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Wet’suwet’en update 1.30.2020
For any spark to make a song it must be transformed by pressure There must be unspeakable need, muscle of belief, and wild, unknowable elements. I am singing a song that can only be born after losing a country. Harjo, … Continue reading
Bank Invasion
Do you feel helpless in the face of the continuing onslaught of environmental catastrophes? Who doesn’t? Banks know that fossil fuel mining and use has to end now in part because of environmentalist’s actions like those below. But instead continue … Continue reading
Unist’ot’en Healing Centre
The Unist’ot’en Healing Centre is described below. As important as it is in its own right, the Healing Centre is now the focus of attention regarding the approval of the Coastal Gaslink (CGL) pipeline. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (excerpts)Tues, January 21, … Continue reading
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Sunrise Movement 2020
I recently summarized my involvement with the Sunrise Movement, beginning when the Movement made national news in November, 2018, and the Sunrise youth staged a sit-in at Speaker Pelosi’s office, some arrested for nonviolent direct action. One of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first … Continue reading
We have to understand who we are
My life working on environmental issues has taught me that a Spiritual approach to our environmental chaos is what is needed. The root of our unfolding environmental disaster is the dominant White view that natural resources are commodities that can … Continue reading
Wet’suwet’en people
I have just begun to learn about the Wet’suwet’en people. A friend of mine from the First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March traveled to the Unist’ot’en camp about 4 years ago, and found it to be a life-changing experience. I also … Continue reading
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I N V A S I O N
In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial … Continue reading
Sunrise Movement Endorses Bernie Sanders
Yesterday’s post was not hopeful about people changing to finally begin to address our rapidly worsening environmental chaos: However this all evolves, what we do know is we have to build Beloved communities, to live as best we can as … Continue reading
The Age of Last Chances
When I reflect on the last year, there’s a certain difficult truth about this age that strikes me. We live in the age of last chances. What do I mean?We have about a decade, maybe two, left. To stop the … Continue reading
Oil = War, Sun = Peace
My activism began in 1969 as an 18 year old Quaker struggling with my decision to register with the Selective Service System (draft). The 1960′ s were a traumatic time with the horrors of the Vietnam War and the often … Continue reading
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 