Trump Plan Would Cut Back Health Care Protections for Transgender People By ROBERT PEARAPRIL 21, 2018 originally published in NY Times Activists protesting outside the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan last year after the Trump administration cut protections for transgender people in schools. Yana Paskova for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Trump administration says… Read More US Anti-Trans Laws in Health, Education, Jobs

Trickle-Down Economics Must Die, Long Live Grow-Up Economics This pernicious economic myth is the idea that a rising yacht lifts all tides, or as more popularly described, “trickle-down economics.” The myth of inequality-driven economic growth and how to achieve real prosperity for all Scott Santens Jul 22, 2015 originally published at Medium New Orleans writer focused on… Read More A Rising Yacht Lifts All Tides

Hope Trumps Nope: A Blueprint for Resistance by Naomi Klein, originally published at Sierra Club. To build the world we want, we must dare to dream big and out loud LET’S REWIND A BIT, to the week Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election. At that moment, I was reeling from witnessing not one catastrophe… Read More Earth Day 2018: No Is Not Enough

To the question, ‘what is dharma?’ I have a provisional answer: dharma is governance, in the Foucauldian sense. Glenn Wallis calls it ‘the Magistrate.” It is a potent combination of power-knowledge—dharma, scripture—with discipline— meditation and thought constraints, that produces constraints on thought, speaking and behavior. For westerners, it operates as the self-governance of the Neo-liberal… Read More Dharma is Governance

And a Truth Teller. And maybe for the first time in history a leaderless evolution can take place instead of repetitive revolutions driven by control-freaks doing careers. —Mats Sederholm, Adbusters #129 But Not a Polemicist: When asked why he does not engage in polemics, Michel Foucault answered as follows: The polemicist . . . proceeds encased… Read More The New Activist is a Truth-Seeker