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Category Archives: white supremacy
Moral Injury
The concept of moral injury is helpful for me in the context of the tragedies of the Indian boarding schools and my relationship with my Quaker community. Here is the link to today’s post about this on LANDBACK Friends Moral … Continue reading
Multiple Spiritual Communities
I recently wrote Spiritual discernment to leave Quakers. After that, though, I admit I thought, ‘what have I done? What now?’ I am a bit off balance. Writing helps me find my way through things I don’t have a good … Continue reading
Posted in #LANDBACK, capitalism, Mutual Aid, Native Americans, Quaker, Uncategorized, white supremacy
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An Epistle to Friends Regarding Community, Mutual Aid and LANDBACK
An Epistle to Friends Regarding Community, Mutual Aid and LANDBACK Dear Friends, The measure of a community is how the needs of its people are met. No one should go hungry, or without shelter or healthcare. Yet in this country … Continue reading
Spiritual discernment to leave Quakers
Mutual Aid and LANDBACK As I began to write this article several days ago, I wrote “its been a long time since I’ve felt this lost.” I’ve been struggling with Quaker history and present related to black, Indigenous and other … Continue reading
Quaker Social Concerns as Mutual Aid and LANDBACK
We are moving further into chaotic times. I started to list all the ways, but there are so many, and you know what they are. People seem paralyzed by the destruction of our environment, and collapse of political and economic … Continue reading
LANDBACK and Quakers, a Case Study
Yesterday’s post was the most recent of a series of blog posts I’ve been writing about the concept of LANDBACK. Here is a link to other LANDBACK posts: landback | Search Results | Quakers, social justice and revolution (jeffkisling.com) You … Continue reading
Posted in #LANDBACK, decolonize, Indigenous, Quaker, Uncategorized, Wet’suwet’en, white supremacy
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Time for a Reset
The Spirit tells me it is time for a reset. My whole life I have tried to protect Mother Earth. Live without a car, live in small apartments, protect the water. Protect us from pipelines and other fossil fuel projects. … Continue reading
LANDBACK Manifesto
I am just beginning to learn about LANDBACK. When I asked my Indigenous friends how I could best support them, they said “LANDBACK”. One of the ways I learn is by writing. Here are some posts thus far: landback | … Continue reading
Acting on our beliefs
Recently I’ve been thinking and praying a lot about Mutual Aid and #LANDBACK. Two concepts I hadn’t known about prior to 2018. That was the year I began to make connections with Indigenous people. And those became things they were … Continue reading
Brave New World
As I’m learning more about how to build a better world, the title of the book by Aldous Huxley comes to mind. Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set … Continue reading
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