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URGENT: Stop Dakota Access Pipeline Expansion
The long struggle against the Black Snake, the Dakota Access Pipeline, is facing new threats. Your voice is needed. For though the resistance at Standing Rock has been forcibly paused and oil now flows through the Dakota Access pipeline, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bold Iowa, Chase Iron Eyes
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Special Envoy of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
Many know Angelina Jolie as an Academy Award winning actor. She is the mother of 6 adopted children. But her work in recent years is as the Special Envoy of he U.N. Commissioner for Refugees. She has published a number … Continue reading
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And those who know and those who seek. Amidst the chaos, find your peace
I am so discouraged by the vicious and escalating racism of the president, and the enablers of his party who refuse to refute it. In a recent blog post the characteristics of fascism are articulated. https://kislingjeff.wordpress.com/2019/07/28/we-refuse-to-sit-idly-by/ Surely we won’t be … Continue reading
History of Separating Families and Stealing Children
Here, in McAllen, Texas, indigenous people fleeing violence and seeking asylum are, right now, locked in chain-link cages and lying on concrete floors, where the sound of frightened, crying kids and mothers and fathers fearing for their children is eerily … Continue reading
…fiddle while Rome burns
fiddle while Rome burns. To do something trivial and irresponsible in the midst of an emergency; legend has it that while a fire destroyed the city of Rome, the emperor Nero played his violin, thus revealing his total lack of … Continue reading
We Refuse to Sit Idly By
In the United States there once was a taboo about the use of the word FASCIST. As though we could never become a fascist state, so don’t even go there. Terrifyingly, that seems to be the state we are rapidly … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, immigration, Uncategorized
Tagged concentration camps, fascism
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Extinction Rebellion vs Congress
Today there are three movements that are mobilizing many, many people to draw attention to climate change: the Sunrise Movement, School Strikes, and Extinction Rebellion. Thousand of students in Europe, and now in the United States, are striking on Fridays. … Continue reading
Iowa Land Acknowledgement Statement
I’ve written a lot about the workshops and presentations that Quaker Paula Palmer led us through when she was in the Midwest recently. In the following excerpt of her letter to faith communities, she describes some reasons why this became … Continue reading
Justin Bieber ‘can you also let those kids out of cages?’
Justin Bieber Calls on President Trump to ‘Let Those Kids Out of Cages,’ While Thanking Him for Helping A$AP Rocky by Josiah Bates, TIME, July 20, 2019 Justin Bieber has weighed in on the border crises and A$AP Rocky’s Swedish … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, immigration, Uncategorized
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Silence
I don’t know what I might be led to write when I sit in front of my computer and try to move into a place where I can hear the Inner Light. What I’m hearing this morning seems disjointed, but … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, climate change, Indigenous, Native Americans, Quaker, Uncategorized
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 