Quite an inspiring platform for the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday. It’s been reported that over 200,000 women are planning to attend in Washington and marches are also happening all around the country/world. Read the full document. Understand the complexity of what people are standing up for. Revealing our numbers is just the beginning… […]
Category Archives: Activism
We Must Look at and Heal Poverty
“The well-off and the secure have too often become indifferent and oblivious to the poverty and deprivation in their midst. The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds, and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible. Just as nonviolence exposed the ugliness of racial […]
Do Whatever You’re Good At
I’m thankful for this reminder for acceptance and forgiveness from Heather Plett. If you’re busy dismantling the patriarchy, you don’t need to know how to fold a fitted sheet. If you’re a safe place to land for wounded friends, it’s okay if you forgot to take out the trash this week. If you’re creating a […]
I know, I know If you could go back you would walk with Jesus You would march with King Maybe assassinate Hitler At least hide Jews in your basement It would all be clear to you But people then, just like you were baffled, had bills to pay and children they didn’t understand and they […]
News from my View
If my job was to write (on Facebook or other media), here is what I would be writing about today… what is on my mind: The cease fire has been broken in Aleppo. Russian and Syrian bombing is continuing. Thousands of innocent civilians still stuck in hellish and brutal conditions. We are living through one […]
Indigenous Peoples – Keepers of the Library of How to Be Here on This Mother Earth
A very powerful account of the significance of what has already happened in this Indigenous peoples led movement, history that has been made. So much has been accomplished. So much to learn from this moment… and to apply to the other areas where resistance and courage in the name of peace and Life is needed. […]
We Are All Needed in Community
Please keep praying for these dear souls… in North Dakota and in your hometown. Severe weather. Extremely complex conditions. As you pray, recognize that we who are in warm, safe-ish homes with our basic needs taken care of… our prayers are strength and grounding for others who know we are connected to them when they […]