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Robert L. Kuttner is an American journalist, university professor and writer whose works present a liberal and progressive point of view. Wikipedia
Born: 1943 (age 81 years), New York, NY
Education: University of California, Berkeley, Oberlin College ·
Organization founded: Economic Policy Institute
Robert Hubbell writes for those like minded readers who are passionate about preserving the democracy of our great nation, and its Constitution. As a former lawyer, Robert brings a particularly keen lens to issues of law and policy. Robert's newsletter is opened by an average of 45,000 readers a day with a high of 80,000 opens on critical news days.
George Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena. Wikipedia
Born: 1941 (age 83 years), Bayonne, NJ
Education: Indiana University (1966), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962), Indiana University Bloomington
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Research interests: Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Politics, Law, Psychology
Heather Cox Richardson I'm a history professor interested in the contrast between image and reality in American politics. I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures. Letter from an American- a Newsletter about the history behind today’s politics.
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Indian Country Today
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Emergence Magazine
It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we share stories that explore the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.
Indian Country Today
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Emergence Magazine
It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we share stories that explore the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.
Executive Order Tracker -- This spreadsheet created by Sheppard,
Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP provides updated tracking on the Presidential
Administration's executive orders including a summary, timeline, and the status
of legal challenges.
Events & Resources Spreadsheet -- The Marin Immigrant Rights & Justice's website includes this Events & Resources spreadsheet
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I speak, train, consult, and lecture on many issues including Reproductive Justice, Appropriate Whiteness, Human Rights, Violence Against Women, and Calling In . Buy her new book= a model for the next steps after non-violent communication:
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Calling In
Michael Meade Living Myth…
Without the visionary capacity and imagination of the soul, we are unable to perceive ourselves as having meaningful responses and being able to contribute to the necessary work of healing both nature and human culture.
As the “light hidden in darkness,” the soul is the origin of both beginner’s mind and ancient wisdom. It is also the source of forgiveness and true self-acceptance. Soul is the part of us that cannot simply be overwhelmed. Rather, the awakened soul becomes the source of genuine vision and creative agency that can inspire a genuine collective transformation. Link: https://www.mosaicvoices.org/living-in-a-time-of-overwhelm 1 hour and 53 minutes
Michael Meade talks about how rituals help us release the burdens of our lives while connecting our minds to our hearts in ways that reduce fear and anxiety and ease the grief of isolation, Ritual can provide healing, but also aids the recovery of deep memory and the awareness of the original agreement in one’s life. Remembering our life purpose brings vitality and orientation to both the individual and the community. Short on Ritual and Healing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxO-01EJUY8 7 minutes, Dec 2023
Our real teacher has been and still is the embryo ... the only teacher who is always right. Viktor Hamburger
Pat McCabe and Host Brenda Salgado - The New School at Commonweal- Restoring the Heart of Our Relationships: Racial and Earth Healing --1 hour 26 minutes
What would it mean to “become indigenous” to the place we are now? How would we live if we were? Our indigenous communities and leaders hold ancient wisdom that offers profound insights into the challenges facing us today. As we navigate the cultural, climate, and ecosystem shifts happening on our planet now, we need to hear the wisdom and insights from these traditions. And, to truly hear and value these insights, we need to continue to heal the racial divisions and wounds in our cultures and communities. In part 3 of this series, join Host Brenda Salgado as she speaks with Pat McCabe, a Dine elder and ceremonialist focused on deep social healing. They will talk about the ceremonial work they did together at the recent Three Black Men events offered through Commonweal’s Center for Healing and Liberation–and offer insights on how racial healing and earth healing are connected. Presented in English with a live Spanish-language translator.
What would it mean to “become indigenous” to the place we are now? How would we live if we were? Our indigenous communities and leaders hold ancient wisdom that offers profound insights into the challenges facing us today. As we navigate the cultural, climate, and ecosystem shifts happening on our planet now, we need to hear the wisdom and insights from these traditions. And, to truly hear and value these insights, we need to continue to heal the racial divisions and wounds in our cultures and communities. In part 3 of this series, join Host Brenda Salgado as she speaks with Pat McCabe, a Dine elder and ceremonialist focused on deep social healing. They will talk about the ceremonial work they did together at the recent Three Black Men events offered through Commonweal’s Center for Healing and Liberation–and offer insights on how racial healing and earth healing are connected. Presented in English with a live Spanish-language translator.
