Reject Learned Helplessness. Be at the IUB tomorrow.
If you’ve been involved in any sort of activism, you know the frustration of the lack of participation by others. One of my deepest frustrations has been related to the existential threat of environmental collapse. Fifty years ago, I moved to Indianapolis, and was horrified by the foul air, smog you could actually see, and … Continue reading Reject Learned Helplessness. Be at the IUB tomorrow.
No CO2 Pipelines in Iowa
Iowa Utilities Board (IUB)! See Our Power! You can download a copy of this poster here. https://1drv.ms/b/s!Avb9bFhezZpPjNEeBqI19Hk2DVMAkw Please join us July 12th, 8:30 am at the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) monthly board meeting. The board is preparing to handle permit requests for three hazardous carbon pipelines in Iowa. There are many reasons why carbon pipelines … Continue reading No CO2 Pipelines in Iowa
To my white friends
I especially hope many of my white friends, especially Quakers, might attend the Fourth of He Lies community potluck. If you are a white person, like me, try to imagine how black, indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) feel about all the celebrations and speeches going on now related to the 4th of July. … Continue reading To my white friends
A Love Letter to Y’all
I’m looking forward to being with my Des Moines Mutual Aid (DMMA) friends this morning, for our weekly free grocery store, described below. As a Quaker, I find it particularly interesting that the first public action of DMMA was participation in a peace march. Originally tweeted by Des Moines Mutual Aid (@dsm_mutual_aid) on January 6, 2021. … Continue reading A Love Letter to Y’all
Dangerous disconnect
I’m heeding the suggestion that it isn’t good for young people to continuously hear proclamations of near-term extinction. And nobody really knows what will happen as we move further into environmental devastation and chaos. But there are many things we do know about our evolving environmental disaster. Daily breaking high temperature records for large areas … Continue reading Dangerous disconnect
Native Americans, Quakers and Mutual Aid
The Department of the Interior has released the first volume of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Report. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland first announced the creation of the Initiative last June, with a primary goal of investigating the loss of human life and the lasting consequences of these schools. This report, and ongoing news of … Continue reading Native Americans, Quakers and Mutual Aid
Advocating for climate sanity
I recently discovered papers written by Zhiwa Woodbury, so I don’t yet know how much I will agree with him as I read more. But I agree with the following excerpt. This paragraph strikes a chord in me now, as I am trying to make sense of what is going on in the world today. … Continue reading Advocating for climate sanity
Building the Future We Want
I wrote about the Rally for Reproductive Justice at the Iowa Women of Achievement bridge in downtown Des Moines last Friday. The event was a case study of how I hope and pray we find our way toward the goal of Beloved community. This is urgent now as the systems we have depended on continue … Continue reading Building the Future We Want
Whiteness and Quakers
[References to Quakers here pertain to White Quakers. There is little diversity among Quakers in this country.] There are several reasons I’m led to revisit this today. Our Quaker meetings have dwindling numbers of attenders. Most of those remaining are elderly and white. Many meetings do not have new people joining. I continue to hear … Continue reading Whiteness and Quakers
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Quakers and Religious Socialism 