The Earthfolk vision of dwelling peacefully and comfortably at-home on the Living Earth is an initial expression of a “movement” that arose from within several other movements.

August 6, 1945 and December 24, 1968 are bookends to the start of the "movement to militarized outer space." Within the span of those twenty-three years, the Nuclear Age opened and the militarization of the core institutions of the dominant global societies began to take root and develop. During this same timeframe, the Earthfolk movement began to form as a counter-movement to the militarization of the Earth and of outer space.

Throughout history “movements” have arisen that have had social, cultural and spiritual impact but little hard and clear organizational definition. In this light, Earthfolk’s “we” is a movement pronoun. It is a we whose identity is continually forming. It is a catalytic we, not an authoritative one.

During the movement to militarize Earth and outer space, dissenting views were publicly aired by various

“movements”—
the nonviolent movement,
the civil rights movement,
the anti-war movement,
the women’s movement,
the gay rights movement,
the Native American movement,
the Green movement, among many others.

 

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