POWER TO THE PEACEFUL: What does it mean to you?

David Pocock is one of the stars in our Australian Rugby Union team, the Wallabies. He has achieved so much on the field as a player and works tirelessly off the field to affect positive change in the lives of others. He is the co-founder of EightyTwenty Vision, a non-for-profit organisation, which works with the people of Nkayi, Zimbabwe, helping the community to increase their capacity to sustain themselves and their communities. He has also kicked off Heroes Boots, a social enterprise whose goal is to use its profits to assist charities, endeavouring to bring change for those who are restricted by poverty or face isolation and oppression. He is an advocate for positive change, a passionate leader and a dear friend. Here’s what David had to say about Power To The Peaceful.

“In some ways you can’t blame young people for becoming apathetic – for becoming inwardly focused, just making sure that they get ahead in life, or just not caring at all – becoming nihilistic onlookers, disengaged from the world around them. Becoming mere shadows of the people that they could be.

We are conditioned to think in a certain way and live in a certain way, to be good consumers and ensure we play our part in the grand narrative written for us – a narrative which almost always seems to serve the interests of big business and exclude those on the fringes, in the margins.

That doesn’t have to be our story. We can be the change we want to see in the world, starting with ourselves and the people around us, and living in a way that is mindful of people that we will probably never see or meet but who we are inextricably connected to – the people who grow and make so many of the goods and products we use, wear and consume.

L-FRESH is one person inspiring others to be that change. To challenge the way they see things – to imagine another world and to realise that it is not only possible, but that another world is here, if we will only work for it and give of ourselves for others. Many of us have thought these things but are waiting for ‘the right time’ or ‘the right place’ – the right time is now and the right place is here.

I couldn’t say it better than the man himself:
‘They say patience is a virtue, but sometimes you have to take action when the moment is right. Sometimes that’s the only way things get done. We, as a global community, need to accept and appreciate change, yet know that we must take steps to create it. And the first step someone must take begins when we get up in the morning and look in the mirror.’
- L-FRESH The LION

Be the change!
Dave Pocock”

You can find out more about David on his website by clicking here; contribute to the EightyTwenty Vision by clicking here; and learn more about Heroes Boots by clicking here.

Join the Power To The Peaceful family by taking a photo of yourself wearing the t-shirt and letting us know what Power To The Peaceful means to you. Send your images and descriptions to powertothepeaceful@l-fresh.com.