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Category Archives: Native Americans
Now That the Buffalo’s Gone
I have a couple of books of daily readings I occasionally look at. I like the title “The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day,” which Quakers also seek to do. I’ve recently been thinking about spirituality … Continue reading
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
Quaker Queries: Outreach
I’ve written a number of times about Quaker’s practice of considering answers to a set of queries. https://kislingjeff.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/advices-and-queries/ This month’s advice and queries are about outreach. My response follows the queries. I left out the last names of the people … Continue reading
Peace, Social Concerns and Native Peoples
Yesterday I discussed the visionary statements we wrote during our Peace and Social Concerns committee meetings this summer at Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative). One area of ongoing interest and concern is our relationships with Native peoples. The blog post at … Continue reading
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
White and Privileged Climate Movement
I’ve taken advantage of every opportunity to build relationships with Indigenous Peoples for several reasons. The primary being white supremacist, capitalistic cultures have raped Mother Earth for centuries and brought us to the brink of our own extinction. Indigenous peoples … Continue reading
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Risking arrest for our future
Many states are criminalizing acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, clearly violating First Amendment rights. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; … Continue reading
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NNA, Race and Community Building
Shanise Williams I, Black Voters Matter Fund, received a standing ovation after her eloquent and passionate keynote presentation at the National Network Assembly (NNA). https://www.facebook.com/ShaniseThe1st From her bio, “Shanise Williams I is a published poet, entrepreneur, blacktivist, feminist, and founder … Continue reading
Led to Take Risks
These blog posts being published on the Internet, I never know who might read them. I appreciate you who do. Despite how it might sometimes sound in what I write, I am a fairly shy person, and usually uncomfortable doing … Continue reading
Spiritual Warriors
I just finished a series of blog posts about James Allen’s essay, “Pontoon Archipelago or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Collapse”. I spent so much effort doing that because I found the essay to be the most … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 