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What you don’t know about Cuba - Adbusters

What You Don’t Know About Cuba | Adbusters
Just a few weeks before the next president of the United States takes the oath of office this January, Cubans will mark the 50th anniversary of the rise to power of America’s great nemesis, Fidel Castro.
Though many in the United States have denounced Castro (and his [...]

Interview with Leonardo Boff (Spanish)

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Dispatches From Latin America - Tuesday Book Review

Some of you have asked me to recommend you a starter about Autonomous/ Global Justice/ Global Citizens Movements in Latin America. Today is your day.
For this Tuesday Book Review, I’m excited to share with you what I consider an excellent primer to liberation and anti-neoliberalism movements in America Latina - Dispatches from Latin America: On [...]

Liberated Spaces - video rant

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herald of new values

No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless  the means used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the purposes to be achieved.
Emma Goldman

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pulling back the curtains

This world , the so called “real world,” is just a front. Pull back the curtain and you’ll see the libraries are filled with runaways writing novels, the highways are humming with escapees and sympathizers, receptionists and sensible mothers are straining at the leash for a chance to show how alive they still are… [...]

Resurrection | Easter

The world has already been turned upside down; that’s what Easter is all about. It isn’t a matter of waiting until God eventually does something at the end of time. God has brought his future, his putting-his-world into rights future, into the presence of Jesus of Nazareth and he wants that future to be implicated [...]

Festival of the Imagination

Tomorrow starts The New Conspirators Festival. I will be blogging with updates and reports from it. So stay tuned.
My wife and I will also be leading a Conspiracy Session about the revolution starting at home in the context of community.
Our friend Mark Pierson is already here (actually sitting across from me in our living [...]

The unexpected monks

The unexpected monks - The Boston Globe
New Monasticism is part of a broader movement stirring at the margins of American evangelicalism: Evangelicals disillusioned with a church they view as captive to consumerism, sectarian theological debates, and social conservatism. Calling themselves the “emerging church” or “post-evangelicals,” these Christians represent only a small proportion of the approximate [...]

living the revolution

Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted.
How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now
- Paul Goodman

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