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Author Archives: Jeff Kisling
Indigenous Led Green New Deal
The Green New Deal is catching people’s attention now because it is a practical plan to quickly begin to address the problems of a fossil fuel based corporate economy, and the consequences of that including environmental chaos, poverty and hopelessness. … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, civil disobedience, climate change, Indigenous, New Green Deal
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Sunrise Movement and Green New Deal
Like the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Green New Deal is a visionary plan to transition to 100% renewable energy. We will need to build the infrastructure, including renewable energy systems, a smart power grid, renewable energy … Continue reading
Green New Deal
Thousands of young people from the Sunrise Movement are flooding the U.S. Capitol now to ask legislators to support the Green New Deal. #GreenNewDeal A House Select Committee for a Green New Deal What is the House Select Committee for … Continue reading
Green New Deal
The Sunrise Movement is coordinating an Action tomorrow, Dec. 10th, related to the New Green Deal. Information related to this follows. You can help by calling your Congressional representatives’ offices and urging them to endorse Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Resolution for a Select … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, New Green Deal, Uncategorized
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Young Friends (continued)
After writing yesterday’s post about Young Quaker Resources I realized I hadn’t gotten one part of that story quite right. I said I realized we hadn’t invited the participation of young Friends in our peace and social justice work. More … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, Arts, Black Lives, climate change, peace, Quaker, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
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Savanna’s Act Passed in the U.S. Senate
One of the things I learned from my Native friends as we walked together on the First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March the first week of September, was about the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women. Many of the marchers … Continue reading
Glorious
As I was praying for help to find a way to encourage more of us to work harder to heal Mother Earth, I was led to discover the video below of David Archuleta singing “Glorious”. Art is usually a better … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, enslavement, Uncategorized
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Coal Persists Despite Record CO2 levels
The recently released Fourth National Climate Assessment from 13 Federal government agencies details the damage to our environment and economy and significantly increasing damage if drastic reductions of greenhouse gas emissions don’t occur now. “Earth’s climate is now changing faster … Continue reading
Help Love Overcome Despair at our Southern Border
The increasing militarism, tensions and despair at our southern border are difficult to see. How is it possible that our country takes children from their families? How is it possible our country uses tear gas against men, women and children? … Continue reading
Posted in climate refugees, immigration, Poor Peoples Campaign, Uncategorized
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 