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Sue Everatt, originally UK born, is presently living in Spain.

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She is a point of contact for Spain, and one of the team administrators for TVP Activism.

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As well is a coordinator for (?) administration for the Linguistic Team International.

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(?). You guys really need to start on something real,

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instead of sitting around on Facebook all day.

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How many times are some similar comments precisely on Facebook?

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And i don’t know if people expect The Venus Project that have thousands of people

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running around the streets, throwing pamphlets about or waiting(?), hanging banners in front of (?).

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But that is not what we are about.

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And that if happens, there are a lot of people who are actually doing “real stuff” out there.

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Many would have to be dedicated part of their free time to do “real stuff”,

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to get how get TVP better known. Totally voluntarily.

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So, if you don’t mind, i would like to explain what is about TVP Activism,

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as well as what we are doing, and what are we aiming for.

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So, my name is Sue Everatt, i’m possibly(?) TVP Activism administration team,

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as well as a point of contact for Spain.

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And my part is in “administration (?)”, Sašo Luznar.

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You will see more around him, that is in black, the man in black there.

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POC for Slovenia.

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Should we (?) is?

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POC for Italy, unfortunately he were not(?) for this meeting today.

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Eemil Sulva, is the POC for Finland, he is here, hey, there he is.

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And another guy from Slovenia, co-POC with Sašo, Roberto Simonovich.

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All administrators together myself. So he is not a guess of me(?), it is a team of us.

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And we have a vision and a mission.

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And our vision is to create a global network of points of contact and activism teams,

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for spread information relevant to The Venus Project and the resource-based economy.

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And our mission is to educate Points of Contact,

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so we provide them the tools and the skills necessary

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to promote The Venus Project and the resource-based economy.

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And some of our values to create a powerful(?) environment of respect and collaboration,

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to achieve and maintain a high standard of policies of the project,

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and the integrity of the information,

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to be responsible, contactable and punctual,

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and to continuously improve our knowledge.

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And together, with the help of our wonderful points of contact we already have around the world,

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some of which many that are here today,

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we are building the structure for a well organized,

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adaptive, multinational, multicultural team of teams,

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comprise(?) the people once(?) to inform others about The Venus Project.

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We are, after all, working towards a collaborative society.

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And although there are many things that we can’t have in today’s society

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that we want in a resource based economy.

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Teams we most certainly can have.

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So, whether is organized in a screening of one of our documentaries,

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participating in local festivals with the (?),

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giving some talks somewhere like university, that is many things we do.

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Some also also have translated The Venus Project materials into other languages,

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or maybe graphic images to share virally on social media.

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The question is that working together to get this information out.

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And there is the word: Together.

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And another word: Team.

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Collaborating in teams means enjoying the benefit from other kind of teams(?),

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enjoying the benefits of the supportive system

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that is about certain things creates and shares information,

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creates good quality materials to share on social media and (?) events,

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provide access to educational materials, and organize study groups.

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Even (?) hang out (?) now what is (?) here. And you see those (?) behind (?).

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So really, it is a no brainer(?) to collaborate in a so much more efficient

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than everybody else with their (?).

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And of course we (?) of work.

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And you know, organize and volunteer from all over the globe

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from Australia, to UK, from Sri Lanka to Taiwan it’s no easy task.

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You got all of these different time zones to get into consideration,

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for example, when you want to organize an online conference.

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So, let me show you here the images

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of what some of the teams were getting up to over the last few years.

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This is Emilio, this is our point of contact in Venezuela,

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who actually took his (?) on a (?)

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one of the longest avenues (?) in a city in Venezuela,

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to call attention to The Venus Project.

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This is (?), i can’t see anything.

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This is Aiden, of the team in the UK,

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having a work with people who(?) having done screening.

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This is 2 of the points of contacts in Brazil, a wonderful (?) that they made

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to help decorate an event that they participated in.

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And this is another one from Brazil,

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it is pretty awesome screening to get to know one of the cities.

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This is a wonderful thing that they did in Bulgaria,

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all along a very long street they have all these posters of Jacque’s designs,

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and pictures of the city.

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This is a screening that was held in Chile.

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And this is some graffiti in Chile as well,

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so it is not just doing, you know, screening or so. And that is pretty cool, huh?

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And this is a school in Armenia, where our points of contact, you see one guy,

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he have got his speeches and allow students along towards Paradise or Oblivion in those days as well.

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And this is David, our point of contact in (?), lecturing in an university there.

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This is a wonderful guy, very close friend of mine, in Spain, Germán.

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He was (?) a copy of Jacque’s book The Best That Money Can’t Buy,

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translated into Spanish, to a very popular television journalist,

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who is not quite as well known as Abby, but never than less, very well known in Spanish speaking circles,

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he tends to put his finger into the, you know, the mock of corruption. Very popular there.

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So we got into (?) put to him.

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This is an activity that they did in Serbia,

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they have some wonderful photos (?), lots of events, i had to pick just a few.

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that actually is covering in some of Jacque’s pictures that was (?) in black and white,

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and they coloured them and loved it.

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Yes, in Serbia.

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And here was Serbia again, in a very nice screening that they did.

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This is our point of contact Irina, in Taiwan, doing a screening as well.

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We find the screening as the most effective ways to get the messages out, (?) say(?).

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And this is the table that we had in Italy last year.

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We were invited to participate in an event that they were doing there

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on a very interesting public.

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And we have a table with the material from The Venus Project.

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This is the audience that was there,

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they were already there just because The Venus Project, and they were very interested in it. It was good.

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And this is a photo of all of the (?) there at day(?).

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And i am (?) leave for a while, because just like you here, showing how international we are.

