Can you feel it: the tremor beneath the headlines, the fierce insistence that a better world is possible? As we witness the People’s Movement rise across borders, I ask the question: What are you doing with this moment of awakening?
As a rising Indigenous soul, my first instinct in times of great change is to look toward the heavens for reflection. As we welcomed 2026, astrologers anticipated February’s Aries, Saturn-Neptune conjunction as a threshold between dissolving structures and new beginnings. This echoes a larger astral movement underway: the passage from the Age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius, a shift some astrologers associate with moving beyond rigid hierarchies and institutionalized separation and toward collective connection, humanitarianism and equality.
I receive that symbolism as a call to action. What might humanity become if we measured abundance by the lives we nourish, the waters we protect and the dignity we defend? Here on our beautiful Grandmother Earth, answering that question requires our hands and feet collectively in motion.
This harvest season, the most powerful thing we cultivate may be courage.
In the U.S., the “No Kings” movement has carried that courage into streets, parks and town squares. Organizers reported more than 8 million participants in the March 28 mobilization; solidarity demonstrations reached Europe. ACLED independently recorded more than 2,400 U.S. demonstrations and found over 99% to be peaceful.
Their message is unmistakable; Americans resisting Donald Trump will not quietly accept what they see as tyranny and oligarchic rule. Democracy cannot belong to whichever billionaire can afford the loudest microphone.
California’s Bay Area filled with protesters challenging immigration crackdowns and presidential power. Thousands marched through Seattle, temporarily closing city streets, while Portland’s waterfront swelled with demonstrators, with organizers estimating tens of thousands. Our neighbors are channeling outrage into passionate, peaceful action to defend one another and the U.S. Constitution.
That demand for accountability also reaches local governance. On June 9, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved an emergency moratorium on applications for new large data centers. Seattle Times journalist Victor Menaldo argues the pause risks sacrificing economic benefits. However, the council’s concerns about electricity demand, water use and neighborhood impacts deserve public scrutiny. For those of us who believe that “water is life,” this debate reaches beyond technology: Who benefits from development, who shoulders its burdens and how do we protect the generations still coming?
Across the great ocean, France is experiencing its own upheaval. According to an article published Oct. 24, 2026, on investing.com, authorities counted 410,000 demonstrators nationwide; the people’s unions claimed more. Students, workers and yellow vest activists have challenged inequality, living costs and deteriorating public services. Student pressure helped secure government commitments on school investment and admissions reform.
Young people helped force open doors; accountable governance must follow. This statement rings true as Serbia shows the world what sustained organizing can achieve. Student-backed candidates defeated Aleksandar Vucic’s governing alliance in October after an anti-corruption movement was sparked. This was an echo from the Nepali March 2026 elections following the 2025 youth uprising, delivering a landslide to the Rastriya Swatantra Party.
In Brazil this past October, voters reelected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, renewing hope for environmental and Indigenous activists, who have long been standing in protection of the great Amazon. Associated Press journalist Gabriela Sá Pessoa reports Brazil’s Climate Observatory, a nonprofit network containing 172 organizations, hailed Lula’s reelection.
“The goal of ending deforestation across Brazil’s biomes must be pursued relentlessly,” the group said.
Indigenous defenders know vigilance cannot end at the ballot box.
For Palestine, solidarity is a refusal to let human suffering become background noise. In an Oct. 26 report for The Eagle, Safia Malhotra described hundreds marching outside the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 10, with keffiyehs draped over shoulders and Palestinian flags raised, “demanding freedom for Palestinians and an end to U.S. military aid to Israel.”
The Palestinian Youth Movement joined a Global Day of Action that Malhotra reported encompassed more than 250 protests across over 60 countries.
“We’re here to demand an end to the genocide,” Anti-War Committee DMV member Katie Sayur told The Eagle.
Our shared humanity calls us to defend the dignity of families whose lives, homelands and futures hang in the balance. Compassion must become action.
And so it is, OGs, as our cosmos continues to shift into an era of deep awakening and community resurrection, we are witnessing movements carried forward by the people, for the people. They are collective, distinct, unfinished and fully alive. These movements share neither one ideology nor one finish line. From ballots to riverbanks, people are cultivating accountability.
As a Native woman and Cannabis storyteller, I see harvest as reciprocity: tending what sustains us and leaving nourishment for those still coming. Here are a few ways that you can take an active stance and rise with the harvest of revolution — power to the people!
1. Vote locally and nationally. Research candidates, and protect access to the ballot. Volunteer for door-to-door voter education movements.
2. Back Indigenous leadership. Support Native sovereignty, treaty enforcement and land back movements.
3. Organize peacefully. Join community groups, public hearings and sustained campaigns.
4. Practice reciprocity. Support mutual aid, food gardens and habitat restoration.
5. Demand accountability. Press officials on human rights, environmental protections and equitable humanitarian reform.
