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Chris Hedges: We Live in a Corporate Totalitarian State

Even if Mueller arrested and convicted Trump, Pence and the entire WH staff, there are a dozen more Trumps waiting in the wings, ready to take over, saying “He f’d … Continue reading

2017/12/30 · Leave a comment

Buddha Style: Thai Modern Art

One of the myths I am trying to deconstruct in my blogs (Engage! and Dharma Nerds) is this notion that practicing Buddhism is only about meditation or reading scripture. Theravada … Continue reading

2017/12/19 · 2 Comments

Serve it Raw: Vanguard Activism in Halifax, NS

El Jones, Masuma Khan, Jade Byard Peek and Rebecca Thomas serve it raw: A roundtable discussion with the vanguard of Halifax activism. By Jayde Tynes, originally published in The Coast, Halifax … Continue reading

2017/12/16 · Leave a comment

Evolutionary Activism

Activism Revisited: Conscious participation and collective intelligence Daniel Christian WahlOct 6 If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I … Continue reading

2017/12/15 · Leave a comment

Buddha Style: Jesse Bercowetz

Jesse Bercowetz is an artist, sculptor, and illustrator of two books on style, Buddha Style, with Otto von Busch and Josh Korda, and its follow-up, Suffering in Style. Jesse is a graduate … Continue reading

2017/12/15 · Leave a comment

Genocide in Buddhist Myanmar

MSF (Doctors w/o Borders) estimates more than 6,700 Rohingya have been killed in Myanmar since August. According to MSF: 69% of the violence-related deaths were caused by gunshots 9% were … Continue reading

2017/12/14 · Leave a comment

ACT UP: Seven Lessons in Art and Activism

Text by Miss Rosen Posted Monday 11th December, 2017 Illustration © Avram Finkelstein originally published at HUCK magazine Legendary ACT UP founding member Avram Finkelstein combined art and activism to combat the … Continue reading

2017/12/14 · Leave a comment

Before We Were White: Ceremony and Ancestral Recovery

“Before We Were White” – ceremony and ancestral recovery for anti-racist action Online Workshop Series presented by White Awake Facilitators: Eleanor Hancock and Darcy Ottey “Your culture is your medicine.” – … Continue reading

2017/12/14 · Leave a comment

Buddha Style: Waste as Fashion

A Buddhist approach to fashion might include this conceptual fashion disaster: waste as fashion, modeled by a beautiful and gifted gender-ambiguous Thai fashion designer, Madaew. When the Buddha gave instructions … Continue reading

2017/12/11 · Leave a comment

Buddhism as a Commons

Is it possible that in the 21st century, Buddhist dharma and practice is becoming a Commons? For the first 100 years of Buddhism’s introduction to the West, up until the … Continue reading

2017/12/11 · 3 Comments

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