Editor: Hey folks, I found this article by Cal Newport to be very helpful in making the distinction between social media and the social internet. The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal was only the last straw in a whole series of problems posed by Facebook that I could see coming years ago. I have personally quit Facebook… Read More Social Media v. Social Internet
On Easter Sunday morning, MSNBC’s Joy Reid broadcast a show (AM Joy) on the police shooting of innocent Black men and women as a national issue, not a ‘local’ or ‘case-by-case’ issue. Panel members include Prof. Phillip Goffe from the John Jay College Center for Policing Equity and Maya Wiley, Senior Vice President for Social… Read More Police Shooting of Black People is a National Issue
Comedian Rosie O’Donnell and and comic actress Roseanne Barr have been at extreme opposite ends of the anti-Trump/pro-Trump spectrum. Both are comics, middle-aged white women who even look something alike, so much so that Twitter-denizens often get them confused. But Rosie O’Donnell (Rosanne) has been a vociferous critic of Trump and his administration. She promoted… Read More A Tale of Two Rosies
Join the discussion at Engage! Forum on GroupMe, the new social network for groups. Join Engage!Forum: https://groupme.com/join_group/39756479/TkUjN9 Engage! Forum Admin Contact: https://groupme.com/contact/58556990/iHiXL2UT Tools include: group chat, chat archive, conference calls, group messages, private messages, events, emojis, gifs, polls; post links, upload documents and images; share messages, photos and videos from other apps to your groups. GroupMe.com is… Read More Engage! Forum on GroupMe
Local and Regional Community Resilience Building is Going Global Daniel Christian Wahl originally posted at Resilience.org In recent years the resilience imperative has made it onto the agenda of local and national governments, business leaders and international institutions like the European Union and the United Nations. In 2010, the UN Office for Disaster and Risk Reduction launched… Read More World in Transition
I’m reposting this report by Rob Hopkins on the #CTRLshift2018 conference because it represents something which I learned from my study of Transition Towns with regard to social justice and ecology movements: the necessity of getting out of our issue/place silos and working across issues, organizations, fields, geographic locations. The way to build systemic power… Read More #CTRLshift2018– Rob Hopkins
Does it surprise you that Adbusters has more relevant things to say about the dharma than your average Buddhist retreat leader?
