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Women’s March As Autonomist Movement

Democracy Now: Women’s March sets the course of activism for the next four years. Listen to America Ferrera, a US-born daughter of immigrants from Honduras, and her declaration of the mission … Continue reading →

2017/01/23 · Leave a comment

DN, Keenga Taylor, Klein on Movement Convergence

Amy Goodman, Keenga Taylor, Naomi Klein discuss movement solidarity in face of Trump regime.

2017/01/21 · Leave a comment

Resisting Fascism, Building Resilience

By Josh Jones; originally published at Open Culture 20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend Democracy from Authoritarianism, According to Yale Historian Timothy Snyder Rather than making … Continue reading →

2017/01/21 · Leave a comment

Now It’s All of Us

What has just begun at the Inauguration of Donald Trump is the class war to end all class wars. Lately I’ve been thinking that this election is indeed a class war, … Continue reading →

2017/01/20 · 5 Comments

Dune: Sufi-Zen Sci-Fi

In my survey of Buddhistic science fiction, I should have included the legendary Dune by Frank Herbert, published in 1965. I remember my younger brother was enthralled with Dune and read several … Continue reading →

2017/01/19 · Leave a comment

Gilbert’s Social Science of Mind

UPDATED: Jan. 24, 2017 “All mental phenomena have mind as their forerunner; they have mind as their chief; they are mind-made. If one speaks or acts with a sick mind, … Continue reading →

2017/01/18 · Leave a comment

Dr. Paul Gilbert: Mindful Compassion

I’m reading Mindful Compassion (2014) by Dr. Paul Gilbert and Choden. It’s a continuation of Gilbert’s work on the neuroscience of compassion, captured in his first book The Compassionate Mind (2009). Gilbert’s … Continue reading →

2017/01/17 · 1 Comment

The Burden of the New Story

Bayo Akomolafe Bayo is globally recognized for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on global crisis, civic action and social change, and was recently enlisted as the recipient of … Continue reading →

2017/01/16 · 1 Comment

The Emergence Network

[Editor: I am always on the lookout for new approaches to engagement and social action. This blog, The Emergence Network, which I stumbled into via Bayo Akomolafe’s piece (The Burden … Continue reading →

2017/01/13 · Leave a comment

If we can have p2p economics, why not p2p spirituality?

by Michel Bauwens: originally posted at opendemocracy.net https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/michel-bauwens/if-we-can-have-p2p-economics-why-not-p2p-spirituality See my take on this topic: Encuentro: A New Model of Sangha Self-organizing fish shoal. Credit: http://cognition.ups-tlse.fr. All rights reserved. Is it possible to peer … Continue reading →

2017/01/13 · Leave a comment

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