RECLAIM YOUR LIFE

Dancing is no Crime

2018-08-21T14:45:00.003+02:00

Music is the weapon for the givers of life, and of course dancing is no crime, life is no crime !! Dance the darkness away

The young Iranian girl Maedeh Hojabri was arrested for dancing on her Instagram profile, and threatened with prison and whipping in Iran, she was forced to go on public television and repent.

DefendAfrin

2018-07-20T01:13:00.001+02:00

When in face of evil
Noone care to speak
When bombs are falling
We need to take a stand - #Rojava #DefendAfrin

A childhood stolen by war, scattered in fear, new hope in foreign land
She used to think the worst word was war, now realize even worse is the silence

When in face of evil
Noone care to speak
When bombs are falling
We need to take a stand - Efrîne Berxwedana

Safe to discover her youth, assured of a place still there, her grandparents house
Crushed to despair by a turkish bomb to rubble, scattering her hope

When in face of evil
Noone care to speak
When bombs are falling
We need to take a stand - Efrîne Berxwedana

She used to think the worst word was war, now realize even worse is the silence
so come on now, speak up, let her again put flowers in her hair and dance among the olivetrees

When in face of evil
Noone care to speak
When bombs are falling
We need to take stand - Efrîne Berxwedana

Freedom and Love

2018-03-13T11:32:00.002+01:00

In a spirit of freedom and love, with no economical calculations and political power games, let us find the inspiration, the vision and the strength to meet life in a creative sustaining way

Stand Up for Efrîn

2018-03-04T08:23:00.000+01:00

Nyertun - Stand Up For Efrîn
All profit will be donated to Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê

A childhood stolen by war, scattered in fear, new hope in foreign land
She used to think the worst word was war, now realize even worse is the silence

When in face of evil
Noone care to speak
When bombs are falling
We need to take a stand - Efrîne Berxwedana

Safe to discover her youth, assured of a place still there, her grandparents house
Crushed to despair by a turkish bomb to rubble, scattering her hope

When in face of evil
Noone care to speak
When bombs are falling
We need to take a stand - Efrîne Berxwedana

She used to think the worst word was war, now realize even worse is the silence
so come on now, speak up, let her again put flowers in her hair and dance among the olivetrees

When in face of evil
Noone care to speak
When bombs are falling
We need to take stand - Efrîne Berxwedana

Music is the weapon

2015-12-07T19:49:00.003+01:00

"Music is the weapon for the givers of life" said Fela Kuti
Thus it's no surprise that the terrorist from Daesh, attacked a concert. Daesh, Boko Haram, Taleban, Al-Qaeda are death-cults, they are takers of life, and hate music, dance and celebration of life - they celebrate death and hate

The attack on a concert, on cafees and near a sport-event, show that the fight terror is a part of isn't a territorial fight, but a global battle, a battle of values, between the freedom of culture and those who want to control it, between the idea about people being free individuals who participate as citizens in their community and the idea of people being subjects to authority

We the lovers will continue to raise our voices, beat our drums, hit our keys, pump our bass, pick our strings - move to the rythm and fly with the melody

We praise life - we are beats4change and #playforpeace, #playforlove, #playforhumanity - we #playfortheworld

2014-09-09T11:17:00.000+02:00

Beats4Change is a project-oriented network, where people contribute their creative skills to raise awareness and funding for sustainable development of caring communities in which every member is living a dignified life and is respected as valuable and contributing to the process

"Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and define our lives" Joseph Beuys

Social sculpture

2014-02-15T10:28:00.002+01:00

"Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives" Joseph Beuys

"The Past casting Shadows, the Future holding Seeds of new reality, meet in the being of Man. And their meeting is the human life of the Present."
( R.Steiner: The Michael Mystery GA 26 )

FREE PUSSY RIOT

2012-08-26T23:28:00.003+02:00

http://www.beats4change.org/action/pr.html

Beats4Change support the campaign to FREE PUSSY RIOT - a russian punk 
group sentenced to 2 years in prison for "hooliganism" - though they have done no physical 
harm to neither property nor person - just performing a song called "Mother of God, Cast Putin Out!"
                      in Christ the Savior Cathedral on Feb. 21

This is an attempt to frighten the youth of Russia
                      into silence by making an example of the band. It is an
                      attack on free music, free speech, free expression and
                      democratic rights.

