Here is my first post in a while. And it really isn’t even written by me. I wish it was, because it is simply excellent. It was written by my friend, Ricardo Levins Morales, who besides being a gifted artist is also a committed labor activist, a brilliant thinker and a powerful writer — all at the service of advancing an out-of-the-box progressive perspective for liberation, social justice and transformation. I don’t know if I would call Ricardo an “integral” thinker; I doubt he has even hear of integral theory, Ken Wilber, AQAL or any of it. (Unless, of...
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Henry A. Giroux’s important analysis on the “new racism,” or how clever white men like Gingrich and Limbaugh attempt to redefine and reframe racism in our times, is a must read for people grappling for deeper understanding of its complexities. TRUTHOUT ORIGINAL Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the New Racism: Getting Beyond the Politics of Denial Thursday 04 June 2009 by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective Judge Sonia Sotomayor with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) While many liberals suggest that with the election of...
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I’ve been back from Russia almost three full weeks now, but I still feel like I am only just catching up with myself. Maybe it’s because since returning I’ve been traveling back and forth from Puerto Rico to Texas as part of The People’s Institute’s Undoing Racism™ statewide effort there, and have hardly had a chance to get grounded here at home. Writing this reflection and looking through the photos I took help me finally land. Harmony Institute’s Second International Conference on Self and Other: The Sacred Space for Dialogue in St. Petersburg was absolutely wonderful! My workshop, Social...
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Did you realize it has been 10 years since “The Matrix” was released? More importantly, you must ask yourself: “Which would you have chosen: the red pill or the blue pill?” Well, did you? Will you? Check out this great scene! Thanks to the folks at Open Source Integral and Wired.com for the reminder.
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Sociology + Biology: Poverty, which is created by economic, political, social and cultural forces in society, produces physiological stresses leading to the “income-achievement gap” between poor and middle class white boys and girls, with negative effects lasting through adulthood, according to this new study. If you always reasoned or suspected this, or felt the need for proof beyond anecdotal evidence, you might want to check out this Wired.com article. ${socialTitleEscape} While you’re at it, check out the research paper: Childhood poverty, chronic stress, and adult working memory Gary W. Evans and Michelle A. Schamberg, Cornell University ABSTRACT: The income–achievement gap...
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The last few months have been quite interesting: meeting people, making new friends, reconnecting with old ones, exploring possibilities for extending the work of consciousness-in-action around the world. Quite literally. Well, just about, anyway: developing relationships with colleagues and co-conspirators from Vancouver (British Columbia) to Hawai’i to Palmela (Portugal) to Salvador (Brazil) to Copenhagen (Denmark) to Amherst (MA) to Gainesville (FL) to San Juan (PR) to Greensboro (NC) to Washington (DC) to St. Petersburg (Russia) and back home again. This is not counting the many new friends from other places throughout Latin America, the US, Europe, and here in...
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