Ahimsa: Love Is Your Nature Before you speak of peace, you must first have it in your heart. —St. Francis of Assisi Christianity seems to have forgotten Jesus’ teachings on nonviolence. We’ve relegated visions of a peaceful kingdom to a far distant heaven, hardly believing Jesus could have meant we should turn the other cheek here… Read More Richard Rohr: Non-Violence

Paul Mason Author: Postcapitalism — A Guide to Our Future | Producer: #ThisIsACoup documentary Keynote at Barcelona Initiative for Technological Sovereignty CCCB, 7 October 2016: The idea of postcapitalism consists of two hypotheses, about the unique effects of information technology. First, that information technology is preventing the normal adaptation process, whereby capitalism — as a complex system — reacts to crisis, to… Read More Post-Capitalism and the City

October 7, 2016 Richard D. Bartlett This is part 3 of a 4-part series of conversations with activists from France, New Zealand, Spain, Tunisia and Taiwan. Originally published in P2P Foundation. https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/happens-protesters-go-home/2016/10/07# Rich: I have been tracking these movements for five years now. They turn up, they learn something, they do something, people have an experience and then the moment… Read More What Happens Once the Protesters Go Home?