By Stephen G. Adubato — 2020
Baldwin’s words explore what hatred can do not only to society at large but to the individual who bears it.
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CLEAR ALL
To truly achieve an equitable, fair, and greener future, we must defend Black lives and our climate future, together.
Today’s climate activists are driven by environmental worries that are increasingly more urgent, and which feel more personal.
Embodied practice creates the potential for a unifying perspective and it can inspire new ways for activists to participate in community outreach, sisterhood, and self-care.
I learned very early that to survive in this broken world there is a never-ending need to “support, nurture, and protect what we hold dear” to keep it from being damaged, hurt, or destroyed ……which also includes myself.
Historians, theologians, artists, and activists reflect on where we go from here.
Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation.
No one disputes that decades ago local Indians were unfairly deprived of hundreds of thousands of acres that were guaranteed to them in perpetuity by solemn treaty; yet no one can agree about what should be done to correct that injustice today.
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It’s so ironic. A country that was established by white immigrants and refugees continues, year after year, to debate whether refugees and immigrants from other countries should be allowed to cross onto our sacred soil. - Chelsey Luger
Guardian editorial--No other spiritual leader is speaking out so clearly for the poor and for the environment in the developing world."