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Author Archives: Jeff Kisling
International Rebellion
Yesterday I wrote that silencing protest is crucial for establishing an authoritarian regime, as the current Republican party and administration are doing. As is suppressing media coverage of protests, or delegitimizing what reporting is done as ‘fake’ news. Today we … Continue reading
Silencing Protest
Silencing protest is crucial for establishing an authoritarian regime, as the current Republican party and administration are doing. As is suppressing media coverage of protests, or delegitimizing what reporting is done as “fake” news. I remember how shocked I was … Continue reading
Quaker Queries: Outreach
I’ve written a number of times about Quaker’s practice of considering answers to a set of queries. https://kislingjeff.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/advices-and-queries/ This month’s advice and queries are about outreach. My response follows the queries. I left out the last names of the people … Continue reading
Richmond Declaration on the Draft
I recently came upon the brochure about the Declaration on the Draft and Conscription: Richmond 1968, held at Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana) October 11 – 13, at the time of the Viet Nam War. An announcement of the Conference was … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, peace, Quaker, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged draft resistance, Scattergood Friends School
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Atlantic Coastal Flooding Needs Planned Retreat
On February 24, 2018, I created a Facebook group titled “Overground Railroad” which has only seven members and very few visitors. The description is “a group to explore how to prepare climate refugees to migrate to the Midwest, and how … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, climate refugees, immigration, Uncategorized
Tagged Overground Railroad
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Indigenous Lives vs Doctrine of Discovery
Following is some information from Phyllis Young, Standing Rock Organizer, The Lakota People’s Law Project. She links the “dual traumas of colonization and the exploitation of Grandmother Earth”. As an Indigenous woman, I feel the heavy weight of history. At … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, civil disobedience, climate change, Green New Deal, Indigenous, Uncategorized
Tagged eminent domain, Standing Rock
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Global Green New Deal
This morning I’m writing, as I often do, more to take notes and learn about something I want to better understand. Today the subject is what a global Green New Deal might look like, stimulated by the release of the … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Green New Deal, Uncategorized
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Where you gonna hide from the hell you made?
On Friday, my 12-year-old son carried his handmade cardboard protest sign to one of the thousands of climate strikes around the world, along with five of his classmates. His sign read, “Where you gonna hide from the hell you made?” … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Indigenous, Quaker, Sunrise Movement, Uncategorized
Tagged Scattergood Friends School
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Orange Shirt Day
Today, Sept. 30, is Orange Shirt Day, remembering Indigenous children who suffered in residential schools. If you happen to have an orange shirt in your closet, consider wearing it today (Monday, Sept. 30). Orange Shirt Day is a relatively new … Continue reading
Bear Creek Friends and Medicinal Herbs
It was a foggy morning as I traveled toward Bear Creek Friends meetinghouse this morning. But instead of going to the meetinghouse, I traveled a couple of miles down Bear Creek Road to the farm of my Aunt Win and … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 