Local assemblies transform citizens. We are made new humans by participating. We grow beyond capitalist modernity. “Nature is intelligence, diversity, and self-organisation. Municipalism is self-organisation at the level of cities.” —Vandana Shiva How a Global Network of #FearlessCities is Making Racist Colonial Nation States Obsolete June 15, 2017 Richard D. Bartlett originally posted at P2P Foundation Introducing… Read More A Global Network of Fearless Cities

[Editor: the survival of humanity as a species is dependent on at least two social factors: (1) the capacity to transcend tribalism; and (2) the capacity to trust, share and cooperate, and both of these on a local and global scale. We must examine our social action strategies to see if they increase our capacity… Read More The limits of non-cooperation as a strategy for social change

3 ways Clean Energy will make Big Oil extinct in 12 to 32 Years — without subsidies Nafeez Ahmed June 15 The world is at a point of no return. We find ourselves in the midst of an unprecedented transition, where the old industrial paradigm is slowly breaking down. As the old world dies, a new world is… Read More Nafeez Ahmed: As the old world dies, a new world is being born

by Seth Zuihō Segall, originally published at the Existential Buddhist  Posted on February 6, 2017 This is an updated, revised version an of essay of mine that was published in the Fall 2004 issue of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s former publication, Turning Wheel. It has been overhauled and repurposed for the Trump Era. Just what is… Read More What’s Buddhist About Buddhist Social Activism?

A new essay by Jayarava (Compatibility Issues 3. Buddhism) is a brilliant analysis of the cultural role of Buddhism in the world, past and present. Jayarava argues that the Buddhist worldview is epistemological, in other words, a description of our experience of the world, and how we know what we know (espistemology) rather than a collection truth statements… Read More What Does Buddhism Offer the World?

Originally published in Shambhala Sun, 1997 and in Buddhadharma: The Practitioners Quarterly. Reposted in numerous Buddhist blogs. Kobai Scott Whitney The Upper Middle Way: Have North-American Buddhists Renounced Renunciation? Historians of religion often repeat the accepted truth that it takes about two centuries for a culture to absorb a new religion and make it its own.… Read More The Upper Middle Way