85 Compelling Films Starring and/or Directed By Women of Color: A List Created by Director Ava DuVernay & Friends on Twitter Posted: 29 Jan 2016 04:00 AM PST Image by Marie Maye, via Wikimedia Commons If you follow film news—or really, just news—you’re well aware of the controversy surrounding the current crop of Academy Award nominees. While… Read More 85 Compelling Films Starring and/or Directed By Women of Color:

This talk was originally presented by One Earth Sangha David Loy’s core argument—that Buddhism has to change to meet the crisis of climate change and the ecological crisis—begins at 24:30, and continues for the rest of the video.

[Note: the point of this article is that admitting privilege does little to change racists structures; taking even small actions against racism is the real work white people need to do.] Admitting that white privilege helps you is really just congratulating yourself. If genuine contrition is the purpose of racial self-criticism, then the exercise is a paradox.… Read More The Pitfalls of Admitting White Privilege

I got this email today from MLA David Coon and my green activist friends in New Brunswick, who also see the purpose of society is to create well-being. January 27, 2016 The State of Well-Being in our Province Fredericton– On Thursday, January 28th, Premier Brian Gallant will give his State of the Province Address. David… Read More New Brunswick Greens and the Well-Being Society

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 of others. This is not about denying police brutality and injustice affects us all. This is not about vilifying non-POC. This is not about homogenizing… Read More #NATIVE LIVES MATTER: IT’S A DIFFERENT KIND OF HURT

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 work near the Pike Place market in Seattle, was shot four times by a police officer within seconds of failing to drop the knife and piece of… Read More Native Lives Matter