Sarah Kendzior: Be the Light in Dark Times Ahead
We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump Sarah Kendzior 18 November 2016 My fellow Americans, I have a favor to … Continue reading →
Caring for the Commons
This article, Caring for the Common/Caring in Common, is offered as material for discussing how to create non-hierarchal sanghas during the Buddhist Spring. Here’s a link to the article, which … Continue reading →
Happy Birthday! Engage! Turns 5
I’ve been looking back over my blog posts for an upcoming publication and discovered that I posted the first article on June 10, 2014. So Happy Fifth Birthday Engage! Five … Continue reading →
China: Over 1 Million Uighurs Held in Prison Camps
China Uighurs: One million held in political camps, UN told Getty ImagesUighur protesters pictured in 2009 wield the ID cards of detained relatives A UN human rights committee has heard … Continue reading →
Digital Fascism: China’s Big Brother
Human Rights Watch May 1, 2019 China’s Algorithms of Repression Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App A Xinjiang Police College webpage shows police officers collecting information from villagers … Continue reading →
Shambhala Admin of 31 Years Resigns
Editor: I wish the rest of the Shambhala Admin had the integrity and the courage that this woman has and just resigned from their positions. The Buddhist Spring is coming. … Continue reading →
Digital Fascism 4: DPI
[Editor: this is the first I have heard of this process, called Deep Packet Inspection, whereby an ISP can read not only the ‘address’ data of your online communications, but … Continue reading →
Racist Monk Promotes Armed Violence
This is why we need to declare a Buddhist Spring: to topple hierarchies that produce violent racists like Wirathu. “The day when the ICC comes here,” he said, “is the … Continue reading →
Declaring a Buddhist Spring: 1st Conference on Buddhist Anarchism
DECLARING A BUDDHIST SPRING: 2020 I am just utterly fed up with Buddhist authoritarianism, with narcissists disguised as gurus and ‘authoritative’ teachers, with hierarchies and one-ups-manship. I’m fed up with … Continue reading →
Xander Fraum: Contrapoints on Beauty
Today Engage! introduces Xander Fraum and his response to Natalie Wynne, aka “Contrapoints”, on the subject of “Beaty” in a transgender and feminist context. The video is posted so that … Continue reading →
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