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Glen Ford: Black Urban Displacement

Glen Ford, BAR executive editor, Black Agenda Report March 1, 2018 “In less than two decades, Chicago lost 250,000 Black residents, one quarter of its total Black population. That’s more … Continue reading

2018/02/28 · 2 Comments

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

2018/02/22 · Leave a comment

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

2018/02/22 · 1 Comment

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

2018/02/20 · Leave a comment

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

2018/02/19 · 1 Comment

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

2018/02/18 · Leave a comment

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

2018/02/16 · Leave a comment

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

2018/02/16 · 4 Comments

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

2018/02/11 · Leave a comment

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

2018/02/08 · Leave a comment

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