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We also had there representations from the United States,

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from Italy, from Slovenia, from Russia, and myself from the UK and Spain, let me say(?) “Spanglish”.

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So that was a really nice event that we had there

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that we can show the globality, or the beginning of the globality of all of this.

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Is globality a word? Anyway. Let’s carry on.

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Forget that (?) what it (?).

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Okay, so, how do we get to do these events?

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Well, certainly not by sitting on Facebook all the day, you know?

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These events come together from collaborate on things(?),

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getting together online or offline, planning and preparing, and team work.

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And how do we get to have teams?

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First of all we have points of contacts, or POC, for conduit the team.

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Get the work out there that they are out there, and looking for light minded people to get shit done.

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And how do we get to have POCs?

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By interviewing people who are interested in taking on the responsibility in the role,

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and then introduce them to an orientation process

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to prepare them as much as possible for what we have being doing.

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Once they become a POC and begin getting the world as they are,

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there, more than just to build the team, the education doesn’t stop there.

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We continue holding study groups with the goal to make sure

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we are all the same page when talking about the aims and proposals

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of the organization we (?) to volunteer for.

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And we come in a long way in the final some years of TVP Activism started up.

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For me and POCs all over the world, with is no real message of what we are doing,

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knowing that they were in the POCs out there, but not knowing what they were doing,

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or even if the were not in some cases,

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we have involved to a much more solid and supportive structure.

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With more fluid communication, collaboration and sharing the information.

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Is it perfect? Nope...

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But, to borrow the words o someone we all know,

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it’s a (?) we have before.

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Can we improve it? Absolutely.

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An every edition of the orientation process, for example, (?) of it,

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discussed and finally adapted, according to the results we achieve,

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and the comments and experiences from the candidates for participate in(?).

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And with the POCs, we hold online monthly update sessions for everyone to share their news.

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We also use these meetings to run ideas, pass to teams,

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for feedback and suggestions.

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And, in the past couple of years, we have prepared almost 14 new points of contact,

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and currently have 48 in the orientation process

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as well is a growing list of people waiting to join the process.

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So we are going in places.

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When where there (?)... Okay...

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One of the things that kind of differentiate the TVP supporter to volunteers

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from other organizations

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is the interest in learning a new way of thinking.

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Now, what do i mean by that?

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And don’t get me wrong here. I’m not trying to bash any other organizations.

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But if you support save the wales, or feed the children,

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you will turn the focus on some issues (?) for those organizations.

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Which is great, because then you understand what you are talking about to that particular issue.

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But The Venus Project takes much more further than that.

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As we have spoken around already, one of the basic understanding that we have

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is we have is there are no such things like human nature.

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But if we want to change society, we have to understand and change human behaviour.

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And how do we do that?

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What you can’t do it, if you don’t understand the values we hope today,

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and how they are going (?) into us.

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If we don’t understand why we do this, and think things differently,

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if we don’t understand these things as well, for example,

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as how the monetary system is no longer functional,

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we wont be able to design a system that works for everyone.

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And it is not something we can fully learn and understand

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from watching a couple of documentaries, it’s an ongoing process.

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Absorbing the information, and holding it against our own (?) and values.

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So, this is a very important part of what we are doing in the activism for The Venus Project.

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Learning more, so it is to be able to transmit the information correctly.

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So if that trying to spend(?) efficiently, and not sharing misconceptions that would only confuse the message.

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And you know, we all like to think of ourselves as “normal”

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that is everyone else that needs to change.

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But what happens when you start listening to Jacque and Roxanne talk,

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as in the issue(?) of how fucked up we all are. Without exception.

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Well, there is a little (?) would says that, (?) it was just chat talk(?).

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And it takes a lot longer than a week and course(?), to learn about how the future can be,

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and how to unfuck the world.

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So, how can we join in this? How can we become a part of what we are doing?

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We are currently preparing a new website specifically for The Venus Project activism.

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And we are going to announce its launch through the newsletter.

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So, if you have not already signed up for the newsletter,

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what you are waiting for, do it today or tomorrow, okay?

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And then you will be in the know of some of the activism website already.

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Well, there would be, once the website is up there,

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we will have a link to it through The Venus Project website itself.

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For more immediate contact this time, all right,

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instead of waiting for the website, and this time is the Jacque’s Centennial Event,

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you can visit our global Facebook page, (?), the link, okay?

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Where in the about section, you can find a list

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of the Facebook groups and pages to collaborate with us.

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If you ever come across a page or a group that isn’t on the list,

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it means that aren’t part of the TVP activism,

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that are simply doing things off on their alignment.

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And in the about section, you would also find a list of the current POCs around the world.

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If there is no (?)POC in your country or state, contact them,

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to offer what help you can in whatever you are trying to do,

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used to be a start over a team.

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But being aware that in some in certain amount of people who can gather together on a local level,

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any activism done, for most likely will be online,

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be patient and constant, and understand that it isn’t something we are finished in this coming week.

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What The Venus Project needs from us now is to spread awareness about this direction.

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And we need people with stickability.

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To keep on, even when things are difficult.

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We don’t need what i call the fireworks,

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people who zoom in, with bright sparking energy,

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and they last for brief time, before they (?) out(?),

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and they leave nothing, but (?) on that(?).

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Take the time to find out what is going on, and what is needed.

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And then you see better way you can help.

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It is very important that we work together on this.

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If we don’t do this in an organized fashion, we would have a total chaos.

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And all the world structured work, if achieved so far,

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and we are aiming to build skills, will be lost.

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So, i am standing an invitation for those supporters who have not yet done so,

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to joining with us, as pioneers.

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Building an even stronger online and offline team structure to work from,

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to change the world.

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Thank you.