It seems a lot of us want to talk about privilege. Whether that's addressing abuses of it by others or asking about the careful management of our own. It seems we want ...
The Occupy Wall Street movement has got my Commie Sense tingling like it hasn't tingled in a long time.It's still somewhat small and amorphous, but it's been growing and taking shape over ...
this seemed like the best place to ask this question.when is it cultural misappropriation, and when is it simply the morphing of a symbol in the human consciousness that occurs as we ...
t'was very strange typing that. i think a part of me never thought i would see the coming year.....i asked in the 'complain about current events' thread if there was one for ...
This comes from yonder debate on the role of metaphysics in the standard permaculture curriculum.
I wanted to lab this out here in this community, ‘cause I think we have the decency to ...
Pray for President Perry"It was billed as a day of prayer and fasting to halt America's national
decline, and about 30,000 answered the call, flooding into Houston's
Reliant stadium for a seven-hour ...
"If you ask me, and as the News International scandal persists, I think I need to ask my own self a question, and it is this: how many schadenfreugasms can I actually ...
So, I’ve been wanting to start an economics thread for a while but have been puzzled as to what exactly I wanted to say, if anything. Here’s one I made earlier. I found ...
The Wild Hunt just posted an article about a right-wing Christian group who wants to de-Paganize the District of Columbia, rebranding it the "District of Christ" (I mean, really?). The group is ...
2008 USA Presidential election. What are you doing to impact the election results magically or spiritually? Let's try and not argue about who you are voting for, or if you are outside ...
My heart goes out to those in danger in Japan. They've had an 8.9 earthquake, followed inevitably by local tsunami. I can only imagine the damage is terrible. I haven't yet seen ...
I often peruse my activists' friends blogs and links to other, similar blogs. It can be scary for white males concerned about racism to investigate topics like Why I hate white ...
I'm starting this thread for sharing links and discussion around intentional communities, specifically those that support magic, spirituality, or other strands of this Big Thing we're here talking about. So if you ...
So XK pointed out the obvious - that in addition to calling our government representatives (when applicable) about how to resolve the Oil Spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and how ...
Have the tories really just announced a plan to bring back national service? I mean, I'm reading it in the paper, and it's not April Fool's day anymore, but... national service? And ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8455629.stm
By now I'm sure most, if not all of you know that Haiti has been devastated by a ~7.2 earthquake. "The quake, which struck about 15km (10 miles) south-west of the capital, ...