#NATIVE LIVES MATTER: IT’S A DIFFERENT KIND OF HURT
BY JOHNNIE JAE / CURRENTS, OPINION / 21 DEC 2014 COMMENTARY All lives matter, but this is not a discussion about all lives. This is not about putting the lives of one people above the lives … Continue reading
Native Lives Matter
Native Lives Matter, Too by Lydia Millet OCT. 13, 2015 Photo CreditArianna Vairo IN August 2010 John T. Williams, a homeless woodcarver of the Nuu-chah-nulth tribe who made his living selling his … Continue reading
The Eight-fold Path to the Well-Being Society
The Well-Being Society. Well-being. It came to me today that what I’ve been taught all my life, and what everyone is taught, is that the goal of life is wealth … Continue reading
Settlers in the Land: Decolonising Permaculture
from Unsettling America Posted on January 24, 2016 David Pritchett explores how we can ‘read’ the cultural landscape and become more educated about the ‘invisible structures’ that exclude people from the land … Continue reading
Venerable Rathana Thera Presents Buddhist Declartion on Climate Change at COP 21
This email newsletter from BCAN confirms what I had reported in early December: it was Venerable Rathana Thera who presented the Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change at Paris COP 21. Venerable Rathana … Continue reading
Postcards from a horizontal world
MARINA SITRIN 16 December 2013 New social movements are different. Instead of asking for alternatives, they are bringing them to life. Protestors in the Puerta de Sol, Madrid. Credit: Wikipedia/Carlos Delgado. … Continue reading
What the World Needs Now: Jnanavaca on Buddhism in the modern world.
Is that all we want from Buddhism—a nice middle-class life with a nice spirituality to go with it? Do we really quest for something more, something “beyond”? This life, this … Continue reading
Shunyata: Process, flow
Tonight, I saw a dance, the Mocean dance company. The dance is a continuous flow. There is no point at which you can say that “I have created this thing, … Continue reading
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