Comments on: Introduction http://www.gettingagrip.net Frances Moore Lappe's 16th book, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity & Courage in a World Gone Mad Sat, 17 May 2008 06:59:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Bruce Haynes http://www.gettingagrip.net/look-inside/introduction-to-getting-a-grip/#comment-203 Bruce Haynes Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:28:59 +0000 http://www.gettingagrip.net/look-inside/introduction-to-getting-a-grip/#comment-203 Frances, I'm a 19 year old rap poet from South Africa. Your talk at the 'Be the Change' conference has given me the inspiration needed to empower myself as a person and do everything in my power to 'change people's frames of reference (...presidents bow down in deference; I am a messenger of the global idea whose time has come)'. Your ideas are huge Frances, thankyou for cutting through the fog of uncertainty and reaching straight to the essence, you have given me the courage to get on and do it. Frances, I’m a 19 year old rap poet from South Africa. Your talk at the ‘Be the Change’ conference has given me the inspiration needed to empower myself as a person and do everything in my power to ‘change people’s frames of reference (…presidents bow down in deference; I am a messenger of the global idea whose time has come)’. Your ideas are huge Frances, thankyou for cutting through the fog of uncertainty and reaching straight to the essence, you have given me the courage to get on and do it.

]]> By: admin http://www.gettingagrip.net/look-inside/introduction-to-getting-a-grip/#comment-114 admin Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:34:42 +0000 http://www.gettingagrip.net/look-inside/introduction-to-getting-a-grip/#comment-114 Lance, Thanks for your comment. I agree, and that's why we need the deeper idea and practice of democracy - Living Democracy - now emerging. Frances Lance,
Thanks for your comment.
I agree, and that’s why we need the deeper idea and practice of democracy - Living Democracy - now emerging.
Frances

]]> By: Lance Green http://www.gettingagrip.net/look-inside/introduction-to-getting-a-grip/#comment-110 Lance Green Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:15:02 +0000 http://www.gettingagrip.net/look-inside/introduction-to-getting-a-grip/#comment-110 thanks so much for being willing to express such a radical concept, and one I've beleved in for many years. In my peace work, I've found that we DO have all the money, all the resources, all the knowlege we need. Every child, woman and man on the planet could have a decent life, education, health care, reproductive choices, jobs, clothes, homes. All we have to do is truly believe we want it that we can do it, then turn around the machinery of despair and destruction that now guide our "civilization." Take all the money we now spend on greed and war and we can do it all! But I don't feel the "democracy" here in the USA has the power to harness our love instead of our hate.... thanks so much for being willing to express such a radical concept, and one I’ve beleved in for many years. In my peace work, I’ve found that we DO have all the money, all the resources, all the knowlege we need. Every child, woman and man on the planet could have a decent life, education, health care, reproductive choices, jobs, clothes, homes. All we have to do is truly believe we want it that we can do it, then turn around the machinery of despair and destruction that now guide our “civilization.”

Take all the money we now spend on greed and war and we can do it all! But I don’t feel the “democracy” here in the USA has the power to harness our love instead of our hate….

]]> By: Carl Landsness http://www.gettingagrip.net/look-inside/introduction-to-getting-a-grip/#comment-98 Carl Landsness Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:52:32 +0000 http://www.gettingagrip.net/look-inside/introduction-to-getting-a-grip/#comment-98 Very inspiring. Looking forward to your talk in Madison, WI Very inspiring.
Looking forward to your talk in Madison, WI

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