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Category Archives: climate change
Silencing Protest
Silencing protest is crucial for establishing an authoritarian regime, as the current Republican party and administration are doing. As is suppressing media coverage of protests, or delegitimizing what reporting is done as “fake” news. I remember how shocked I was … Continue reading
Atlantic Coastal Flooding Needs Planned Retreat
On February 24, 2018, I created a Facebook group titled “Overground Railroad” which has only seven members and very few visitors. The description is “a group to explore how to prepare climate refugees to migrate to the Midwest, and how … Continue reading
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Indigenous Lives vs Doctrine of Discovery
Following is some information from Phyllis Young, Standing Rock Organizer, The Lakota People’s Law Project. She links the “dual traumas of colonization and the exploitation of Grandmother Earth”. As an Indigenous woman, I feel the heavy weight of history. At … Continue reading
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Tagged eminent domain, Standing Rock
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Global Green New Deal
This morning I’m writing, as I often do, more to take notes and learn about something I want to better understand. Today the subject is what a global Green New Deal might look like, stimulated by the release of the … Continue reading
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Where you gonna hide from the hell you made?
On Friday, my 12-year-old son carried his handmade cardboard protest sign to one of the thousands of climate strikes around the world, along with five of his classmates. His sign read, “Where you gonna hide from the hell you made?” … Continue reading
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Confusion
I usually don’t know what I’ll write as I sit in silence before my computer the first thing each morning. This is a spiritual practice, to listen deeply for guidance. I will often scan through social media and some email … Continue reading
Time for revolution
When I began this blog nearly five years ago, the Spirit told me the title should be “Quakers, Social Justice and Revolution.” At the time I wasn’t sure what the revolution part would mean. It was clear the status quo … Continue reading
Climate struggles continue
Once again Greta Thunberg delivered an eloquent and impassioned address, this time at the United Nations during the Climate Action Summit. Millions of young people around the world participated in the first day of the Global Climate Strike last Friday. … Continue reading
Have you no sense of decency?
Mackinac Island is a special place for me. It epitomizes the idea of living without personal automobiles, something I’ve done and advocated for most of my life. I am very glad I was able to visit the island during a … Continue reading
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A Quaker and Native peoples
This morning I have the opportunity to talk about my experiences with Native peoples. As I was preparing for this, I realized my spiritual environmental journey led me to Indigenous peoples. Some recent experiences have helped me move along the … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 