Biden’s first test: NO IMMUNITY DEAL for Tr*mp
So it has been 20 days since the presidential election. Every major news outlet has called it for Biden, including Fox. We knew Tr*mp couldn't win, not if people of color, progressives, and young people came out to vote against Tr*mp, even if we didn't like Biden. And...
A conversation with Miya Yoshitani, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network
The “Speaking Of …” interview series presents Paula Farmer in conversation with Miya Yoshitani....
Election 2020 News Round Up
Live Updates Here Protesters Demand Elections Remain Untampered Across United States...
#BlackLeadersMatter — The Climate Crisis Revolution We Need
“This is a moment of reckoning for racial injustice and health disparities. Doing nothing about air pollution, which so clearly has a greater impact on Black Americans, is racism in action.” -- Catherine Garcia Flowers, a field organizer in Houston for Moms Clean Air...
Afro-Futurism collage series vol 4: Black People Join the Climate Movement to Save the Future…
my latest visual musings on Black People and the Climate Movement…
Movement for Black Lives, Climate Friday, JUNETEENTH
THE MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES ANNOUNCES JUNETEENTH WEEKEND OF ACTION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6xu9uPsBU For the Sunrise Movement’s D.C. Hub, a Call to Support the Movement for Black Lives: Members of the Washington chapter say they want to fully...
Get This Vote: a guide to hacking video for social media
I have no training as a filmmaker, no real equipment, and not much time to make videos. And it shows! But social media isn't about the quality of the work, it's about the message and its ability to resonate with people. I LOVE Angie Powers' video from earlier this...
Inequalities by Vijaya Nagarajan
Inequalities By Vijaya Nagarajan Inequalities fences boundaries borders walls prisons cages forced labor black, brown, white genders, races, classes, castes, ethnicities sexualities, ages, disabilities, religions countries, geographies, and languages...
For Those Who Aren’t Sure How to Step Up
Marching in the Streets Donating Registering People to Vote Calling your Representatives Calling Companies Boycott. Letter Campaigns There. are so many ways right now to participate in the progressive work sweeping the nation. And yet, for every protester in the...
DISEMBOLDENING: a case for Defunding Police
Part of the pattern of intimate violence is when an abuser tests his partner to see how much he can get away with. Early in a relationship, he might hit her “in jest” but it’s a little bit hard, what will she do? Will she leave the date and tell him that she won’t...
Uprisings and a Green New Deal, June 12
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBOJGl3lr2W/?igshid=o65jfsb2gays A Green New Deal architect explains how the protests and climate crisis are connected By James Temple Can Jamaal Bowman be the Next A.O.C.? by Michelle Goldberg Jobs come first in South Korea's ambitious...
George Floyd, “Sing, Unburied, Sing”, the Magna Carta, and the Commons
Literary fiction Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward George Floyd, "'Sing, Unburied, Sing', The Magna Carta, and the Commonsby Vijaya NagarajanGeorge Floyd, a 46-year old Black man, was murdered by the white policeman, Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis two weeks ago with...
The Terrible Child
Author's note: This short climate fiction piece was originally published in 2015; Story magazine selected it for a feature this May for National Short Story Month. When we were young, we all believed in something called earth changes. The coming of quakes, floods,...
Pandemic Justice: The Way Forward
Crowds of people demanding justice in the middle of a pandemic is a terrifying and thrilling vision. A risk-ratio analysis keeps circling back to “I can’t breathe,” the grim vision of a man being killed in broad daylight, on camera, for nine long, terrible minutes, by...
Defund the Police – The Impossible Becomes Possible+Implications for the Green New Deal
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead. And then it happened. The Minneapolis City Council, in a veto-proof majority, voted to defund the MPD. After years of...
UPRISINGS FOR BLACK LIVES, JUNE 5TH 2020
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CA1eDdaAp3u/?igshid=1b44wxqujlhth Week of Action in Defense of Black Lives by M4BL https://www.instagram.com/p/CA3MtVYJU3U/ In Photos: Protesters March in Cities Across America Movement to defund police gains 'unprecedented' support across...
A few thoughts and collected materials on Race for this week
It was the mirror that the civil rights legislation provided in the 1960s that revealed the deep bias against non-white immigration from Asia, Africa and South America, ever since the country’s founding. Did you ever wonder why it was only recently that there were...
Taking Back the Bridge: A Short Piece About Hope in the Era of “I Can’t Breathe”
Larry Kramer, with activist Jason Walker, on the rally stage in Central Park last June following the Queer Liberation March. I’m supposed to begin my day with morning pages and meditation, but of late they’ve sort of merged--I’ve allowed myself to understand them as...
#BlackOutTuesday
Cities on Fire, Black Lives Matter, and the Green New Deal
As a young person, I developed a special defense around police violence, an extra layer of numbness. My mother was a civil rights attorney who specialized in police abuse. She always drove a non-descript car. “I sue cops,” she said. She didn’t want to make herself a...
Climate News Friday, May 29th
Where There’s Smoke …Coronavirus is coming for wildland firefighters. They’re not ready. by Zoya Teirstein Cyclone Amphan’s Death Toll Rises to 80 in India and Bangladesh: The worst damage was reported in the Indian state of West Bengal, home to the metropolis Kolkata...
Afro-Futurism collage series vol 3: Black People Join the Climate Movement to Save the Future…
my latest visual musings on Black People and the Climate Movement...
Individual Death, Collective Death, and not Forgetting
My dear 80-year old Jesuit colleague, Father Daniel Kendall, passed away in the middle of last night peacefully at 2:30 am. The Night of Memorial Day, Tuesday, May 26. He was in good health, swimming long laps most days for decades. His retirement had just been...