From Alice Walker in The Color Purple (1982):
…have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
By Ric Hudgens
For one thing
too much of it
will make you sick.
Garbage in
garbage out.
Which explains
why the commuter
sitting across from you
looks so depressed.
My counter proposal
is legal in all fifty states Continue reading “Hold On”
A song from Ontario-based musician Joshua Weresch, remembering the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting 50 days ago:
This is the lever that moves a world.
This is the fist that packs a glove.
This is the tear that floods a town
And this is a heart without love. Continue reading “Orlando”
By Paul Laraque (right)
you say democracy
and we know that it’s tin from Bolivia,
copper from Chile,
petroleum from Venezuela,
sugar from Cuba,
raw material and profits.
you say democracy
and it’s the annexation of Texas
the hold-up of the Panama Canal
the occupation of Haiti
the colonization of Puerto Rico Continue reading “Reign of a Human Race”
A Facebook Event Page for July 3 from the Simone Weil House in Minneapolis, MN:
Uncle Sam is turning 240. In the days of his fathers, this land was abundant with forests and clean water and myriad indigenous cultures. A sad waste of productivity. His fathers, the European nations, subjugated the land and its people, and brought in new labor from across the Great Sea. And thus, when little Sam was born, he received a worthy inheritance…land and labor. Continue reading “Destroying the Golden Calf”
An update from Rev. Billy Talen and the Stop Shopping Choir:
The last ten months we got bizzy, as in show-bizzy: opening for Neil Young, a holiday run at Joe’s Pub at the Public in NYC, recording eleven songs in Avatar Studio, and then my book “The Earth Wants YOU” from City Lights. We can fit or weirdly “misfit” into some entertainment categories. That’s cool, but it means that we are farther from our heart, which is “Nonviolent Dramatic Action.” Continue reading “Let’s Get the Poison out of the Parks”
By David Blower
“Salvation comes to us in the form of the tired traveller” – Henri Nouwen
In the UK we’re used to hearing news of refugee camps in faraway places. But since camps have begun appearing on our own borders there’s been no small panic. And while our bombs continue to fall on Syria, Iraq and Yemen, our government has closed its borders tight, keeping out many who are desperate to be re-united to family members in the UK. Continue reading “Welcome the Stranger”
From Adbusters:
This week we’re calling for a massive worldwide reclaiming of urban space . . . for all you activists with a green thumb to join the global movement of guerrilla gardeners, silent revolutionaries who take to the streets in the dead of night to beautify, utilize and experience a thrill. Continue reading “Guerrilla Gardening”
Radical Discipleship 