US Anti-Trans Laws in Health, Education, Jobs
Trump Plan Would Cut Back Health Care Protections for Transgender People By ROBERT PEARAPRIL 21, 2018 originally published in NY Times Activists protesting outside the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan last … Continue reading →
A Rising Yacht Lifts All Tides
Trickle-Down Economics Must Die, Long Live Grow-Up Economics This pernicious economic myth is the idea that a rising yacht lifts all tides, or as more popularly described, “trickle-down economics.” The … Continue reading →
Earth Day 2018: No Is Not Enough
Hope Trumps Nope: A Blueprint for Resistance by Naomi Klein, originally published at Sierra Club. To build the world we want, we must dare to dream big and out loud … Continue reading →
Dharma is Governance
To the question, ‘what is dharma?’ I have a provisional answer: dharma is governance, in the Foucauldian sense. Glenn Wallis calls it ‘the Magistrate.” It is a potent combination of … Continue reading →
The New Activist is a Truth-Seeker
And a Truth Teller. And maybe for the first time in history a leaderless evolution can take place instead of repetitive revolutions driven by control-freaks doing careers. —Mats Sederholm, Adbusters #129 … Continue reading →
The Dharma of Valerie Solanas
WHAT IF THE BUDDHA SAID THIS? the female function is to groove, relate, love, be herself, discover, explore, invent, solve problems, crack jokes, make music. All with love. In other … Continue reading →
2016 Election Will Happen Again
More popular vote-electoral college splits may be in our future by Dan Balz in the Washington Post [Editor: this is one of those articles that at first you can’t bring … Continue reading →
The Dharma of Adbusters: #137
The next Adbusters “A Spiritual Crisis of Meaning” is right on target for Engage! Review note: Adbusters has finally caught on to the revolutionary feminism of Valerie Solanas. Maybe next … Continue reading →
Boyce Simms: Unlearning the Myth of Duality in Movements
UNLEARNING the Myth of Duality in Service to Movement-building by Pamela Boyce Simms originally posted at Buddhist-Quaker: Facilitating Evolutionary Culture-design Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. … Continue reading →
Quaker Bodhisattva Pt. 6: Freedom of Conscience
When I go to the Friends Meeting on Sunday mornings for my one hour of silence, I experience something I have never felt in Buddhist settings: freedom of conscience. The … Continue reading →
