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 following email came to me from the Northwest Dharma Association. It’s an example of how powerful a Buddhist organization can be when it comes together with a profound intention to work towards global climate justice. Other Buddhist organizations could benefit from their example as a model for building a regional coalition to engage in… Read More Northwest Dharma Association Climate Justice
Air Date: Week of May 3, 2019 in Living on Earth stream/download this segment as an MP3 file The Americans who care most strongly about the environment are more likely to be African-American or Hispanic, make less than $50,000 a year, and live in cities. These populations are among those most affected by environmental justice issues… Read More Study: Super Enviro Voters are Black Hispanic Urban and Poor
Carole Cadwalladr, journalist for the UK’s Observer, asks whether it is possible to have ‘free and fair’ elections anywhere in the world under the aegis of digital platform companies like Facebook that have become the media arm of global fascism.
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: The Disinformation Age
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
