Doyle Canning strategist, co-founder Center for Story-based Strategy, doylecanning.com Nov 12 originally published at https://medium.com/@doylecanning/nunca-mas-people-powered-strategy-in-the-time-of-trump-a10c214b05db#.s4vse3ayi My mother was in Buenos Aires during the dirty war of the 1970s. She was stringing for an international wire service and began reporting on the disappearances of student leftists, Jews, and the intellegensia. She began making lists of people. Gathering facts.… Read More ¡Nunca Mas! People Powered Strategy in the Time of Trump

The fact that creed and existential spirituality are interinvolved but not equivalent opens up the possibility of a new pluralist assemblage. The new assemblage will not be organized around one class, one party, or one secular creed. Rather, in an age of multiple minorities of multiple sorts diverse constituencies may draw upon spiritual affinities across… Read More Spiritual Secular Movements in the Anthropocene

BY PABLO DAS NOVEMBER 17, 2016 originally published in Lion’s Roar Last week, someone sent me a link to the LionsRoar.com article, “Buddhist Teachers Respond to Trump’s Presidential Win.” Several Buddhist teachers had written a paragraph or two offering their wisdom. As I read, I felt a very familiar disappointment and anger arising in me. While some of the… Read More Why this gay Buddhist teacher is dubious about Buddhist refuge in the Trump era

Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here | Cornel West Cornel West originally published in the Guardian UK ‘What is to be done? First we must try to tell the truth.’ Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images The neoliberal era in the United States ended with a neofascist bang. The political triumph of Donald Trump shattered the… Read More Cornell West: Goodbye Neoliberalism