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Author Archives: Jeff Kisling
I hope you choose that path, no matter how hard it is
As a White person, it grieves me deeply to watch so many of us (White people) continue to try to hide behind our privilege. As I was thinking I would not have to enumerate the following atrocities, I realized there … Continue reading
Bail Bonds
I’ve recently written about the Des Moines Mutual Aid Bail Fund. Concentration camps versus abolition A Quaker friend reminded me that some early Friends (Quakerism began in the mid 1600’s) refused to be released from prison by posting bail. For … Continue reading
Concentration camps versus abolition
This is some follow-up related to yesterday’s post, Today Where I try to answer yesterday’s question, “what will you do?” I had forgotten to mention my reaction to writing the Des Moines Mutual Aid Bail Fund phone number on my … Continue reading
Today
Such a variety of things happened today, I can’t come up with a good title. So today. It was kind of a stream of conscious day. I have a routine that involves writing first thing in the morning. If it … Continue reading
What will you do?
I’ve often looked at, and thought about this photograph I took at a Black Lives Matter protest in Indianapolis in July, 2016. It was a warm, sunny summer evening, around sunset. I arrived about half an hour early and there … Continue reading
Making New Worlds
This week the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been offering a series of online events related to “Making New Worlds – Pursuing Peace with Justice.” What does it mean to dismantle systems to create justice? What is the Quaker … Continue reading
Instructions on Not Giving Up
The Spirit gave me this poem this morning. Knew I needed these instructions. I sense hopelessness, pain and sorrow in those around me, human and nonhuman. And the temptation to give up. Each day, hour, minute brings more trauma. I … Continue reading
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AltEn environmental catastrophe continues
The AltEn environmental catastrophe continues. See previous posts:The AltEn Environmental Catastrophe in Mead, NebraskaIndigenous panel discussion of AltEn environmental disaster The Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy has launched a public portal keep the Mead community, Saunders County residents and … Continue reading
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Call your spirit back
We are constantly assaulted from all directions. Violence and war, racial injustice, hunger, houselessness, pandemic, environmental disasters and chaos.Frightened to withdraw. Cover ourselves with a hard shell. Cower.But we feel how this diminishes us. This is not how we want … Continue reading
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Indigenous panel discussion of AltEn environmental disaster
This is follow-up on this morning’s article about the environmental catastrophe at the AltEn facility at Mead, Nebraska. The video below is of the panel presentation by Indigenous leaders of the Great Plains Action Society and Ní Btháska Stand. April 11 at 7:00 PM … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 