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May 20
4 min

Transformative Conservation

TC in the context of climate change depends on such “outer” (societal) and “inner” (personal) transformations supporting and reinforcing one

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by Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Jul 30, 2019
3 min

Parrots are People Too

Life is an interconnected whole, and if we help relieve oppression or injustice in one location by getting at the root causes of domination,

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Merchants and Parrots: Selling Parrots is Selling Our Souls, Freeing Parrots is
Freeing Ourselves

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Apr 17, 2019
3 min

Merchants and Parrots: Selling Parrots is Selling Our Souls, Freeing Parrots is Freeing Ourselves

Only by diminishing our ego's need to dominate, can we live truly free. Love dissolves the bars of perceived separation. We live joined

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Mar 19, 2019
4 min

Parrot Conservation is a Team Sport

I wish you deep meaning in your love for parrots, and to all of us that have relationships to them, and I also know that we must face the ha

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Feb 20, 2019
2 min

How To Keep Parrots Flying Free

In every country I work, I hear one story after another about how international buyers come to an area to buy adult birds, chicks and/or egg

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Dec 18, 2018
2 min

Dreaming Big

I dream that for every homed bird in the world, which number, 249,651,000, the owners contribute $1.00 for conservation. That comes to near

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Give of Yourself on Giving Tuesday: Decolonizing Fundraising

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Nov 27, 2018
3 min

Give of Yourself on Giving Tuesday: Decolonizing Fundraising

Anthropologists, economists, and philosophers have argued that nonprofits continue the colonization process by benefiting from a system that

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Aug 2, 2018
3 min

Mourning as Co-liberation

Freeing ourselves and all life begins with mourning as a necessary action step. We do not mourn to feel better, but with the aim to liberate

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Jun 13, 2018
7 min

Mourning Over Puerto Rico

Conservation then begins with mourning because the past is riddled with human domination and violence. We have to hold that in our hearts wh

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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Apr 10, 2018
5 min

Child Protection Services for Parrots

There is also a strong relationship between parents and offspring, and it begins in the egg. One recent study showed that some bird chicks

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Understanding Intersectionality for the Freedom of All

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner with Gail Koelln

Mar 13, 2018
7 min

Understanding Intersectionality for the Freedom of All

Though we all are oppressors and oppressed, we are not bound by these cultural constraints. We need resilience because we tread a fragile pa

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Parrot Welfare Brigades - Flying Towards Freedom

Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner

Jan 17, 2018
4 min

Parrot Welfare Brigades - Flying Towards Freedom

Hondurans are undergoing civil unrest after a suspicious electoral process for President in late 2017 that is widely seen as fraudulent. Th

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The Freedom Project - None Are Free Until All Are Free

Dr. Eric A. Kreuter

Jan 2, 2018
4 min

The Freedom Project - None Are Free Until All Are Free

Housing one bred bird, as lovingly as possible, may stimulate conscious thought to the concept of relative freedom and what our responsibili

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