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Sunrise Movement vs Extinction Rebellion
Earth Day, 2019 I’m not sure how most people think about Earth Day this year. The recent climate catastrophes, including the massive, intense fires in California, the series of severe storms across the country, melting of huge amounts of ice … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, civil disobedience, climate change, Green New Deal, Kheprw Institute, Uncategorized
Tagged Extinction Rebellion
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Responses to the urgency of climate chaos
Yesterday’s blog post about the Extinction Rebellion, and responses to that, has made me realize many people are unclear about how to respond to the urgency of climate catastrophe. While it is good to see people are waking up to … Continue reading
Extinction Rebellion coming to the U.S.
As I was working on today’s blog post, I got a message from my friend Ed Fallon, that he will be discussing the Extinction Rebellion (XR) on his radio program, the Fallon Forum, today. You can listen to the program … Continue reading
Martin Luther King: His Own Words
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of … Continue reading
Sherry Hutchison continues to teach peace
Sherry Hutchison would have been 99 years old on January 13th in 2018. She died peacefully December 31st, 2017, in Des Moines, Iowa. Sherry was a member of Des Moines Valley Friends (Quaker) Meeting, which belongs to Iowa Yearly Meeting … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, peace, Quaker, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged Midyear Meeting, Sherry Hutchison
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Just know it will be alright
Even though it’s been eight years since the death of my life long best friend, Randy Porter, there are still times when I feel his absence acutely. We played the song Storm by Jason Wade of Lifehouse over and over … Continue reading
The Prophecy of the Black Snake
We knew there would be escalating attacks on those of us who continue to resist the construction of pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure. A growing number of states are passing legislation against “riot boosters”. Bills to clamp down on … Continue reading
Midwest Climate Disaster
Although I’ve been studying climate science most of my life, one of the scariest things about climate change are the unexpected problems that continue to appear. I was surprised by polar vortexes, which seem to becoming an annual occurrence. I … Continue reading
Promise to Protect Training
The Promise to Protect is a commitment to resist fossil fuels where you live and prepare to take creative action along the Keystone XL pipeline route when called upon by Indigenous leaders. With millions of dollars being poured into fossil … Continue reading
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Tagged #NoKXL
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Grandmothers Fighting KXL
From the Lakota Peoples Law Project: In the wake of the movement at Standing Rock, Big Oil has not slowed its efforts to push pipelines through our Native nations. And now, as the battle over Keystone XL brews in South … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 