A conservative group put UM historian Tobin Miller Shearer on ‘Professor Watchlist.’ To Shearer, the threat sounds awfully familiar. By Tobin Miller Shearer In the weeks since I was put on an academic watchlist, I have thought often about one of the biggest bastards that I know. I only talked to him once and that was… Read More Shearer: American History Prof. on Watchlist
originally published in 2013 by Sarah Jaffe inthesetimes.com Back in 2004, pundits went wild when exit pollsters found that 22 percent of votershad made their selection based on “moral values,” more than any of the options they offered. The pollsters back then almost universally interpreted “moral values” to mean “abortion and gay rights”—a frame backed up… Read More A ‘Buddha On Strike’ at Goldman Sachs
This moment in American history calls me to enter spaces where my people’s shame can arrive with me, charging in on white horses. ENNIFER LENTFER 15 December 2016 Right now I find it’s hard to find words for anything—which is a problem for a Director of Communications. Many progressives like me in my home country of the… Read More Wrestling with my white fragility
We need a moral movement to create change. by Rev. William J. Barber, II 6 hrs ago Rev. William Barber, president of the state chapter of the NAACP and architect of the protests known as “Moral Monday, speaks during a Bible study at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C. CREDIT: AP Photo/Gerry Broome On election night I… Read More Rev. Barber: Fusion Politics as a Third Reconstruction
The Work of Diversity: A Deeper Engagement If you haven’t already, join our mailing list to receive monthly articles in your inbox. Learn more about Sebene’s upcoming course at BCBS this May on Buddha’s Teachings and Issues of Cultural Spiritual Bypassing. IJ: What’s most essential for a deeper engagement with the work of diversity and inclusivity? SS: To… Read More Sellassie: The Unconscious Whiteness of Being
“Worcester MA is the largest refugee resettlement destination in the Northeast” Clive McFarlane: Social activism still needed, still works By Clive McFarlane Telegram & Gazette Staff Earlier this month I wrote about Carolyn Latino, a college student and a Worcester native who spent her Thanksgiving break at Standing Rock, North Dakota, in support of the Sioux… Read More Local Hero Clive McFarlane, Worcester MA
Can we imagine a space of really radical freedom? Buddhism as Ideology: Ken Jones identifies five characteristics of ideology: Solidifies the objectivity of mere ideas into subjectively freighted articles of faith shaped to serve the believer’s aspiration. Inconsistencies are smoothed out in seamless certainty. Thus for many Buddhists the various orders of cause-and-effect presented in… Read More Ken Jones: Buddhism as Ideology
