Random Kindness Conference Audio
We invite you to listen to the audio recordings of our Random Kindness Online Conference, held in February, 2015, celebrating the 20th anniversary edition of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty, which includes a new foreword by Desmond Tutu. February 9th-15th, 2015, was National Random Acts of Kindness Week, and February 17th celebrated Random Kindness day. This year we have launched the 20th anniversary edition of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty. The re-release of the book is accompanied by our global Random Kindness Community Resilience Project, building justice and resilience throughout vulnerable communities in the face of climate change. Book proceeds go to climate and nuclear refugees from Fukushima.
Conference Hosts: Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel, PhD
Post-production Media Team: Lauren Dahlberg-Seeth and Dennis Rivers
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An affirmation of people power in an era dominated by mindless institutions:
Desmond Tutu on Random Acts of Kindness
On February 12, 2015, Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu added his voice in celebration of National Random Acts of Kindness Week. This year’s celebrations include events highlighting the 20th anniversary edition of the book, Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty, with a Foreword by Desmond Tutu
National Random Kindness Week events
When: February 9th-17th
Where: All around the world.
February 9th-15th is National Random Acts of Kindness Week, and February 17th is Random Kindness day. This year we are launching the 20th anniversary edition of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty, with a new foreword by Desmond Tutu. The re-release of the book is accompanied by our global
Random Kindness Community Resilience Project, building justice and resilience throughout vulnerable communities in the face of climate change. Book proceeds go to climate and nuclear refugees from Fukushima.
In an age of climate crisis, this work is a call to community action to create a world we want, a world based on principles of sustainability and justice.
For more information about Random Kindness and the Community Resilience Project, visit: https://randomkindnessproject.org/
To purchase a copy of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty (available in 10 languages), click here.
Thank you to all of our guests, friends and colleagues who attended and helped plan and coordinate Random Kindness book signing events!
-Sunday 2/8 10AM Talk @ Soul Center, Newport Coast Community Center
-Sunday 2/8 Newport Community Book Club (contact: Kathy Schlesinger kpschlesinger@yahoo.com)
-Weds 2/11 9AM City of Berkeley 100 Resilient Cities Meeting
-Fri 2/13 9AM UC Davis Book Launch Forum
-Tues 2/17 National Random Kindness Day event to honor Random Kindness Community Resilience s/heroes — event details TBD, stay tuned!
-Sunday 2/8 Newport Community Book Club (contact: Kathy Schlesinger kpschlesinger@yahoo.com)
-Weds 2/11 9AM City of Berkeley 100 Resilient Cities Meeting
-Fri 2/13 9AM UC Davis Book Launch Forum
-Tues 2/17 National Random Kindness Day event to honor Random Kindness Community Resilience s/heroes — event details TBD, stay tuned!
In solidarity,
Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel Breakthrough Communities
Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel Breakthrough Communities
Emerge California SoCal Reception
Support Women’s Leadership: You Are Invited
When: Saturday, Feb 7th, 6:30p – 8:30p
Downtown Los Angeles.
Emerge California is changing the face of California politics by identifying, training and encouraging women to run for office through an intensive, cohort-based seven-month training program. Despite being more than 50% of the population, currently, less than 30% of California state legislators are women, and California has yet to elect a female Governor. A pool of highly qualified Democratic candidates is being left untapped. Emerge California is changing that!
Dr. Pavel has been selected as a member of the Emerge California 2015 cohort. Please join us in this celebration! Register here.
Carl Anthony Legacy
Urban Habitat 25th Anniversary
Book Launch and Community Dialogue in NYC
& Just Resilience
M. Paloma Pavel, PhD
With Carl Anthony and Guests
Saturday Sept. 20 10am
Milano School of International Affairs The New School, Manhattan
55 W. 13th St. Room 205,
Dorothy Hirshon Suite
10:00 am Refreshments and Reception
10:30 am -12:00 pm Book Signing and Community Dialogue
Join us for the launch of the 20th anniversary edition of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty, with a Foreword by Desmond Tutu, and for a community dialogue on building Climate Justice and Just Resilience. M. Paloma Pavel and Carl Anthony (co-founders of Breakthrough Communities) are traveling from California to New York to host this event for UN Climate Week. Guests include Lynne Elizabeth of New Village Press, more to be announced.
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Superintendent Sheila Jordan
Receives 2014 Carl Anthony Legacy Award presented by Genesis
Date: August 23, 2014 (Saturday)
Time: 8:00-10:30 am
Location: St. Theresa Little Flower Catholic Church, 30 Mandalay Road, Oakland
Genesis, the San Francisco Bay Area regional affiliate of the Gamaliel Foundation (national community organizing network), annually presents the Carl Anthony Legacy Award for Bay Area justice, sustainability, and equity heroes. This year, Genesis has announced that Sheila Jordan, Superintendent of Alameda County Office of Education, will be the recipient of the 2014 Carl Anthony Legacy Award.
Sheila Jordan has been a courageous champion for the Free Bus Pass for Youth of Alameda County, helping to win $15 million of Transportation Expenditure Plan funds for Youth Bus Passes. Genesis will be honoring Sheila’s vision and hard work to provide at-risk students and all students the tools they need to build productive lives.
We invite you to join with Genesis in the celebration of our community visionary leader, Sheila Jordan. Breakthrough Communities is deeply inspired by the work of the Gamaliel foundation nationally, and its regional affiliate, Genesis. For more information on these remarkable organizations, visit:
https://www.genesisca.org/
https://www.gamaliel.org/
Warm Regards,
Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel, PhD
Co-Founders, Breakthrough Communities
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Time: 8:00-10:30 am
Location: St. Theresa Little Flower Catholic Church, 30 Mandalay Road, Oakland
Sheila Jordan has been a courageous champion for the Free Bus Pass for Youth of Alameda County, helping to win $15 million of Transportation Expenditure Plan funds for Youth Bus Passes. Genesis will be honoring Sheila’s vision and hard work to provide at-risk students and all students the tools they need to build productive lives.
We invite you to join with Genesis in the celebration of our community visionary leader, Sheila Jordan. Breakthrough Communities is deeply inspired by the work of the Gamaliel foundation nationally, and its regional affiliate, Genesis. For more information on these remarkable organizations, visit:
https://www.genesisca.org/
https://www.gamaliel.org/
Warm Regards,
Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel, PhD
Co-Founders, Breakthrough Communities
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Summer 2014 Earth House Internship
July 30, 2014
Welcome to our Earth House Summer 2014 interns, Brittany Nakamura and
Armando Peña! And thank you to the New Voices Are Rising project for
bringing these fabulous High School seniors to teach and learn with us.
Earth House Garden
Welcome to our Earth House Summer 2014 interns, Brittany Nakamura and
Armando Peña! And thank you to the New Voices Are Rising project for
bringing these fabulous High School seniors to teach and learn with us.
Earth House Garden