Campaign For Susi - Restoring this Rainbow Warrior Back to Pristine Health & Wellbeing
Many of us know Susi through her life-long commitment to campaigning for our planet and the wellbeing of all people. Now Susi needs our help
Auckland
Susi Newborn is a name familiar to anyone involved in environmental causes or betterment of the planet. Co-founder of Greenpeace International and the woman who gave the Rainbow Warrior it’s infamous name, Susi is a living legend to many and the benchmark of campaigning and activism.
Recently Susi was diagnosed with breast cancer, and with her usual warrior spirit is facing it head on and doing all she can to restore herself to full health and vitality so she can continue to advocate for issues that make each person's life reading this all the better.
Whilst Susi is in the hospital system and awaiting her surgery, she is using all the tools in her arsenal to treat all aspects of dis-ease in her body. These costs are a big part of what we are raising money for.
A life of activism and forging the path for those who have followed behind has not been highly paid for Susi, and she has used her diverse and great talents in service to global issues such as climate change, conservation, equality and poverty.
As one of the great story tellers of Aotearoa, Susi is engaged with turning her acclaimed novel 'A Bonfire in my Mouth' into a film later this year. She has many other exciting creative projects still in her. We desperately want her to be around to see this through.
It is a waste of energy for this wonderful woman to have to worry about how to pay for her treatments or even worse not have the funds to pay for them, when she needs all of her spark to restore herself to full health.
So, if you are one of those who owe your career or livelihood to those like Susi who went before you blazing the trail you now travel, with little financial reward, then please show your recognition and thanks by donating a small amount.
Similarly, if you would shout Susi a drink or a meal if you saw her around the traps, why not donate the same amount here.
The value of what she has given us collectively is such a beautiful gift. Let’s show her how much we appreciate it because it is a great testament of community to not only care for our environment but also our fellow community members, especially one as special as Susi!
Stephanie Young's involvement (page creator)
Susi is my amazing God Mama. When I grow up I want to be a Rainbow Warrior- just like her!
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Love in the time of LuluLemon 15 October 2016
Dearest Friends
The final stage of this part of my journey is over. I buried LuluLemon, on a new moon, under a dwarf lemonade tree. I mixed in some of my mother’s ashes, and some strands from my father’s vicuña poncho. I had soaked her vivid blue and green tissue in some Tequila to get rid of the preserving chemicals. Holding her in my hands, she looked back at me like the eye of a wise whale and for the first time since my diagnosis I cried. A Wiccan priestess and two fellow breast cancer warriors wrapped their arms around me in support. I threw three measures of tequila on the ground – for the maiden, the mother and the crone.
I uttered these words “We all come from Papatuanuku and to her we shall return, like a drop of rain flowing to the ocean. This piece of me that grew as my womanhood bloomed, that sustained my babies and entranced my lovers, I now return to my eternal mother.”
We finished off the tequila, ate some home-made bliss balls and went our separate ways.
I visit the small tree every day, marveling at all the fruit she has started to produce. I feel her presence in the soil. She is my link to all the mammals that have ever walked this sacred earth. She is mama, Pachamama, our creator.
Blessed be.
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