The People’s Climate March last Sunday was an overwhelming experience in many ways: where the route was planned for 100,000 to 250,000 people, between 310,000 and 400,000 people actually participated by the end of the day. Halfway through the morning, one of my march buddies looked around and said to me: “So many people here. And not one […]
After the People’s Climate March
UPDATE: The Climate Justice Alliance, one of the multi-demographic coalitions that literally led the People’s Climate March through the streets of New York, was barred from the UN Climate Talks this week. I’m back from the People’s Climate March—and it was an incredible experience to share with hundreds of thousands of other people. As I […]
On the People’s Climate March: Conversation No. 1
“It’s not just a one-day march. It’s our long-term ability to build a strong climate movement that we need to invest in.” —Ananda Lee Tan I’ll be at the People’s Climate March in NYC all day Sunday. Over 1,500 organizations are now registered to participate, and over 800 buses including ours will be heading to […]
Reader Review 10
Fewer than 36 hours before the People’s Climate March in NYC! But between that and the Scottish independence referendum (#indyref), there’s a lot of good writing to look over. Let this week’s long and short reads help you catch up. Watch Disruption and inform yourself, but leave the fear behind Climate Stew: Disruption Film and Review […]
A Memo from a New World (No. 1)
Adapted from a tweet series I shared with Twitter earlier this week. You’re not following me on Twitter yet? Come talk with me. Five years ago, I wrote a reflection on the last Adventist fundamental belief, the New Earth. The teaching is based on Revelation 21 and other apocalyptic and gospel texts, and my writing […]
Morrison and Vaid-Menon
Two very different and very similar speakers, teachers, and change-makers: author Toni Morrison delivering her 1993 Nobel Lecture on December 7, 1993, and Dark Matter’s Alok Vaid-Menon, breaking down “success” and complicity at TEDxMiddlebury, twenty Decembers later. Toni Morrison on Violence and Story-telling Oppressive language does more than represent violence—it is violence; does more than represent the […]
