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I do not want to be tolerated or included.

Interestingly enough people sometimes get surprised and/or offended when they hear me say that I do not want to be tolerated or included.  Tolerance and inclusion while at first glance they appear to be favorable concepts in a deeper level they are a “softer” expressions of violence and ostracism. To be tolerated and included, speaks [...]

G20 and Empire

This is brilliant!!
Via Jezebel.com

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March 2009 MSA Seed Sampler: The Majority Future and Reconciliation

It is difficult for many white people to admit their privilege and dominance in society, especially American society. It is a sensitive topic, discussions of which at any great length can lead to hurt feelings, defensiveness, and resentment.
At MSA, we believe that reconciliation is at the core of God’s kingdom vision for the world. Biblical [...]

Feb. 27 Conversation with Mark Van Steenwyk in Seattle

 

Join us at the Mustard Seed House for an evening of conversation with Missio Dei’s communitarian Mark Van Steenwyk and follow Mustard Seed House people.
Mark Van Steenwyk is a member of Missio Dei (an Anabaptist intentional community anchored on the West Bank of Minneapolis that pursues Jesus’ way of simplicity, prayer, hospitality, and peace). Missio [...]

The Common Root 09: creating our future in the shadow of Empire

The Common Root 09 is three weeks away. There is still plenty of room for registrations. This is a labor of love: we’ve worked hard to get great speakers and workshop leaders to come help us to pursue the shalom of Christ in the shadow of empire. We’ve kept costs as low as possible so that individuals and [...]

Snapping the strings - chains of oppression re-visited

Whenever a movement happens and whites happen to dominate it, that means purposeful, intentional exclusion of others — every time! It couldn’t be that minorities simply weren’t interested, could it? No! We know that those racist bigots — erm, I mean our brothers and sisters in Christ — are out there, burning crosses in their [...]

The Fruits of Ignorance

Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny.
- Emiliano Zapata
 

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Managing politics in favor of trans-national markets

‘It is not just that governments can no longer “manage” their national economies, to survive in office they must increasingly “manage” national politics in such a ways as to adapt them to the pressures of trans-national market forces’.
- Colin Leys

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Pilgrimage to the voting both/ Worshipping the Empire

We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustees under God of the civilization of the world… God has marked us as his chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world… he has made us adept in government that we administer governments among savage and senile people.
- Albert [...]

¡Hasta Siempre Comandante!

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love
- Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Seguiremos adelante
como junto a ti seguimos
y con Fidel te decimos:
!Hasta siempre, Comandante!

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