Adrienne Maree Brown: Accountable to Earth
Imagine a common reality of collectively prioritizing our most universal gift…
Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum: A Good Man
To this day, my sister and I wonder if Dad
Got it right. “Fear,” he explained years later,
“Is sometimes the only tool.”
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez: Jury Acquits Animal Rights Activists Who Saved Piglets at Smithfield Factory Farm
In a major victory for animal rights, a jury in Utah has acquitted two animal rights activists who each faced up to five-and-a-half years of prison time for rescuing two sick piglets from one of the world’s largest pig farms.
Patricia Clark: Riverside Ghazal
By the rivers of America, we wept these willows.
Lise Ragbir: What if We Believed Anything Was Possible?
Does flinching at new information that veers from our sense of truth bring too much discomfort?
Wayne Karlin: Because You Are Not Here
Because you are not here
you are always here
Matthew J. Parker: The Misplaced Paean to the South
Southern disdain for centralized authority is an extension of the post-Civil War rebellion against federal efforts to impart a level of equality upon the scarred backs of freed slaves.
Barbara Hamby: The Tawdry Masks of Women
and when I see myself
in bus windows or store glass, the shock never wears off,
for I recognize myself and see a stranger at the same time
Bill Lueders: Beyond Good and Evil | On Wendell Berry’s Brave New Book
A book by the celebrated author, poet, and farmer that takes on racism, the Civil War, and his life’s work.
Video: The Bridge | Shaun Johnston & Amber Marshall (from Heartland)
Walk me over this bridge
River so deep and so wide
Just walk me over the bridge, my darling
We’ll get to the other side
Robert M. Dover: Nobel peace prize goes to Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian human rights activists
On the 70th birthday of Russian president Vladimir Putin, the Nobel prize committee has recognised the work of three winners who are all battling against Putin or pro-Putin regimes.
Stephanie Vander Wel: Loretta Lynn was more than a great songwriter – she was a spokeswoman for white rural working-class women
Lynn’s songs defied societal expectations by connecting her musical representations of working-class and rural women to broader social issues affecting women across the U.S.
Video: Bree Jones | How to Revitalize a Neighborhood Without Gentrification
Equitable housing developer and TED Fellow Bree Jones shares how she found a way to revitalize neighborhoods experiencing hyper-vacancy while preventing gentrification — supporting home buyers and transforming communities along the way.
Pablo Neruda: Oda a las nubes (Ode to clouds)
you are the celestial girls,
silk in the sun, white blooms,
the sky’s youth
