…As CPS’ refusal to meet the demands of the parents continued, the community decided to begin to build a library themselves. They collected donations from the community and from Chicago…
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…time and I boarded the train to Oregon at 11pm, wide awake with ideas about social change and nonviolent communication (Miki’s speciality). In Eugene, Tom Atlee of the Co-Intelligence Institute…
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…workers as the industry shifts to hybrid and electric vehicles. Perhaps due to the rolling strike strategy, mainstream media is coming up short in calculating the size of the strike…
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…older ones – the values of peace and nonviolence, anti-bullying, compassion, inclusion and belonging.” – Rivera Sun People are saying: “For my friends who have young people in…
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…in overalls. We compared tractor models (him, John Deere; me, 1960s FarmAll). We were passing under the towering windmills that dot the rolling farmlands in Iowa when I mentioned the…
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…inspires people to step up to the challenge of being a part of the story of change in our times. www.riverasun.com Photo Credit: Silent Sentinels picketing the White House. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=790966…
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…along with the blackflies and summer sunburns, my neck of our vast woods gets its annual rush of visitors when the snow starts flying. They come to these northern reaches…
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…Chipko Movement, comprised mostly of women, who similarly embraced trees to prevent them from being cut down. The Chipko Movement (which means, “to cling”) faced numerous confrontations with logging companies,…
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…populace would not passively comply with the unspeakable horrors of nuclear weapons. As we know, the work is far from complete. With one trillion dollars slated for expanding the nuclear…
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…the community. In the 1970s, the Bishnois inspired the Chipko Movement, comprised mostly of women, who similarly embraced trees to prevent them from being cut down. The Chipko Movement (which…
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