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Seeding the Hill with Indigenous FreeThinkers
I’ve written a lot about why I believe a Green New Deal is our best hope to try to tackle evolving environmental collapse. And why I feel it is so important for a developing Green New Deal to be led … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, climate change, Green New Deal, Indigenous, Sunrise Movement, Uncategorized
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What can I do?
In a world experiencing unprecedented climatic, ecological, and societal change, many in the Religious Society of Friends are coming to know our own need for newness. We thirst to find and share a clearer sense of the relevance of our … Continue reading
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Quaker Indian Boarding Schools 2
Yesterday I wrote about Quaker Indian Boarding Schools and announced the workshop “Quaker Indian Boarding Schools, Facing Our History and Ourselves” that will be lead by Paula Palmer, and held at Scattergood Friends School and Farm, near West Branch, Iowa, … Continue reading
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If you are able to listen and hear
As the Indigenous people, we have watched this thing happen on our hemisphere. We have seen what has happened. We have seen the community confused and attacked. We understand that the issue is the land, the issue is the Earth. … Continue reading
“War is War on Mother Earth”
I sometimes wonder why it takes so long to recognize something that has been in plain sight all along. This time, it is the link between war and climate change. I recently wrote about the U.S. military being that largest … Continue reading
Iowa Supreme Court Decision
Yesterday’s post described the case before the Iowa Supreme Court, of land owners and the Sierra Club of Iowa against the Iowa Utilities Board and Dakota Access, asserting that eminent domain was abused when used to force landowners to allow … Continue reading
The Curious Malaise Of The Middle Class
The article, “The Curious Malaise Of The Middle Class”, by Jason Hirthler, Dissidentvoice.org, May 30, 2019, caught my attention. As anyone who has worked on concerns related to peace and justice soon discovers, it is very difficult to find more … Continue reading
Iowa Supreme Court Opinions Expected to be filed on May 31, 2019
The Iowa Supreme Court ruling we’ve long-expected will likely be issued tomorrow, Friday, May 31. The case is titled “Puntenney v. Iowa Utils. Bd.,” and the Court’s decision will be viewable online at this link. Kudos to the landowners and … Continue reading
Peace Activists’ Best Hope? The Sunrise Climate Movement
“Peace Activists’ Best Hope? The Sunrise Climate Movement” by Patrick Walker, Nationofchange.org, December 4, 2018, is an excellent summary of why I’ve supported the Sunrise Movement since it achieved national attention last November, when 250 youth of the Sunrise Movement … Continue reading
War, Peace and the Environment
As I wrote yesterday, I believe the environmental movement is today’s peace movement. The multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms, tornados, rain and flooding are leaving more and more places looking like war zones. Environmental war zones. As I thought more … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, Arts, civil disobedience, climate change, Indigenous, integral nonviolence, peace, Uncategorized
Tagged #AllNationsYouth, #MniWiconi, #NODAPL, #RezpectOurWater
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 