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Quaker Biker
As I wrote yesterday, I’m beginning to work on plans to promote bicycling. Since links to this blog appear in several places, many readers don’t know me, so here is a brief history. When I arrived in Indianapolis in 1971, … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, bicycles, climate change, integral nonviolence, Keystone Pledge of Resistance, Quaker Meetings, revolution, Uncategorized
Tagged cars
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Dakota elder leadership and Scaffold
I’ve written recently about the sculpture called Scaffold, that was being installed at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and then about the mediation that occurred and resulted in the sculpture being removed from the art center. The story caught … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, Arts, Black Lives, civil disobedience, Indigenous, Kheprw Institute, Uncategorized
Tagged cultural appropriation, elder, leadership
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Economic Concentration Camp
The more I think about our broken economic system, the more sinister my thoughts become. How have we come to accept millions of people living in extreme poverty, living without adequate food, water, shelter, healthcare, safety or hope? How have … Continue reading
Satyagraha Fundamentals
I’ve read and written about the part of the iceberg underwater (self-purification) and the part above water (constructive program) from “The Gandhian Iceberg” by Chris Moore-Backman. Now I am reading about the tip of the iceberg, nonviolent resistance or satyagraha. … Continue reading
Peace and Social Concerns
Quakers believe their faith calls them to action, to address issues related to peace and social injustices. Readers of this blog know of many of the things I’ve been involved with over the past several years, including the Keystone Pledge … Continue reading
#noDAPL as Revolutionary Act
I’ve written a lot about how working with others who love the Earth, and especially Native Americans this past year related to the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance has profoundly deepened and broadened my spiritual life. As I begin to try … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, civil disobedience, Indigenous, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged revolutionary act
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Last Revolutionary Act
Although living without a car has involved fundamental lifestyle changes, and daily (what many would consider) inconveniences, I’ve always been aware that wasn’t nearly enough. Those living in the United States consume energy and materials at a rate many times … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, climate change, revolution, Uncategorized
Tagged cars, Gandhi, Iceberg, nonviolence
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Quaker Social Change Ministry Review
This Sunday, North Meadow Friends will be discussing our past year’s experience with implementing the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) new program, Quaker Social Change Ministry (QSCM). To many of us who have been participating in QSCM, we have come … Continue reading
100 Days
As the political world focuses on what the new Republican administration has and has not accomplished in its first 100 days, I’m reposting something I wrote last May, during the primary election season, as my own benchmark. There were a … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, Arts, Black Lives, climate change, Indiana Moral Mondays, race, Uncategorized
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Silence and Icebergs
I have been carrying a deep, spiritual hurt since learning about, and writing about the scope, depth and complexity of the propaganda machines being used and further developed today. To learn of the extremes to which many are willing to … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, Arts, climate change, Indigenous, Kheprw Institute, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged propaganda, truth
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 