Toward a World that Works for Everyone
There are too many current-events articles and videos these days to try to post them separately. We don’t expect anyone to read or watch every one, but to select those you want, consistent with the events you’re following. I haven’t yet solved the problem of an article which is mostly-useful and apparently-reliable information and then […]
What Women’s Suffrage Owes to Indigenous Culture Bridget Quinn, Yes! Magazine, Aug 19, 2020 (https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2020/08/19/womens-suffrage-indigenous-culture/) The example of gender equality in Haudenosaunee society gave 19th-century White women some big ideas. It’s been 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment secured voting rights for women—sort of. In She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, […]
Reporting this Ascension, including the phase called Accountability, is not as easy a task as simply not reporting the exposure and takedown of the Deep State and concentrating on Ascension-related events, narrowly conceived . Here for instance is a reading I had with Michael after his Nov. 26, 2019 conversation in which he says I […]
By Megan Wildhood & Ruth Terry, Yes Magazine, July 15, 2020 https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2020/07/15/hawaii-covid-recovery/ It may be too soon to reopen, but it’s not too early to plan for a recovery. The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to spike in many U.S. states, especially those that lifted lockdown restrictions early, but as of July 6, Hawai‘i had only […]
By Kathleen Dean Moore & Robin Wall Kimmerer, Yes Magazine, November 5th, 2016 https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2016/11/05/the-humvees-and-the-white-horse2014two-futures/ Right here, between the barricades on a North Dakota highway, is a pivotal confrontation between two world views, two futures. Two lines, facing each other on a North Dakota highway. On one side, concrete barriers protect a row of armored vehicles […]
“[Obama] is a pedophile and a satanist. He is sick and evil. I will not visit this page or share from it. He will be going to jail soon for preying on children!!! Shame on you!” This is an email I received today. I don’t think I should have to write another defence of Pres. […]
Demands are being heard for accountability in human rights, race relations and historical representations. Four stories are featured today on the issue in different countries. When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity? Kris Manjapra, Guardian, 29 Mar 2018 (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/29/slavery-abolition-compensation-when-will-britain-face-up-to-its-crimes-against-humanity) After the abolition of slavery, Britain paid millions in compensation – but every […]
Two stories on Canada’s troubled history with racism and harassment. Racism goes back centuries. (1) Canada’s history with Indigenous people is cruel and unfair, but we need to own up to it Indigenous people have been damaged by generations of oppression, but we have not been broken Kerry Benjoe, CBC, July 1, 2020 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/point-of-view-kerry-benjoe-racism-george-floyd-canada-indigenous-1.5632918) On […]
By Colin Dwyer, NPR, June 30th, 2020 https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/30/885178095/belgian-king-conveys-deepest-regrets-for-brutal-colonial-past-in-congo The policies of Belgian King Leopold II left millions of people dead more than a century ago in the region that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now, in a first for the Belgian monarchy, King Philippe has expressed his “deepest regrets” for a colonization […]
Why am I letting urban looters set my agenda? Why do I keep forgetting the basis of my faith that all will work out? A basis deeper than listening to anyone else’s words, no matter how exalted they are. The testimony of my own Inner Self. I know from realization and experience that things like […]
There are so many wrongs that need righting in our world – Rohingya, Yemenis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Syrians, Uighers, on and on the list could go. What ever can be done to right these wrongs? The establishment of equity/equality everywhere in our world? One person, one right to all the amenities of life: Shelter, food, clothing, […]
Events are happening faster than we can write articles on, so we’re switching to a summary format for some articles. Thanks to Kathleen for these articles. IBM Abandons Facial Recognition Products, Condemns Racially Biased Surveillance Bobby Allyn, National Public Radio, June 9, 2020 (https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/873298837/ibm-abandons-facial-recognition-products-condemns-racially-biased-surveillance) IBM announced this week that it would stop selling its facial […]
Events are happening faster than we can write articles on, so we’re switching to a summary format for some articles. Some subjects may be too uncomfortable to read. We ask you to use discernment in your choice. Skirting the meme war does not affect the subjects we cover; only the sources we use to cover […]
The energies have been so intense these past weeks that I totally lost it the other day and wrote a grumpy blog about someone who’d been writing deceitful blogs for years. Normally I can easily let blogs like that go but because the negative energies swirling around were getting to me and I allowed them […]
Events are happening faster than we can write articles on, so we’re switching to a summary format for some articles. Some subjects may be too uncomfortable to read. We ask you to use discernment in your choice. Skirting the meme war does not affect the subjects we cover; only the sources we use to cover […]
