Category Archives: anarchy

Gratitude Needs Practice

Posted on February 1, 2021 by pancho

by Stephen Jenkinson It’s dark. You are standing in a field, far from the house. This is the midnight sky of your younger, wilder days. It is ablaze, aching with stars. It is the vault of heaven, indigo sea of time … Continue reading →

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The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance

Posted on January 18, 2021 by pancho

By Robin Wall Kimmerer [As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and ecological systems to … Continue reading →

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Nosotras Somos / We are the ones

Posted on April 2, 2020 by awakinOAK

Por June Jordan  [English below] For Audio Click here Poema para mujeres sudafricanas/ Poem for South African Women En conmemoración a las 40,000 mujeres y niñ@s quienes en el 9 de agosto de 1956, se presentaron en protesta contra el … Continue reading →

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Tras la máscara de un pandillero/ Beneath a Gangster’s Mask

Posted on January 24, 2020 by awakinOAK

Por Jennifer Knapp [English Below] Autores: Jóvenes encarcelados en El Sálvador. Si ellos pudieran hablar Veneno, Marlito, Gasper, Daniel Si mis manos pudieran hablar, te dirían… Cómo solían traicionarme cuando era pequeñx trepando árboles, cuando me resbalaba y me caía. … Continue reading →

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El amor no construye muros / Love Does Not Create Walls

Posted on January 9, 2020 by awakinOAK

por Victoria Rustán [English below] Hoy [9 de Noviembre, 2019] hacen treinta años que se derribó el Muro de Berlín, un ícono de la vergüenza y de las divisiones en todos sus tipos. Los muros dividen. Los muros existen, y … Continue reading →

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El Mundo Como un Sólo Lugar / The World as One Place

Posted on March 8, 2019 by pancho

–por Chris Hadfield (Mar 08, 2019) [English below] Cuando nacemos tenemos una visión muy pequeña del mundo: el útero de nuestra madre y la sala de partos. Y, a medida que creces, es probable que tus padres intenten controlar el … Continue reading →

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Fractals: The Relationship Between Small and Large

Posted on March 1, 2019 by pancho

–by adrienne maree brown  (March 1, 2019) A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. … Continue reading →

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Unlearn to Unlove

Posted on February 14, 2019 by pancho

–by Ted Seymour (Feb 14, 2019) Let that sink in for a minute. It’s a peculiar phrasing, I know, and one worth re-reading a few times, but I’ve been deeply impacted by these words since first reading them a few of weeks … Continue reading →

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Las Leyes Universales del Conflicto / The Universal Laws of Conflict

Posted on February 8, 2019 by pancho

–por Kazu Haga (Feb 7, 2019) [English below]   Las enseñanzas de Buda no eran un dogma religioso que le fue transmitido por algún ángel o profeta. Fue su comprensión de las leyes universales de la naturaleza y la realidad de la … Continue reading →

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Living Deep Ecology

Posted on January 31, 2019 by pancho

–by Helena Norberg-Hodge (Jan 31, 2019) To me, the essence of deep ecology is moving beyond a type of environmentalism which is still based on a highly reductionist and a highly distant approach to the living world, to the natural world. To … Continue reading →

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