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We’re here to create peace
Sustained protests have occurred all over the country and around the world since the public killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, May 25, 2020. The demonstrations represent anger from years of deaths of hundreds of people, disproportionately people … Continue reading
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Strike for Black Lives
As expected there was little reporting in the mainstream media about the Strike for Black Lives that occurred in cities across the country yesterday. Thus it is hard to know how many people were involved or news about reactions to … Continue reading
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A time for reckoning?
Will this be the day that will launch steps toward racial justice in the land called the United States? The horrendous public execution of George Floyd by White police officers has triggered massive protests in cities across the country and … Continue reading
Orientation to a Regenerative Economy
Following is the current state of a diagram I’ve been working on to help me understand the relationships among White settler colonists, Indigenous peoples and other people of color. Many of the basic problems today stem from our capitalist economic … Continue reading
Black Lives Matter Statue
I’ve had an evolving understanding of tearing down statues related to racism and other injustice. At first I thought these were mainly acts of venting frustration. Perhaps symbolic resistance to injustices of the past. But when I attended the July … Continue reading
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Bear Witness on the 30th Anniversary of Kanehsatake Resistance
3 ways to bear witness on the 30 year anniversary of the #Kanehsatake Resistance (Oka Crisis). Oka is still criminalizing land defenders standing for their sovereignty & #landback 3 mins w/ @EllenGabriel1https://instagram.com/tv/CCen3q3Bd4_/?igshid=jhh73q5qk5rz Amy Ede
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White supremacy and monuments to White supremacy
Some responses to a recent post about the Seeding Sovereignty event HEY! Come Get Your Racist Uncle, Remove Monuments to White Supremacy, were objections to removing Confederate statues because of their (possible) historic value. I know many White people don’t like … Continue reading
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We are the land speaking for itself
The COVID-19 pandemic has slowed actions related to the Wet’suwet’en people’s efforts to stop the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline from being built on their territories. Unfortunately the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) were recently seen patrolling a Wet’suwet’en cultural … Continue reading
What are you bypassing spiritually?
“…we say many things about the changing aspects of our lives. We say that since change is inevitable, we should direct the change rather than simply continue to go through the change.” –Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, Delta Man This … Continue reading
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Black Panthers
I was surprised and impressed to learn from my friend Ronnie James that the Free Breakfast for Children has continued to this day. So I work with a dope crew called Des Moines Mutual Aid, and on Saturday mornings we … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 