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You’re Invited: Global Climate Strike
Iowa Climate Strike Start: Friday, September 20, 2019 10:00 AMLocation:Iowa State Capitol 007 E Grand Ave., Des Moines, IA 50023Host Contact Info: lydia.pesek@icloud.comRSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/iowa-climate-strike We feel a lot of adults haven’t quite understood that we young people won’t hold off … Continue reading
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Tagged Global Climate Strike
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Risking arrest for our future
Many states are criminalizing acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, clearly violating First Amendment rights. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; … Continue reading
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Tagged Nahko
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Helplessly Hoping?
Watching the slow motion disaster of Hurricane Dorian, I am reminded of feeling similarly helpless as I watched Hurricane Katrina devastate New Orleans in 2005. Unfortunately Dorian seems to validate the assertion that we will see more powerful storms due … Continue reading
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Tagged Overground Railroad
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Use of Questions as Spiritual Practice
I imagine any number of religious communities use questions to help guide spiritual reflection. Quakers use the term Query to refer to these questions. Different Quaker meetings create their own sets of queries. The following relates to the Advices and … Continue reading
Memorial Tree Planting
I didn’t know what people would think about my recent blog post, My Tree Friend. For most of my life I thought of spiritual experience mainly in terms of human beings and the Spirit. Vertebrates have nervous systems of various … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear Creek, Trees
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Ethical Transportation
I am tremendously pleased by 16 year old Greta Thunberg’s decision to travel to the United States via a zero carbon sailboat instead of taking an airplane from Sweden. “This is a fight across borders.” Asked what she would miss … Continue reading
Disabilities and Community Building
Another just amazing presentation and discussion at the first National Network Assembly was the Keynote on Saturday, August 24, 2019, led by Reyma McCoy McDeid, the Executive Director of Central Iowa Center for Independent Living (CICIL). Reyma McCoy McDeid, MA, … Continue reading
NNA, Race and Community Building
Shanise Williams I, Black Voters Matter Fund, received a standing ovation after her eloquent and passionate keynote presentation at the National Network Assembly (NNA). https://www.facebook.com/ShaniseThe1st From her bio, “Shanise Williams I is a published poet, entrepreneur, blacktivist, feminist, and founder … Continue reading
NNA and Green New Deal
One of the main reasons I wanted to attend the National Network Assembly (NNA) was to see what other organizers might be doing about the climate emergency, the Sunrise Movement, and an Indigenous Led Green New Deal (GND). As I … Continue reading
Direct Action Blocked by Train
Several of the planned sessions I attended at the National Network Assembly related to direct action. I also participated in the unplanned event. This began Friday (8/23/2019) morning with “Our Story: The Movement Vision and Values Project.” The speakers were … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 