Dear Friends, I get asked all the time why I feel my recovery is so sturdy. And I will always caution myself and others not to fall prey to the idea that my recovery is sturdy beyond the 24 hours that lays ahead of me. This does not mean that I am concerned about drinking… Read More Tommy Rosen: Beware the Lemmings
The Simple Path to Empowerment. The Simple Path to Empowerment by Eric Garza I believe it was Oscar Wilde who said: “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” I think this is true, and I think the consequences of it being true are as perverse… Read More Ezra Garza: The Simple Path to Empowerment
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[What I find refreshing is the tone of this article, the notion that a resilient economy is also resistant to oppression, especially racial inequality. It meshes resilience with social justice. It’s innovative and invigorating thinking that takes resilience in a new direction.] Introducing the Oppositional Economy by Mateo Nube, Ben Roberts, Ken White, Marissa Mommaerts,…
KATHRYN BLAZE CARLSON OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail Last updated Thursday, Jun. 26 2014, 9:55 PM EDT Far beyond British Columbia, where a First Nation asserted its rights to ancestral land, proponents of resource development projects will now confront a changed landscape created by the Supreme Court’s decision in the historic case. Governments and companies eyeing mining… Read More Aboriginal Land Case Reshapes Resource Sector Nationwide
from Survival International Peru has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of uncontacted Amazon tribes – despite international outrage, the resignation of three ministers, and condemnation by the United Nations and international human rights organizations. Peru’s Ministry of Culture, tasked with protecting the country’s indigenous population, has approved plans by oil and gas… Read More Peru Approves Drilling in Machu Pichu, Death for Local Tribes
By Jane Brunette [Editor: We welcome author Jane Brunette, a teacher of Buddhism and Indigenous spirituality, to Engage!. Please visit her site at http://flamingseed.com] HOW DOES SPIRITUAL PRACTICE leave the meditation cushion and truly enter our lives as a collective? The whole point of sitting — listening inside, watching and feeling — is to build a… Read More Taking Meditation Off the Cushion and Into the Endangered Forest
