Three months ago I put up a short post about upcoming changes at Engage! At that time, my plan was to close The Harbinger blog and combine it with Engage. I considered renaming the combined blog, or what might emerge from this new combination. Well, have I got news for you. The change that is about… Read More Engage Evolves: Upcoming Changes
Dear Readers of Engage! I apologize for the sudden pile up of posts today. I have been recovering from major surgery, which I had two weeks ago. I haven’t been lugging around my laptop and getting stuff done they way I usually do. I’ve also been reading and writing a fair amount of my own… Read More Dear Readers: It’s OK, I’m fine
by David Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. Originally published in the New York Times. Illustration by Kim Ryu Near Cannon Ball, N.D. — It is a spectacular sight: thousands of Indians camped on the banks of the Cannonball River, on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Our… Read More Taking a Stand at Standing Rock
by Jim Hartz “As neoliberal guru Milton Friedman put it in his Capitalism and Freedom, because profit-making is the essence of democracy, any government that pursues antimarket policies is being antidemocratic, no matter how much informed popular support they might enjoy.”–Robert W. McChesney, Introduction to Noam Chomsky, Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order, p.… Read More TYRANNOSAURUS DEMOCRATICUS
01 Sep 2016: Interview Ecologist Suzanne Simard has shown how trees use a network of soil fungi to communicate their needs and aid neighboring plants. Now she’s warning that threats like clear-cutting and climate change could disrupt these critical networks. by Diane Toomey Two decades ago, while researching her doctoral thesis, ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered that… Read More Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other
by Ken Knabb Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who rejectyou, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you? — Whitman, “Stronger Lessons” In the middle… Read More Strong Lessons for Engaged Buddhists
Evading the Transformation of Reality by Ken Knabb — Engaged Buddhism at an Impasse — “A very popular error: having the courage of your convictions. The point is to have the courage for an attack on your convictions!”—Nietzsche In 1993 I wrote Strong Lessons for Engaged Buddhists, a leaflet welcoming the emergence of socially engaged Buddhism as a… Read More Engaged Buddhism at an Impasse
