Friends: I am working on a local project in the North End of Halifax to stop the gentrification of the traditionally Black and Indigenous North Central neighbourhood, also home to thousands of poor, disabled and working people who could be displaced by the a proposed rezoning plan. “That is how we understand gentrification.” Dear Friend, We… Read More Next System Project: Combatting Gentrification
I saw Craig Cardiff sing this song at the Company House last Saturday. He talked about this song, and he also told the story of the Buddhist tantric master, Milarepa, who allowed his demons to swallow him so he could be free of them. As he sang the song, the thought came to me: “Recovering… Read More Note #108: Recovering your Buddha Nature
George Osborne just broke an astonishing record, making him the worst Chancellor in UK history EDITORIAL The Independent UK George Osborne has broken a record so astonishing, that it will mean he is likely remembered as the worst Chancellor in UK history. After six years of his austerity programme, the current account deficit of the… Read More #AusterityFail
Soutik BiswasDelhi correspondent 27 March 2016 From the section India Image captionThe canal connecting the Ganges to the power station dried up because of a lack of water On 11 March, panic struck engineers at a giant power station on the banks of the Ganges river in West Bengal state. Readings showed that the water level… Read More Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis?
Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation Homes on the former Juarez dump, Juarez, Mexico 2006. CAC archives. Bias from the Bottom: Week 2 Summary Sunday, March 27-Friday, April 1, 2016 You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. –Harper Lee (Sunday)… Read More Richard Rohr: Bias from the Bottom
Published on Sep 4, 2015 This is a video of Mushim Patricia Ikeda delivering her keynote address to the 2015 Starr King Symposium: Remembering Our Wholeness. The honored guest teacher discusses the ways in which her tradition of Mahayana Buddhism helps her connect to her wholeness and how we can connect with and live in… Read More Mushim Patricia Ikeda: Remembering Our Wholeness
We the marginalized shunyata—the historical, political or ecclesial “nothing”—we who are an “inconsistent multiplicity” that is not countable as the “one” or the binary “other”, we are the excluded shunyata that explodes as the revolutionary “event”, the event which redefines everything in the situation that has gone before. We the Untouchable, the gender queer, the “of colour”,… Read More The Event: Revolutionary Explosion of the Excluded [Shunyata]
