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Earth Hour - Because We Hunger to be Part of Something Bigger than Ourselves
Cynics love to attack popular campaigns, and that is exactly what is happening with Earth Hour."Won't Earth Hour be a failure if the entire city doesn't go dark?" a friend asked last week of the campa...
Heaven and Hell: A Parable
A rabbi was talking with God about Heaven and Hell."Come," said God. "Walk with me, and I will show you Hell."And together they walked into a room of cold, rough stone. In the center of the room, atop...
"Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous"
We are the stories we tell ourselves. Or, as Thomas King puts it: "The truth about stories is that that's all we are." If I grow up being told I am a kind and generous person, always willing to lend a...
An argument against essentialist modes of thinking
From Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality*: Despite its aura of certitude, classification is never a neutral act. Naming is a form of exercising power, and the ways that things ar...
Guilt, Privilege and the Pain of Living in a World of Domination
Someone close to me is in pain because he feels marginalized for who he is: a white male.He's basically a "gender-blind", "colour-blind" regular Nice GuyTM who believes in equality for all. He sees pe...
How the Cult of Busy Protects Capitalism
I have a confession to make. The other day I was reading Ways to begin gutting Capitalism (and this - Strategies that have Failed), and the first thing that I thought was yeah, but who has TIME for t...
Fighting Amongst Ourselves for the Scraps
One of my favourite Canadian blogs has a very interesting conversation going on in the comments of this post, as explained here. To sum up, there's a Nice White Guy who feels Indiginous peoples have u...
She Hit Me First! And Other Poor Justifications for War
Photo CreditYesterday, I was watching the (excellent and engaging) film I Know I'm Not Alone with D.S. In the segment before Michael Franti goes to Israel and the Occupied Territories there's a few sh...
The Perpetrator as Victim, Too
This is a note from a young, thoughtful man who has a lot of significance to say. To understand the minds of our youth, it is important to listen to them. So read this:I'm dead tired of them demonizin...