…an unwritten book. “It’s time for courage,” Bramble said, “for vision and for change.” A community would always rise to its potential in the wake of a disaster, for better…
Read more »…a common kitchen, and rooms for both office space and residential study programs. In the Forum, the community gathered to debate and discuss the best practices, emerging experiments, and challenging…
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…the most elaborate ones – our mirror-scaled trout or the twelve-person, barnacle-encrusted humpback whale, for example – or to hire our dancers for their festivals. We’re famous for our dancers….
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…griots, they also had traditions of communal singing. Work songs, teaching songs, folks songs, and songs for rituals involved common participation in the musical culture. Song was not something singers…
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…gangs – and maybe even this one – aren’t known for their nonviolence commitments, this story does exemplify how even people who aren’t willing to commit to a nonviolent life can…
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…and held a meeting that night. Folks were all up in arms, crying foul and reaching for their guns, but I said, you’re all a bunch of damn fools. What’s…
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…best campaigns combine strategy and creativity in effective movements for social change. They’re heartening. They’re powerful. They’re a balm for the soul . . . and medicine for our world….
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…I interviewed Michael Nagler, the founder of the Metta Center for Nonviolence about the Roadmap Compass, a new online, interactive tool that can help us gain a sense of perspective,…
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…processed by Remediation, Aesa’s culture would be mining the Middens for decades to come and using the recovered items for generations. Cast iron cookware. Metal filing cabinets. Hammers. Glass that…
Read more »…start to organize together. For beneath its common understanding as a warning, it also contains the formula for revolution. United we stand . . . many of us find it…
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