Carl Anthony on the regional equity movement, and making cities work.
Opinion
We face devastation of the natural world and violence in human communities. There's a way to solve both these crises. A reverence movement would anchor a different economics, a restorative economics. Working with nature, we can create wealth sustainably and spread it more equitably. Solution-based, investment-driven environmentalism.
Movement building is not just about winning on a particular issue, says Grace Lee Boggs. It is about advancing the evolution of human society.
Some journalists are stubbornly pursuing the truth despite growing media monopolies, government secrecy, ideology, and public relations spin doctors—but it’s getting tougher
Our youth, our natural world, our neighbors—all are treated as expendables. What we need is a joining of movements based on valuing all life.
In the U.S. today, immigrants are taking the blame for everything from environmental stresses to terrorism to the poor job market. What’s at stake for all of us in this debate?
Yet this is a sort of knowledge that
generations before us have already held, a way of appreciating
the world that we might share without trauma, without hard
lessons, if we but remember how our ancestors used to
live.
International Solidarity Movement and the power of nonviolence
I do not feel particularly brave when I speak. I am simply propelled by the force of what I want to say.
Rachel Corrie. A story about Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions.
Time to Be, Time to Love by Rabbi Arthur
Waskow, shabbat shabbaton,
bioremediation using mushrooms, How fungi can
cleanse water and toxic spills
Nordic welfare society, Finland, Martha
Organization,
about corporate abuse, Stakeholder Alliance,
corporate stakeholder rights, corporate responsibility as a
solution
Nonviolent intervenors transform our response
to conflict. Building a new force by Michael n. Nagler, an
article on the Nonviolent Peaceforce. YES! A Journal of
Positive Futures,
While the ruling elites occupy themselves with
seeking to restore faith in the pathological institutions on
which their power and privilege were built, the rest of us can
embrace this moment of economic failure as an historic
opportunity. Through our individual and collective choices, we
can grow into being the economic institutions, relationships,
and culture of a just, sustainable, and compassionate world of
living economies that work for all.
Grace Boggs writes a Journey to a New America,
who are "we the people?"
redistribution of wealth, jubilee, cancelling
debt by edict, Clean-slate tradition
Throughout its history the United States has
shown two faces: one that’s peaceful, promoting justice and
self-determination, and one that’s selfish, defining its
national interests in ways that promote suffering and brutality
abroad.
Why do we always think we can put an end to killing by waging war? It never works, for reasons that should be obvious.
Speech given at Princeton considers the fallibility of our justice system and the finality of death.
Sociologist and Holocaust survivor Samuel P. Oliner writes about what motivates altruists and heroes who put the welfare of others alongside their own. Reaching out to others has been the force behind much that is good in the world.
For a sundancer and bundle-keeper in the Dakota tradition, the world and the spirit are identical.
heart of a muslim by Jamal
Rahman,
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