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Author Archives: Jeff Kisling
The Curious Malaise Of The Middle Class
The article, “The Curious Malaise Of The Middle Class”, by Jason Hirthler, Dissidentvoice.org, May 30, 2019, caught my attention. As anyone who has worked on concerns related to peace and justice soon discovers, it is very difficult to find more … Continue reading
Iowa Supreme Court Opinions Expected to be filed on May 31, 2019
The Iowa Supreme Court ruling we’ve long-expected will likely be issued tomorrow, Friday, May 31. The case is titled “Puntenney v. Iowa Utils. Bd.,” and the Court’s decision will be viewable online at this link. Kudos to the landowners and … Continue reading
Choose only one: Fight war or fight climate disaster
The only hope to possibly avoid environmental collapse is to immediately stop burning fossil fuels and continue to build up the infrastructure for renewable energy. The principles of a Green New Deal provide the framework to make this happen. The … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Green New Deal, peace, renewable energy, revolution, Uncategorized
Tagged military budget
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Peace Activists’ Best Hope? The Sunrise Climate Movement
“Peace Activists’ Best Hope? The Sunrise Climate Movement” by Patrick Walker, Nationofchange.org, December 4, 2018, is an excellent summary of why I’ve supported the Sunrise Movement since it achieved national attention last November, when 250 youth of the Sunrise Movement … Continue reading
War, Peace and the Environment
As I wrote yesterday, I believe the environmental movement is today’s peace movement. The multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms, tornados, rain and flooding are leaving more and more places looking like war zones. Environmental war zones. As I thought more … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, Arts, civil disobedience, climate change, Indigenous, integral nonviolence, peace, Uncategorized
Tagged #AllNationsYouth, #MniWiconi, #NODAPL, #RezpectOurWater
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War and Peace Today
I recently said “there are several reasons I’ve begun to write what I hope will be a series of posts about working for peace and justice.” What I still plan to write is that we have to awaken people out … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, peace, Uncategorized
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Glorious
I usually don’t know what I’ll be writing on this blog until I sit down each morning, listening to hear what the Spirit might be saying, and try to express that in words. This morning I’m unsettled for a number … Continue reading
Why ponder these things now?
There are several reasons I’ve begun to write what I hope will be a series of posts about working for peace and justice. Perhaps most fundamentally because the world around me now is so different from the one I was … Continue reading
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Facing our crises
What follows is not anything you don’t already know. But I believe it is important to name the crises we are facing as the first step in beginning to deal with them. My intension is to write about some ways … Continue reading
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As predicted, climate chaos continues
Because of temperatures in the 80’s in the arctic recently, sustained, severe weather was accurately predicted for this week. Outbreaks of tornados, with deaths occurring, severe thunderstorms and widespread flooding have occurred, and will continue. The atmosphere had a convulsion … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 