qalqilya, West Bank.
READ MORE at https://www.stevensinitiative.org/impact/sister-cities-of-gainesville-to-develop-an-palestinian-sign-language-video-dictionary-for-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-students/
Learning about another country through virtual exchange is much more
exciting than reading about it in a book.
"I like the feeling of being present and the hands-on experience of
virtual exchange," said Chelsea Corriveau, a Santa Fe College student
participant.
The sponsoring Stevens Initiative -- http://www.stevensinitiative.org/project/sister-cities-international/
-- of the Aspen Institute was founded in the spirit of U.S. Ambassador J.
Christopher Stevens, who served most of his diplomatic career in North Africa
and the Middle East, a region he grew to love.
Stevens was killed by gunfire on duty as U.S. Ambassador to Libya.
Stevens was known for his goodwill toward others while engaging in open and
respectful dialogue with everyone he met.
His appreciation for the differences that make people unique was fueled by
his early experiences abroad building bridges as a Peace Corps Volunteer and
teaching English in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
SEE the video:
Virtual Video Internet Collaboration of
Hearing-challenged Palestinian and American
Students
4-min video
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Interbeing by
Maximizing Zoom-facilitated
International Story Sharing Dialogue
Internet video
technology has great power to deeply connect diverse youth and adults in nearby cities or across oceans to
experience that "an enemy is one whose story we have not heard."
Today's easy-to-use SmartPhone, laptop, or desktop
computer technology allows inexpensive, popular access between intimate friends
or so-called enemies for the purpose of humanizing one another and releasing
unprecedented creativity urgently needed to heal our relationships and planet Earth.
See five examples, citizen-initiated from California, USA, with fellow
travelers around the nation and planet.
1. 2017 Face-to-face
"Trans-Asian Dialogue" at Korea University, for diverse women and men
participants attending the 7th International NGO Conference on History and
Peace in Seoul, South Korea
PHOTOS & VIDEO -- https://traubman.igc.org/koreaconference2017.pdf
2. 2017 Team Building Dialogue
for international Chapter Leaders of the Euphrates Institute -- https://www.euphrates.org
VIDEO
at https://zoom.us/recording/play/jo15bOPAB8MX9MZEKh3tOHKto_IVf76SQu4WqKp-dMaD25qJI1V068YnqzCA7FmT
3. 2018 Dialogue for Principia
College classroom students and faculty
studying "Strategies to Global Solutions" and designing global social
innovation for wicked global problems.
VIDEO (48 min) at https://vimeo.com/262669245
4. 2019 Classroom Dialogue for
Myanmar university students
across 12,000 kilometers to help build their campus community and communication
skills.
PHOTOS at https://traubman.igc.org/myanmardialogue2019.pdf
5. 2019 Multi-faith Kolkata,
India, Dialogue among women and men
with roots in Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and diverse sects of Hinduism, on
the occasion of World Interfaith Harmony Week.
PHOTOS at https://traubman.igc.org/kolkatadialogue2019.pdf
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Interbeing of
People with Planet,
Youth with Each Other...for Life
15-year-old Greta
Thunberg realized her generation wont have a future
without urgent action on climate crises
by the worlds citizens and governments.
Greta skipped school in August 2018 to protest outside the Swedish parliament
-- a one-person strike that soon gained global momentum.
In 'Make The World Greta Again', film makers follow
Greta and increasingly more organizers of the school strikes for climate as
they continue cementing a worldwide movement ahead of their first global
protest that took place on March 15th, 2019.
It was the biggest climate strike in history with up to 1.6 million
students in more than 125 countries.
Skipping School to Stop Climate Change:
Greta Thunberg and the Student Protests
34-min video
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Enrichment
"We need to wake
up
We need to wise up
We need to open our eyes and do it now, now, now
We need to build a better future
And We need to start right now."
Sing for the Climate
From powerful youth and adults in tiny
Belgium
2-min music video
This
message is on the Web at https://traubman.igc.org/messages/718.htm
Hundreds of other success stories are preserved at https://traubman.igc.org/messages.htm