Peacekeeper Truth Serum Blog

Founded in 1987, Domestic Violence Awareness Month is a chance to bring together people around the world to join in the common cause of ending violence against women and their children.

The 2012 Day of Unity was celebrated Monday, October 1, and was commemorated with events across the country. Here are a few of our favorite events, activities, and thoughts about DVAM:

• Hungry for Justice: Food Security and Violence Against Women. Author Sarah Kalloch eloquently discusses the disturbing correlations between world hunger and domestic violence. (Note: World Food Day is tomorrow, October 16th; read this essay to see how you can participate.)
• In Tonawanda, NY, the local YWCA is lit up with purple spotlights to increase awareness of domestic violence and women’s support services.
• Bliss Tree made a list of 8 ways to spot domestic abuse.
• If you’re interested in creating an event of your own, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence has a list of resources and activity ideas.
• And last but not least:  President Obama’s DVAM 2012 Proclamation.

How have you celebrated Domestic Violence Awareness Month?  Leave us a comment sharing your stories.

With Love,
The PeaceKeeper Team
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This week, we’re shouting out to NYC’s hottest new approach to sustainable technology – The Lowline!

Inspired by the success of the High Line (an NYC elevated freight line converted into a stunning public park) a group called The Delancey Underground Project aims to create an underground green space using an abandoned trolley terminal beneath Delancey Street, on New York’s Lower East Side. The designers are planning to use cutting-edge green technology to enable a functional below-ground ecosystem; sunlight, reflected underground, would save electricity while allowing plants, trees, and grass to thrive.

It looks like their dreams may become a reality very soon; The Delancey Underground Project recently had a successful Kickstarter run back in April, and they are hosting events through the month of September to increase community interest in the project. Ultimately, the creators of the Lowline hope to “provide tremendous opportunities for creative expression, while challenging assumptions of the way humans work, live, commute, and interact”; this includes community programs such as art exhibits, farmers’ markets, and educational series. “This space will be more than a space,” says the project’s website. “It will generate community, and it will inspire in the way beautiful environments can inspire.”

We at PeaceKeeper are super excited to have a new park in NYC, especially one that’s using cutting-edge sustainable technology to make the world a greener place! To find out more, you can visit thelowline.org or check out their old Kickstarter campaign.

Image courtesy Delancey Underground Kickstarter.

With Love,
The PeaceKeeper Team
www.iamapeacekeeper.com

PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics is the only cosmetics company to give donations to urgent human rights issues around the world.
Want to become a PeaceKeeper too? Check out our products and the causes we support!

TRUTH SERUM
Volume 1

Welcome to PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics new blog called Truth Serum. Why call a beauty line’s blog Truth Serum? It is because we need BIG doses of the truth. It is because truth is the single most beautiful quality we have. Truth, when spoken or lived, shines brightly and takes our breath away. Most radically truth helps us see clearly and deeply into what is really important and what is not.

Truth, when lived in every aspect of our lives, creates power in us – but the right kind of power. Yogis say that when one practices truthfulness then ultimately whatever one says will come true. Well, I look at it like this… when someone is really truthful they are deeply trusted; people open their hearts up to them and feel safe with them. When someone is established is real truth, love surrounds them… Now that’s Beautiful!

This is the same for a product brand. When established in real truth, everyone knows it and supports the brand. We see this with Paul Newman’s products and other Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability, or LOHAS, brands. So our blog will focus on truth in business, truth in cosmetics and truth in life.

To start with, why is it important to create a brand that gives its after-tax profits to women’s health advocacy and human rights issues? aim is to allow all of us women in the land-of-plenty can help create a bridge to women and girls who, just by chance of birth, can’t even afford food; let alone lipstick. It is because our empowerment is deeply tied to their well-being and empowerment, because its even more fulfilling to take good care of ourselves while helping others in urgent need!

I call this “co-powerment” – not just my empowerment but our empowerment. This bridge that we can build together will enable us to walk over to things that are not so comfortable for us, enabling us to reach deeper into our hearts to the home of compassion and empathy. This bridge will enable our peers who live in great danger to have a more fulfilled, sustainable, non-violent and free lives. This bridge builds what I call “Eternal Equity”. Equity, real equity; that is probably the single most beautiful thing there is … more beautiful than youth, or wealth or fame. Equity enables us all to feel good… not just some of us. ALL of us…Eternal Equity…Equity that turns out to be the Holy Grail. When win/win is found, a type of gentle sweetness prevails.
Equity inspires us to share, to celebrate together… It actually instantaneously removes loneliness… If I could bottle equity, I would! Instead, I want to whisper it to you like a treasured secret… at all times, in all that you do, PLEASE make it as equitable as you can. I promise you, you will feel GREAT every time that you do.

Therefore, the goal of PeaceKeeper’s Truth Serum Blog is to create this bridge, explore the concept of Eternal Equity, explore what real beauty is and to play! We have such enormous hearts… let’s explore these things together to co-create a more fulfilling life!