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“After 41 detoxes, 8 rehabs, 8 psych wards, 6 incarcerations, 4 years living in abandoned buildings shooting dope and smoking crack I was at the tipping point ready to take my own life. I said, ‘Jesus, if you’re real then I need you to change me. If you do I’ll dedicate the rest of my life to telling people about you, but you’ve gotta help me, I can’t do it on my own.’ I began to visit a church and a pastor told me ‘Just be real and listen, if it doesn’t work for you go back to what you were doing.’ I’ve found no reason after 17 years to do what I used to do. Amen.”
“I used to be involved in running the streets, running amuck. Thank god for my kids' dad when I left the house. That was what I thought I wanted to do. I stayed in contact with my kids, but one day they got their bike stolen from them and it really just eww…I wasn’t out there stealing, but I saw people stealing stuff and selling it for drugs. When I saw that happen to my kids, it killed me. You don’t never know who you take something from, you know what I mean? So I got outta that. Certain things you go through in life, you don’t really know…until it hits you.”
Ishmael is a blacksmith. He learned his trade, ”from my father,” he says. Ishmael bangs out new tools from old scraps of metal taken from cars (leaf springs). What are the positives and negatives of his job? It’s hot but he makes good money.
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Ya rendidos y fríos, exhaustos,
Los cuerpos se separan, sus poderes se anulan y una tregua se abre sobre sus blancos lienzos y sobre la comba imperial de sus caderas. .
"Of course, I didn’t listen right away and I continued with the Hunger Project. I went to Ghana and was sitting in on a board meeting there. When I was talking to the men, with their gorgeous blue black faces, these orange geometric shapes started showing up on their faces. I thought I was having a moment. I left the meeting and went to the ladies room. When I got back it started happening again and I burst into tears. I thought I was sick and went back to San Francisco. The whole way on the plane the faces kept coming, whether I had eyes open or eyes closed. I finally took a leave from the Hunger Project and went to the Amazon. We started in Quito down in the volcanoes and then went down the eastern side of the Andes. A tiny, tiny plane took us to a river by Achuar territory. When we landed they came out of the forest with their orange geometric face paint, red, yellow, and black feather crowns with spears and our encounter began. That was the beginning of the Pachamama Alliance. It wasn’t my plan for myself, but it was my destiny.”
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"After a few weeks, newly sprouted radish appeared and we brought them to the garden for a visit and harvest. It was, for each of them, the first time they’d ever harvested a vegetable. It was deeply gratifying, but when they bit into the intensely bitter radish, their faces were priceless. These students ate candy and soda for breakfast and Popeye’s for lunch. A peppery vegetable, still coated with the residue of dirt was in no way reminiscent of the things they enjoyed eating or were familiar with. But still, they’d gotten in the dirt, seen the life of this thing they’d otherwise ignored and tasted something from the ground. Even if they didn’t love what they were eating, they’d never think about a radish or a garden in the same way again."
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“1977 I helped create The Hunger Project which is focused on ending world hunger through the context of transformation, consciousness, and integrity. I became completely devoted to ending world hunger and not it’s a huge organization with millions of people involved and hunger has moved from being a hopeless, inevitable tragedy to something that will clearly end by the year 2030. The human family is waking up to the fact that we’re all responsible for each other.”
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“What’s your favorite part of this work?”
“My favorite part of this work is getting to know folks who have seen adversity. Getting to work alongside them and see them to their full potential. Very often in the United States we’re not seeing people to their full potential.”
“What’s the most challenging part of this work?”
“One of the most challenging things about this process is sustaining a non-profit. It’s not easy to fund a non-profit and people who work at non-profits don’t get paid much. It feels to me that that should be the opposite. Sometimes it’s hard to have to beg for something that you believe in so much because you just want people to be with you. We have an effective model, we’re on the ground providing quality services and moving people out of homelessness. Why are we not growing to support the 40 people on the wait list? There are people who want our help to get their lives on track just waiting for there to be space for them to get help.”
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"I’m at a stage in my life where I’m comfortable but not excited. I’m bored so I need excitement and challenges and something that will wake me up.”
“What excites you?”
“Being able to impact people, and not entirely give them everything they want, but at least make an impact in their life. That makes me feel relevant. So making someone feel relevant makes me feel relevant.”
From the 2017 Hive Program
“My mom moved out of Brazil to bring us here to have a better life.”
“What was your life like in Brazil?”
“It wasn’t bad, but for her with 3 kids it wasn’t what she expected for our future. She wanted something better.”