Thank you so much Matthew Green - brilliant! This felt a bit personal to me as well, as I was a long-time employee of Reuters (way before your time!), and always held the company up to be a bastion of integrity. I also offer my skills as a facilitator free of charge for anything you feel worth suggesting. I regularly offer 4-day retreats (see "The Edge" https://heartcommunitygroup.org/the-edge-a-4-day-retreat/) in the gift. Thank you.
Appreciate you poking at the painful mess we are all entangled in—and your suggestions for how things could be different bring in new light and energy. Doing the work here.
Thank you for this profound writing, Matthew, which speaks to me as both a roadmap through your experience as a sensitive, reflective human being who is rightfully triggered by this conference and the inherent conflicts of interest, and as a journalist committed to integrity, slaying the monsters of complacency and greed in your wake. This topic deserves nothing less than the fierce, bold approach you've brought to it. Your directness in calling the leadership of Reuters to task is the "walking the talk" we need to roll up our sleeves, and get this work done. Thank you for modeling true leadership here. I feel informed, outraged, and at last, hopeful, as I read the depth of your insights.
Such a wonderful piece. Thank you for your persistence and fortitude in seeing it through. Lately I am weeping daily over new graphs posted on Twitter showing insane temperatures of ocean and air across our dear planet. I am 66 years old, and I attended the first Earth Day events. I feel so incredibly hopeless and helpless most of the time. Your essay relieves me in some way of a portion of the burden I feel I have been carrying for the past 5 decades. I breathe a little easier knowing you are in this world with me. Also I am reading this because of your connection to Thomas Huebl's teachings which I was fortunate enough to come across last year. So thank you to him as well. Sending love and strength. Sincerely, Anne
Matt, I offer my skills as a constellations facilitator, healer of collective trauma trained by Thomas Hubl and systemic thinker if Reuters Events participants with any ethical qualms agree to meet... no charge
Dear Matthew - I found the central core of my body responding as I read your reflections on what you are processing in relation to Reuters - and at different points a lump came to my throat, my head hurt, my heart space tightened, and tears came behind my eyes much of the time. I felt anger and lots of grief, and also a mixture of appreciation and empathy for you, and little sparks of hope alongside the pulses of despair. I was reminded of the grief and heart-filling hope I felt at the Pocket Project special on climate that you and Kosha hosted recently.
I was glad too to be reminded of 'fractal agency' in your article. I just looked up Karen O'Brien and found her webinar title 'You matter more than you think' - this directly relates in my mind the 'Theory of Change' from the soon-to-be-launched Climate Majority Project. I had been meaning to contact you to see if you had come across it - I wonder if it resonates with you and other readers of Resonant World as an overview of where we are in the UK in relation to action on climate? I just came across it as it was forwarded on to me through a local sustainability action group I belong to. I would be really interested to hear how it seems to you and others!....
I know the above may feel a bit of a tangent but I realise I also felt conscious of loneliness / aloneness as I read your article and I feel it now as I write into the ether. I want to trust that what we are attempting to do is acknowledge and work with the energies amongst 'the Climate Majority', and support and grow the connections amongst ourselves and thereby grow Radical Hope and real and radical change in ourselves and the world......
Many thanks for your work Matthew. I really hope there will be further ways opening up in relation to Reuters. You have done a great bit of work here to share this with us. The ripples from it will be flowing out.
Thank you Matt, for more insightful and personal reflection. Welcome to the world of corporate capture of the media. A journalist who made this excellent documentary about censorship in New Zealand (see http://www.silenced.co.nz/?fbclid=IwAR0C-7TO578a_wM-98bRqlJ36Qzb1jtya4gOaQ0i_9maQpSbAwu7KPzIMLc) was curious to find that when she worked on a news desk during Covid, the usual protocol about checking sources and bias didn't apply to reports from Reuters. That prompted her to dig deeper and she discovered that the CEO of Pfizer was on the board of Reuters! Coincidence, or sinister? As you say, it's all about the money.......
