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Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something

Western Buddhists are very suspicious of attachment. They feel they need to be detached . . . so don’t get upset about racism, or injustice, or the poison in the … Continue reading

2014/11/11 · 4 Comments

Call the Fossil Fuel Industry what it is: Global Genocide

The fossil fuel industry knows full well that their product is causing the sickness and death of people everywhere that oil, gas and coal are being mined, shipped and burned. … Continue reading

2014/11/05 · Leave a comment

Right Anger and the Path to the End of Caste

by Alan Senauke And this, monks, is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of dukkha: precisely this Noble Eightfold Path: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right … Continue reading

2014/11/04 · Leave a comment

A Model Of Meaningfully Engaged Buddhism

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 … Continue reading

2014/09/04 · 1 Comment

As People of Color, We’re Not All in the Same Boat

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 … Continue reading

2014/09/03 · Leave a comment

Injustice in Ferguson, Long Before Michael Brown

Peter Coy  August 21, 2014        Photograph by Philip Montgomery A woman watches protesters on West Florissant Avenue on Aug. 19 Early this year, before the summer weather in Ferguson, Mo., … Continue reading

2014/08/23 · Leave a comment

Take the Buddhists Bowling

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, … Continue reading

2014/08/21 · 1 Comment

Deep Green Resistance: Vehemently Transphobic

[Editor: I removed this story from Deep Green Resistance because I have since found out that Deep Green Resistance (DGR) has an expressed and active policy of excluding, vilifying and … Continue reading

2014/08/13 · Leave a comment

Times of Israel: When Genocide Is Permissible

http://www.scribd.com/doc/235627056/When-Genocide-is-Permissible-Yochanan-Gordon 8/1/2014 When Genocide is Permissible | Yochanan Gordon | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel THE TIMES OF ISRAEL | http://www.timesofisrael.com When Genocide is Permissible YOCHANAN GORDON … Continue reading

2014/08/01 · 1 Comment

Treaty of Niagara 250th Anniversary

250th Anniversary of the Treaty of Niagara – 1764  August 1st – 2nd, 2014 To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Treaty of Niagara, First Nations Elders, youth, men, women … Continue reading

2014/07/29 · Leave a comment

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