This Endless Nightmare Must Stop: Syrian Author Speaks Out as Chemical Attack Death Toll Rises The brutal war in Syria has been raging for six years, with dozens of chemical attacks on Syrian civilians by the Assad Regime and its allies, barrel bombs that have destroyed schools and hospitals, whole cities that have been destroyed,… Read More Syria: This Endless Nightmare Must Stop
Dear Readers: I am focusing the blog on these issues for a time because I want to show the deep interconnection between environmental justice and human rights There are a few Buddhist human rights organizations, such as Buddhist Peace Fellowship, which champion domestic human rights in the US, and cover climate issues, but they don’t… Read More Issue Focus: Climate Justice and Human Rights
This article by Afrosapiophile brings up an issue that I immediately connected with. It helped me identify a deep discomfort that I’ve had with white-majority western sanghas in North America. After a couple of years in various white majority sanghas, I felt totally repressed and oppressed every time I walked through the temple door. I… Read More Unbearable Whiteness of Being
[Editor: My friend, Pablo Das, has been active in the resistance to the Trump Regime, especially in the fight to save the Affordable Care Act. Here as some of his thoughts on the practice of activism as a Buddhist.] A challenge to my fellow Buddhists: Today, with this healthcare victory, we see what compassion coupled… Read More Pablo Das: Fight on, Bodhisattvas!
The global industrial working class: interview with Immanuel Ness Originally posted at Triple Crisis. [Editor: this article is an excellent summary of the social conditions of industrial workers who are primarily in developing nations.] Interesting interview with Immanuel Ness, author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class, about the present and future of the… Read More Workers of the Third World-Unite
Guess what? Nadya Tolokno, leader of the Russian feminist punk band, Pussy Riot, has a strong connection to Buddhism. The ‘Revolution’ issue of Bust magazine (Feb/March 2017) features an interview with Nadya in which she relates how she met her husband Pyotr: It was at Moscow State University in 2007 that Tolokno first became involved… Read More Pussy Riot and…Buddhism?
Duty of Care In this amazing world we are surrounded by magic, nature is beautiful but the way we treat it is tragic. Humanity should wake up and reality checked, if we carry on like this Mother Earth will be wrecked. We are part of the whole not put on our own, we are… Read More Echoes from the Void: Poems
