The first nine blog posts provide the mission, plan, perspective, participation and funding for Unite for Rights. What is left for the 10th blog (the first 10 blogs comprise the essence of Unite for Rights) is the source of power to accomplish all of these things: It is love.
Each of us desires a sense of purpose and well-being in our lives, and, generally, we wish this for those we love. The question, then, is who do we love? Each other.
A core principle for Unite is that when a child is born anywhere on Earth, the rest of us clap. Why? – because a fellow human is born and we love that baby as part of our human family.
The stories that child is told creates the life that they lead. The stories we are teaching them are not broad enough, they are nation based, which is fine, they should not be discarded, but the children (and adults too) need to learn and share regional and international stories as well, just as is happening in Europe today.
The generation you see in the photo above will head out into space. It is flegling now, but space is humanity’s destiny. As we go, we are better off being a family than warring factions.
The nationality, language, religion, freedom, values of those two babies turn on what they are taught. It may be that these may change, but this too depends on what they are taught, what they are allowed to change – what rights they have.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a core story that all humans can tell each other. It is already an important story that impacts all people in all countries – the UDHR is the most translated document in history after the Bible. An International Bill of Rights is an extension of that story.
With love for ourselves and one another, we can support this story and extend it. A new “overstory” that applies to all of us, wherever on Earth we may be.
Unite for Rights leads to a different ending than the stories we are presently telling across Earth. The stories on the path we are currently traveling lead to the ruin of our biosphere, the thin blue line of life encircling Earth, of which humans are a part. It’s that thin blue line that gives us life on Earth.
The expansion of the police state infiltrates all aspects of our lives, monitoring what we do, and punishing us for daring to question authority, when we, the common people, are the authority for those who govern;
The militarization of space, whereby we take our failed social order on Earth (we spend over 2 trillion dollars a year preparing to kill and control each other) and move it out into interstellar spheres.
This is not a loving way to leave our planet for future generations. The economic disparities are also callous. No one needs to sit on 18 karat gold plated toilets. .
The few richest people in the world, who could fit on one school bus, now have more wealth than the bottom 50% of humanity combined. And this disparity is increasing.
Love leads to another path.
As Malcolm Gladwell has written: “The world we could have is so much richer than the one that we have settled for.” With an International Bill of Rights we can do better. Our ability to read and write gives us the means to change; it’s love that gives us the power.
Great leaders love others as they love themselves. Eleanor Roosevelt loved people – all of them. Same with Gandhi, King, Mandela, and this is true throughout the arts, as the musician, Lenny Kravitz, sings, in “Here to Love”, “We must all unite … when you’ve seen the light, there’s nowhere else to go… no walls could seperate us … we would be as one because this earth’s our home.” (Click to see a video and hear the song).
It may seem trite, but love, like character and compassion, needs to be cultivated, watered, nurtured, grown. Unite for Rights offers us the opportunity to focus and act together out of love. In under one minute you can demonstrate your love for yourself, your children, for others and and for life on the planet we share by becoming a “Uniter” and joining others on the globe to show support for an International Bill of Rights.
And when we get on the same globe as “lights for rights” we travel from self-centered to what David Brooks has called “other centered.”
In so doing, we accomplish what is best for ourselves, as well as what is best for those with whom we share Earth. When we act out of love, we all prosper.
The love you give to others they give back to you. To paraphrase Paul Coelho in the The Alchemist, “When you conspire on behalf of the world, the world conspires on behalf of you.” So it is with an International Bill of Rights. As Eleanor Roosevelt said “We all go up, or we all go down together.” Love helps us go up.
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