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How to Live an Inspired and Peaceful Life
Azriel ReShel
We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness. Heres how that can stop.
Frances Lee
On Oct. 15, 2017, the United Nations will withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Haiti, ending its 13-year mission there.
Siobhán Wills, Cahal McLaughlin, and Ilionor Louis
While teaching U.S. history at a public charter high school in the District, Julian Hipkins III noticed that students tended to assume that race was as old as mankind. Almost like it was natural, a given, as he put it.
Courtland Milloy
Disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes result from a combination of natural hazards and social and human vulnerability. Calling them 'natural disasters' artificially naturalises the harms they cause.
Ksenia Chmutina, Jason Von Meding, JC Gaillard & Lee Bosher
A group of global visionaries and leaders gathered in Portugal this summer. They're publishing a manifestolaying outthepossible foundation for a global alliance to defend the sacred everywhere.
What does it mean to be American? Citizenship, one may think, but the media and court of public opinion would disagree. True patriotism gets interpreted by some as angrily defending (with a religious fervor) statist symbolism and indoctrinated rites of "showing respect". They...
Those who decry the politicization of sports are only mad that its black athletes now.
Travis Waldron
The way we are trying to change the world is not going to work, and its never going towork
This is the bold statement Deborah Frieze offers as she opens her TEDx talk.
In this wonderful video, Deborah offers us a new map for navigating the potential for transformative...
Ash Buchanan
There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. Wisdom is the direct understanding of the fluidity of life. But the contradiction lies a little deeper than the mere conflict between thedesirefor...
Alan Watts
Newspapers love to dish up stories of inherent differences between the sexes, because we lap them up.Gavin Evansreflects on why we are still so susceptible.
Gavin Evans
Instead of fixating on a fight between capitalism and socialism, imagine innovating a future economy that transcends old binaries.
Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk
It is unusual for disasters to garner as much sustained coverage in the media as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have. Authors have been able to explore complex aspects of disasters in more nuanced ways than fleeting public interest generally allows.
Jason von Meding and Heidi Harmon
By putting the evil eye on nature, we take it off the humans who have science in their hands, but hold it behind their backs.
Cynthia Barnett
How many times will we rebuild Floridas cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving...
Chris Hedges
Recent weeks have seen anescalation of violence against the Rohingyain Rakhine, the poorest state of Myanmar. A tide of displaced people are seeking refuge from atrocities they are fleeing both on foot and by boat to Bangladesh. It isthe latest su
Giuseppe Forino, Jason von Meding, Tom Johnson
We should be careful before embracing ideas that might lead to catastrophe
Nathan J. Robinson
Our global civilization is currently undergoing a tremendous set of transitions that will ultimately result in the dismantling of much of the way that we currently live and the construction of a new civilization model. Over the next several months, I will be laying out many...
Jordan Hall
Im republishing this article I wrote a few months before the 2016 election because it contains an analysis which is absolutely essential for anyone who wishes to participate in transforming American political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual reality. Some of it...
Rabbi Michael Lerner
March 2017 marks the 46th anniversary of a dramatic moment in U.S. history. On March 8, 1971while Muhammad Ali was fighting Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden, and as millions sat glued to their TVs watching the bout unfolda group of peace activistsbroke into an FBI office...
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
Had we designed cities with nature in mind, we'd see fewer issues around flooding, pollution and excessive heat.
David Suzuki
"Eventually, we need to move beyond discussions about tearing down symbols of white supremacy, and begin to strategize about how to tear down the systems that still prop it up."
Adam Sanchez
Many of us spiritual progressives have been in deep grief for the loss of life of Heather Heyer, the woman killed by a Nazi fanatic who also wounded 19 other anti-racist activists. We are also in grief about the ways racism continues to flourish on so many levels in the U.S....
Rabbi Michael Lerner
The Left can't allow itself to be consumed by debates about antifa. We need a proactive program and patient organizing.
Robert Greene II
Before I start, Im going to lay my cards on the table: I dont fit race and ethnicity boxes very well. Whenever I have to fill in one of those diversity questionnaires, I always tick other because none of the options really describe me. My dad was born in Tanzania of British...
Sonny Hallett
Organize a fundraiser for a peacebuilding non-profit across the street from their event, or somewhere close by.
Arno Arr Michaelis IV
Trolls chanted in the streets the day of a planned neo-Nazi rally in the small ski town of Whitefish, Montana earlier this year. But they were not the trolls that residents had been expecting namely, white supremacists from around the country, who had been harassing the...
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Nazism and white supremacy are forms of violence. Lets start there.
Kazu Haga
The unexpected, spontaneous and pleasantly disruptive nature of collective celebration is one of the great equalisers of social and political struggle.
