By JOSH KATZ UPDATED August 10, 2017 How bad is it? It’s the deadliest drug crisis in American history. Drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under 50, and deaths are rising faster than ever, primarily because of opioids. Overdoses killed more people last year than guns or car accidents, and… Read More Short Answers to Hard Questions About the Opioid Crisis
Mayoral candidate Ingrid Lafleur proposes a universal basic income for Detroit Ingrif LaFleur –PHOTO CREDIT: Justin Millhouse Write-in mayoral candidate Ingrid LaFleur recently announced her plan of action at the campaign office. It was her last co-creation session before the primary. Believing in the intelligence and expertise of Detroiters, LaFleur created the weekly series of… Read More Ingrid Lafleur: Afrofuturist Innovation
As a Buddhist, this is the only kind of resistance I will engage in: Declare revolutionary love, resist & rise up We, people of faith and moral conscience, resist all policies, actions, and rhetoric that put people in harm’s way. We refuse to mirror the hate and vitriol that we oppose. We commit to fight… Read More Declare Revolutionary Love
Watch Valerie Kaur’s Film: Divide We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath. Dear Friends, On this day, sixteen years ago, a Sikh American father was shot down in front of a gas station in Arizona. Balbir Singh Sodhi was the first person killed by hate crime in the aftermath of 9/11. Balbir Uncle’s murder turned a generation… Read More Valerie Kaur, Rana Sodhi: Revolutionary Love
http://nalandainstitute.org/guru-question/guru-question-joe-loizzo-r20170907.pdf The Guru Question: The Crisis of Western Buddhism and the Global Future of the Nalanda Tradition by JOSEPH LOIZZO, M.D., PH.D. IN RECENT MONTHS AND YEARS, the young transplant of Tibetan Buddhism in the West has suffered several shocks that have shaken sapling communities in the U.S., and troubled the larger community of Buddhist orders… Read More Nalanda Inst. Reply to Guru Abuse
Putting out the fire with gasoline. That’s what the ‘anti-fa’ strategy does when the Left resorts to violent counter-attack against Fascism. As long as we amp up the conflict, aggression, violence, social division, racialized and gendered hatred, we are creating conditions for more Fascists to take power. That seems to be the lesson from recent… Read More Facebook Ads Used Divisiveness to Swing Election
Donald Trump. North Korea. Hurricanes. Neoliberalism. Is there any hope of a better world? Yes, but we have to come together to tell a new, kinder story explaining who we are, and how we should live George MonbiotLast modified on Monday 11 September 2017 05.56 EDT originally published in The Guardian UK. Bernie Sanders supporters at… Read More George Monbiot: Story of the Commons
