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: […]
Reader Review 12: Systems and Progress
The Reader Review series was a 2014 experiment in rounding up of some of the most thoughtful or provocative articles and videos I came across online. I’m still deciding whether to continue it in 2015, but either way, this will be the last edition of the year. Thank you for reading along with me! Brentin Mock draws a […]
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 […]
Reader Review 8
Long and short reads for your next weekend review. May 2014 edition. Social Web Demographics Shift, and Bells Toll [Prematurely?] for Email, Facebook, and Twitter Buzzfeed: What I Learned After Quitting Email For A Week (Charlie Warzel) < A whole week! Deadspin: Facebook Is Dead (Drew Magary) The Atlantic: A Eulogy for Twitter (Adrienne LaFrance, Robinson Meyer) Core quotes: “Email […]
Reader Review 05
Posts tagged “Reader Review” include a few top articles from my weekly reading. Their topics may vary, but their quality and provocation quotient won’t. Enjoy. Quakers examining core principles: non-violence and a returning Christ QuakerQuaker: A Hermeneutic of Non-Violence (Randy Oftedahl) QuakerQuaker is a site that collects posts from Friends (Quakers) from across the internet […]
Reader Review #04
Posts tagged “Reader Review” include a few top articles from my weekly reading. Their topics may vary, but their quality and provocation quotient won’t. Enjoy. When spirituality gets corporatized: The commercial dharma Tricycle Mag: Protesters crash Google talk on corporate mindfulness at Wisdom 2.0 conference (Alex Caring-Lobel) Alex’ sharp critique of corporate spirituality—Buddhist-ish instruction of mindfulness to […]