- To live in radical joyous shared servanthood to unify humanity. The Earth is but ONE country and all the living beings its citizens.
Category Archives: ARTivism
Be Always Coming Home
–by Ursula LeGuin (Mar 22, 2013) Initiation Song from the Finders Lodge Please bring strange things. Please come bringing new things. Let very old things come into your hands. Let what you do not know … Continue reading
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Enoughness & The Poetry of the Forest
–by Vandana Shiva (Feb 15, 2013) Today, at a time of multiple crises intensified by globalization, we need to move away from the paradigm of nature as dead matter. We need to move to an ecological paradigm, and for this, the best … Continue reading
Posted in ahimsa, anarchism, anarchy, astrobiology, Awaking Oakland, education, meditation, natural philosophy, nonviolence, poetry, satyagraha, science, soulforce, WednesdaysOnFridays
Tagged Agroecology, Bija Vidyapeeth, biomimicry, democracy, Earth Democracy, Earth University, Forest of Purity, forest school, Gandhi, Navdanya, Nobel Prize, nonoviolence, Organic Farming, permaculture, poetry, Rabindranath Tagore, Shantiniketan, Tapovan, The Religion of the Forest, Vandana Shiva, West Bengal, YES! Magazine
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Action to Heal the Nuclear Madness
Art piece by brother Chris Jordan –watch the TED talk about his ARTivism. ‘Unsinkable’ depicts 67,000 mushroom clouds, equal to the number of metric tons of ultra-radioactive uranium/plutonium waste being stored in temporary pools at the 104 nuclear power plants across the [part of the Planet we … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, anarchy, ARTivism, astrobiology, education, fearlessness, natural philosophy, noncooperation, nonviolence, Peace Army, satyagraha, science, soulforce
Tagged Abolition 2000, ahimsa, anarchy, Beyond Nuclear, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chernobyl, Chris Jordan, FaireWinds, Fukushima, Fukushima-Daiichi, Gar Smith, Ginger Hill farm, Hiroshima, In Mortal Hands, Joanna Macy, Livermore, Los Alamos, Martin Luther King jr, Mayumi Oda, Mothers For Peace, Nagasaki, Nevada Desert Experience, NIRS, noncooperation, nuclear abolition, nuclear energy, Nuclear Free Planet, nuclear guardianship, Nuclear Information Resource Center, Nuclear Roulette, Nuclear Weapons, Physicians for Social Responsibility, plutonium pits, PSR, radioactive waste, Stephanie Cooke, The Great Turning, Titanic, TriValleyCares, Two Headed Dragon Nuclear Energy, ultra-radioactive uranium, UniTierra, University of California, University of California Labs, Western States Legal Foundation, YES! Magazine
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Song of the Soul
–by Kahlil Gibran (Jan 25, 2013) In the depth of my soul there is A wordless song – a song that lives In the seed of my heart. It refuses to melt with ink on Parchment; it engulfs my affection In a … Continue reading
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Tagged Adelaja Simon, Kahlil Gibran
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Hymn to the Sacred Body of the Universe
by Drew Dellinger (Jan 04, 2013) let’s meet at the confluence where you flow into me and one breath swirls between our lungs let’s meet at the confluence where you flow into me and one breath swirls between our lungs … Continue reading
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The Fire Of Creativity & Falling In Love Again
by Matthew Fox (Dec 14, 2012) The choir sang this morning about fire and water, so I’d like to speak a few words about the fire of creativity and the water of community. I wrote a book a couple of years ago called Creativity: … Continue reading
Posted in ARTivism, astrobiology, education, fearlessness, natural philosophy, nonviolence, poetry, science, soulforce, WednesdaysOnFridays
Tagged creativity, falling in love again, fire, fire of creativity, Liberation Theology, Matthew Fox, Meister Eckhart, Oakland, Occupy Oakland, Oscar Romero, sermon, St. Thomas Aquinas
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What Did You Do Once You Knew?
by Drew Dellinger (Nov 30, 2012) It’s 3:23 in the morning and I’m awake because my great great grandchildren won’t let me sleep my great great grandchildren ask me in dreams what did you do while the Planet was plundered? what … Continue reading
For Failure
–by John O’Donohue (Nov 02, 2012) The will of color loves how light spreads Through its diffusions, making textures subtle, Clothing a landscape in concealment For color to keep its mysteries Hidden from the unready eye. But the light that comes … Continue reading
Because We Are
–by Rosalind Brackenbury (Oct 04, 2012) I am because we are, the five-toed, the elegant-fingered, the ones whose brains flower like coral whose dreams span earth and move out– I am because we animals love to rub and huddle, because our tongues … Continue reading
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Tagged Rosalind Brackenbury, Wednesda
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