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Category Archives: civil disobedience
Grieving for Mother Earth
I hope you haven’t been directly affected by the massive flooding in the Midwest. Of course we will all be affected by the damage to topsoil, impact on crops, and financial ruin for some farmers. I’m having a lot of … Continue reading
Youth and the Yearly Meeting
Yesterday my friend Rezadad Mohammadi and I traveled to Scattergood Friends School and Farm. Reza graduated from Scattergood 2 years ago and was glad to see friends and teachers. I graduated in 1970. I met Reza when he was among … Continue reading
Youth Climate Strike
The massive school strikes, where tens of thousands of students leave classes to demonstrate for action on the climate crisis in Europe and Australia, have not been widely reported in the United States. Here the Sunrise Movement has been demonstrating … Continue reading
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Sunrise Movement update 2/28/2019
So much is happening now with the Sunrise Movement that this is the second post about the online meeting last night. Last night’s meeting began with the panelists suggesting this might be a time to pull back a little and … Continue reading
30,000
Tonight I was glad to join the ZOOM online meeting for updates about the Sunrise Movement. Over 450 people were on the call. Over 30,000 have joined the Sunrise Movement in the past couple of weeks! Last week over 100 … Continue reading
Youth Have the Moral Authority
It has been an adjustment for me to become involved in a movement that is emphatically youth led and made up of thousands of young people. But I have tried for decades to get adults to come to grips with … Continue reading
#OilMoneyMitch
The Sunrise Movement is the primary organization leading the efforts to promote a Green New Deal (GND). It was Sunrise that organized the sit-ins in Congress last November and December, generating national attention. Behind the scenes a lot of organizing … Continue reading
Resolution for Green New Deal Introduced
A resolution for a Green New Deal was introduced in the House today by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Ed Markey in the U.S. Senate. It had been hoped that a Select Committee on a New Green Deal would be created … Continue reading
Sacred Ground, Underground Railroad, Butterflies and Border Wall
“Indigenous Activists Set Up Protest Camp at South Texas Cemetery to Stop Trump’s Wall” by Gus Bova was published by the Texas Observer, 1/31/2019. “Environmentalists, veterans of the Standing Rock protests and Carrizo/Comecrudo tribal members are vowing to stare down … Continue reading
Extinction Rebellion
Extinction Rebellion was started in the United Kingdom in 2018. Extinction Rebellion uses nonviolent civil disobedience to attract mainstream media attention on the need for dramatic changes to try to avoid human extinction from environmental chaos. This is another sign … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 