Engage! is dedicating its space on the web to highlight one cause: end the imprisonment and torture of infants and children in concentration camps on the Souther Border of the US. Detention Watch Network’s coalition works to end the imprisonment of migrant children in concentration camps, to end family detention, to end the abuse of… 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
A (somewhat more personal) thread on unbuddhism: since I speak about Buddhism and monks and whatnot quite a lot lately, I wanted to contextualize that by talking my own relationship with Buddhism. Also brought on by (laughably, I know) considering seriously the things Mangala Samaraweera has been saying lately, such as asserting that he doesn’t… Read More Vajra Chandrasekera: A Sinhala Unbuddhist
First it was Shambhala, with years of multiple forms of abuse by the founder, Chogyam Trungpa, documented by his ex-students. Then it was Trungpa’s son, Sakyong Mipham, and his horrorshow of sexual assaults and financial exploitation. And now…its Dharma Ocean and Reggie Ray. And we all thought Reggie Ray was one of the ‘good guys’… Read More And Now…Dharma Ocean & Reggie Ray
The official Lights for Liberty website is here: https://www.lightsforliberty.org Lights for Liberty: Our Mission We are a coalition of people, many of whom are mothers, dedicated to human rights, and the fundamental principle behind democracy that all human beings have a right to life, liberty and dignity. We are partnering with national, regional and local… Read More Lights for Liberty July 12, 2019 #DontLookAway
Activists Launch “Lights For Liberty” To Demand An End To Trump’s Detention Camps Lights for Liberty “Now is the time for every person to stand up and say, ‘We will not accept this!’ No more hesitating. No more denial. No more fear. We need to be bold, and loud, and unrelenting. That’s the only way… Read More Lights for Liberty Vigil to End Trump’s Concentration Camps July 12, 2019
Americans Still Don’t Know How to Fight Fascism. Will They Ever Learn It Simply Begins With Telling the Truth? Because against a fascist, the most powerful weapon of all isn’t a bullet or a bomb — it’s just the simple, plain truth. When we tell the truth — as ugly and desperate and bitter and heartrending as it is — then we… Read More Why The Fascists Are Laughing At You While Kids Die in Concentration Camps
published on Saturday, June 22, 2019 by Common Dreams ‘We Are Unstoppable, Another World Is Possible!’: Hundreds Storm Police Lines to Shut Down Massive Coal Mine in Germany “This is not only about coal power,” said one Ende Gelände spokesperson. “This is about changing a destructive system that is based on the quest for infinite economic… Read More Ende Gelände Shuts Down Coal Mine in Germany
More than 70 million people have been forced to flee their homes due to violence or persecution, the United Nations has said, as the global migrant crisis pushed the number of refugees and displaced people to an all-time high. The world’s displaced population is now almost double that from a decade ago, and includes an… Read More 71 Million People-One in 108 Worldwide-Forcibly Displaced Refugees
