List Tracks Protests Back to 2006 by GEORDIE GWALGEN DENT A list of protests, demonstrations and events being tracked by Ottawa was released today after Nova Scotia MP, Scott Brison requested data from the Public Safety Canada department. The list shows the date of the event, a short summary of the event and the source doing… Read More List of Protests Federal Government is Tracking Released
” I think today, more and more, love is emerging as something dangerous and subversive. Think about how you are addressed in your everyday life by society, what society demands of you. It’s basically a kind of slightly spiritual, pseudo-Buddhist hedonism. Ideology is telling you: “be faithful to yourself”, “realize your true potential”, “experiment with… Read More Slavoj Žižek: Love as Subversive Politics
Buddhists Blockade Hotel to Protest Police-Military Training [Note: If you’re local to the Bay Area and would like to participate in the growing coalition campaign to Stop Urban Shield, join the large rally and protest outside the Marriott Hotel in downtown Oakland at 4pm on Friday, Sept. 5th.] A war is raging, not just overseas, but… Read More A Model Of Meaningfully Engaged Buddhism
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture Slavoj Zizek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Jeffrey W. Robbins, Editors [Editor: Creston Davis, the editor of the Insurrections series, is looking for material that covers Buddhist insurrectionist theory and critique. I have submitted my work “Outcastes as Activists: A Tantric Approach to Engaged Buddhism” for this series.] The intersection of religion,… Read More Insurrectionist Theology: critical studies in religion, politics and culture
We all have different places in the racial hierarchy. But we can still work together for justice. Rinku Sen August 27, 2014 | This article appeared in the September 15, 2014 edition of The Nation. Roxanne Grimes and other union members, activists and students protest against proposed reductions in government funding of education in 2011. (AP Photo/Matt… Read More As People of Color, We’re Not All in the Same Boat
WE COULD STOP PUTTING LIDS ON OURSELVES It is as if we were extraordinary children, possessing all sorts of genius, and we were being undermined by the society around us, which was dying to make us normal people. Whenever we would show any mark of genius, our parents would get embarrassed and try to put… Read More Take the Buddhists Bowling
“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
