Monbiot: Colonialism Capitalism Ecocide
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 … Continue reading
How do I respond when I see racial abuse in public?
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” … Continue reading
What Does “Kafkaesque” Really Mean? A Short Animated Video Explains
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 … Continue reading
Are Black Folks REALLY a Minority?
[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 … Continue reading
When resting is resistance
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 … Continue reading
Miss Major: I’m Still Here
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 … Continue reading
Engage Evolves: Upcoming Changes
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 … Continue reading
Non-Self, the Commons and the Circular Economy
The following two video follow, in a sense, on Krishnamurti’s proposition about the cessation of the individual self, a fundamentally Buddhist idea. An economy that has as its foundation non-individual selves could work completely … Continue reading
Krishnamurti: You Are Humanity
Fourth seminar from a series of six entitled “When the illusion of individuality ends.” Krishnamurti asks:” What is the quality of the mind that is no loner self-centred?” Q: What … Continue reading
Stepping Aside: Making Space for People of Colour in Leadership Roles
The following story is an example of what more white people in leadership positions need to do: step aside to allow Black, Indigenous, immigrants and people of colour to come … Continue reading
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