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The Wristy Business of Civil Disobedience on Climate Change.
Three sociologists, an economist, two Rabbis and a Unitarian are riding in the back of a paddy-wagon. No joke. So what do they talk about? Carbon caps and carbon taxes, distributive justice, no-growth economic models, the environmental consequences of war, the state of the Movement, faith-based organizing, monkey-wrenching. Almost everything under the sun and the sun too.
Guantanamo Hunger Strike - Emergency Response
We will gather for action in New York City, Chicago, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Des Moines, Western Massachusetts, and other cities domestically and internationally next week to denounce the barbaric practice of torture and indefinite detention and to demand justice for the men at Guantanamo.
We're looking for a new Colombia Program Coordinator!
Job Announcement
Title: Colombia Program Coordinator
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Hours: Full-time
Other Toys of Robotic Terror You May Like
It only makes sense in the age of omnipresent consumerism that online shopping portals would become an arena for social commentary and resistance. Welcome to the world of parody reviews!
Live from DC: Risking arrest vs. the political climate crisis
I write from Washington, where tomorrow I will risk arrest in front of the White House. Together with other members of the Interfaith Moral Action on Climate (IMAC), at noon on Thursday I will engage in nonviolent civil disobedience to make clear to President Obama that his inspired pledge to halt the destruction of the Earth from climate change requires that he take bold and courageous actions, including rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
As religious leaders and individuals, we recognize the moral imperative of taking unified, visible action to ensure that our national leaders act responsibly to address climate change.
So we have called on people of faith to join us in Washington for “Palms, Matzah, Our Planet, and the White House” or to hold an Interfaith Healing Seder for the Earth in your own community.
War Without End
Ten years ago, in March of 2003, Iraqis braced themselves for the anticipated “Shock and Awe” attacks that the U.S. was planning to launch against them. The media buildup for the attack assured Iraqis that barbarous assaults were looming. I was living in Baghdad at the time, along with other Voices in the Wilderness activists determined to remain in Iraq, come what may.
Pachamama Alliance - Learning from indigenous people
I’m focusing here on the Pachamama Alliance as part of my series on individuals and groups integrating spirituality and political action.
Please Help Offer Tidings of Peace for the Persian New Year
The perfume of the narcissus
Scents the dancing winds
The excited trills of exuberant swallows
The intimacy of love drunken turtle doves
Slowly, softly spring arrives
Oh I envy these days as
The earth and the universe revives.
* Moshiri
Historic NYC Stop and Frisk trial starts today
Today starts the historic Stop and Frisk trial, Floyd v. City of New York, which challenges the New York Police Department’s practice of stopping, questioning, and frisking individuals in building hallways and on city streets.
