Women’s March: Linda Sarsour, Palestinian Muslim-American, leads this profoundly intersectional movement. “If you want to know if you are going in the right direction, follow women of colour.” Advertisements

Democracy Now: Women’s March sets the course of activism for the next four years.  Listen to America Ferrera, a US-born daughter of immigrants from Honduras, and her declaration of the mission of the Women’s March and the direction of the movement. Ferrera makes many of the same claims that I did in “Now It’s All of… Read More Women’s March As Autonomist Movement

Amy Goodman, Keenga Taylor, Naomi Klein discuss movement solidarity in face of Trump regime.

By Josh Jones; originally published at Open Culture 20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend Democracy from Authoritarianism, According to Yale Historian Timothy Snyder Rather than making a historical case for viewing the U.S. as exactly like one of the totalitarian regimes of WWII Europe, Snyder presents 20 lessons we might learn from those… Read More Resisting Fascism, Building Resilience

In my survey of Buddhistic science fiction, I should have included the legendary Dune by Frank Herbert, published in 1965. I remember my younger brother was enthralled with Dune and read several books in the early series. Like many science fiction novels of the 60s, it was filled with references to 60s counter-culture, in this case, futuristic… Read More Dune: Sufi-Zen Sci-Fi

UPDATED: Jan. 24, 2017 “All mental phenomena have mind as their forerunner; they have mind as their chief; they are mind-made. If one speaks or acts with a sick mind, ‘dukkha‘ follows him just as the wheel follows the hoofprint of the ox that draws the cart. . . If one speaks or acts with… Read More Gilbert’s Social Science of Mind