An opportunity like no other – the Great March for Climate Action
In March 2014 the giant Great March for Climate Action will begin its 8 month cross-country activist trek. I believe it has …
Surveillance and parasitism harm society’s collective intelligence
What this post is about: Society’s collective intelligence needs to be able to see clearly what’s going on and take action about …
Trayvon and George: Black, White, and Beyond
A Gallup poll shows blacks and whites divided on the George Zimmerman verdict and the reality of a biased judicial system. Where …
The Conversion Of The American Dream
This article is about breaking out of robotic patterns of consumption to re-engage with life and the high adventure of a new economy and …
A tremendously insightful “Eulogy to Occupy”
Over the last 15 months I posted many reflections on the Occupy movement. That movement is clearly not over, morphing into new shapes even as its most potent meme – “We are the 99%” – continues to reverberate. Yet there was something about the ori…
Heroic transformational energies emerging
For so many of us – perhaps most of us – a peculiar energy resides at the core of our being, an energy that does not accept the world we are given, that does not agree that what we see is all there is, that knows – as the World Social Forum procla…
Occupy 11/2012: New forms of creative “direct action”
During the last 6-9 months most Occupy groups have been relatively invisible in the mass media. But just because something is invisible, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Think radiation… or back room deals… or the vast webs of fungi and ant civili…
Occupy Year One and the Movement Action Plan
Today’s article by Rebecca Solnit about Occupy Wall Street is fabulous, but she erred on an important fact. She ascribes the following quote abut the state of mind of anti-nuclear activists in the 1978 Clamshell Alliance to journalist Bill Moyers:…
Letter to a peace activist
This is an excerpt from my recent response to an activist who felt that stopping an attack on Iran was the most important issue we faced, given the horrendous likely consequences of such an attack on Middle East populations and on the global econo…
Transforming Occupy’s challenge into transformation and innovative self-organization
Two weeks ago I had an intense conversation with a colleague working with a local Occupy community. A small faction had recently done a protest that – although physically nonviolent – was not verbally, spiritually, or strategically nonviolent. The…