I’m an Occupy Wall Street founder, and here’s my advice to student protesters As one of the original co-creators of the Occupy Wall Street movement, I’ve watched student protests sweep across campuses in Cape Town, Missouri, London and Los Angeles with a growing sense of optimism. The history of protest suggests that students are often the first to sense the opportunity… Read More Micah White: The Next Revolution
Democracy Now, November 30, 2015. Broadcasting live from Paris CoP21, with footage of ongoing “illegal” demonstrations, reports from climate experts and activists, including Naomi Klein.
John Cage: Silence requires noise. —in order to be known as “silence” ; just as emptiness requires form in order to be known as “emptiness”. Stream a Free 65-Hour Playlist of John Cage Music and Discover the Full Scope of His Avant-Garde Compositions Posted: 30 Nov 2015 04:50 AM PST john cage 65 hours Spotify:… Read More John Cage: The Ten Thousand Things
Editor: I have been tracking the proceedings at COP 21 in Paris by Twitter. Because of the bombings in Paris in November, public demonstrations and marches external to the Conference were prohibited and cancelled. It appears that the Presentations of the Faith Declarations, including the Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change, have been cancelled as well.… Read More Buddhist Climate Declaration Postponed
Rabbinic Letter on Climate -Torah, Pope, & Crisis Inspire 425+ Rabbis to Call for Vigorous Climate Action Encouraged by plans for and release of the papal Encyclical, they call for Eco-Social Justice As of Noon on October 29, 2015, 425 rabbis have signed a Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis, calling for vigorous action to prevent worsening… Read More Rabbinic Letter on Climate Change
Caring for God’s Creation The biblical mandate to care for God’s earth and the people who depend upon it is clear. In 1970 the NAE declared that “those who thoughtlessly destroy a God-ordained balance of nature are guilty of sin against God’s creation.”[1] In 2004 we affirmed that “government has an obligation to protect its… Read More Christian Evangelicals: Caring for God’s Creation
There are more than 19.5 million refugees worldwide, cities are emitting 70% of all greenhouses gases and around 3,500 languages are currently in danger of extinction. The statistics around the climate change debate may make for increasingly stark reading, but they suffer from one major drawback: that we, as humans, find it difficult to relate… Read More EXIT: Mapping Migration and Climate Change
