HOLD THE DATE

Women’s Congress for Future Generations

Moab Utah

September 27th-30th, 2012

Are you called to be a guardian of the future? Gather with artists, writers, activists, and spiritual leaders to take up our sacred responsibilities as ancestors to future generations. Participate in this four-day Congress to launch a rights movement for future generations.

The environmental problems facing Earth challenge our concepts of time and how we think about future generations.  Most laws are appropriate for 25 years or less, essentially one generation. But climate change, mountain top removal, fracking, mining and drilling, species extinction are no longer our legacy to the 7th generation but to the 10,000th generation and beyond.  Radioactive waste sites, for instance are hazardous for 250,000 years or longer, essentially 10,000 generations.

Over the past year women of all ages, cultures and backgrounds have been quietly working on these issues.  Conversations have been held in the kitchens of long time environmental activists. They have been held on the frontlines of civil disobedience by young activists resisting fracking, nuclear power and mountain top removal. They have been held in the halls of academia, in the dream world, and in political arenas. It is time for a larger conversation and to transform conversation into action on behalf of the future.  It is time for women to speak from our authority as the first environment for future generations. It is time to rise up and claim this authority so we can sing lullabies not requiems to future generations.

We invite men to participate as sacred witnesses in this event.  We welcome everyone who chooses to become guardians of future beings.

Please hold the date:  September 27–30 Women’s Congress for Future Generations in Moab, Utah.

We have chosen Moab because this beautiful land, the Colorado River and ancient sacred sites are threatened with fracking and a proposed nuclear power plant. We believe our presence in Moab can stop these threats to our common, treasured heritage.

Camping and hotel space will be available. A tentative schedule:

 

• Thursday: Truth and Reconciliation. Acknowledge what we have done to destroy the future. Agree on a plan of reconciliation.
•  Friday: A Council of all Beings, Elements and Places. Gather in caucuses to listen and speak on behalf of the future ones and to draft a Bill of Rights for Future Generations.
•  Saturday: Convene the Caucuses as a Congress of Women. Ratify the Bill of Rights and plans of action and reconciliation.
•  Sunday: Day of Direct Action. Release a Declaration and Bill of Rights for Future Generations.

What you can do now:

Indicate your intention to attend the gathering by signing up on the facebook event page.

Participate in information and planning calls the second and fourth Thursdays of each month. Contact Carolyn Raffensperger at carolyn@sehn.org <mailto:carolyn@sehn.org>

Join an Affinity Group and help plan and carry out the Congress. Contact Henia Belalia: henia@peacefuluprising.org