Werner de Gruijter, Truthout: The Zombification of the West

On the need for inner tranquility in order to avoid authoritarianism  By Werner de Gruijter, Truthout | Opinion  15 March 2014 (Photo: Anne Roberts / Flickr)The preamble of the US Constitution contains this prodigious message: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the More

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Robert Jensen

Robert Jensen Professor, Author: b. 1958 "This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we have failed to care for it. And as our collective contempt for the non-human world has intensified, so has our contempt for each other. We have More

▶ Democracy Now! We Shall Overcome: Remembering Folk Icon, Activist Pete Seeger in His Own Words Parts 1, 2, 3

Part 1 [youtube=http://youtu.be/wKoyau8khaw] Part 2 [youtube=http://youtu.be/LYRuJTRMxtY] Part 3 [youtube=http://youtu.be/XErnzfLQrww]  democracynow Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Find us on TWITTER at Rise Up Times(@touchpeace). Rise Up Times is also on  Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr. Pete Seeger (Photo More

All My Relations Gallery> DED UŋK’UŋPI—WE ARE HERE through September 28

DED UŋK’UŋPI—WE ARE HERE 2012 marks the 150th anniversary of the largest mass execution in the history of the United States. On December 26th, 1862, 38 Dakota warriors were sentenced to be hung as a result of the U.S./Dakota wars.  This timely and important exhibit features works by 20 Native American artists whose work responds More

All My Relations Gallery> DED UŋK’UŋPI—WE ARE HERE through September 28

DED UŋK’UŋPI—WE ARE HERE 2012 marks the 150th anniversary of the largest mass execution in the history of the United States. On December 26th, 1862, 38 Dakota warriors were sentenced to be hung as a result of the U.S./Dakota wars.  This timely and important exhibit features works by 20 Native American artists whose work responds More

David Harris> Experience and Reflections in Hennepin County Jail> June 26-28, 2012

Experience and Reflections in Hennepin County Jail June 26-28, 2012 By David Harris Editor’s Note: David was arrested at Alliant Tech Systems—a manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction—before they moved their corporate headquarters from Eden Prairie MN to Arlington VA to be closer to Washington DC. David is part of the Alliant Action, a group More

David Harris> Experience and Reflections in Hennepin County Jail> June 26-28, 2012

Experience and Reflections in Hennepin County Jail June 26-28, 2012 By David Harris Editor’s Note: David was arrested at Alliant Tech Systems—a manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction—before they moved their corporate headquarters from Eden Prairie MN to Arlington VA to be closer to Washington DC. David is part of the Alliant Action, a group More

An artist remembered> Art by Dorothy Sauber

Dorothy Sauber Dorothy's artistic medium was pictorial hooked rugs. She created images of women and of family around women's and progressive issues, often drawing on her rural background. Dorothy died in 2008 of cancer. Her sons gathered her essays and published them in a book Cancer Essays: Not the Book I Intended to Write.  A more extensive biography More

An artist remembered> Art by Dorothy Sauber

Dorothy Sauber Dorothy's artistic medium was pictorial hooked rugs. She created images of women and of family around women's and progressive issues, often drawing on her rural background. Dorothy died in 2008 of cancer. Her sons gathered her essays and published them in a book Cancer Essays: Not the Book I Intended to Write.  A more extensive biography More

Reflections on Coldwater

Reflections on Coldwater Written after the final Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD) meeting regarding the determination of Wetland A at Coldwater Springs. Development is not necessarily improvement: that attitude is a 19th century/20th century intellectual construct. We are now in the 21st century, and a new construct that recognizes that development may be a curse More

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