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Breaking Out of the Socially Contructed Box
by Eliacín Rosario-Cruz 05-13-2009

“What do you mean by ‘just one’? I’m not choosing just one!” I told my wife on the phone. She had told me that according to the educational department of our city, in order to register our daughter in an…
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Turning Grease into Gospel

 
One small bar of soap can spark many reflections—spiritual, sociologic, entropologic and ecologic—according to Claudio Oliver, who has spent 20 years working with the urban poor, and on community development, dental and medical projects, team equipping, and teaching in Curitiba, Brazil. Over the past five years, interviewer Spencer Burke has developed a friendship with Claudio [...]

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 [...]

Beautiful trivialities in life

It has been awhile since this blog have seen some action. I recently post a tweet -you don’t know what a tweet is? You are so 2006 -  in which I stated that I am blogging less, and living more. Which it is not necessary true, I’m living the same as when I was blogging [...]

Vocabulary for a New World - Communalism

In many parts of the world, communalism is a modern term that describes a broad range of social movements and social theories which are in some way centered upon the community. Communalism can take the form of communal living or communal property, among others. Communalism is defined as a theory of a society that is divided into several small, independent communes and the state is just [...]

The Revolution Starts at Home - New Blog

Check out the new homegrown plot to transform the world by the Rosario-Kilmer tribe.
My wife (Ricci) just launched a blog in which she will reflect on holistic life and spirituality from the perspective of a practitioner, revolutionary, mother, wife, communitarian and homegrown critical educator.
The Revolution Starts at Home
Making coffee to open our eyes in the [...]