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Category Archives: Native Americans
Escalating tensions between Wet’suwet’en and RCMP
I’ve been writing about the #Wet’suwet’en peoples and their efforts to stop the construction of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline project. Tensions between the Wet’suwet’en peoples and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are escalating. There is fear the RCMP will … Continue reading
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Solidarity
Yesterday I provided some background to explain how Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) meeting decided to write a letter to British Columbia Premier, John Horgan regarding the Wet’suwet’en peoples. Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) meetinghouse is in the Iowa countryside. Many members … Continue reading
W.A.R.N. RIDE
As you may know, almost 50 years ago, I co-founded Women of All Red Nations (WARN) with fellow the Lakota People’s Law Project (LPLP) organizer Phyllis Young and several others. We formed a frontline to confront the issues we face … Continue reading
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Beauty Destroyed
I have been blessed to have seen the awesome beauty of nature, especially our National Parks. It is sad to think of the contrast between that time of visionaries who set aside those wonders for the enjoyment of all, and … 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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Fire and Light
Love of and care for Mother Earth has been the focus of my entire adult life (50 years). For those who don’t know me, one of the main ways I was led to this focus came from a vision of … Continue reading
Radical Hope in a Turbulent World
This new year begins with multiple global climate threats. Devastating fires burning in Australia are forcing thousands to be pushed to the water’s edge. Evacuations are occurring. Wildlife is being devastated. Nearly half a billion birds and animals are feared … Continue reading
My Radical Hope
With so many significant and for the most part negative forces at work in the world now it has been difficult to remain focused on the ideas from Jonathan Lear’s book Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation … Continue reading
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Radical Hope 2020
Greetings as a new year begins! Powerful forces at work indicate a number of significant events and changes will occur this year. Most important will be increasingly severe and frequent environmental disasters, which will stress cultures globally. For decades industrial … Continue reading
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 