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Press Release: First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March
Those of us who plan to join the First Nation–Farmers Climate Unity March could really use your help to spread the word about the March and it’s purpose. The more people who are aware of the things we are trying … Continue reading
First Nation – Farmer Climate Unity March Introduction
Here is the promo video for the First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March: Landowners who had their property taken by force for the Dakota Access Pipeline have joined with the Iowa Sierra Club in a lawsuit against the Iowa Utilities Board … Continue reading
Two-eyed Seeing and our Environment
Unprecedented wildfires, deluges of rain, storm surges and flooding, melting ice, multi-year droughts and record high air and ocean temperatures, and rising concentrations of greenhouse gases show we are moving deeper into environmental chaos. Now people are realizing climate change … Continue reading
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How Friends Can Help the Climate March
I will be writing a lot about this year’s First Nation – Farmer Climate Unity March, September 1 – 8, 2018, that I plan to be participating in. Here is the introduction from the Climate March website: Landowners who had … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, climate change, Indigenous, peace, Poor Peoples Campaign, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate March, First Nations
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Doing vs Talking
Brad Ogilvie, who I know from my connections to William Penn House, wrote: “A few years ago, I cut short a trip to Pine Ridge, S.D., so that I could lead a workshop at Baltimore Yearly Meeting annual sessions. The Pine … Continue reading
“We Will Be Waiting”
The Keystone XL pipeline is back in the news. Wednesday, July 11, the Cheyenne Sioux River Nation in South Dakota received the following letter from TransCanada.The Cheyenne River tribe has opposed the Keystone pipeline since it was first proposed in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheyenne Sioux River Nation, Keystone Pipeline
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Two-eyed Seeing
Two-eyed seeing “recognizes the benefits of seeing from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing, from the other eye the strengths of the Western ways of knowing, and using both of these eyes together to create new … Continue reading
Air conditioning and catalytic converters
Or how to be an ostrich and keep your head in the sand. I used to hope that the time would (eventually) come when so many changes in our environment and climate would finally force people to acknowledge that climate … Continue reading
Audit: The Souls of Poor Folk
“WE COME TO YOU AS REPRESENTATIVES OF BLACK, INDIAN, MEXICAN-AMERICAN, PUERTO RICAN AND WHITE-AMERICANS WHO ARE THE TOO LONG FORGOTTEN, HUNGRY AND JOBLESS OUTCASTS IN THIS LAND OF PLENTY. WE COME BECAUSE POOR FATHERS AND MOTHERS WANT A HOUSE TO … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 