More popular vote-electoral college splits may be in our future by Dan Balz in the Washington Post [Editor: this is one of those articles that at first you can’t bring yourself to read because the truth it contains is just too awful to admit; but its the truth that brings you back. The upshot is… Read More 2016 Election Will Happen Again
The next Adbusters “A Spiritual Crisis of Meaning” is right on target for Engage! Review note: Adbusters has finally caught on to the revolutionary feminism of Valerie Solanas. Maybe next time they’ll finally get Black Lives Matter? The New Activist is a truth seeker: someone who has left the introvert schisms of the old world behind.… Read More The Dharma of Adbusters: #137
UNLEARNING the Myth of Duality in Service to Movement-building by Pamela Boyce Simms originally posted at Buddhist-Quaker: Facilitating Evolutionary Culture-design Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. He pushed them and they flew. ─Guillaume Apollinaire We are indeed at the edge. The global challenges we face… Read More Boyce Simms: Unlearning the Myth of Duality in Movements
When I go to the Friends Meeting on Sunday mornings for my one hour of silence, I experience something I have never felt in Buddhist settings: freedom of conscience. The greatest legacy of the Quakers is their commitment to Freedom of Conscience. No one tells you what to do with your one hour of silence.… Read More Quaker Bodhisattva Pt. 6: Freedom of Conscience
Caption: Not that I’m into sitting on thrones or anything….buut, if it’s there, why not? Against the Stream/Refuge Recovery has suspended the teaching activities of Noah Levine for allegations of sexual misconduct. A letter from the Board of Directors says that “Levine has taken a leave of absence from his role as president of the… Read More ATS and Sexual Misconduct
Go to Engage!Forum on GroupMe to discuss the rise and fall of social media, Facebook and its alternatives, big data, privacy and free speech, and related issues. https://groupme.com/contact/58556990/iHiXL2UT Respond to: Face to Facebook: confronting the challenges of corporate social media and the abuse of ‘big data’.
In Myanmar, Facebook has also been used to spread misinformation and propaganda that fueled violence on the brink .. genocide against the Rohingya, an ethnic minority. The pain of low-end phones stands particularly stark now that the company is grappling with the violence in Myanmar, which coincided with a dramatic rise in Facebook users — from 2… Read More Myanmar, Genocide and Free Basics Facebook
