It is my belief that we are part of a movement that is greater and deeper and broader than we ourselves know, or can know

It flies under the radar of the media by and large; it is nonviolent, it is grassroots; it has no cluster bombs, no armies, no helicopters; it has no central ideology; and a male vertebrate is not in charge.

This unnamed movement is the most diverse movement the world has ever seen. The very word ‘movement’ I think is too small to describe it.

No one started this world view. No one is in charge of it. There is no orthodoxy. It is global, classless, unquenchable and tireless.

This shared understanding is arising spontaneously from different economic sectors, cultures, regions and cohorts.

It is growing and spreading worldwide with no exception.

It has many roots but primarily the origins are indigenous culture, the environment and social justice movements.

Those three sectors and their sub-sectors are intertwining, morphing, enlarging.

This is no longer or simply about resources, or infractions or injustice. This is fundamentally a civil rights movement, a human rights movement; this is a democracy movement.

It is the coming world

What you’re seeing here is the beginning of a list of the 130,000 minimum… organizations in the world who work towards social and environmental justice and that’s the minimum. It may be 250,000 groups, it may be 500,000 groups

Read these names. They’re unfamiliar to you most of them. We do not know how big this movement is.

It is marked by kinship and community and symbiosis; it is pachamama. It is mama; it’s the earth talking back, waking up.

What you see is your kin on that screen and to give you a sense of how big this movement is if I had started this tape on Friday morning at 9am when this conference began and if we sat here all day Friday, all night Friday, all day Saturday, all night Saturday all day Sunday, all night tonight and all day Monday we still would not have seen the names of all the groups in the world….. who we are.

It is so new, we can’t recognise it.

We’re familiar with armies and governments and war and churches and religions but this is…there’s no precedent for what we are doing.

What you are creating is completely unknown; it is everywhere; there is no centre; there is no one spokesperson; it is in every country and city on earth; it is within every tribe, every race, every culture and every ethnic group in the world

This is the first time on earth that a powerful non-ideological movement has arisen.

During the span of the 20th century big ideologies were worshipped like religion; they dominated our beliefs … capitalism, socialism, communism

In the words of Ed Hunt, “ideologies stalked the earth clad in armour”; they fought for the control of our minds and the lands and it wasn’t pretty; and we were told that salvation would be found in the domination of a single system

This is where salvation will be found

We know that as biologists; we know that as community organizers; we know that as ecologists: it is found in diversity

This movement is humanity’s immune response to resist and heal … political disease, economic infection and ecological corruption caused by ideologies.

So it is up to us to decide… how will we be? Who will we be?…

This is what it is we’re building …the capacity to respond

It is about possibilities and solutions

Humankind knows what to do.