The Mumbai Dalit strike is just the beginning of unrest in India Sunny Hundal Wednesday 3 January 2018 16:00 GMT originally published in the Independent UK [Editor: NOTICE THE BUDDHIST FLAGS in the photo; the article doesn’t mention Buddhism, but it’s obviously present amongst the Dalit protesters.] India’s financial centre – the city of Mumbai –… Read More Dalit Revolt in Mumbai
[Editor: Non-Self from a Gender Anarchist perspective. Have fun.] Antihumanism is a cornerstone which holds gender nihilist analysis together. It is the point from which we begin to understand our present situation; it is crucial. By antihumanism, we mean a rejection of essentialism. There is no essential human. There is no human nature. There is… Read More Gender Nihilism
Even if Mueller arrested and convicted Trump, Pence and the entire WH staff, there are a dozen more Trumps waiting in the wings, ready to take over, saying “He f’d up, I can do it better.” The inverted totalitarianism of the Corporate State doesn’t need a Hitler or a Stalin or a Mussolini to operate–or… Read More Chris Hedges: We Live in a Corporate Totalitarian State
One of the myths I am trying to deconstruct in my blogs (Engage! and Dharma Nerds) is this notion that practicing Buddhism is only about meditation or reading scripture. Theravada in particular is presented to us as this strict, sterile practice of transcending self and world through ever more refined states of meditation, psychological healing,… Read More Buddha Style: Thai Modern Art
El Jones, Masuma Khan, Jade Byard Peek and Rebecca Thomas serve it raw: A roundtable discussion with the vanguard of Halifax activism. By Jayde Tynes, originally published in The Coast, Halifax Nova Scotia Jade Byard Peek (left) is a multi-disciplinary artist, performer and an advocate in the queer BIPOC community. Masuma Khan (centre left) is the… Read More Serve it Raw: Vanguard Activism in Halifax, NS
Activism Revisited: Conscious participation and collective intelligence Daniel Christian WahlOct 6 If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do […] HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO? — R. Buckminster Fuller We cannot individually comprehend the range, depth and detail of the consequences… Read More Evolutionary Activism
Jesse Bercowetz is an artist, sculptor, and illustrator of two books on style, Buddha Style, with Otto von Busch and Josh Korda, and its follow-up, Suffering in Style. Jesse is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been awarded Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, The New York Foundation for the Arts… Read More Buddha Style: Jesse Bercowetz
