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Listen

Different cultures have different practices and language for the prayerful state of listening for and sharing spiritual messages. Many groups are guided by people who are identified as spiritual leaders. Weekly Quaker meetings for worship are a gathering of people … Continue reading

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Wet’suwet’en Call for Legal Observers

Planning and executing a nonviolent direct action needs careful planning ahead of the event. An important part is to teach the significance of not responding to provocation. This is so important that training almost always uses role playing, so participants … Continue reading

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Imagining what Martin Luther King, Jr, might do today

As we pause to honor the life and work of Martin Luther King I am reflecting on what he might think and do if he were alive today. As I am doing that now, I hear John Lennon’s song “Imagine” … Continue reading

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#LANDBACK Update from Gidimt’en Territory

Gidimt’en Access Point exists at the direction of our Hereditary House Chiefs in support of their long standing position against oil and gas pipelines. We stand strong and continue to protect our territories. We can breathe again with industry off … Continue reading

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Martin Luther King, Jr

The major threat of Martin Luther King Jr to us is a spiritual and moral one. Martin Luther King Jr turned away from popularity in his quest for spiritual and moral greatness – a greatness measured by what he was … Continue reading

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Sunrise Movement 2020

I recently summarized my involvement with the Sunrise Movement, beginning when the Movement made national news in November, 2018, and the Sunrise youth staged a sit-in at Speaker Pelosi’s office, some arrested for nonviolent direct action. One of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first … Continue reading

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Mni Wiconi: water threatened again!

Following is from Chase Iron Eyes, Legal Counsel, The Lakota People’s Law Project: In 2016 and ‘17, you stood with Standing Rock because you knew the importance of the Lakota maxim: Mni Wiconi — water is life. Decades back, a … Continue reading

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Sample Letter to John Horgan

Judy Todd has graciously given permission for us to use her letter below as a template for our own letters to British Columbia Premier, John Horgan, regarding the threatening situation in the unceded Wet’suwet’en territories. John Horgan, I am sad … Continue reading

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Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs Call For UN Intervention

I’m trying to learn about this conflict between the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs and the Coastal GasLink Pipeline Project. According to the news article below, some chiefs agreed to the pipeline project. But the Hereditary Chiefs say those chiefs did not … Continue reading

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Wet’Suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs: No Access Without Consent

Yesterday I wrote again that we have to understand who we are. What does that mean? It means we must remember, and help others remember the focus of our lives should be to love Mother Earth and each other. We … Continue reading

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