Activism
May we have the courage to face this moment with attentive listening. May we have the courage to listen to the stories of people around us and strive to understand “the other.”
Water protectors battling the Dakota Access Pipeline are taking their increasingly urgent fight directly to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, making a final push for the Obama administration to reject the pipeline’s permit before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
The free-thinker will always emerge as the winner in a contest against the statist, for, it is the soul who needs no illusions and carries no attachments which can look upon the ashes of ruin and give them credit for being the first signs of new bloom.
Ruffalo continues to raise awareness about the pipeline which the Standing Rock Sioux, other tribes and environmental groups say could threaten water supplies for millions, as it runs through the Missouri River. Not only did he donate a pair of Navajo-made solar trailers which will help power the encampments established to protest the pipeline, he shared live feed from the Standing Rock Panel which has so far garnered almost 270,000 views.
Progressive icon and anti-war activist turned California lawmaker Tom Hayden passed on Sunday at the age of 76. Hayden dedicated his life to peace, social justice, and activism.
In 2008, Ashton Kutcher founded an organization with his ex-wife Demi Moore called Thorn. Thorn’s ultimate mission is to eliminate the sex trafficking and child exploitation over the internet. Since its debut, Thorn has helped rescue an astonishing 6,000 trafficking victims. In addition, 2,000 traffickers have been caught.
In North Dakota, 27 Indigenous water protectors were arrested in Monday’s action to peacefully occupy a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site. The arrests at the hands of militarized police came less than a day after a federal court of appeals ruled against the Standing Rock Sioux’s request for an emergency injunction against the controversial pipeline project.
What if one single word could “flip the paradigm,” unleashing the power to create enough for ourselves, enough for our communities and enough for the planet? And what if it wasn’t a trick or a gimmick, but a universal truth written into the very design of the cosmos?
The running theme of this poem is that of justice and in the western media we have a systematic dehumanizing of groups that are different from ourselves. Media will affiliate groups with other groups that do not share the same ideology, but many will believe them to have the affiliation.
The reason given for why the DEA declined to downgrade the federal classification of cannabis was that “science doesn’t support” the notion cannabis may be used for medical purposes. That’s total rubbish. Here’s why…
Let’s count every single win, big and small, that our focus and hard work have achieved in addressing the grip of money in politics. As we work to remove that democracy-destroying power, we build confidence and avenues for shaping new rules governing our society so that America works for all of us.
It’s the answer to the question that you have been waiting for God herself to deliver unto you. What is the best political stance to take? Should I be a conservative? Or a liberal? Which is the more “spiritual” ideology? Which is the more righteous, the more holy, or in the parlance of the new […]
According to the organizer, New York photographer Spencer Tunick, “the work is for my daughters, for their future, for them not to grow up in a society with hate, for them to grow up in a world with less violence toward women and more opportunities for them.”
While the name, Black Lives Matter, could be perceived as an exclusive club where others aren’t welcome, nothing could be further from the truth. BLM, as the movement is often abbreviated, only wants to level the playing field, and welcomes supporters from any race, creed, religion, gender — anyone — who acknowledges systemic disparities present in the U.S.
Here’s the first one: Hania Guiagoussou is changing the world through apps. Using her coding skills, she has developed projects with social impact; one of which is WaterSaver, a system that adapts to changes in weather and soil conditions, and gives users the ability to monitor and control water sources from anywhere.