Yuria is a senior fellow at the Other and Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. Her transdisciplinary work focuses on the experience of self-transcendence and how it can enhance prosocial behavior, things like ethics, compassion, kindness, reverence, sense of awe, sacredness, and love across Indigenous contemplative traditions around the globe. We need commitment, we need community. We need to create spaces of trust. But for that, there’s tremendous work that we need to be doing. But I don’t think that any of that work will be possible, should we not have that commitment–that commitment that no matter how challenging and tremendously difficult it will be to reckon with these narratives and to dismantle these narratives. Because seeing the horror in the eye of all these narratives that we live by comes with tremendous understanding. It will leave us very fragile, very vulnerable, and most, of course, are not willing to do them, because we don’t feel safe. But if we are able to stand the heat and create this basis, if we commit to do this kind of work for the benefit of the planet, then we may be able to learn that we can fly.. Yuria, a native of Nahua and Maya descent from Chiapas, Mexico, has been conducting research that combines the vibrant threads of Indigenous studies, cultural psychology, and contemplative science.
This Land is Not our Own: Seeking Repair Alongside Indigenous Communities. November 2023:
The Land Is Not Our Own equips churches and communities to stand alongside Native communities in working for justice and repair. This small group process lays a foundation of trust and relationship, so that
together participants can acknowledge injustice, honor the interconnectedness of all Creation, and seek healing,
repair, and hope. We’ll explore challenging topics, including Native boarding schools, the movement to end the crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women, and how we can stand with Native leaders in protecting the health of our planet. Learn more about the program here, or find an information session here
How the AMA Undermines Primary Care
Federal regulators, under Democrats and Republicans alike, help them do it.
by Robert Kuttner January 7, 2025
Q&A: Chelsea Curtis (Diné) on Creating Arizona’s First MMIWGTT Database 1.17.25
Program selects Indigenous midwives and advocates to share cultural, generational knowledge August 2024
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance, by Rebecca Clarren. This book melds investigative reporting with personal family history to reveal the intertwined stories of the author’s family and the Lakota people who were driven from the land that became the source of her family’s wealth. Clarren chronicles the loss of Indigenous land, culture, and resources that continues today and invites readers to consider our own culpability and what we can do now.
Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind, by Louise Dunlap. This book traces the history of the author’s family’s land at the edge of California’s Napa Valley, and explores connections between the racist mind that made settlement possible and climate catastrophe as it unfolds today. It is a wake-up call for racial and environmental reckoning and healing.
together participants can acknowledge injustice, honor the interconnectedness of all Creation, and seek healing,
repair, and hope. We’ll explore challenging topics, including Native boarding schools, the movement to end the crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women, and how we can stand with Native leaders in protecting the health of our planet. Learn more about the program here, or find an information session here
January 5, 2025 by Adrian J Ivakhiv University of Vermont
In the last theory course I taught (Advanced Environmental Humanities), I thought it was enough to include an array of BIPOC scholars to capture the pandemic and George Floyd “moments.” Today, just three years later, I feel that extension needs itself to be extended, to make room for a world that’s become noticeably different.
Specifically, I see at least four trends of recent years that have yet to be critically assessed in a sufficiently integrated way.
In the last theory course I taught (Advanced Environmental Humanities), I thought it was enough to include an array of BIPOC scholars to capture the pandemic and George Floyd “moments.” Today, just three years later, I feel that extension needs itself to be extended, to make room for a world that’s become noticeably different.
Specifically, I see at least four trends of recent years that have yet to be critically assessed in a sufficiently integrated way.
How the AMA Undermines Primary Care
Federal regulators, under Democrats and Republicans alike, help them do it.
by Robert Kuttner January 7, 2025
Q&A: Chelsea Curtis (Diné) on Creating Arizona’s First MMIWGTT Database 1.17.25
Program selects Indigenous midwives and advocates to share cultural, generational knowledge August 2024
Spirit Aligned Leadership is partnering with the National Council of Indigenous Midwives in this year’s programming. Teams of Indigenous women elders and younger Indigenous women are funded to create knowledge-sharing plans and implement community projects to promote cultural practices and approaches to Indigenous midwifery. Learn more about the program participants and projects.
Books
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance, by Rebecca Clarren. This book melds investigative reporting with personal family history to reveal the intertwined stories of the author’s family and the Lakota people who were driven from the land that became the source of her family’s wealth. Clarren chronicles the loss of Indigenous land, culture, and resources that continues today and invites readers to consider our own culpability and what we can do now.
Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind, by Louise Dunlap. This book traces the history of the author’s family’s land at the edge of California’s Napa Valley, and explores connections between the racist mind that made settlement possible and climate catastrophe as it unfolds today. It is a wake-up call for racial and environmental reckoning and healing.
Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair, by Hilary Giovale. This book offers warm, compassionate, and vulnerable personal stories about unlearning fragility, becoming an antiracist, and repairing ancestral harm.