Get Rid of the Guns, Period.
The movement among high school students to challenge the right to gun ownership in America will be seen as a critical turning point in American culture. If it succeeds in … Continue reading →
Guns, Gender and Race
Guns and Race: The different worlds of black and white Americans Richard V. Reeves Tuesday, December 15, 2015 “The nation’s consciousness has been raised by the repeated acts of police brutality … Continue reading →
White Nationalists Seek Campus Recruits
The “Alt-Right” Is Building a White Nationalist Mass Movement With “Operation Homeland” Tuesday, February 20, 2018 By Shane Burley, Truthout | News Analysis Surrounded by his bodyguards, “alt-right” leader Richard … Continue reading →
Quaker Bodhisattva Pt. 2
So this Sunday’s sit at Friends Meeting House (Society of Friends/Quakers) was a bit different. There was about a half hour of silence and then people started ‘sharing’. One member … Continue reading →
The Future of Urban Food
Why Growing Veggies in the City Isn’t Just a Feel-Good Exercise originally published in Mother Jones Urban agriculture could yield up to 10 percent of many food crops. Amy CrawfordFeb. … Continue reading →
Myanmar government under Suu Kyi cracks down on journalists
BANGKOK (AP) — When five Myanmar journalists were sentenced to decadelong prison terms for reporting the alleged existence of a military-run chemical weapons factory in Myanmar a few years ago, … Continue reading →
Queer Dharma
https://youtu.be/zOYhiWjrZeA I think it’s time for me to begin the project of queering the dharma, of producing queer dharma. Queering the dharma is a practice, following the French root of … Continue reading →
Quaker Bodhisattva
I went to a Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting, for the first time this morning. They are a Christian tradition going back almost 400 years to the Protestant Reformation in … Continue reading →
Awakening Our Collective Brain
As Josh Korda has said in his previous talks, in terms of neuroscience, the human brain hasn’t evolved much at all in half a million years. But what has evolved? Human … Continue reading →
Umair Haque: How America Collapsed
Umair Haque has a profound understanding of collapse in America. He claims, and I think he is right, that the United States has already collapsed. The collapse he elucidates is … Continue reading →
