Russell Brand rips on the opiod crisis in America (but he’s British). More Americans are dying from opioid overdose than have died from gun deaths, car crashes and HIV/AIDS. As we showed in “Deaths of Despair”, while mortality from disease has gone down in all age groups, deaths from alcoholism, addiction and suicide have gone back… Read More Russell Brand Rips on the Opiod Crisis
What I Mean When I Say ‘White’ by Tad Hargrave editor of Healing from Whiteness: remembering the larger story of history. On the Invention of a White Race In the 17th century the term white was first used to distinguish people by physical features in regard to economic, political, and legal rights. Race is fluid, and changes… Read More Whiteness: The Great Erasure
In response to the outbreak of violent white supremacy in Charlottesville, Virginia (only one of countless thousands of such violent outbreaks), this is the first of a series called ‘Decolonizing Whiteness: Doing Our Own Work’. We look at the ways Whiteness was constructed historically—and thus colonized—by Capitalism and the Corporate State to both strip european… Read More Decolonizing Whiteness: Doing Our Own Work
Lama Rod Owens discusses his ethics of non-harm, right action and radical love in the Trump era. This video was recorded after the outbreak of violent white supremacy in Charlottesville, Virginia on Aug. 14.
Righteous Callings: Being Good, Leftist Orthodoxy, and the Social Justice Crisis of Faith Kai Cheng Aug 8 originally published at Medium. “Ideology is a sick fetish” — Porpentine Charity Heartscape Photo by Thien Viet Deep down, I have always believed that I’m a bad person and that the world we live in is an awful place. Maybe that’s just what… Read More Kai Cheng: Backstage at Activist Theatre
Attending Cambridge University Union in 1965, Baldwin debates whether the ‘American dream’ has been achieved at the expense of African-Americans. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGuardianUs%2Fvideos%2F631112947076472%2F&show_text=0&width=476
What is it that relieves suffering? Love, real love and direct connection with other human beings around you. Giving and receiving love. Knowing and caring for someone intimately, and letting them know and care for you. Connection with other human beings, connection with life relieves suffering. Show me where this is written in the Suttas.… Read More Lama Rod Owens: Liberation is Love
