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Bill, what wonderful and inspirational lessons about the power of civil disobedience and non violent movements!

Just don't adopt redshirts for us ... perhaps gray green patterned ones with a high SPF factor from Eddie Bauer.

We may not have money to compete head on with the Koch Family and the powerful Fossil Fuel industry and their PR machine ... but we can get 'experienced and caring volunteers'.

We should look at the 'volunteers' in this story just as we should prioritize in the ThirdAct by mobilizing and utilizing 'experienced and caring volunteers' to advance environmental justice in our global climate crisis.

There are many forms of justice and it is hoped, from a political perspective, that the ThirdAct can partner with other organizations in developing Voter Guides at all levels of government to examine candidates through the lens of environmental justice.

**BM Women joined as well as men; 'all volunteers', they gave at least two hours a day to community work, often building schools.

**BM It began a season of almost unimaginable barbarity, with the nonviolent 'volunteers' killed en masse—“gunning for redshirts” became a pastime for British officers. But none of it broke the nonviolent spirit of the Khudai Khitmatgars.

The call for us to have 'timely courage' is right on if we are to wane off the most serious of climate tipping points attributable to more and more extreme and costly weather events. You and many more experienced these with Ida in NYC and the Mid Atlantic.

Too little 'courage', or failing to get out of our physical and mental 'comfort zones', will equate to too much physical suffering for the global human community and nature as we know it today. Human migrations and the GeoArbitrage process seeking a Climate Haven are already beginning.

**BM But at this point in the human story, our future may well depend on our ability to reach back into our shared heritage and rescue the examples of 'courage' that will give us the heart to act beyond our 'comfort zone'.

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Thank you for posting this. I learned something new and important

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Thank you for sharing this wonderful story. It is quite an inspiration for us in this time.

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