Right now, many of us are questioning the value of particular actions and tactics, asking whether or not they will be effective. We are missing the urgent strategic imperative of this moment. Any action is valuable that challenges the legitimacy of the post-election claim to power. Any action is crucial that asserts that power and authority rest in . . .
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What if we had a system of community care and safety organized around the values of dignity, wellbeing, safety, restoration and love? What if we thought about the application of care before we thought about the use of force? What if care was the central organizing principle for the way we generate community safety? To . . .
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I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late. And when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us. — President Obama Government response to the climate crisis is wholly inadequate and puts us all in great danger. — Naomi Kline As world . . .
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As I write this, the bodies of hundreds of people are being pulled from the water off the coast of Libya, after two boats sank, drowning women, men, and children migrating in desperation from places like Syria, Bangladesh and sub-Saharan Africa. The images become a horrific blur. Last week: Riot police in Macedonia firing tear gas . . .
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Over the past few days as I’ve watched people gather in Soweto, Birmingham, Bahia and Deli to sing, dance and celebrate the life of a simple man who changed us all, a flood of memory and imagination has washed over me. My mind and heart go most often to the story of Nelson Mandela’s prison . . .
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Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently unrelated, yet are experienced as occurring together in a meaningful manner —Wikipedia Twenty years ago I was sitting at the Alex Haley farm with an amazing groups of young activists and veteran organizers from this country’s past freedom struggles. We were learning about . . .
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