I’m still processing some of the materials I worked through over the last few months to talk about trauma, resilience, nonviolence, and atonement. So I’m still reading Copeland’s work on embodiment and the value of human lives, and it’s echoing for me as I read headline upon headline of more Black death. Over the weekend in […]
Read: Reflections from Standing Rock and beyond
If you only read three items this weekend, make them these: 1. On the history behind the Standing Rock defense of the Missouri River and water supply in Illinois, Iowa, and the Dakotas I don’t understand why we are expendable in America.” —LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, tribal historian of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Standing Rock Sioux Historian: […]
Get up to speed on #NODAPL
Last summer, Peterson Toscano’s Climate Stew podcast included segments imagining major turning points in environmental justice. Each of these segments featured ordinary people moved to act and the determined grassroots activism they developed to mobilize others and create change on energy or climate policy. “On This Day In Climate History” will one day need to include this […]