If you haven’t heard Van Jones speak, then do yourself a favour. Find an event where he’s keynoting, and go.
Van is as American as Obama (and with the madness going about at the moment, perhaps I should stress that I mean that with no irony)—he’s a smart, educated Black man with a dream, who’s boot-strapped [...]
The appointments of Judge Sotomayor and Regina Benjamin are exciting for several reasons:
1. Their appointments show that Obama is bringing senior people of colour in underneath him, rather than becoming our token ‘President of Colour’. This means that real, pervasive, systemic change has a greater chance of happening. Who among us isn’t excited by that? [...]
Last night I watched MILK, a film based on the life of San Francisco City Supervisor and Gay/Civil Rights Activist Harvey Milk. Milk was assassinated by a rival city politician in 1978 after being a catalyst and leader for the gay rights movement across the United States throughout the 70’s. So what does this have [...]
A friend of mine just returned from El Salvador, where she was acting as an international observer during the elections held last week. This is the first peacetime election El Salvador has seen since it’s Independence as a country in the 1920’s, and the first democratically elected leadership they’ve had in two decades. A recurring [...]
So the United States finally has a decent president. There is the potential for radical changes to take place. What is crucial for us to understand is that this recent shift in power does not mean it’s time to put up our feet and wait for the revolution to be guided from on high. The [...]
The latest news is that the execs of the banks that got bailed out have earmarked a large amount of the bailout money to pay themselves end of year bonuses. Now we’re going to bail out GM too, again by forking over millions to the very execs whose miserably bad decisions got GM into this [...]
The most well-known and celebrated harvest festival, Thanksgiving, is such a great holiday: families and friends coming together to give thanks for a bountiful feast. To my understanding, Thanksgiving originated from Native Americans helping the pilgrims through their first winters, by teaching them grow their own food.
Some of the first crops they learned to [...]
Scientists have shown that in order to keep global warming and climate change from reaching truly devastating levels every country needs to lower its carbon output by 27% each year. That means starting now. Kyoto II, a plan to be decided on at meetings in Copenhagen next autumn, has the potential to completely change the [...]
That’s the title of a PhD dissertation by Elaine Aaron. Here’s what she says:
Archetypes, as Jung said, have dual aspects. The archetype of forceful big is the counterpart, or opposite, of the archetype of delicate small. Once forceful big enters the scene, there is no more space for delicate small. It gets crushed.
This observation alone [...]
I’m writing this on Tuesday morning. I feel in my bones that Obama will win. I don’t think this would be worth a bean if the GOP wanted this election, but I don’t think they do–I think that’s why they allowed the McCain/Palin campaign to represent them–so I don’t think they will rig the vote. [...]
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