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Decolonize ALL The Things
It seems like a miracle to me, to witness millions of people around the world coming together to demand change, demand justice. To witness the sustained gatherings day after day. I have spent the past several years following leadings of … Continue reading
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Concepts of race, property and value
I found this video by Sonya Renee Taylor to be very thought provoking. “When capital is more valuable than black bodies, capital must be disrupted.” I continue to be uplifted by the masses of people going to the streets to … Continue reading
Lessons from Digital Smoke Signals
Myron Dewey of Digital Smoke Signals offers excellent advice regarding using social media on the front lines. He shares his experience from Standing Rock. Offers support for those on the streets and using social media related to the uprisings resulting … Continue reading
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Believe in my prayers
This has been a week of uprising against failed political and economic systems. Against systemic racism. For years I have been led to spend time learning from black and native people who have become my dear friends. My spiritual life … Continue reading
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SHIFT the Narrative Episode 4
This is the 4th episode of the excellent SHIFT the Narrative series, a project of Seeding Sovereignty. The biographies of Owl and Kali Reis are at the end of this. Kali “K.O” Mequinonoag Reis, Seaconke Wampanoag and Cherokee Nations & … Continue reading
SHIFT the Narrative
I recently wrote about the concept of narrative shift and how that idea is being used by my friend Christine Nobiss and her colleagues involved with SHIFT – Seeding the Hill with Indigenous Freethinkers, a project of Seeding Sovereignty. The … Continue reading
Moral Reckonings
As Krista Tippett says below, “it feels important to me, in a moment like this, to look below the radar of rupture — to see models and practices that work, and that in fact can take up the huge hard … Continue reading
#ShutDownAIMCo Online Day of Action
Despite the COVID-19 global pandemic, international solidarity calls for an end to all construction, and an eviction notice by Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, CGL and RCMP continue to illegally occupy sovereign Wet’suwet’en yintah. Their presence on the territory puts communities at … Continue reading
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‘The Oglala band is ready to stand against foreign intrusions’
I’ve been writing about the health screening checkpoints at the borders of the Oglala and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes in South Dakota, set up to try to reduce the chances of spreading the coronavirus on tribal lands. The rapid rise … Continue reading
Pandemic and decolonization
This is another of those times, and there have been many, when I’m beginning a journey into something I want to know more about. That is, I’m likely to make some errors, but that is how I/we grow. The concept … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 