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What are your answers?
I’ve been writing about the many ways “the contemporary political moment is defined by emergency.” Multiple global disasters means there isn’t anyone who doesn’t know this. In the face of these emergencies there is a growing feeling of hopelessness. But … Continue reading
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Urgency for Mutual Aid
My experience has always been how slowly justice related things change, even then the changes are incremental, often don’t persist. A lot of that is the disconnect between a committee (slowly) making decisions, which too often don’t have practical steps … Continue reading
Meet my friends
I realize I often preface a reference to someone by saying “my friend…”. Sometimes a bit too often. There are several reasons I do that. The main reason is to indicate that I respect this person, and believe what they … Continue reading
A Journey to Today
This day means many different things to those of us living in this country called the United States. It is difficult to imagine anyone believes the stories of a gathering where white colonizers expressed their gratitude to the Native peoples. … Continue reading
Truthsgiving Event 11/26/2020
Tomorrow being the colonial version of Thanksgiving with family gatherings you might not be thinking about attending an online Zoom meeting like the one below. If you can make the time, I’d love for you to get to know some … Continue reading
Resources to help us tell the truth
My friends at Truthsgiving.org urge us to take the TRUTHSGIVING 2020 PLEDGE, that involves educating ourselves, and our families and friends why the nonnative story of Thanksgiving not only whitewashes the truth, but promotes dangerous stereotypes. Educating ourselves What do … Continue reading
Why We Must Honor the Lost Children of Turtle Island
An important of part of Truthsgiving is educating ourselves and others. One of the worst things inflicted on native peoples was forced assimilation. Native children were forcibly removed from their families and taken long distances to residential schools. The schools … Continue reading
Thanksgiving is a Day of Mourning for Some Native Tribes
Yesterday I wrote about the Truthsgiving Pledge. The first step of the Pledge is to educate ourselves. The second step is to educate others. The Truthsgiving.org website has many resources to help us do that. One way to get the … Continue reading
The Truthsgiving Pledge
So often we don’t know what to do about things that bother us, things we know are not right. I’m so glad my friends have created the Truthsgiving website that teaches us many ways to learn the truth about Thanksgiving, … Continue reading
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TRUTHSGIVING
I only recently heard about Truthsgiving, one of many things I learned from my new friends as we walked during the First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March in September, 2018. The subject came up as we were eating dinner together in … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 