Fossile driven economy - debt crisis

2012-01-01T13:58:00.000+01:00

Here comes
the Sun - Beats4Change Benefit Album in support of Solar Electric Light Fund, fighting climate change and poverty

RENEWABLE ENERGY	SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT	CARING COMMUNITY
For a very long period, the human economic system was mainly limited to energy consumption from the renewable energy sources, and that development was therefore quite slow. The rapid economic development in the last couple of centuries, have very much been based on the use of terminated energy sources. Energy the ecosphere stored a long time ago - put in economical terms; saved. If we stick to this economical terminology, we can put the question: Are we using this reserve to invest in a development which can benefit humanity ??It is healthy economics to use saved capital if you invest it wisely - but are we doing that ??
More figures about the relation between energy and economy

There is a direct connection between the financial capital accumulated by the production and use of fossil fuels and the debt crisis and poverty in non-industrial countries.

This of course causes giant social problems - The global distribution of wealth is more unequal than ever

On the other hand the use of fossile fuels also cause giant ecological problems: Sierra Leone: CO2 emission per capita: 0,1 Nigeria: CO2 emission per capita: 0,6 Denmark: CO2 emission per capita: 10,1 USA: CO2 emission per capita: 19,8 Here's an illustration of a possible strategy and its consequences:

The sun is the one true energy source - it warms our planet, provides energy for photosynthesis in plants, and creates wind. In the future, farmers will harvest not only food and crops for trading, but also energy crops. PV systems can provide high quality lighting, windpower can pump water or generate electricity, and plant oil can be used to provide heavy duty mechanical power necessary for agricultural processing, tractors, and transportation. The local production means local employment, and local generation of income. These new enterprises can meet the energy needs of under-served populations while reducing the environmental and health consequences of existingenergy use, particularly low quality biomass fuels such as wood and dung.

Food for Thought - Social Threefolding

2011-12-17T13:35:00.000+01:00

Steiner distinguished three realms of society:

- the economy
- politics and human rights
- cultural institutions, including science, education, arts and religion
He suggested that the three would only function together harmoniously when each was granted sufficient independence. This has become known as "social threefolding".

Among the various kinds of macrosocial imbalance Steiner observed, there were three major types:

- Theocracy, in which the cultural sphere (in the form of a religious impulse) dominates the economic and political spheres.
- State Communism and state socialism, in which the state (political sphere) dominates the economic and cultural spheres.
- Corporate capitalism, in which the shareholder is the only or primary stakeholder, and in which the economic sphere dominates the cultural and political spheres

For more visit the Beats4Change Foundations web about Social Threefolding at http://www.beats4change.org/threefold/

2011-12-16T05:20:00.000+01:00

For a world free from violence between North and South, men and women, ourselves and our environment

With the 21st century, comes the fundamental challenge facing every society to create political, economic and social systems that promote peace, human welfare and the sustainability of the environment on which life depends.

In our hearts we know right from wrong - and there's much we see around us in our environment and the relations between people, both socially, economically and politically, where we feel: "this is not the right way for human beings to live - this is not the way we're supposed to relate to each other and our surroundings"

As long as we just wait to see where the dynamics of history leads us, we're doomed to be victims of circumstance. This dynamic is often dictated by other concerns, we learn to think in social, economical and political "realities", forcing us to put aside what our hearts tell us and subsequently we stop listening and learn to adapt to these "realities" - powers that dictate our actions and interactions. We may protest against these realities - react, but to really change anything we must create the freedom and strength to turn the tide. When people start working together to build the lives and communities they want, then good things will happen.

Change must come from people working together from bottom up, reclaiming their lives from the corporate usurpation

"We are convinced that freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice, and that Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality." -Mikhail Bakunin