Join Idle No More in Toronto on July 29th – 31st, as we stand with Grassy Narrows to bring attention to their continuous struggle for clean water, and their inherent right to protect it. The mercury discovered in the fish has poisoned and destroyed their main staple diet as well as their primary source of… Read More Stand with Grassy Narrows July 29-31
Member groups of the New Brunswick Shale Gas Alliance (NBSGA) have published a code of conduct for engaging in direct action at shale gas sites with industry representatives and RCMP. Reports are that, on the whole, this is how most member conducted themselves, even in the face of an army of RCMP outfitted with tear gas… Read More Rules of Engagement In Direct Action
[Editor: this is something that would be worth flying to the Bay Area for—a year-long program. Perhaps I will get a chance to do it someday so that I can bring it back East.] Practice in Transformation Action: Bay Area training program by Dawn Haney Mushim Ikeda, contributor to BPF’s The System Stinks curriculum and teacher at… Read More Practice in Transformative Action: Bay Area
TURNING AWAY FROM SAMSARA When we turn away from samsara, we stop blaming external situations for the state of our mind, and we begin to use the Buddha’s teachings in order to take responsibility for our own well-being. We reorient the mind away from causes and conditions that create suffering. This does not mean that… Read More Yongey Mingyur on Self and Social Engagement
“Well, in the same way when we look at our differences and not allow ourselves to be divided, when we own them and are not divided by them, that is when we will be able to move on. But we haven’t reached square one yet.” —Audre Lorde, in conversation with James Baldwin. Revolutionary Hope: A… Read More Revolutionary Dialogue: Baldwin and Lorde
Buddhism is not concerned just with private destiny, but with the lives and consciousness of all beings. Any attempt to understand Buddhism apart from its social dimension is fundamentally a mistake. Until Western Buddhists understand this, their embrace of Buddhism will not help very much in the efforts to bring about meaningful and positive social… Read More Sulak Sivaraksa: Buddhism as Social Movement