Janey Stephenson
When I penned the book, I was angry and alienated. Today I realize that violence can't be used to prevent violence
William Powell
Today I saw a few people I respect enough not to have muted taking a tilt at Trevor Noah for some bit where he called out antifa, and called them Vegan Isis. This will sound snobbish, but I often cringe when well meaning types on the left address comedy. They sometimes have...
Frankie Boyle
How do we build alliances across our varied agendas so as to have the greatest impact? And how do we involve what I call TWANYAS (Those Who Are Not Yet Activists) -- those who care, but have-not yet come forward?
Joyce S. Herman
One of the most emotional and difficult topics in contemporary discourse is the history of slavery and its lingering legacy. A common proposal for addressing slavery is reparations, compensatory payments to the descendants of Africans who had been enslaved as part of the...
Vishal Wilde
This is the first part in a series criticizingthe ideas ofwhite supremacy.
Emmi Bevensee
Anti-fascism comes in all shapes and forms. Whether it be the ultra-patriotic types harking back to the legacy of WWII, the III% who put that Identity Evropa kid in a chokehold in Texas, the black bloc protester who punched out Richard Spencer, the antifa rioters who trashed...
Logan Marie Glitterbomb
The Party for Socialism and Liberation expresses our condolences and solidarity to those who have suffered the loss of loved ones, been injured, or lost their homes and other vital possessions due to the ravages of Hurricane Harvey.
PSL
In an explosive interview to New Internationalist, the Kurdish female leader Bese Hozat opens up about peace, the partys view on the region and the independence referendum in South Kurdistan, and accuses Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the West to have incubated Isis.
Karlos Zurutuza.
Flooding and landslides in northwest Vietnam have caused widespread devastation since the start of August. The disaster crippled the provinces ofSon La, Dien Bien, Yen Bai and Lai Chau, situated within one of the most disadvantaged regions of the country.
Want a simple way to tell if humanity is taking the threat of global warming seriously? Ask yourself this question:Does Exxon Mobil pay more taxes thanat least oneU.S. citizen? Thats right. Just one.
Right now, the answer is a clear and resounding No! because Exxon Mobil...
Joe Brewer
Breathing in, I see myself as still water.
Breathing out, I reflect things as they are.
Near the mountain, there is a lake with clear, still water reflecting the mountain and the sky with pristine clarity. You can do the same. If you are calm and still enough, you can...
Thich Nhat Hanh
We turn out in the streets and nothing seems to happen. Maybe were doing it wrong.
Nathan Heller
Progressives need to fight for their values in a smarter, more inclusive way
Emily Crockett
"Protesters are eager to expend extraordinary energy denouncing small-scale racist actors. But what about the large-scale racist actors?"
Aviva Chomsky
Hate in America has become commonplace. What can we do to stop the hate?
The Southern Poverty Law Center
Dear Beloved Ones in Struggle,
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Over the course of the last several decades, anti-oppression politics have risen to a position of immense influence on activist discourse in North America. Anti-oppression workshops and reading groups, privilege and oppression checklists and guidelines, and countless books...
Common Cause Ottawa
Trump's plan to reverse ban on transfer of military equipment to police denounced by civil rights groups as "exceptionally dangerous and irresponsible"
Jake Johnson
The images from Houston and its environs are heart-breaking and we at Informed Comment wish all those affected a speedy and safe return to normality.
Juan Cole
After the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, many people are asking themselves what they should do if Nazis rally in their city. Should they put their bodies on the line in counter demonstrations?Some say yes.
Laurie Marhoefer
The Relevance of Radicalized Peacebuilding to Antifa Praxis
Emmi Bevensee
Just another clicktivist petition pushed by corporate NGOs with no connection to grassroots struggle? Not this time West Papuans are risking beatings, arrest, and even death to sign a petition for their right to self-determination, coordinated with international support...
Connor Woodman
Will progressives accept the empirical data behind the efficacy of nonviolence?
This comic originally appeared exclusively in my secondZen Pencilsbook collection (available from all good retailers!) in 2015. I really enjoy writing
Gavin Aung Than
Antifas horizon is in toppling the legitimacy of extraction and ownership anchored in presumably natural foundations
Angela Mitropoulos
And why the struggle for a new economic paradigm is about to get real
Nafeez Ahmed
The rise of fascism has injected new venom into an old debate, preventing activists from seeing movement strategy clearly.
Ben Case
Musician and poet Joshua Idehen took to Twitter and helped us all make sense of the many terms by our society using analogies based around your mum washing your clothes. Genius.
Joshua Idehen
An engineer in Algeriahas developed an ingenious new house building technique on a desert refugee camp. He wanted to build a home for his grandmother that would beat the heat and sandstorms, and plastic bottles were readily available. Filled with sand and straw and encased...
Jeremy Williams
Trump's "plan" for America's longest war will almost certainly increase terrorism and cause civilian deaths to skyrocket, analysts argued
Jake Johnson
"The Boston counter-protest is now perhaps the largest anti-racist protest this year."
Jake Johnson