Thank you so much Matthew Green - brilliant! This felt a bit personal to me as well, as I was a long-time employee of Reuters (way before your time!), and always held the company up to be a bastion of integrity. I also offer my skills as a facilitator free of charge for anything you feel worth suggesting. I regularly offer 4-day retreats (see "The Edge" https://heartcommunitygroup.org/the-edge-a-4-day-retreat/) in the gift. Thank you.
Appreciate you poking at the painful mess we are all entangled in—and your suggestions for how things could be different bring in new light and energy. Doing the work here.
Thank you for this profound writing, Matthew, which speaks to me as both a roadmap through your experience as a sensitive, reflective human being who is rightfully triggered by this conference and the inherent conflicts of interest, and as a journalist committed to integrity, slaying the monsters of complacency and greed in your wake. This topic deserves nothing less than the fierce, bold approach you've brought to it. Your directness in calling the leadership of Reuters to task is the "walking the talk" we need to roll up our sleeves, and get this work done. Thank you for modeling true leadership here. I feel informed, outraged, and at last, hopeful, as I read the depth of your insights.
Such a wonderful piece. Thank you for your persistence and fortitude in seeing it through. Lately I am weeping daily over new graphs posted on Twitter showing insane temperatures of ocean and air across our dear planet. I am 66 years old, and I attended the first Earth Day events. I feel so incredibly hopeless and helpless most of the time. Your essay relieves me in some way of a portion of the burden I feel I have been carrying for the past 5 decades. I breathe a little easier knowing you are in this world with me. Also I am reading this because of your connection to Thomas Huebl's teachings which I was fortunate enough to come across last year. So thank you to him as well. Sending love and strength. Sincerely, Anne
Matt, I offer my skills as a constellations facilitator, healer of collective trauma trained by Thomas Hubl and systemic thinker if Reuters Events participants with any ethical qualms agree to meet... no charge
Dear Matthew - I found the central core of my body responding as I read your reflections on what you are processing in relation to Reuters - and at different points a lump came to my throat, my head hurt, my heart space tightened, and tears came behind my eyes much of the time. I felt anger and lots of grief, and also a mixture of appreciation and empathy for you, and little sparks of hope alongside the pulses of despair. I was reminded of the grief and heart-filling hope I felt at the Pocket Project special on climate that you and Kosha hosted recently.
I was glad too to be reminded of 'fractal agency' in your article. I just looked up Karen O'Brien and found her webinar title 'You matter more than you think' - this directly relates in my mind the 'Theory of Change' from the soon-to-be-launched Climate Majority Project. I had been meaning to contact you to see if you had come across it - I wonder if it resonates with you and other readers of Resonant World as an overview of where we are in the UK in relation to action on climate? I just came across it as it was forwarded on to me through a local sustainability action group I belong to. I would be really interested to hear how it seems to you and others!....
I know the above may feel a bit of a tangent but I realise I also felt conscious of loneliness / aloneness as I read your article and I feel it now as I write into the ether. I want to trust that what we are attempting to do is acknowledge and work with the energies amongst 'the Climate Majority', and support and grow the connections amongst ourselves and thereby grow Radical Hope and real and radical change in ourselves and the world......
Many thanks for your work Matthew. I really hope there will be further ways opening up in relation to Reuters. You have done a great bit of work here to share this with us. The ripples from it will be flowing out.
Thank you Matt, for more insightful and personal reflection. Welcome to the world of corporate capture of the media. A journalist who made this excellent documentary about censorship in New Zealand (see http://www.silenced.co.nz/?fbclid=IwAR0C-7TO578a_wM-98bRqlJ36Qzb1jtya4gOaQ0i_9maQpSbAwu7KPzIMLc) was curious to find that when she worked on a news desk during Covid, the usual protocol about checking sources and bias didn't apply to reports from Reuters. That prompted her to dig deeper and she discovered that the CEO of Pfizer was on the board of Reuters! Coincidence, or sinister? As you say, it's all about the money.......