Sunday, 17 April 2016 00:00 By Mark Karlin, Truthout | Interview George Monbiot: Never-Ending Growth Cannot Be Sustained on a Finite Planet Corruption, systemic injustice and an obsession with growth and profit at all costs have put our planet in serious jeopardy. Drawing on decades of powerful journalism, in How Did We Get Into This Mess? George Monbiot explores the consequences… Read More Monbiot: Colonialism Capitalism Ecocide
by Kate Lyons, originally published in The Guardian A woman faces sentencing on Friday for racially abusing three women on a bus in October. Simone Joseph called the women “Isis bitches” who had “bombs up their skirts” and told them to “fuck off back to your own country”. Fellow passengers filmed the attack, which helped to… Read More How do I respond when I see racial abuse in public?
What Does “Kafkaesque” Really Mean? A Short Animated Video Explains by Josh Jones Posted: 24 Jun 2016 09:00 AM PDT We derive adjectives from great writers’ names meant to encapsulate entire philosophies or modes of expression. We have the Homeric, the Shakespearean, the Joycean, etc. Two such adjectives that seem to apply most to our contemporary condition… Read More What Does “Kafkaesque” Really Mean? A Short Animated Video Explains
[Editor: Whites are now and have always been a minority race in the global population. This article says whites make up 5% of the world’s population. I’ve seen estimates as high as 17% but that depends on who is counted as “white”. The majority of the world’s population, by “race”, 60%, are Asians.] by Jayne Dirt Originally published in… Read More Are Black Folks REALLY a Minority?
JANEY STEPHENSON 20 January 2016. Originally published in Open Democracy. Activists fixate on the future: impatient for the world we want to see. But falling into the capitalist trap of ceaseless productivity leads to burn out. An activist pauses during a demo in Bangkok. Credit: 1000 Words/Shutterstock. Although a lot of activism is anti-capitalist, we are… Read More When resting is resistance
Last week, I watched the documentary “Major!” on the life of Miss Major Griffin Gracey. Miss Major is a Black transwoman activist, a veteran of the Stonewall Rebellion, and advocate for Black and transwomen of colour in prison. Miss Major serves as the Executive Director for the Transgender GenderVariant Intersex Justice Project, which advocates for transgender women of… Read More Miss Major: I’m Still Here
This last series of posts, on Krishnamurti’s concept of the the non-individual self, the Commons and the Circular Economy, came as a total surprise. It’s the first time, or one of the few times, that I’ve been able to put together concepts of Buddhist humanist spirituality with ecological models. It gave me the idea that perhaps… Read More Engage Evolves: Upcoming Changes
