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#CloseTheCamps
We have watched with mounting horror as details and images of the inhumane treatment of children in the detention centers at our southern border continue to emerge. Tomorrow there will be protest rallies across the country demanding that the camps … Continue reading
Posted in immigration, Uncategorized
Tagged #CloseTheCamps, AFSC, detention centers, FCNL, MoveOn
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Some Challenges of Working for Justice
Each human is a complex, contradictory story. Some stories within us have been unfolding for years, others are trembling with fresh life as they peek above the horizon. Each is a zigzag of emotional design and ancestral architecture. All the … Continue reading
Posted in Kheprw Institute, Quaker, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged QSCM, Quaker Social Change Ministry
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Into This Morning Light to You
The light is beautiful this morning. I’ve done my best to try to continue to believe there might be ways we could avoid environmental catastrophe and societal collapse. I hoped people would wake up before it was too late. For … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Uncategorized
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Seeding the Hill with Indigenous FreeThinkers
I’ve written a lot about why I believe a Green New Deal is our best hope to try to tackle evolving environmental collapse. And why I feel it is so important for a developing Green New Deal to be led … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, climate change, Green New Deal, Indigenous, Sunrise Movement, Uncategorized
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First Democratic Presidential Debate “Failed the Planet”
Last night was the first debate with Democratic presidential candidates. Those who understand the rapidly growing, interrelated list of severe consequences of climate chaos had hoped the candidates would speak much more forcefully and fully about climate change were disappointed. … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Sunrise Movement, Uncategorized
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Help the Next Person Find Their Way
As I was looking for information about conflict resolution and transformation, I found the latest book of poems by our new poet laureate, Joy Harjo, “Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems.” I’m intrigued with the title of the following poem, … Continue reading
Joy Harjo poet laureate
Poet, writer and musician Joy Harjo has been named the country’s 23rd poet laureate. She is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation and often draws on Native American stories, languages and myths. But she says that she’s not self-consciously … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Indigenous, Uncategorized
Tagged conflict resolution, conflict transformation
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Braiding Sweetgrass and Indian Boarding Schools
I’ve been writing about the Quaker Indian boarding schools lately in anticipation of the workshop that will be held about that at the Quaker boarding school I attended, Scattergood Friends School and Farm (July 7, 9-11 am). Often stories provide … Continue reading
Flight Shame
But here’s the peculiar thing: although no other human activity pushes individual emission levels as fast and as high as air travel, most of us don’t stop to think about its carbon impact. http://theconversation.com/its-time-to-wake-up-to-the-devastating-impact-flying-has-on-the-environment-70953 This video tells the story of … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Ethical Transportation, Uncategorized
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Juneteenth
I continue to believe that we will never make real progress in our work for peace and justice in the United States until we, as a nation, confront the historic injustices of (1) the institution of slavery, and (2) the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Lives, enslavement, Uncategorized
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 