Arundhati Roy: Pandemic is a Portal
Arundhati Roy has been speaking on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the global scene as well as her home in India. In this interview with Imani Perry, Professor … Continue reading →
Lookout Buddha: Here Comes the Working Class
Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and … Continue reading →
From the Care Crisis to Care justice
I have been a social justice activist since I was in high school, mostly as a volunteer, sometimes as a professional organizer. I have organized and participated in activism on … Continue reading →
George Packer: Engineering a Failed State
It has always been the ambition of Trump-Putin to engineer and PRODUCE a failed state. A failed state can be hijacked, owned and controlled by gangster Plutocrats. The Pandemic is … Continue reading →
Rhiana Gunn-Wright: The Green Path Out of the Pandemic
Think This Pandemic Is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming Addressing climate change is a big-enough idea to revive the economy. By Rhiana Gunn-Wright April 15, 2020 (@rgunns) is … Continue reading →
Dark Nights, Blue Skies
by Shaun Bartone Perhaps like you, I lie awake at night, losing two or three hours of sleep on many nights, wondering if I’m going to be next to be … Continue reading →
Buddhist Futures: Life in the Back Loop
The devastation of global civilization, caused by the coronavirus pandemic, though temporary, is becoming both visible and visceral to as all. The following article by Stephanie Wakefield, written in 2017 … Continue reading →
Nick Cave on the Lockdown
ROBIN MURRAY / NEWS (/NEWS-0) / 05 · 04 · 2020 Nick Cave’s Thoughts On Coronvavirus Lockdown Are Truly Beautiful “In isolation, we will be presented with our essence…” Nick … Continue reading →
Mahar, Buddhist and Dalit: Religious Conversion and Sociopolitical Emancipation
For those interested in contemporary studies of Ambedkar Buddhism in India, Mahar and Dalit Buddhism, I highly recommend this study published in 2005: Mahar,, Buddhist and Dalit,: Religious conversion and … Continue reading →
Buddhist Futures-Love in the Time of Coronavirus
We are approaching what I call the Buddhist Spring 2020. It is a movement to replace hierarchal Neo-liberal Buddhist institutions with communal anarchism and democracy. The series of Buddhist leader … Continue reading →
