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The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism … To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change. Van Jones, in The Nation, Volume 287, p. 54 I get in trouble for saying this, of course....
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We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep. Joel C. Rosenberg If there’s anything we humans excel at, it’s lying to ourselves. We use the evidence of our eyes to convince ourselves that all that bad news can’t really...
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. Haile Selassie Once...
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    What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species a day. That’s 73,000 a year. This culture is oblivious to their passing, feels entitled to their every...
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It’s one thing to deconstruct and analyze and condemn the institutions of patriarchy and their flaws. It’s another one to feel their bruises on your skin, and their grasping hands pulling your hair and covering your mouth as you scream. Alice Minium Women quickly learn...
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“The important thing is the presidency,” Nixon continued. “If need be, save the presidency from the President.” Bob Woodward, The Final Days It’s funny what makes you think. And what it makes you think about. I was driving home in the rainy dark, Washington State...
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No nation’s security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations. Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors “The Chance for Peace” (16 April 1953) By now, only the truly witless still believe that...
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He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way...
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Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you. C. Kennedy, Ómorphi It’s a sad commentary on a 63 year (so far) life that I can finally report that I have no abusers in my life. It’s the first time I can recall being able...
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