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title: "Step Into Your Power"
date: 2009-11-29T15:47:17Z
modified: 2009-11-30T14:10:34Z
permalink: "https://350.org/tempest/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: "We've shown you thousands of happy pictures from around the world on Oct. 24--here's a sad one."
wpid: 14264
author: Bill McKibben
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We’ve shown you thousands of happy pictures from around the world on Oct. 24–here’s a sad one. Tempest–a 25-year-old spoken word artist and musician–closed the event on Hornby Island British Columbia that day with the spirited spoken word poem below.

 Earlier this month she was found dead in an apparant homicide. Much much too young, obviously, and with a great deal left to tell the world. We hope her words here will resonate, and we’re grateful to have been her colleagues.

_Callin’ all People
 Come together
 With eachother
 To make this world bb-better!_[](https://www.350.org/tempest) _I’m calling you out:
 all you freaks all you of the counter culture,
 all you dissidents, those who disagree with the way
 things are going.
 How we are being manipulated,
 Processed and Regurgitated
 Made passive and separated_

 People!

 I’m calling you out:
 Out of your comfort shell as an individual to
 experience this diverse community
 For divided we fall.
 Made small by the consumer safety net invented to keep
 you indebted.
 Come out of your padded castle built on guilt and
 repression out into the street to meet those of like
 mind for we live in a time that is running out!

 Callin’ all People
 Come together
 With eachother
 To make this world bb-better!

 I’m calling you out:
 For we all agree that something is amiss
 That we’ve been misplaced and now we’re about to be
 found out recognizing the similarities that bind us
 united they can’t terrorize us for we are the

 People!

 I’m calling you out:
 For though we stand on different sands
 We comprise the shores of this vast land
 Under the sun, beneath the skin
 Finding ourselves as spirit again
 Soul beings seeing the same light
 Arising to our divine senses we were given
 In these bodies to make a difference with our
 existance!

 Callin’ all People
 Come together
 With eachother
 To make this world better!

 I’m callin you out:
 To listen, let go of the hallow throat of division
 Revive your eyes made dull and blind by over
 stimulation
 Allow yourself the space to be made uncomfortable at
 the rate of decline of inquiring minds
 Succombing to the dumbing down of our natural
 inclination to question!

 People!

 I’m calling you out:
 So come out with me to the fields and streets and
 we’ll gather our scattered faith
 Start to recover our inner vision
 Eliminate the estranged skin
 Superimposed segregation
 These toxic ways outdated
 The jaded soil of modernization.
 Dig in! Revitalize this great sacred earth that
 provides us with life
 Worn tired and thin by the tramping feet of 6.7
 bbbbillion

 Callin’ all People
 Come together
 With eachother
 To make this world better!

 I’m calling you out:
 Lay down your arms of dissention
 Political bickering of race and religion
 To embrace the whole of the human essence
 The gift of our mass restlessness to make constructive
 changes
 Register the big picture locally
 Bring it home become strong within your own nation
 Realize that the truth resides in you!

 People!

 I’m calling you out:
 That in our strength we not stant apart because we are
 each a part of the solution
 As fingers to the hand spinning strands with every
 orchestration, conducting the weave into a culmination
 of planetary understanding
 Demanding recognition of this collective
 transmigration
 Cultivating the teachings of 7 generations
 the cause is ready for you to step into your power

 I’m Callin all People!
 Come together
 With eachother
 To make this world bb-better!

 I’m calling all…. Calling all…. We’re callin
 aaaalll People!