Poem: Stillness is Activism
STILLNESS IS ACTIVISM Serene yet strong Calm yet courageous Passive yet powerful Detached yet engaged Ancient yet revolutionary – Snowflake Advertisements
STILLNESS IS ACTIVISM Serene yet strong Calm yet courageous Passive yet powerful Detached yet engaged Ancient yet revolutionary – Snowflake Advertisements
Circular Economy 101: Designing Regeneration into the system Daniel Christian Wahl Glocal educator, activist and consultant, specialized in whole systems design and transformative innovation Feb 6 originally published at Medium [This is another short excerpt from the Economic Design Dimension of Gaia Education’s online course in Design for Sustainability. The excerpt offers a brief primer to… Read More Circular Economy 101: Designing Regeneration
Free your mind, find your power, change the world By Nafeez Ahmed, with Andrew Markell and Gunther Sonnenfeld; originally published at Medium: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/beyond-trump-rebooting-the-system-from-inside-the-death-machine-7a9488adcf81 [Editor: this is a condensed version of what Nafeez Ahmed published; I encourage you to read the entire article. I am posting this because it gives an analysis and plan of action that… Read More Beyond Trump: Rebooting the System from inside the Death Machine
On February 14 2017, Against the Stream published their Statement of Commitment to take a public stand against the abusive policies of the Trump Regime, and a pledge to take action to protect vulnerable communities. Bhikkhu Bodhi just published his “Let’s Stand Up Together” which admonishes Buddhist sanghas to go beyond comforting themselves with quiet… Read More Act Now: Empowering Sanghas to Act on Behalf of Human Rights
Originally published in Lion’s Roar and Buddhadharma Spring 2017 I recently came across a news report stating that 2,500 religious leaders had signed a petition urging Congress to reject Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees as “a cabinet of bigotry.” I looked over the list of signatories, designated by religion, and saw only one who identified as… Read More Let’s Stand Up Together – Bhikkhu Bodhi
This talk by Guhyapati is a brilliant analysis of the current ecological, economic and political state of the world, what social movements have to offer towards social and political transformations, and the role of the Dharma in those transformations. I am with Guhyapati all the way up to the very end where he discusses a response from a Buddhadharma perspective. He takes… Read More Ecodharma: Unleashing a Post-Capitalist Imagination
[Editor: I’m offering James Baldwin’s 1968 interview on racism in America because he warned us then that if we did not confront racism—that is, white supremacy—and deal with it thoroughly, we would be exactly where we are right now, facing the most vicious regime of white supremacy in a century.] James Baldwin: How to Cool It Read… Read More James Baldwin: It’s Not For Us to Cool It