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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
Photography as spiritual practice
As I wrote a month ago, the theme of the upcoming annual meeting of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) is “Being Centered in an Uncentered World.” The first evening session will be “Finding Truth and Beauty” where I will share my … Continue reading
Living the Change
As I wrote yesterday, I heard from Susanna Mattingly, the Sustainability Communication Officer for the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC). FWCC is joining a multi-faith campaign to work for sustainable living, called Living the Change. This encourages us to … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, climate change, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged bicycle, Ethical Transportation
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Who am I?
My Quaker meeting, Bear Creek, is part of Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative). As the name implies, people who belong to this group of Quaker meetings come together annually for business, worship, learning and spending time with each other. … 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
Posted in #NDAPL, civil disobedience, Indigenous, Uncategorized
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
Race, Culture and Ideology
In a review of the book The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump,” Paul Rosen writes: Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz argues that Trump is the product of an ongoing multigenerational process that has reshaped … Continue reading
Quakers and Indigenous Peoples
One evening last year at the annual meeting of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) there was a panel discussion about “Building Bridges with Native Americans.” On the panel were Christina Nobiss (Indigenous Iowa), Donnielle Wanatee (Meskwaki tribe and settlement) and Peter … Continue reading
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 