A proposal from DANCE-Atlantic (Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement): A Buddhist No-Fly Pledge. Buddhist teachers and practitioners take too many air-flights over long distances to teach, go on retreats, study or engage in ‘spiritual tourism’. These flights are taken by the very same people who claim to teach and practice environmental awareness. I am… Read More Decarbonize Buddhism
Engage! is dedicating it’s space on the web to highlight one cause, and this time it’s Detention Watch Network’s campaign to end family detention, to end the rape and abuse of women and children in immigrant detention centers, to demand justice for the “disappearance” of 1500 children under DHS custody…this brutality and injustice is an… Read More Engage w/Detention Watch Network
ENGAGE! IS THE DHARMA OF CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT, social, scientific and spiritual. Our mission is to bring about awakening through the exploration of our deep interconnectedness, our interbeing with the phenomenal world. Engage! is looking for inspired activists to offer posts, articles, poetry, photos, videos, drawings, animations, music, song, and spoken word to the magazine. Send us your… Read More Get Engaged! Submit Your Beautiful Noise
The Disinformation Age: Beware the ‘Weaponized’ Web, Says Guy Who Helped Elect Trump Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie on Facebook, democracy and hope. Christopher Wylie, of highlighter hair and Cambridge Analytica fame, was in Vancouver this week to talk about “Confronting the Disinformation Age.” In 2018, Wylie blew the whistle on Facebook and consultancy firm… Read More Digital Fascism 3: Wylie and the Weaponized Web
Why the reaction to Extinction Rebellion reveals the scale of climate conflict to come By Christopher Silver, originally published in Bella Caledonia April 23, 2019 I’d like to spend a few hours inside the head of one of those commuters who faced some kind of disruption to their schedule due to the Extinction Rebellion protests… Read More #XR: Disrupting the Carbon Capitalist System
I had thought of the lack of material culture in Buddhism, compared with other religions, as a ‘lack’. Buddhist music, dance and visual art, what there is of it, is pretty meager. But now I see it as an opportunity, a wide open space to create whatever we want, contemporary, radical art, even the avant… Read More Bangkok Art Biennale at Wat Arun
This German investigative news program digs deep to show who and what was behind the two most surprising electoral campaigns of 2016: the Brexit Leave Campaign and the election of Donald Trump. According to the journalist, Dirk Laabs, it was big data manipulation developed by the US Federal Government’s own research program, DARPA. DARPA Big Data… Read More Digital Fascism
You may not realize this, but Alexandria Ocasio Cortez did not dream up the Green New Deal. The GND is a policy platform that was developed by the New Consensus, a foundation of labour-focused economists who are critical of financial capitalism. They are pro-industrialists who promote green manufacturing. AOC studied economics and does a great… Read More AOC and the Green New Deal
The Preface to Vandana Shiva’s latest book, Oneness v. the 1 Percent, is a hymn to Earth as One Family that either thrives together or goes extinct together. It comes from the phrase Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, the Earth is One Family, (Sanskrit: वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्) which consists of several words: “vasudhā”, the earth; “ēva” = indeed; and “kutumbakam”, family. The… Read More Vandana Shiva: the Earth is One Family
