11 Articles

Saturday, January 1, 2011
Compassionate Resistance - #5 Conspiracy Theory
(8 comments) Part 5 in a series on building a movement of compassionate resistance.You can't have a resistance movement if you are afraid to acknowledge who and what you are up against. Be certain that you will be mocked, perhaps even threatened in your pursuit of the truth. No one ever said resistance was easy, but the alternative will be far worse.

Friday, December 31, 2010
Compassionate Resistance - #4 Study Peace
(1 comments) Part 4 in a series on building a movement of compassionate resistance. Our goal is to get through these difficult times we find ourselves in, and we can do that a lot better if we know how to communicate and cooperate with all the people in our community.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Compassionate Resistance - #3 - Don't Feed the Beast
(4 comments) Part 3 in a series of 7 on how to build a resistance movement. The only way we can keep the banksters at bay is to opt out of their debt ponzi scheme. Here's a few doable steps you can take.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Compassionate Resistance - Part 2 - Being Resourceful
(2 comments) In the real world version of Survivor our success is going to depend on cooperation and people in our community having the critical skills our ancestors acquired thousands of years ago...

Monday, December 27, 2010
Compassionate resistance - Part I
(4 comments) So over the next seven days I am going to offer some suggestions for achieving what Swami Beyondananda would call an "upwising" - a quiet movement of compassionate resistance. #1: HELPING OTHERS - If someone needs help, just help them, because that's the right thing to do.

Friday, July 9, 2010
The Comment Meanies Revealed
(8 comments) It's time to unmask the authors of these mean-spirited comments who use every news article and blog to advance their divisive and misinformed vile against our less fortunate neighbors.

Sunday, June 27, 2010
Look what they've done to my ocean
(7 comments) After weeks of seeing photos of the devastation in the Gulf of Mexico,watching YouTube videos of pelicans suffocating in an oily sarcophagus, marshes saturated in putrid, brown slime and what appears to be oily rain and a surf belching noxious gases, Good God, who wouldn't be depressed!

Monday, January 18, 2010
The best way to honor Dr. King is to actually practice non-violence
(2 comments) The best way to honor Dr. King is to actually practice non-violence in everything we do - and that requires being honest with ourselves about the impact of everything we do - or don't do including everything that is done in our name

Sunday, January 3, 2010
Year of the Butterfly
Looking ahead to 2010 - thoughts about time and cycles. Ideas for creating change from the ground up, with Amikas - a self-sustaining community in San Diego, CA

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Stick 'em up, America!
(1 comments) This situation is all to familiar--use a crisis to pressure Congress to agree to terms that under normal circumstances would seem preposterous. My advice to Congress - you can't make wise decisions with a gun to your head. Let's get the facts, weigh our options and make a wise choice for a change.

Monday, August 18, 2008
The Urgency of Impeachment
(25 comments) The final nails are being hammered into our collective coffin. The Bushies do not plan to go softly into this dark night. They are orchestrating the end of life as we know it, with the hubris to think they will end up ruling the world. There seems to be only one way to halt the catastrophic actions this administration has planned for the coming weeks. We must force this cuckold Congress to begin impeachment hearings!