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Talk About It. Prepared by Teone Reinthal 2010. …it’s everybody’s business. RECONCILIATION. Prepared by Teone Reinthal 2010. ACTIVISM IS MY RENT FOR LIVING ON THIS PLANET. ALICE WALKER. Prepared by Teone Reinthal 2010. ...one planet, one experiment!. E.O. WILSON.
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Talk About It Prepared by Teone Reinthal 2010
…it’s everybody’s business RECONCILIATION Prepared by Teone Reinthal 2010
ACTIVISM IS MY RENT FOR LIVING ON THIS PLANET ALICE WALKER Prepared by Teone Reinthal 2010
...one planet, one experiment! E.O. WILSON Prepared by Teone Reinthal 2010
Injustice anywhere Is a threat to justice everywhere MARTIN LUTHER KING
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell Prepared by Teone Reinthal 2010
When spiders unite they can tie down a lion ETHIOPIAN PROVERB Prepared by Teone Reinthal 2010
Water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Prepared by Teone Reinthal 2010
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always. Mahatma Gandhi Prepared by Teone Reinthal 2010
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action GOETHE Prepared by Teone Reinthal 2010
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & THANK YOU FOR BEING ... Many of the pages in this powerpoint were sourced from TAKE IT PERSONALLY - edited by Anita Roddick DISPATCH: I Will Miss Her Every Day - Gordon Roddick - Posted on October 16, 2007 from Anita Roddick.com At 6:30pm on Monday, 10th September, someone reached into my heart and turned out all the lights. In an instant that funny, vibrant woman who was my wife, lover and closest friend was gone. With the passing of our beloved Anita we first feel an enormous rent in the fabric of our world, a world she adored and fought gracefully but fiercely to preserve and improve. The tributes pouring in from around the world remind us of how uniquely fortunate we are to have had Anita in our lives. We are all, in some fashion, her family and her friend. Whether you knew her as intimately as some of us did, or admired her from afar, or perhaps never heard of her until today, the world you live in (and that your children and grandchildren will live in) is a different, better place for her having been in it. A piece of Anita is in that part of you that reads a label to find out if your mascara was tested on rabbits, or your lotion contains organic, fairly traded ingredients. Anita is in that part of you that says “I’m beautiful the way I am.” She is in that part of you that thinks “I have a great, crazy idea, and I’m going to make it a reality.” She is in that part of you that tries to avoid buying clothes made in sweatshops. She is in that part of you that feels enraged at injustice and compelled to add your voice to the choir of dissent. She left us far too soon, we can all imagine her aged 94 marching to 10 Downing Street to demand the decommissioning of the Trident program, or in the jungles of Brazil bringing back healing botanical secrets from the Amazon tribes she fought so hard to protect, or shooting the rapids on a wild river in the Yukon like she did the month before she died. She loved to quote Dorothy Sayers: “A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force.” Indeed some of us believed that, despite her health concerns, if anyone could finagle her way out of mortality, Anita could. If Anita were reading this, she’d tell us to quit the sycophancy and say something funny. Well, Anita told the best stories, and lived perhaps the most unlikely, hilarious, inspiring, and experience-packed story ever told. It can be hard in our grief to muster a laugh, yet those who spent time with her know that our tears are frequently interrupted by laughter when we remember moments with her. When she passed she had begun to work with Sam and the company on the issues of human trafficking and I am very happy that the company has wholeheartedly embraced the issue. Anita laughed every day. She laughed a moment before she left us, and she couldn’t have scripted a more elegant and Anita-esque exit. She would demand that we stop with all the tears and think of something deliciously, irreverently risqué. To laugh, and especially to act, is the least we can do to begin to repay our debt to her and to honour her great life. As Anita loved to say: “The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.” So we ask only that you take your spark, go out and do something. Engage. Learn. Be fiercely kind. Have a child’s sense of wonderment. Tell someone you love them. Write a letter to the editor. Demand a better media. Contact your representatives in government. Talk about sex shamelessly. Eat pasta. Give change to a homeless person. Buy organic. Donate to or volunteer for: Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Reprieve, The Coalition to Free the Angola Three, or the cause that most connects with your heart and soul. In a film to be shown at Anita’s memorial some of her last words to camera were to exhort all of us as individuals to “just do something.” I can only echo that in her memory. I will miss her every day. Gordon GO STRAIGHT TO - Anita Roddick.com
