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Don’t Just Resist, Return to Who You Are

–by Taiaiake Alfred (Mar 29, 2018) When we talk about colonization, we tend to think of brutally stolen land, racism, broken treaties, boarding schools. Those are things that happened. Those are the well-known things that shaped the relationship between Indigenous people and … Continue reading

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Honrar el Caos / Honor Chaos

por Matthew Fox  (Jun 12, 2014)  [English below] Nada motiva más a la gente que tocar fondo. Pienso que lo que está pasando ahora representa una noche oscura del alma y una noche oscura para nuestra especie. La pregunta es: ¿podemos aprovechar este agravio … 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

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Action to Heal the (Titanic)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

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The Desert, The Resilience of Life and Our Collective Dignity

If life exists only in relationship with other life–community–and the organizing principle of life is partnership, what is being born in the middle of human crises? That’s what brought me to Arizona during the SB1070 collapse last May. I found … Continue reading

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Colorful Unity in Arizona: One Stroke at a Time

[I am writing this piece from El Barrio. This neighborhood was raided by ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security) two years ago, arresting many undocumented people –a lot of them … Continue reading

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