Pauline Oliveros is a pioneer in the field of avant garde music and a philosophy of music she calls “deep listening.” Her TED talk (below) explains the theory and practice of deep listening. From the website Resident Advisor: Pauline Oliveros is one of modern music’s most important figures, precisely because her work transcends music… Read More Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros
By Aaron Cynic, Chicagoist | Report published in Truthout Arrestee is walked to a police truck as activists shut down the intersection of Michigan and Wacker to protest the Illinois Tactical Officers Training Conference. (Photo: Aaron Cynic / Chicagoist) Fifteen people were arrested Sunday afternoon after locking down the intersection of Wacker and Michigan to protest a police tactical… Read More Activists Shut Down Chicago Intersection to Protest Police Training Conference
‘Mother Earth has been crying out and nobody has been listening’ By Elizabeth McMillan, CBC News Posted: Oct 11, 2016 11:00 AM AT Rosalie Labillois, 19, is taking part in the Mi’kmaki Water Symposium in Millbrook First Nation, N.S. (CBC) Rosalie Labillois is taking a few days off from her studies at St. Thomas University to learn from… Read More Millbrook First Nation Water Symposium
Carimah Townes Criminal justice reporter at ThinkProgress. Contact me: ctownes@thinkprogress.org Sep 12 In recent years, the bipartisan push for criminal justice reform has been fueled in large part by the astronomical price tag that comes with mass incarceration. Locking people up in federal, state, and local correctional facilities costs the government a whopping $80 billion, and taxpayers end… Read More The true cost of mass incarceration exceeds $1 trillion
Breaking: Activists Reportedly Shut Down Five Pipelines Carrying Tar Sands Oil Into U.S. Originally posted at democracynow.org This is viewer supported news Climate activists are claiming they have shut down all tar sands oil coming into the United States by manually turning off pipelines in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and Washington state. According to a statement posted… Read More DN: Activists Shut Down Five Pipelines Carrying Tar Sands Oil Into U.S.
Ahimsa: Love Is Your Nature Before you speak of peace, you must first have it in your heart. —St. Francis of Assisi Christianity seems to have forgotten Jesus’ teachings on nonviolence. We’ve relegated visions of a peaceful kingdom to a far distant heaven, hardly believing Jesus could have meant we should turn the other cheek here… Read More Richard Rohr: Non-Violence
Paul Mason Author: Postcapitalism — A Guide to Our Future | Producer: #ThisIsACoup documentary Keynote at Barcelona Initiative for Technological Sovereignty CCCB, 7 October 2016: The idea of postcapitalism consists of two hypotheses, about the unique effects of information technology. First, that information technology is preventing the normal adaptation process, whereby capitalism — as a complex system — reacts to crisis, to… Read More Post-Capitalism and the City
