Gina Athena Ulysse analyzes the historical particularities and global wealth disparities that have sparked recent protests in Haiti.
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A Restless Art: Read This Book
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Arlene Goldbard writes that if you are an artist, funder, organizer, or simply interested in learning from a community arts practitioner who is also a brilliant and accessible scholar, download or buy A Restless Art by Francois Matarasso, who argues that participatory art has become normal, widespread, and in fact a watershed in the history of the arts.
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ICE Agents are Torturing Detainees in Their Custody
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Defending Rights and Dissent condemns the inhumane treatment of asylum-seekers in ICE detention centers.
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Vengeance, Forgiveness, and The Culture of Politics
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Arlene Goldbard asks: when bad acts surface in the public sphere, who are we as a people? Those who can be satisfied only when their opponents are destroyed? Or those whose compass points to healing and repair and away from vengeance? T’shuvah points the way.
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Howard Schultz and The Challenge of Class Suicide
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What interests Arlene Goldbard most is not handicapping Schultz’s chances or joining the legions exhorting him not to run, but getting to the root of his absurd ambitions, which is to say the root of our plutocracy and its kudzu-like grip on the body politic.
Nancy Wilson: A Lady with a Song that is a Story
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Nancy Wilson was a lady with a song that told the story of humanity and our capacity to love, and the capacity to love is the aspect of ourselves that makes us divine.
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Nonviolence: Commitment, Capacity and Community
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The Core Commitments – Miki Kashtan’s best understanding of what it means to live a life of nonviolence and the foundation of a community for living it together.
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What Was I Thinking?
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Arlene Goldbard shares a story of how, more than twenty years ago, after drawing or painting nearly every day from the time she could hold a crayon, she stopped making visual art.
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Santa’s Condolence Letter
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Valerie Elverton Dixon shares a comforting and embracing letter from Santa that addresses the essence and nature of the human condition that both gloom and shine.
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The Positive Power of Thinking The Unthinkable
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Arlene Goldbard writes that the danger is real. Answering it requires accepting the hard truth that our challenge isn’t more persuasive messaging to convert the few now dismantling democracy for profit. It’s to accept their choice and invest ourselves in gathering the many who love freedom and justice.
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The Love We Deserve
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In this piece, Simon Mont “inch[es] toward the beyond” and suggests what a world after patriarchy might look like.
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Winter Solstice 2018
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On this Winter Solstice, Valerie Elverton Dixon reminds us that “no season is permanent. They come and they go.”
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Dear Mississippi White People
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Valerie Elverton Dixon pens a letter to the white people of Mississippi: make healing a priority.
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Interdependence in Action: How to Change Agreements with Care
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Miki Kashtan argues that the freedom to make whatever decisions we want to make, so long as we are not harming others, is a consolation prize for the loss of community and care.